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................................................... Section One: Table Notes ............................................................................ (Note: these notes were taken at the table and have NOT been approved or corrected by the speakers. Reader
beware of inevitable misunderstandings and misrepresentations. E.B.)
At the Table on Wednesday, 17 January 2007:
Carolyn Aufderhaar, Shari Able, Mary Biehn, Steve Sunderland, Elaine Urbina, Mira Rodwan, Walter Grayman, Judy Cirillo, Mr. G. , Yoga Bare, Himavat Ishaya, Ellen Bierhorst, Chad Benjamin Potter, Kevin Cole, Barbara Faiman, Spencer Konicov, Brooke Audreyal (Welcome back Kevin and Barbara, and welcome Elaine who has been a Weekly lurker for many months. So glad you have joined us at the table!)
TABLE ANNOUNCEMENTS
Ellen: Ceasefire… a local group trying to communicate distress and awareness and non acceptance of the shootings in our city, starting with Avondale neighborhood.
Judy Shari and I were at the Cease Fire vigil this afternoon. Worthwhile. Gave out literature. 25 people came.
Half and half white/black.
Steve I was at the Ceasefire after Richard Muhammad was killed, New Years’ Day. about 80 people. Very sad. Council members were there, not the mayor.
Elaine good to demonstrate to the elected leaders that we care about this issue… need programs for teens.
Judy last night, meeting, to meet new city planning guy… They were talking about hiring 100 more police.
Elaine council wanted more police, but not the police themselves.
Steve there was a consultant in today from Boston talking to Law Committee, what Boston did to reduce their murder rate. Very successful. … Most killings are drug related. …selling drugs the only way to earn money on the streets.
Elaine interesting paper…economics of gangs and drug sales. He infiltrated. The gang wars made $100,000/year tax free. Street workers made $3.35 / hour. Less than min. wage. So if we could educate the kids (in these economic realities) we might lure them away.
Judy kids don’t relate to sitting in classrooms learning history and language.
Mr. G. has anybody noticed, blonde Judy Woodruff, interviewing Generation Nexters. They all want to be superstars and rich. Addicted to fantasy and delusion. If you put somebody in mechanics’ school, they won’t get there. We have a culture of delusion.
Spencer this conversation reminds me of the 12 blind men and the elephant. … Rob Ryan made presentation here in favor of ending the “prohibition” of street drugs.
In 1917 the Hatch Act, making psychedelic drugs illegal. At that time, a tiny proportion of population using drugs. (.7%?) Now , same proportion, but we have spent huge sums. If you don’t want drug violence, put the drugs in drug stores.
Change the whole profile of society by looking at what we make illegal. Prohibition is lunacy.
Ellen Check out the notice in “Announcements” section below sent in by Rob Ryan asking that we listen to WAIF radio Amnesty Internat’l program on this issue this weekend.
Yoga Bare two more days of January bare yoga, 12:45. At the Lloyd House. (*see announcements section below. Maroon.)
Ellen … op ed piece from Times… About the horrible treatment of the mentally ill in our prisons. Also astounded me claiming there is an inverse relationship between incarcerations and violent crime. That does not support the model I have had about this … namely, that the “war on drugs” and the prisons are a major industry in our country making huge fortunes for private moguls. They don’t want the problem solved. Too much money in it. So to hear that there are stats. apparently supporting the idea that incarcerating more people in America than anywhere in the world actually helps keep down the incidence of violent crime… this idea blows my theory. Don’t know what to think.
Shari when LA police were on strike, the reported crime rate went down.
Faiman the stats. are that homicides, gun possession, drug related… is it comp. to other cities?
Walter police chief says we are better off.
Barbara a decade ago Cinti. Had low crime rate.
Elaine in N.O. we had 365 homicides a year. (i.e. Cinti. Is better than New Orleans was.)
TOPICS NOMINATED?
Elaine ideas on solutions to childhood obesity.
Shari : Obama’s announcement. What mean?
Walter pres. Bush’s addiction to this war.
Kevin strikes me that since I was gone (from the salon) I have had a striking example of the criminalization of mental illness in my own family.
Barbara I will vote for the first time in the next election. I listen to NPR. Much talk about the candidates. I need some help. Names come up I am not familiar with.
Ellen: Barbara, keep coming back; we’ll feed you a steady stream of information and opinion on candidates and issues at every level local to international. And, Kevin, I’d like to hear your true, first hand story of the treatment of your family member in the mental health system. It is extremely valuable to have first hand information, as opposed to opinion and theorizing (also fun, of course, and we do a lot of it at the table.)
KEVIN’S STORY OF “THE SYSTEM’S” ABUSIVE TREATMENT
OF HIS MENTALLY ILL DAUGHTER
Kevin:
I have a daughter, adopted at 2.5 who started showing psychosis at 3.5. In inpatient facilities at 8 until 18, then moved to adult system. Was assaulted, raped several times, moved around the region because we have no facilities for psychotic children. … While in the juvenile system we had enough input to keep her supervised and medicated appropriately. Is floridly psychotic. Birth mother overdosed thorazine in first trimester. … Is on a heavy cocktail of meds.
When 18 moved to the adult system. It is miserable. Provides almost no supervision. Put her in a group home… apt. with two other psychotic women in a building where landlord paid to make a meal a day. A nurse visited once a day 5 days a week, asked if they were taking their meds. In six mos. She was off all her meds, addicted to crack, supporting her habit as a prostitute at Peebles corner. Got picked up by cops one night during a fugue of paranoia…she thought he was laughing at her. Got arrested. Was subdued, brought to Univ. hospital psych ward. Fri night; no psychiatrist on duty until Mon. morn. I found out, went over. Discovered her there in an unmedicated condition. She was off her rocker. I warned them they should give her a shot of Haldol immediately…they pooh poohed me. An hour later she smacked a nurse …who chose to press criminal charges for the “assault”. Next day she was so uncontrolled she was completely delusional, thought they were trying to poison her by giving her meds… she hit another nurse….
Then at justice center because the nurses pressed charges. Two strikes you’re out. 5 mos. in justice center, of that, 2 mos. in solitary. People in solitary are fed “pan burgers”, grill scrapings, on stale bread. She went from 195 lbs to 140 lbs. because the food so disgusting. She had wanted to lose the weight. … She was in there longer than hard criminals. … She learned much that I didn’t know… Was tazed. Described in great detail how you piss and shit yourself when tazed.
Finally I got her off “by reason of insanity”. She really needs a full time hospital. Is radically crazy. When she is psychotic she can take me down. Is tremendously strong in that state. At this moment she was discharged at Summit, out for two months, and right now back at Summit. Group home kicked her out when social security SSI money was stopped. Now is one or two bureaucratic happenstances from being thrown in jail again. There is no system here for dealing with psychotic people. Most of the psychotic people don’t have anyone looking out for them. The guards beat the shit out of them….
The people who work at the psych ward at Univ. hosp. believe it is their right to press charges if a psychotic person knocks their glasses off. I don’t understand the criminalization of mental illness.
Walter Under Reagan, was that when the mentally ill were turned out?
Kevin Reagan made a speech one time pretending compassion for inmates who had to be locked up. Suggested that they would be free and medicated. Within six months, the homeless problem started in this country. …
Spencer The mentally ill have no lobbyist.
Kevin Sure they lack lobbyists, but that doesn’t let the rest of society off the hook.
Mr. G. A wild stretch here. When 911 hit, blew me away. Ensuing year or two, seemed the Americans have this need to feel safe more than others in the world. Law and order country. Illusion that laws make us safer. Kevin’s dau. Is the victim of that. The public supports law and order instead of cause and effect. Look at the death penalty… What they do with children. Execution of mentally ill people.
People in the rest of the world seem to know that life has its risks, and learning to live with them.
Kevin and the mentally ill are clearly the least of our brethren.
Shari
When you adopted her, were you told about her illness probability?
Kevin We didn’t know about the drug overdose in the womb. We did know about the birth father’s psychosis. Were not told, and the county did not know, that the mother was psychotic too. Only later did we find out. Now I am t hinking if I had had c omplete knowledge in advance I would not have gone ahead. At the time, though, I probably would have gone ahead with the adoption because of my idealism.
Mira your sharing this story is important. We are all better informed now. … Re. death penalty, the new head of the U.N. has suggested end to capital punishment for the whole world. Foreign minister of Korea, Bunkie Moon, is new U.N. sec’y.
Barbara P.S. when Michelle was 8, impossible to keep her at home because was threatening to kill members of family, placed in care. Kevin said he was aware that other adoptive parents, with psychotic children, were “returning” their adoptive children. It would have been understandable had Kevin done that. … but it is interesting that you can return a child who is psychotic.
Having a psychotic child bankrupts a family financially and emotionally.
SPENCER the people who work at Summit. They came there to help people. Their only option is to cause the judge to have the patient medicated against their will. It is not bad for the nurses to press charges…
Kevin these people were not pressing charges for Michelle’s benefit. This was at Univ. Hosp. they brought considerable legal forces to bear to convict her. I had to do all the footwork, get the paperwork together to prove “not guilty by reason of insanity”. She did have a legal aid attorney, but I had to do all the work. … I grant there are probably people at Summit who bring court cases for humanitarian reasons.
Elaine treatment options. Your dau. Is lucky to have you looking out for her. In children’s healthcare issues, a guardian ad leitum can be appointed… If a person has not been declared incompetent, and won’t permit treatment.
Kevin yes, and that was taken away in the early 80’s in the guise of giving people more freedom. They are not capable of handling it.
Mira I have a friend who lives at home with his mother … can easily get out of hand. Brain injury. There is no adult group home where he could be kept safe. … Probably a lot of veterans from Iraq war may have similar behavior problems. The treatment options will have to be improved.
Kevin when Reagan “freed” the psychotic masses it was within a couple years after the last crop of the Vietnam vets. were getting out of the service, and they landed up on the streets. The country doesn’t care about them at all. …
We have to accept the fact that the majority of people in this country are the ones who put that creep in Al Gore’s office. The enemy is us. For almost 30 years we have let the situation be horrendous. So many options that let us get distracted f rom it.
And Michelle is 22. Has a bad case of tardive diskinesia; uncontrollable movement. Cannot feed herself when totally off her meds. (What do you think her future holds?) A drastically shortened life, possibly AIDS, or violent assault. (Pregnancy?) No, during a good period when she was 17 she agreed to have her tubes tied.
Ellen a moment of silence and benediction for Michelle and her family….
Mira imagine a home … perhaps with an animal….
Kevin It is amazing that you should say that, Mira … one of the few sweet moments she had, was with a horse. Went to see “her” horse once a week for a summer a few years ago; took care of it, fed, groomed etc.
(Song, “Building Bridges”)
~ End of Table Notes~
Hugs to everyone,
Ellen
Section Two: Announcements
Rob Ryan (who made a presentation recently at the Salon) of Amnesty Internat’l Group 86 Cincinnati invites you to listen to the Amnesty International Hour radio show from Cincinnati. This show will discuss the
Drug War and Human Rights Abuses with Laura Osborn-Coffey, Group 86 coordinator, co-host, and guest Cecil Thomas, Cincinnati Councilman and retired City Police Officer; Jerry Cameron, retired Police Chief, and James Gierach, former prosecutor in the Cook County State's Attorney's Chicago office. In addition to the above speakers we will also hear from Ed Orlett, former Ohio state legislator. Note during the show the PALTALK audio/text chat room will be equipped for live discussion and commentary. There will be several open microphone time slots to voice your opinion. Note portions of this internet radio event were originally broadcast on 1/13/07. So some segments are reruns, while other segments were never broadcasted due to time limitations.
Topic Background
The recent Amnesty International Midwest Regional Conference passed a resolution titled “The Drug War and Human Rights Abuses”. Similar resolutions were also passed at the Mid Atlantic and North East conferences and are on the agenda for the National Amnesty International USA Milwaukee meeting in March. The show will focus on some of the human rights abuses generated by the War on Drugs.
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Amnesty International USA link
http://www.amnestyusa.org/events/midwestern/01182007grp86.html
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Date: (tonight) 1/18/2007
Time 8:00pm - 10:00pm (EST)
Text/Audio chat Room via www.paltalk.com <http://www.paltalk.com/>
Room Name=Radio/TV -> Talk -> AI Hour Drug War n Human Rights
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Guest Bio and Background
Cecil Thomas
<http://www.cecilthomas.com/>
<http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/council/pages/-3245-/>
Jerry Cameron
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James Gierach
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Paltalk Conference room Instructions after obtaining a USERID (Free) via www.paltalk.com
Login to Paltalk - Click Rooms - Select "Radio/TV," then "Talk Show" and then select the room named "AI Hour Drug War n Human Rights" which should appear on the list at the right.
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Robert R. Ryan
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Host, Amnesty International Radio Show
Jennifer Roig-Francoli is a kick butt classical violinist, and beautiful to boot. She is also a fellow trainee at the Alexander Technique teacher training program with me. This is not to be missed. Jennifer plays with fiery libido. I love it. Obviously, she does too. Ellen.)
Hi Friends,
I just thought I'd let you know that this weekend I'm performing here in
Cincinnati on baroque violin (a VERY rare occurrence), with the Catacoustic
Consort, a small chamber music group. Concert information is below, if you're
interested. See you in class Friday!
Love Triumphs: French Baroque Cantatas
7:30PM Saturday, January 20, 2007
Clifton United Methodist, 3416 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220
(next to Skyline Chili Restaurant off Ludlow, parking available in lot off
Senator)
AND
3:00PM Sunday, January 21, 2007
St. Gabriel Catholic Church, 48 West Sharon Avenue, Glendale, OH 45246
(across from Grand Finale Restaurant, parking available on Sharon Avenue)
Tickets: $15 general, $7 student. Children 12 & under are free. Tickets are
available at the
door or in advance by calling 513.772.3242.
You don't have to wait for Valentine's Day to celebrate love with the music of
Rameau and
Clerambault. Sit back and relax while the elegant sounds of the French Baroque
wash over you in
this charming concert of music for tenor and soprano soloists with flute,
violin, harpsichord,
and viola da gamba. Featured vocalists are Pablo Corá (Los Angeles) and Youngmi
Kim
(Cincinnati), and the instrumentalists include Jennifer Roig-Francoli
(Cincinnati), Colin St.
Martin (Baltimore), Tom Gerber (Indianapolis, IN), and Annalisa Pappano.
(Take advantage of this rare and fleeting opportunity to support Scott, to enhance health, to have fun! E.)
BARE YOGA
with Yoga Bare (aka Scott D., aka Mr. Harriet Tubman, salonista with puns, blond dreds., missing tooth)
Lloyd House third floor Meditation Room / Zendo
Sundays in January
12:45-2:00pm
$10 per person requested
Free your mind and body with clothes-free hatha yoga!
Suitable for various levels of experience, from
beginers to those with a regular practice.
Bring a mat or towel.
Clothing is optional. (But no, this is not a sexual be-in. Ellen.) (P.S. Why be bare? Many feel that going “sky clad” or naked is healing in itself, feels more “right”. More beautiful. What raiment could compete with the actual human body? As with sauna, it is not an opportunity to gawk at others. ellen)
Also: sauna/drummimg/potluck after yoga ($5 donation)
If you have questions: yogabare_2000@yahoo.com
Instuctor, Yoga Bare has been practicing yoga for 15
years. He has lead workshops at many Rainbow
Gatherings, Serendipity, American Medical Association,
health clubs, private homes, and public parks. He has
learned diverse styles from numerous teachers at such
places as Sivinada Center in Chicago, Chicago Park
District, American Medical Association, Evanston
Athletic Club, World Rainbow Gathering in Quebec, It's
Yoga in Cincinnati, Gainesville Health and Fitness
Club, University of Florida, and Temple of the
Universe.
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SUNDAY OPEN SAUNA AT THE LLOYD HOUSE
New wintertime practice at the Lloyd House! Come join in. Fire laid at noon; lit at 1:00. Set up at 2 or 2:30; sweat starts at 3. Takes about an hour. Please come, try to arrive by 3 at the latest. Bring towel... See below. If you like, bring food to share afterwards. Drumming about 4:30. Pot Luck at 6:00. Clean up at 7:00. Ellen
Lloyd House Sauna-
Sweat Lodge
Protocol
Mission and Spirit
A good sweat is deeply cleansing of body and purifying of spirit. We reverence the Finns and the Native Americans for this practice, and each other for joining in. Finns first sweat, rinse with cold water (screaming allowed), wash (each other) with soap (you may use warm shower in sink room); Sweat again, splash with cold water, scrape or scrub or beat the skin; Sweat yet again, then final rinse with cold water. … The rattle in the sweat room is for chanting, singing, story telling. After sauna, rest, drink water, then feast and party.
Modesty
· As the Finns say, "We see but we don't look."
· Feel free to use bathing suit or towel
You will need
· Water bottle
· Towel
· (lotion)
· (shampoo)
· (slippers)
Contributing … please
· build fire, 2 hours before
· clean benches
· split wood -- any time
· bring firewood in dressing room
· haul 3 buckets of water from sink room
· contribute $ -- look for jar in dressing room -- Suggest $5
Protest the War in Iraq:
national mobilization protest in D.C. Jan. 27.
The IJPC ( IJPC-Peace <kristen@ijpc-cincinnati.org>)is organizing a bus...cost only $60. Ride down on Friday night, all night on the bus, yes there is a toilet on the bus, demonstrate all day Sat, ride home Sat. night. Bus trip about 9 hours as I recall. Important. Can’t go? Give money for others to attend. ellen
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Weight Management Seminar
Ellen Bierhorst, Ph.D., veteran psychotherapist (35 years) has succeeded with herself and many clients. Come learn key tools and strategies in a supportive, good-humored small group (6 – 12). Three hours. $50
Call 221-1289 to state preferred date: Sunday 11 February at 3:00 – 6:00 pm OR Thursday 2/15/07 at 5:00 – 8:00 pm. 3901 Clifton Avenue (parking on Lafayette Ave.) Come 10 minutes early.
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Call to Fine Art College Seniors in Cincinnati Area [Deadline for Entry: Thursday 18 January]: The Summerfair Emerging Artists Exhibit highlights the best new art by the best new artists in Greater Cincinnati. It is a Summerfair program, co-organized, juried, & curated by Manifest, & presented at the Essex Studios Gallery in Walnut Hills. All senior fine arts majors in Art Academy of Cincinnati, Miami University, College of Mount St. Joseph, Northern Kentucky University, Thomas More College, University of Cincinnati, & Xavier University are eligible to submit; submission is NOT dependent on nomination or special invitation. There are no entry fees. More info @ 513.861.3638, manifest@manifestgallery.org, & www.manifestgallery.org.
Identifying Local & Regional Community Engagement Processes: The vision of Strive is to create the best education system in the world where every child in Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky succeeds from birth through college & enters a meaningful career. Strive's core values include collaborating to promote efficiency & effectiveness, making evidence-based decisions, & authentic community engagement to create more effective schools. They are working to harvest/mine the voice & will of the community from the many rich community engagement processes in the region. Information gathered will be used to achieve Strive's 5 goal: Every child PREPARED for school; Every student SUPPORTED inside & outside of school; Every student SUCCEEDS academically; Every student ENROLLS in college; Every student GRADUATES & ENTERS A CAREER. Strive requests your help to identify regional community engagement processes. Please forward any of the following information (please don't assume they are aware of a particular engagement process; any lead can will be helpful): Name of engagement process, Purpose, Location, Questions participants discussed, How was data used, Dates of process (estimates are appreciated), Status, & Contacts. Send engagement process information to & get more info about the project from Pat Brown, Senior Program Officer, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, 513.929.1149 (tel), 513.929.1391 (fax), brownp@kwfdn.org, www.kwfdn.org, & www.StriveTogether.org.
Shrines [Wednesday 17 January @ 6-10 PM]: Create a personal Shrine with Glenda Miles using our unique supplies. $30 per person. Reservations required. At Creative Catalysts, #231 in the Essex Studios, Cincinnati, OH. More info @ 513.368.1994 & www.creativecatalysts.net.
13W - film [Thursday 18 January @ 7:30 PM]: Moving Pictures Jury Selections: A 2006 by NYC video artist Sharon Mooney. 13W follows a day in the life of an eccentric, senior-citizen school bus driver/drummer as he offers his unique reflections upon the modern safety issues of driving a school bus in a suburban, southern city. (2006, 5 min 15 sec.). Free admission. At Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, 2727 Woodburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45206 . More info @ 513.861.3638, jason@manifestgallery.org, & www.manifestgallery.org.
Meet the Author: Kevin Bales [Thursday 18 January @ 6:30 PM]: Kevin Bales, President of Free the Slaves & an international expert on contemporary slavery, will speak in conjunction with the Invisible exhibit. Free with Freedom Center admission. In Harriet Tubman Theater, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati OH 45202. More info @ 513.333.7500, ETurner@nurfc.org, & www.freedomcenter.org.
Media Production 101 [Fridays: 19 January - 4 May @ Noon-2:30 PM]: Media class for undergraduate college credit; this foundation course introduces students to the fundamentals of media arts & visual literacy – light, color, composition, perspective, time, motion, sound. The course covers all the basic production techniques including scripting, lighting, shooting, producing, editing, & directing. Technical operation & understanding of all portable production & editing equipment are stressed. Students apply their skills in individual production assignments & through the creation of a larger group project. Projects will we evaluated by the class & aired on Media Bridges' Cable Access Channels. 3 college credits. For credit: $840; audit: free. Sponsored by Media Bridges Education Department & Chatfield College. 1100 Race Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info from Ronda Tuggle @ 513.921.9856 & ronda.tuggle@chatfield.edu or Sara Mahle @ 513.651.4171 x11 & sara@mediabridges.org.
Class in Garage Band [Fridays 19 January - 9 February @ 3-5 PM]: This program provides participants with the basic techniques necessary to create, arrange, & mix their own music for use in video productions or music demos. Using Macintosh computers & Garage Band, participants will learn the basics of how to build a song from samples, then mix it down for output to files compatible to CD, video, or the web. Presented by Media Bridges. Classes are free; classes build on each other, so attendance to all is required. At Media Bridges, 1100 Race Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.651.4171 & sara@mediabridges.org.
Music With Billy Larkin & Friends [Friday 19 January @ 8:30 PM -12:30 AM]: Billy Larkin brings together great musical talent in this 19th century building on the National Registry of Historic Places. Billy on vocals & keyboards will collaborate with Mandy Gaines on vocals, Eugene Goss on vocals & percussion, Teddy Wilburn on drums. $5 cover; free with purchase of dinner. At the Wintergarden @ Mecklenburg Gardens, 302 East University Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45219. More info @ 513.221.5353 & bilarky@fuse.net, & www.mecklenburgs.net.
Sonic Explorations [Friday 19 January @ 8 PM]: A selection of diverse & mostly new works with electronics, piano, oboe, tuba, & trombone from the (ccm)2 studios - CCM's center for computer music. James Mobberley is on the faculty at Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Free admission. At Cohen Family Studio Theater, CCM, UC, Cincinnati, OH, 45220. More info @ mara.helmuth@uc.edu.
Afro-Rican Ensemble @ Friday Jazz at the Hyatt [Friday 19 January @ 8:30-12 PM]: $10 cover; Free for Jazz Club Members; $5 for CCM & NKU students. At the Sungarten Room, Hyatt Hotel Cincinnati, 151 West 5th Street, Downtown Cincinnati, OH 45202. $1 parking across street at 5th & Race. More info @ 513.579.1234, waltb31@fuse.net, & www.jazzincincy.com.
Films on Contemporary Slavery [Saturday 20 January @ 1 PM]: Three films explore the issues of modern-day slavery: "Dreams Die Hard: Survivors of Slavery in America Tell Their Stories," an exposé of domestic slavery & forced prostitution in the US; "The Silent Revolution: Sankalp & the Quarry Slaves," the story of people held in slavery in the stone quarries of northern India who risk everything to take back their lives; & "Freedom & Beyond," the tale of rescuing child slaves working at the carpet looms in India. Invisible Exhibit Gallery, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati OH 45202. More info @ 513.333.7500, ETurner@nurfc.org, & www.freedomcenter.org.
The Greater Cincinnati Chinese Music Society Concert [Saturday 20 January @ 7:30 PM]: GCCMS kicks off its annual concert with "Legends of Love from China." The concert features the famous Chinese love story of the "Butterfly Lovers," with a piano & violin duet along with the "Dream of Red Chamber," a Chinese dance. Artistic director Lei Weng will introduce some of the country's leading Chinese artists. Tickets: $10-50. In Corbet Auditorium, CCM, UC, Clifton, Cincinnati, OH 45220. More info @ 513.761.0245 & www.cincinnatichinesemusicsociety.org.
Chamber Music Benefit Concert [Sunday 21 January @ 7 PM]: The Chamber Music Benefit Concert in support of Immunology Research. All proceeds support Immunology research at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation & the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Program will include: Robert Kahn -Trio in G Minor (1906); Frederic Chopin -Sonata for Cello & Piano (1847); Joel Hoffman -Karptet (2006); & Ernest Bloch -Suite for Cello and Piano (1919). Tickets: $20 for adults; $5 for students/post docs; children under 12 are free (but need a ticket). In the Corbett Auditorium, CCM, UC, Cincinnati, OH 45220. More info & tix from Barbara Burch @ 513.636.1339, burs64@cchmc.org, & www.ccm.uc.edu/about/corbett.aspx.
Conversations for Peace: Life In The Occupied Palestinian Territories: Gaza & The West Bank [Wednesday 24 January @ 7 PM]: What is the experience of everyday life in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel? How do people live, work, & create a community? What are the possibilities for the future? What might we do to improve the situation? The recently released "Baker Report, Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward - A New Approach" indicates if the US is to resolve the problems in Iraq it must deal with the issues of Israel & Palestine. Jimmy Carter's new book "Peace not Apartheid" suggests that Israel must end its occupation of the territories. The issues are complex. The emotions are intense. The stakes are high. Hear brief presentations by individuals with a 1st hand experience of the region & join in a discussion of the issues. Free & open to the public. Moderator: Sherry Baron (Israeli descent); Historical Intro: Saad Ghosn (Lebanese-American); Panelists: Susan Einbinder (Prof., Hebrew Union College), Michelle Goldman (Israeli journalist & writer), Kareem Khozaim (Egyptian-American), & Zeinab Schwen (Palestinian-American). At Rohs Street Cafe, 245 West McMillan Street, Clifton, Cincinnati, OH 45220. More info from Dan La Botz @ 513.861.0058.
Meet the Author: Juan Williams [Wednesday 24 January @ 6:30 PM]: Juan Williams, Senior Correspondent for National Public Radio & a leading journalist will discuss his latest book "Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure that are Undermining Black America - & What We Can Do About it." Free with Freedom Center admission. In Harriet Tubman Theater, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati OH 45202. More info @ 513.333.7500, ETurner@nurfc.org, & www.freedomcenter.org.
Open Collage Studio With Glenda Miles [Wednesday 24 January @ 6:30-8:30 PM]: Learn collage techniques & art up your world. Bring whatever you would like to embellish. $12 per session, supplies included. Reservations required. At Creative Catalysts, Studio #231, Essex Studios Complex. More info @ 513-368-1994 & www.creativecatalysts.net.
SCPA Jazz Ensemble Performance [Thursday 25 January @ 7 PM]: SCPA Jazz Ensemble led by Erwin Stuckey performs in this program cosponsored by the School for Creative & Performing Arts & the Freedom Center. Free with Freedom Center admission. In Harriet Tubman Theater, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati OH 45202. More info @ 513.333.7500, ETurner@nurfc.org, & www.freedomcenter.org.
Bring the Mandate for Peace to Washington DC [Saturday 27 January]: Join United for Peace & Justice in a march on Washington, DC, to call on Congress to take immediate action to end the war. There is room on the Intercommunity Justice & Peace Center-sponsored bus. The bus cost is $62 & leaves from 215 East 14th Street on Friday 26 January & returns in the early morning hours on Sunday. Payment must be made by January 20 to "IJPC"; mail to IJPC, 215 E. 14th St., Cincinnati, OH 45202. Scholarships are available. More info about the bus from Kristen @ 513-579-8547 & kristen@ijpc-cincinnati.org. More info about the march @ www.UnitedforPeace.org.
Reiki 1 & 2 [Saturday-Sunday 27-28 January @ 9 AM - 5 PM]: Learn this Japanese relaxation & stress reduction technique with Marion Corbin-Mayer, MA/RMT. Includes lecture, attunement, & lots of practice (8.5 CNE per class). Certificate awarded at the end of each day. Reiki 2 includes symbols & distance healing techniques. Reiki 1: $127; Reiki 2: $175; Reservation & $50 deposit required; $275 for both if paid in full by 10 Jan. At Creative Catalysts, #231 in the Essex Studios, 2511 Essex Place @ East McMillian near I-71, Cincinnati, OH 45206. More info @ 513-368-1994 & www.creativecatalysts.net.
Psychic & Holistic Festival [Saturday-Sunday 27-28 January @ 11 AM - 6 PM]: Presented by Inner Light Festivals. $5 admission; children under 13 with parents admitted free. At Quality Inn, 7915 Hwy US 42, Florence, KY 41042. More info, directions, & map @ www.InnerLightFestivals.com.
Army of Shadows (L'Armée des ombres) [Tuesday-Wednesday 30-31 January @ 7 PM]: Never shown in the U.S., this 1969 epic masterpiece by director Jean-Pierre Melville is being re-released as a restored 35 mm color print to rave reviews. "The rare work of art that thrills both the senses and mind... worthy of that overused superlative masterpiece." ~ Manohla Dargis, New York Times. The film is a poignant examination of what it means to love your country; revealing a slice of history where true patriotism was a gritty, lonely, perilous, unrewarded and often futile duty embraced by ordinary people. It is occupied France in 1942, Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is one of the French Resistance's chiefs. Given away by a traitor & interned in a camp, he escapes to join his network at Marseilles where he has the traitor executed. A rigorous, austere look at the everyday of the French Resistance: their solitude, their fears, their relationships, the arrests, the forwarding of orders & their responses. Writer Joseph Kessel & co-writer/director Jean-Pierre Melville belonged to this "Army in the Shadows." Starring Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Mann & Paul Crauchet. (France, 145 min. French, German & English with English subtitles. Not rated.) At Fath Auditorium, Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Eden Park, Mt. Adams, Cincinnati, OH 45202. $8 for adults; $6 for CAM members & students; $6 tix only by phone, online, or at door. Tix @ 877.548.3237, www.ticketfusion.com/cincyworldcinema/, outlets, & door. More info @ 859.781.8151, worldcinema@fuse.net, & www.CincyWorldCinema.org.
Vaccine: the Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver - Book Discussion [Tuesday 30 January @ 7 PM]: Arthur Allen will discuss his book "Vaccine: the Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver." The book's publication date will be Monday 15 January. Cincinnati connections that integral to the book include information derived from interviews with Gilbert Schiff, Cincinnati Children's Hospital researcher involved in creating the rubella and rotavirus vaccines, and from researching files in the University of Cincinnati Medical Heritage Library about Albert Sabin who created the oral polio vaccine while working at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. At Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 2692 Madison Road, Rockwood Pavilion, Cincinnati 45208. More info @ 513.396.8960, http://vaccinethebook.typepad.com/mt/, & www.josephbeth.com.
Meet the Author: Ron Christie [Tuesday 30 January @ 6 PM]: Former special assistant to President Bush discusses & signs "Black in the White House." Free & open to the public. In the Harriet Tubman Theater, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati OH 45202. More info @ 513.333.7500, ETurner@nurfc.org, & www.freedomcenter.org.
The Joy of Spiritual Growth [Tuesday 30 January @ 7-9 PM]: a small group workshop. Participants acquire tools to advance their spirituality & partnership with God for a centered, whole life. This night is an introductory workshop for a 7-week course for those who want to work on themselves, discover ways to grow spiritually, believe closeness to God & fellow human beings is good, & want to know how to achieve it; a support group with participants sharing experiences. The 7-week series begins 6 Feb; cost is $70 including the text & work books. Group facilitator, Clark Echols, is pastor of the Glendale New Church, a Swedenborgian community. Clark has spent his adult life studying Emanuel Swedenborg's philosophy. The course combines Swedenborg's insights into the human constitution, God, & the relationship between the two, with a task-oriented program for growth. At The Glendale New Church, 845 Congress Avenue, Glendale, OH. 45246. More info @ 513.772.1478, jcechols@newchurch-cincy.org, & www.newchurch-cincy.org.
Ongoing Tri-State Treasures
Italian American Film Festival [Wednesdays thru 25 April @ 7:30 PM]: Sante Matteo, Prof. & Coordinator of Italian Studies in the Department of French & Italian @ Miami University presents his Annual Spring Semester Italian American Film Festival. Free & open to the public. Jan. 24: The Italian (1915), Reginald Barker; Jan. 31: Christ in Concrete (1949), Edward Dmytryk; Feb. 7: Marty (1955), Delbert Mann; Feb. 14: Mean Streets (1973), Martin Scorsese; Feb. 21: Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), Robert Wise; Feb. 28: Rocky II (1979), Sylvester Stallone; Mar. 7: Cobra (1925) with Rudolph Valentino; Kiss Me, Guido (1997), Tony Vitale; Mar. 21: Robin & the Seven Hoods (1964), Gordon Douglas, with Frank Sinatra & the Rat Pack; Mar. 28: Saturday Night Fever (1977), John Badham; Apr. 4: Scarface (1932), Howard Hawks; Apr. 11: The Godfather (1972), Francis Ford Coppola; Apr. 18: Mafia! (1998), Jim Abrahams; The Sopranos, 1st TV series episode; Apr. 25: The Sopranos, episodes from the TV series. In Room 46 Culler Hall, Miami University, Oxford OH 45056. More info @ 513.529.5932, matteos@muohio.edu.
In • vis • I • ble: Slavery Today [thru 28 February]: Learn about contemporary slavery across the globe & in the US. Find out what you can do to help stop this modern-day scourge. Free with Freedom Center admission. At National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 3rd Floor, 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati OH 45202. More info @ 513.333.7500, ETurner@nurfc.org, & www.freedomcenter.org.
Winter Travel Series at Cincinnati Nature Center [Sundays in January @ 2-3:30 PM]: Travel from Southeast Asia to the waters of the Caribbean; trek to the highest peak in North America & explore the American Southwest - all in the month of January. A no-hassle vacation experience, from the comfort of the Cincinnati Nature Center’s Rowe Woods auditorium. January 14: Climbing Denali, the Top of North America; January 21: Our American Southwest: The Coral Reef and Legend of the Dancing Drum; January 28: Belize: A Naturalist's Quest. Free for members & included with daily admission for non-members. Daily admission: Adults $5, Children $1. At Cincinnati Nature Center’s Rowe Woods, 4949 Tealtown Road, Cincinnati, OH 45150. More info @ 513/831-1711, cplepys@cincynature.org, & www.CincyNature.org.
Observatory University - "Galaxies & Cosmology" [2nd & 4th Sundays 14 January - 27 May @ 7-9 PM]: Are you fascinated by our Universe? Or are you teaching Astronomy? Join Richard Hamilton, Cincinnati Observatory Center Staff Scientist & Xavier University Visiting Professor to learn how the Universe works. Observatory University offers college-level astronomy courses for inquisitive members of the general public, amateur astronomers, & science educators (credit available through Xavier University). Some basic algebra required, but all concepts used will be reviewed in class. Included are lab sessions & optional observing opportunities using the historic telescopes. Take a mind-bending trip through time & space. Begin by exploring our Milky Way Galaxy with its amazing spiral arms lit by billions of stars & learn what beast lies at its heart. Then visit some of the oldest & oddest objects dwelling at the very edges of the universe. How could Einstein’s simple equation E=MC2 warp the very fabric of time & space? Finish with an introduction to String Theory. Tuition: $150 for general public, high school students (non-credit), Friends of the Observatory members, & Professional Development Unit; $300 for 1 graduate credit hour & high school students for undergraduate credit (ask your school about financial support). Tuition includes 1-year individual new or renewal membership to the Cincinnati Observatory Center. Future classes: “Planetary Systems; Our Own & Beyond,” “Mathematics In Astronomy,” & “Physics Of Astronomy.” At Cincinnati Observatory Center, 3489 Observatory Place, Cincinnati, OH 45208. Register with Nancy Downing @ 513.745.3477. More info @ 513.321.5186, Observatory@fuse.net, & www.cincinnatiobservatory.org.
Must I Quit My Job To Be Happy? [thru Thursday 1 February @ 7-9 PM]: Five secrets for being happier at work with Polly Giblin, Life Coach. $75 for this 1st series, $120 when repeated. Reservations required. At Creative Catalysts, Studio #231, Essex Studios Complex. More info from Polly @ 513.305.0401 or from 513.368.1994 & www.creativecatalysts.net.
Be More Creative in 2007 [Tuesdays 23 January & 6 & 27 February]: What do you want to create in your life? Committed & fun group coaching with Marion Corbin-Mayer, MA/RMT. $25 per session, $80 for series of 4 sessions. Ongoing group, join any time. Space limited to 8. Reservations required. At Creative Catalysts, #231 in the Essex Studios, Cincinnati, OH. More info @ 513.368.1994 & www.creativecatalysts.net.
Salonista and Swami Himavat Ishaya sends notice of special yoga seminar with himself and Vickie Fairchild:
Greetings, all.
Please consider the attached flyer which announces my up and coming workshop with Vickie Fairchild:
Coming up in February, a chance to explore not only the physical benefits but also the system of mindfulness and awareness which is the foundation of the greater System of Yoga which incorporates those postures and which is designed to hasten the dawn of Enlightenment for all of us:
Deepen and Enliven Your Yoga Practice
Through: The Philosophy of Yoga, that is: Raja Yoga, and Meditative Techniques taught by Himavat; and,
Yoga Asanas and Pranayama taught by Vickie.
When: Sunday, Feb. 11, 1:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Cost: $95.
Where: Vickie's Home Studio, 7425 East Aracoma Drive, Amberly Village, OH 45237
To Pre-register: either call Vickie Fairchild, 513- 257-1057 or email Himavat Ishaya: pathfinders108@yahoo.com
Recent CeaseFire Cincinnati Email:
(to subscribe send email to <ceasefirecincinnati@gcul.org>)
Dear CeaseFire Cincinnati Supporters,
We hope that you are well.
Over the long weekend, we experienced 2 shootings in Avondale. Thus, as part of our comprehensive approach to reducing gun violence in Avondale, we are asking you to attend one of the following responses this week:
Wednesday, January 17th at 2:00 PM – Meet at the corner of Reading and Dana in the parking lot of the Sickle Cell Building.
This is a response to a shooting of an 18 year old that took place on Saturday at 8:30 PM. The young man was shot in the leg.
Thursday, January 18th at 2:00 PM – Meet at the corner of Hale and Reading Road.
This is a response to a shooting of a man that place on Monday at 1:30 PM. In this case, many shots were fired – on an afternoon when kids were out of school.
Both responses have been planned for 2:00 PM because we are hoping to canvass the neighborhood and talk to folks about the gun violence and solutions. In particular, we hope to talk with kids and youth as they are returning home from school. If you work with youth or have a passion for the safety of our kids, would you please consider volunteering an hour of your time to attend of our responses?
Our kids need to know that the community cares for them and wants them to grow up safe and healthy!
We also want to remind you of our monthly Advisory Meeting, which is always held on the 4th Monday of the month. This month, we will meet at the Urban League at 6:30 PM on Monday, January 22nd. Meetings generally last one hour.
Thank you again for all of your support and we hope to see you soon.
Sincerely,
CeaseFire Cincinnati
Salonista David Loy, prof. and Buddhist to give public lecture: (David is sparkling...ellen)
> Ethics/Religion & Society is delighted to present
> A Public Lecture
> By Dr. David Loy, Besl Family Chair Professor of E/RS
>
> Thursday, January 25 at 7:00 p.m.
> Gallagher Student Center Theater
> “The Nonduality of Good and Evil: Buddhist Reflections on the New Holy Wars”
> Public Lecture – Question and Answer Session Following
>
MUSE - Silent Auction with Suede!
You're Invited!
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aMUSEing: An Evening of Laughter and Music
Wed., January 24, 2007 7:30-9:30
Funny Bone on the Levee
$10 tickets at the door
Members of MUSE will join with local comics to "cut loose" and perform in this benefit event for MUSE!
MUSE at Wyoming
Pendery Center for the Arts
Friday, February 23, 2007 8:00 pm Wyoming, Ohio
Full length concert
$10 adults
$5 students and seniors
Benefit Concert for Student Groups
Details
Greetings!
Here we are at the beginning of 2007! MUSE has some upcoming events for your entertainment. Please join us!
2007 Gala Evening with the MUSEs!
Please be our guest at our fifth annual Gala Evening with the MUSEs. Join us for a delectable wine and cheese reception hosted by MUSE singers! Join the bidding on creative and beautiful items in our silent auction. Bid against your friends for a great cause!
This year we are thrilled to present the swanky, sultry jazz diva, SUEDE! Her sizzling performance is guaranteed to chase away the winter chill! At 6:30 PM, Suede will treat the reception guests to an intimate musical treat prior to her public performance at 8:00 PM.
WHEN? February 3, 2007
PRIVATE RECEPTION 6:00 PM
PUBLIC CONCERT 8:00 PM
WHERE? St. John's Unitarian Church
Learn More!
We look forward to seeing you soon.
Sincerely,
Catherine Roma, Artistic Director
MUSE - Cincinnati's Women's Choir
Ellen,
I applaud you and your group for raising the consciousness and consciences of our community's citizens about important issues. I would like to bring your attention to the efforts of NPC (the Nurse-Physician Collaborative) in reforming (hopefully, transforming) our healthcare delivery system "from the inside out." In particular, I would like for you, as a care provider, to be aware of a Seminar that we are planning in Feb. Please, see the attached preliminary announcement, and feel free to send it to anyone who might be interested.
Best wishes and regards,
Harry Fry (Harry is a retired physician, way cool; I met him at the Peter Block event last year. Ellen)
Nurse-Physician Collaborative
Education Program Series:
Seminar on Collaborative Health Care Delivery
February 7, 2007
(Continuing Education Credits Provided)
NPC, the education department of Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati
(CHMCC), and the program staff of the Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati (HFGC) have organized a Seminar on Collaborative Health Care Delivery to be held on the morning of Feb. 7, 2007. The purpose of the seminar is to raise consciousness and increase understanding of the need for and importance of collaboration in health care delivery and to provide an opportunity for our community’s caregivers to learn from experts among us and from one another about collaborative processes in the provision of health care, with focus on changing concepts and innovative holistic and inclusive evidence-based approaches.
The program will be held at the Rookwood Commons facility of HFGC and end at noon. It is organized as follows:
8:30 Continental breakfast and registration
8:50 Welcome and opening remarks
9:00 Physician Paul Uhlig’s presentation: “Collaboration in Health Care
Delivery.”
9:40 Interactive small-groups breakout session addressing Paul’s ideas
10:00 Pastor Doug Mitchell’s presentation: “Patient and Family Care:
New Culture, New Skill Set.”
10:30 Small-groups breakout session addressing Doug’s ideas
11:00 Nurse Jane Swaim’s presentation: “Nurse-Physician
Communication, An Essential Part of Collaborative Care”
11:30 Small-groups breakout session addressing Jane’s ideas
Peter Block, the internationally recognized management consultant and author, will facilitate all of the interactive breakout sessions.
The extraordinary faculty and facilitator are recognized experts and leaders in their fields. The interactive small-groups breakout sessions will expose the attendees to an edifying and effective process of engagement. The site and the facilities are superb.
Anyone involved in health care delivery may attend. Students are welcome. Educational credits will be provided to nurse and physician attendees. There will be a $10 cover charge, to be paid on site at the time of registration. Free parking will be available. Formal announcements, invitations, and pre-registration forms will be sent out in January.
BEYOND JOURNALING: A WORKSHOP IN MINDFUL WRITING
Learn writing techniques that help develop mindfulness. In mid-February,
the Buddhist Dharma Center will be offering a 6-week workshop on Mindful
Writing. Mindful Writing is a tool that brings and holds the attention of
the mind’s eye to seeking and exploring the sensation of emotion, helping to
heal the disconnection between mind and body, and leading to a deeper
understanding of our nature. Writing skills are not required for
participation.
The workshop will be led by Jo Taylor, a member of the Buddhist Dharma
Center, whose own 17-year practice of mindfulness began by using these
techniques. She has a BA in Sociology and taught mindful writing (as a
volunteer) to ex-offenders at a halfway house for 5 years.
The workshop will run for 6 weeks on consecutive Mondays, beginning February
12, from 7 p.m. until 8:15 p.m. The cost is $40, with reduced fees for
people in special circumstances. Workshop size is limited. For more
information and/or to register please contact Jo at
jtaylor001@fuse.net
Section Three: Articles
Salon Lurker (and MLK Chorale singer, Cliftnite, children’s health activist, licensed pilot, etc.) Dot Christensen sends a WHALE OF A GOOD IDEA
Ellen,
Thanks for the rides and company today.
Service Credit Banks are a means to assist older adults who need
help, or families needing respite from caring for a parent or older
adult (or maybe a disabled child?). For each hour that a
Member/Volunteer working with the Bank "works" providing respite
care, transportation to the grocery or doctor, for instance, they
earn 1 credit. They "bank" their credits for the future, when they
themselves, or someone they wish to assist need to use the credits.
People under 55 who volunteer earn credits on behalf of a senior who
can't earn their own credit. This could also apply to Friendly
Visitors if it was one of the list of items for which credits can be earned.
Hawaii and Oregon have (or at least did have) state-wide programs
which allow a son or daughter in one city to earn credits and give
them to a parent, who can use them for whatever they need in their
own city. Missouri has had a line item in the state budget to cover
any needed respite care for someone who has earned service credits
but there is no member/volunteer to help them when they need it.
I searched "Service Credit Banks" + Oregon and found a description
from a foundation that funded 6 programs. Four lasted 3-4 years each
(with paid staff and space to get the program going) but did not
reach their volunteer benchmarks and external funding was
discontinued. Rocky Mountain HMO and CareAmerica got original grants
in about 1990, and continued beyond the initial three years. Maple
Knoll Village has a sort of mini version of this for home repair
network for seniors, I think.
I'll keep thinking about this.
Dot
Jenefer Ellingston, political activist extraordinaire writes from D.C.:
Dear Ellen,
Here's my poster for the Jan. 27 rally and march (the big one).
OCCUPIER !
OUT OF IRAQ
OCCUPIER!
OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE
(Fascism is un-American - Join the Green Party)
love,
Jenefer (I'm too busy to breathe)
Acerbic wit Jane Auer, lurker from Lexington writes re. table conversation:
Dear Ellen,
Your Salon seems to be getting sentimental. It is a wonderful thing that you are a trained psychotherapist. I would be absolutely transparent in my stunned wonder that you folks give Ford a good thumbs up. He was responsible for the Warren Report, Rumsfeld and Cheney. Nothing wrong there-is there?
And here' s to capital punishment-a wonderful tradition in a civilized society? Not our business? Great attitude! That is why my family is so quaintly small. *
How is Anna? After the initial announcement I have read nothing. Is she ok?**
Love, Jane
**(My daughter Anna’s pregnancy is cooking right along. Due June 21. We are excited. ellen)
*(Jane clarified...she was referring to the holocaust which decimated her family and countless others of course. e.)
Section Four: Books/Magazines/Reviews
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(from Ellen) I am reading “Things Fall Apart”...can’t remember the African author’s name...unpronouncable. Story of a Tutsi yam farmer. Broadening. A classic.
Now I know you are reading. Tell us what? WHAT? I am reading the Joy Luck Club because it is the “On the Same Page” city wide book slection this winter. Get your copy at local branch lib. These stories of women in and f rom China are gripping, amazing, inspiring. E.b.
The Lloyd House Salon (usually about 12 people) Meets on WEDNESDAYS at 5:45,
EVERY Wednesday, 52 WEEKS/YEAR come hell or high water, as my mother used to say.
We of the Lloyd House Salon gather in a spirit of
respect, sympathy and compassion for one another
in order to exchange ideas for our mutual pleasure and enlightenment.
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Our Salon blog is a promising interactive site: http:lloydhouse.blogspot.com
Also, we have an Interactive Yahoo Salon group, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LloydHouseSalon
For Pot Luck procedures including food suggestions, mission and history visit
http://home.fuse.net/ellenbierhorst/Potluck.html .
You are invited also to visit the Lloyd House website: http://www.lloydhouse.com
> To unsubscribe from the Lloyd House Potluck Salon list, send a REPLY message
> to me and in the SUBJECT line type in "unsub potluck #". In the place of #
> type in the numeral that follows the subject line of my Weekly email. It
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> delete it. Thanks! ellen bierhorst
