One friend wrote an article about the healthful benefits of saur-kraut.
Another friend gave me a flip cam to learn gonzo-film nature journalism.
So I had a fantastic day of Whole Foods shopping and then cooking at home while filming 12 short segments.
On review I learned that I am fun and informative on camera. Gave me confidence and the slaw is fermenting- oh-yeah.
Different experience from the college radio show where I couldn't stand the sound of my own voice on air.
Somehow on uploading to the editor I erased it all. Shux!
But I learned stuff and now know I will benefit from an editing class!
Carin McKay is a Chef and Wellness Coach.
Leah Lamb was Online Producer for Current TV's Green Channel until today. Now she is a novelist.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Complicated post.
Some friends who know I am all about co-creating a culture of caring for each other and for life don't get why I support the Second Amendment.
Without a review of the history of mankind I can quote John F. Kennedy at the American University in 1963:
"...But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. "
Now how to do that....
This story demonstrates that while an open heart can do a lot to bring an unbalanced person back to community-- it's good to have back-up.
http://www.ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com/2010/02/21/ignatius-piazza-heres-to-the-coffee-girl/#video
Some friends who know I am all about co-creating a culture of caring for each other and for life don't get why I support the Second Amendment.
Without a review of the history of mankind I can quote John F. Kennedy at the American University in 1963:
"...But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. "
Now how to do that....
This story demonstrates that while an open heart can do a lot to bring an unbalanced person back to community-- it's good to have back-up.
http://www.ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com/2010/02/21/ignatius-piazza-heres-to-the-coffee-girl/#video
Friday, February 19, 2010
Let's Get One Thing Straight....
SO much Buzz about same sex marriage and homosexuals in the military on FaceBook and main stream media.
I am always in awe that this is an issue in America.
Marriage may have been a sacred contract between a man and a woman and God to live a life of love.
It has nothing to do with money. It has nothing to do with the state. I am not sure it has much to do with spirituality at this point. Same sex unions were not illegal until 324 B.C.E about the time authentic Christian sects started being annihilated (Gnostics) and marriage was not a Roman Catholic sacrament until 1200s about the time they killed the good Christians in France (Cathars).
I have to disclose my own superstition and fascination with the idea that the word "Marriage" derives from the commitment of "Mary Magdelaine" to Jesus of Nazareth. That there is a fascinating spiritual alchemy that occurs between a man an woman partnered and dedicated to Love. That there were really 24 apostles not 12- the guys and their spouses. And that this was common knowledge in early christianity hence the term to "get MARRIed" is totally different from Roman legal terms for matrimony e.g. conventio in manum or sine manu or all the world's names for state sponsored and various church dictated non common law control mechanisms to limit and manipulate the distribution of wealth and sex.
America achieved greatness by protecting the right of individuals from the tyrannical superstitions ("morals") of competing colonial religious sects. Why just a generation or two before the Bill of Rights people in London were executed for eating meat on Fridays. Hasn't humanity fought this battle against superstitious misguided control mechanisms enough times?
Why any so called conservative in America would want to pollute a perfectly good republican democracy with superstitious regulations is unfathomable.
That one person can make another his attorney, give durable power of attorney for medical matters, designate a trusted person to inherit wealth is simple government. Simple: Civil matrimony. What is the problem?
That any so called Christian would want to sully the beautiful concept of marriage with the state's extraction of wealth (taxes) from citizens is an abandonment of core principles. If there is a sectarian religious dimension to it please please demonstrate it.
That any thoughtful person would want to restrict the ability of others to love and make commitments and manage affairs legally is hubris. "Mind your own business" should be the response of the 10 per cent of God's children that have to endure the bullying of self-rightious lost souls trying to regulate "marriage."
With regard to the military all I have to say is that honorable conduct should be rewarded and anything less not tolerated. Nothing to do with creed, race or sexuality is a barrier to honorable service. Regarding performance? The Roman army brutally conquered the known world and were primarily vegetarian bisexuals with swords. No playstation controlled drones. Just man on man.
For Levity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aotlEpmAFVQ
I am always in awe that this is an issue in America.
Marriage may have been a sacred contract between a man and a woman and God to live a life of love.
It has nothing to do with money. It has nothing to do with the state. I am not sure it has much to do with spirituality at this point. Same sex unions were not illegal until 324 B.C.E about the time authentic Christian sects started being annihilated (Gnostics) and marriage was not a Roman Catholic sacrament until 1200s about the time they killed the good Christians in France (Cathars).
I have to disclose my own superstition and fascination with the idea that the word "Marriage" derives from the commitment of "Mary Magdelaine" to Jesus of Nazareth. That there is a fascinating spiritual alchemy that occurs between a man an woman partnered and dedicated to Love. That there were really 24 apostles not 12- the guys and their spouses. And that this was common knowledge in early christianity hence the term to "get MARRIed" is totally different from Roman legal terms for matrimony e.g. conventio in manum or sine manu or all the world's names for state sponsored and various church dictated non common law control mechanisms to limit and manipulate the distribution of wealth and sex.
America achieved greatness by protecting the right of individuals from the tyrannical superstitions ("morals") of competing colonial religious sects. Why just a generation or two before the Bill of Rights people in London were executed for eating meat on Fridays. Hasn't humanity fought this battle against superstitious misguided control mechanisms enough times?
Why any so called conservative in America would want to pollute a perfectly good republican democracy with superstitious regulations is unfathomable.
That one person can make another his attorney, give durable power of attorney for medical matters, designate a trusted person to inherit wealth is simple government. Simple: Civil matrimony. What is the problem?
That any so called Christian would want to sully the beautiful concept of marriage with the state's extraction of wealth (taxes) from citizens is an abandonment of core principles. If there is a sectarian religious dimension to it please please demonstrate it.
That any thoughtful person would want to restrict the ability of others to love and make commitments and manage affairs legally is hubris. "Mind your own business" should be the response of the 10 per cent of God's children that have to endure the bullying of self-rightious lost souls trying to regulate "marriage."
With regard to the military all I have to say is that honorable conduct should be rewarded and anything less not tolerated. Nothing to do with creed, race or sexuality is a barrier to honorable service. Regarding performance? The Roman army brutally conquered the known world and were primarily vegetarian bisexuals with swords. No playstation controlled drones. Just man on man.
For Levity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aotlEpmAFVQ
Monday, February 15, 2010
Haiti Materialism and
Last post was the day before the Haiti earthquake over a month ago.
For about a week I was in an odd funk.
I was not depressed but very insular. Almost suspended.
I put out some feelers to volunteer as a pharmacist in Haiti but nothing took.
No work at home either.
That morphed into some weeks of hyper materialism particularly related to emergency preparedness and self defense. I got online and shopped for things I was curious about for years. I spent more time and money in a couple weeks than I did all last year.
Everything tactical. Black. A windproof black "tacti-cool" fleece with hood and 11 pockets for concealment. Tactical compression T-shirt with pocket for I-pod/handgun. Tactical black blindingly bright flashlight. A tactical lightweight massage table and carry cover...tactical black of course.
A mentor pharmacist with a secret government past calls this kind of emergency preparedness a disease.
I cannot ague. Balance is everything. And yet the Haiti event set off some primal fears and obligations.
I turned to a spiritual advisor who introduced me to the Archangel Michael. A post in itself I began processing a vast past. Looking at roles and goals to protect self, family, community and Humanity in disaster.
Interestingly AA Michael was depicted in the recent horror film LEGION. I went to see it and also The Book of Eli. I wrote a bit on the role of faith as a source of personal strength but also as a moral blindfold and mass control tool. AA Michael is the patron saint of the police and the warrior. In the Tarantiono-esque film Legion he "falls" from God and is insubordinate in order to save humanity to be reunited later.
Memes of honor and the compassionate warrior and the masculine role swirled dark. I thought about the difference between Wovoka and Geronimo. Contemporaries regarded in degrees as Holy men and warriors. The decendents of the Sioux killed in the Dakota's for doing Wovoka's Ghost Dance live in worse circumstance today than the Apache in Northern Arizona. Was it better to be a flat out warrior than a spiritual dancer? Geronimo's skull was supposedly taken by Skull and Bones (Yale Fraternity of Kerry and Bush). Wovoka died working in a carnival.
Ambivalent about posting dark introspection with violent and religious themes I stopped writing.
I am back.
For about a week I was in an odd funk.
I was not depressed but very insular. Almost suspended.
I put out some feelers to volunteer as a pharmacist in Haiti but nothing took.
No work at home either.
That morphed into some weeks of hyper materialism particularly related to emergency preparedness and self defense. I got online and shopped for things I was curious about for years. I spent more time and money in a couple weeks than I did all last year.
Everything tactical. Black. A windproof black "tacti-cool" fleece with hood and 11 pockets for concealment. Tactical compression T-shirt with pocket for I-pod/handgun. Tactical black blindingly bright flashlight. A tactical lightweight massage table and carry cover...tactical black of course.
A mentor pharmacist with a secret government past calls this kind of emergency preparedness a disease.
I cannot ague. Balance is everything. And yet the Haiti event set off some primal fears and obligations.
I turned to a spiritual advisor who introduced me to the Archangel Michael. A post in itself I began processing a vast past. Looking at roles and goals to protect self, family, community and Humanity in disaster.
Interestingly AA Michael was depicted in the recent horror film LEGION. I went to see it and also The Book of Eli. I wrote a bit on the role of faith as a source of personal strength but also as a moral blindfold and mass control tool. AA Michael is the patron saint of the police and the warrior. In the Tarantiono-esque film Legion he "falls" from God and is insubordinate in order to save humanity to be reunited later.
Memes of honor and the compassionate warrior and the masculine role swirled dark. I thought about the difference between Wovoka and Geronimo. Contemporaries regarded in degrees as Holy men and warriors. The decendents of the Sioux killed in the Dakota's for doing Wovoka's Ghost Dance live in worse circumstance today than the Apache in Northern Arizona. Was it better to be a flat out warrior than a spiritual dancer? Geronimo's skull was supposedly taken by Skull and Bones (Yale Fraternity of Kerry and Bush). Wovoka died working in a carnival.
Ambivalent about posting dark introspection with violent and religious themes I stopped writing.
I am back.
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