TWO MUST SEE FILMS!!

I really liked "The Hunting Party" and "Zen Noir"...happy viewing

Seattle Storm and The Mariners are kicking butt!!

Lauren and Sue were awesome last night as they led The Storm in beating Sacramento! Ichiro, "Bat Man", and Ken Griffey, Jr. are lookin' real good too. Yes, Seattle's back on the map! Hoorah!

Naturalist and poet Gary Snyder

Marta invited me to see Gary Snyder tonight at Benaroya Hall. Magic, music and humor makes poetry happen... His ideas on ecology are smart too; I've heard these things said by UW professors as well. His best poetry is his most recent! Check him out! Wonderful man...brought to se him by a wonderful woman, Marta!

Films/documentaries about very important issues to be aware of:

1. Human Trafficking (starring Mira Sorvino and Donald Southerland) 2005
2. Trade (starring Kevin Kline)
3. Crips and Bloods: Made in America (doc.)
4. Sin Nombre (2009)
5. Lord of War (starring Nicholas Cage) 2005
6. Fast Food Nation (film and book by Eric Schlosser)
7. Changeling (starring Angelina Jolie; Dir. Clint Eastwood; aspects of this still go on today) 2008
8. The End of America (documentary re: Naomi Wolf)
9. Read "McMafia" by Misha Glenny and "Give Me Liberty" by Naomi Wolf

Let's help to try to find solutions to these problems. If you hate predators and ignorance as much as I do, contact me here. Send hard copy letters to your legislature! Thank you very much.

Poetess Naomi Shahib Nye

What an incredible, understanding selfless poet trying to bring important aspects of the world (and Middle East)together with sublime insight! We need more Naomi's in the world!

A few gems from film "The Examined Life"

1. We are all finitude and fallible
2. There is more courage required in looking into the recesses of our own mind than for the soldier on the battlefield
3. Let's dump romanticism on it's head: instead of attaining 'everything' or a point of all knowing at some point in our lifetime as if there were nothing else to get, it is our trying to learn, grow and try however incompletely toward something greater that is the beauty of life.

BOYCOTT!

Boycott the following places for condoning human rights abuses: Swedish Medical Center and Safeway Industries! Do not buy into the lies that I started it all. It is not in me to start anything negative. Yes I helped whistleblow at contractor's requests and tried to stop abuses in the company--sticking my neck out for other's as well as eventually myself; people need to not be afraid to stand up for what they know is right! I take a lot of abuse before I started to say anything. Now days I'm not passive-aggressive on any level; take as little abuse as possible, am diplomatic and communicate directly instead of holding it bottled up inside (I had no one in the past I could go to for help or would listen, except for ex- CPC Case Manager Joshua Canady, a wonderful person, who still didn't know a lot of the story). At some point looking for the silver linings in extremely difficult, prolonged horrible situations can help oneself survive--even grow until too much happens. At that point burnout and exhaustion will occur. By that point, it may be too late. People, open your ears to those in need, extend your shoulders as other's bleed. Thank you. It can help prevent devastating problems to people in the present and their futures...