Susan chandel's Blog – February 2009 Archive (6)

Eric and Jake a few years after the meteor shower incident^



Developmentally, we learn that age three is an age of no fear. It is the age when a child explores the world around him or her and pushes the envelope so to speak. It is a time they don’t emphasize enough.. You hear of the terrible twos and those teenage years but 3 manages to hide in there. My daughter managed to avoid a third birthday adventure, my sons on the other hand perhaps,… Continue

“What do you feel YOUR country, your nation holds as special, something that your people offer to the world?

I don't like generalizations, but feel that each nation probably has something truly personal that they offer. Perhaps Italians offer traditional beauty in their art and history, as well as (often) their flamboyant personalities and expressiveness? Americans, is their "something special" their positive and young attitude and openess to new things? And YOUR country? “- Stephanie… Continue

1. Algebra escapes me. I just don’t get it.

2. Ever the rebel, I could not pass up a college course called unlearning education.

3. People love my queen of Sheba chocolate cake.

4. My first poem was published in Seventeen magazine.

5. In high school, I wanted to be an architect, but the math scared me.

6. My dad was into tinkering with antiques and we used to ride High Wheeled bikes around the neighborhood in the late 1960‘s. The family highwheelers have been a parade… Continue

One thing I really enjoyed as the coordinator of the local clothesline project was organizing events. Our purpose was to strengthen laws against domestic violence and rape and to give voice to survivors who told their stories on shirts that hung shoulder to shoulder on a line. An intense cause, it grew out of the take back the night movement. We were the second or third satellite group from the main line which was originally designed by Rachel Carey Harper who was active in WILPF ( the women’s… Continue

This article warms my heart because I went to college in Amherst and lived in an artist commune where half of my roomates were Hampshire College Students. I hope that more companies and universities divest. It may only be symbolic but its a step towards peace:

Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, has become the first of any college or

university in the U.S. to divest from companies on the grounds of their involvement

in the Israeli occupation of Palestine.





This… Continue

When asked about the hippy days, Chris Bettini the talented maille artist behind IkowDesigns: said ‘I was 3 years old in '72, but my mom tells me I was all out the hippies. She said I used to go around doing the peace sign and saying "two peaces (pieces)".’

Wayne Elkin, a self described aging hippy posted a picture of a peace sign on a barn in Marin. In the past two days, I have received e mails on the Department of Peace and an… Continue