For sensitive me (sensitive you may share these experiences?), the soap opera that is our National Government has of late provided me with headaches, nightmares, a feeling of uselessness, helplessness. But I'll never give in. Out to prove to myself, family, friends and readers (those we don't yet know) I'm [...]
Whew! An embarrassment of riches, says Micheal Krasny often. Planned on marching with Peace and Justice Center in Santa Rosa this Sat. April 29th to defend immigrant rights, public lands, work to drawdown climate change - and then realized our GRANDDAUGHTER, Bella, is getting her first Capoeira belt and cousin, [...]
I felt compelled to get to the March for Science today, favoring the SF march, but - because the whole entire family minus one or two are coming together here tomorrow, I'm not going. I did it to myself: time to gather the family, long wandering around the globe. What's [...]
During the Vietnam War (and other wartimes - why does this seem like one???), poetry was a thing that helped people keep their spirits up in the streets, in all sorts of venues. In Russia, a hero in the poetry world was Yevtushenko, in Czechololovakia, Vaclav Havel, in Germany, Bertold [...]
Oscar Night at the Mystic! Our second year of dressing up for Free Speech Radio - the new KPCA FM station in the making through our Petaluma Community Access (PCA). I attended a recent stakeholders meeting and met a guy who creates radio dramas, murder mysteries with a twist (is [...]
Just staying steady in this time of High Wind can be exhausting - takes a village, really. So we'll get to Petaluma City Council to stand for our endangered friends and call for City Council to pass the "It Won't Happen Here" declaration this evening, promptly at 7 pm for [...]
Friends and family and friends I haven't met yet are in turmoil. What happened to the mostly kindly world we were used to? Liars and bullies with big money interests seem to have taken it over...but I haven't given up hope. We don't really know these new people and they [...]
Great challenge: keeping body (and soul) together...riding out the upcoming upheaval with integrity. Loved Henry Miller in Henry and June "Everything Bright and Beautiful" he would say while ruining his marriage and losing the status of lover (but not the friendship) of fellow trail-blazing writer, Anais Nin. Much racy copy! [...]
Holidaze 2016 wasn't going to be complete without singing with others. But we missed Wings of Glory and a few other opportunities getting ready for family. So what was GREAT was our friend, Duane Bellinger, called to say "community sing tonight at Aqus" and I told a friend and our [...]
Coming out of dream time, I was Alice Through the Looking Glass with card people toppling over my head. Scary! But reminded myself they're all just playing cards. But then came the rift in the time-space continuem and its menacing hole which I swiftly moved away from. Don't want to [...]
Whatever you would do or dream you would do, begin! said Goethe and we’re still trying to figure that out! Great films and books are essential for an active 21st Century mind, but great friends and pets are way better for walks. Take lots of walks, I say, and get thee to the countryside right outside Petaluma…so, so pretty…And then actually helping others out is what makes you grounded, being part of the local/global tribe of your choice. They still need members, you know.