~ LETTERS ~ I simply LOVE getting your letters! Thanks. FROM JACKIE MILLAY Hi Ellen, ... In case you'd be interested in some smashing herbs, sweet potato plants, etc., Funke's on Gray Rd. is a gold mine. Thanks for all you do. Looking forward to seeing you soon. LOLn'L, Jackie
Hey Ellen, This is Fabien Tepper's mother, Harriet. She interviewed you for "CityBeat." (She came to the final salon, nearly two years ago. ellen) I love your Virtual Salon and am seriously grateful for your tip on, "The Female Brain." Just wish I'd started out life knowing that stuff! Keep up the great work. Fab's in Turkey documenting Animal Rights issues, was interning with "Yes!" magazine for 6 months and before that covered the Mexican Presidential Elections on Pacifica Radio from Oaxaca last summer. My thinking on the Anna Louise Inn-- first off, this City Beat’s “This Modern World” cartoon about Tom Friedman’s insights regarding the Next New World are very funny. And refreshing after after the Enquirer shared John Barrett's fear of women having sex in bushes at Lytle Park. In our future it will be a spot for folks to rendezvous before planning where to dine. Thanks Barrett. If unsanctioned sex elicits greater worry than miles and miles of protestors, maybe a follow up to “Sweep Them Out” should be “Let’s Come Inn” Gatherings. This beautiful Spring-- let's welcome all the residents of Anna Louise Inn, everyone's sons and daughters, with music and food… and find the win-win, as the Inn’s as much about People as being a charitable institution. I mean a summer long celebration: yoga, foot rubs, meditation, dancing, sun bathing, sports, lots of dancing. What would Food Not Bombs Keith McHenry do (besides puppet shows)? To begin, a half block-long line of people lying in the grass tight together: Spoon to Get Over the Wound. A continual out loud reading of Sinclair Lewis’s, “Babbitt.” Quiet readings of “The Dialectic of Sex.” Jim and Aileen Schenk reading, “What Does God Look Like?” as we continue to share what we feel to be true. We should be blessed by the continuing presence of nuns, so the new police chief sees we’re O.K. One special beach towel will be spread for W&S workers and executives alike since the latter like things special. Maybe some rice flour stenciled Peace footprints to show the way? Free popsicles and cream pies from a Queen City Cycles bike (see attached) if there's no ordinance against it. If someone has to explain what we're doing, it should be a petite woman, shy by nature, who now one can get mad at. Make the Queen City About Love? Harriet FROM DIANE FISHBEIN
Oh mary Oliver.
FROM DIANE WASNAK
Hello all, As you can imagine I've been reeling with the events of the last two weeks. Thank you all for your support. Whether it's been sweating doing hard labor for my mom (the late Lynn Wasnak). A phone call. A prayer, or several. I'm writing concerning matters at hand on this particular evening. I believe at some e-mail or other I mentioned I have a contract around the corner that will whisk me away until August 15th. With that said, I'm trying to get my mom's stuff in order before I go. Everything from Social Security, bank stuff, Obituaries (keep an eye in the Cincinnati Enquirer friday...hopefully the Canton Repository too, that may be saturday) etc. A matter that NEEDS help is the care of my mother's CATS! A foster (or if you really like them, potentially longer) for when I am gone on contract, then I will figure something when I return. Bella and Rio are brother and sister Maine Coon mixes. They are fixed and de-clawed in the front. They are around 10-12 years old. Next week I will get their rabies shots and groomed. I don't want a 'shelter' situation (like SPCA) as that is where they came from. They were dumped at a shelter (already fixed and de-clawed) when we got them. They are defiantly worried about the boxes at my moms place and no mom. She really loved the cats. They are very nice kitties, but do not like being picked up. So I'm attaching photos of them. Please spread the word for a Foster for Bella and Rio ASAP! Next: My moms accounts are frozen. There are expenses that are coming directly out of my pocket to settle things. She did not have a Will. (Send donations to Diane Wasnak, in care of Many Voices, PO Box 2639, Cincinnati Oh 45201. >ellen) My mom donated her brain to the University of Kentucky for an Alzheimer's study. She did not have it , but it is the gene pool, and she was very passionate about this cause. What she did not know was that the taxi (or whatever) to take her to UK did not venture further than 50 miles from Lexington. So much scramble was made moments after I held her after her last breath to find a funeral home to giver her a ride. She also thought that they would cremate her after they did what they were going to do and send the ashes home in a box. She told me this the previous Saturday. No. The funeral service would transport her back up to Cincinnati for the last preparation. With that said, if anyone would like to contribute to this immediate cost (I know some already have , THANK YOU!) You can write a check to me and send it in care of Many Voices, PO Box 2639, Cincinnati Oh 45201. ALSO LOOKING FOR AN ANGEL to keep my mom's vision of Many Voices Press alive! At some point there will be some fund or other in her name to keep it going. If you are interested in this contact me and I will put you in contact of someone on the board. It has been another unbelievably long day. I'm sad because after a day like this I would talk to my mom about all the crazy things that happened. I know she can hear me, I ca n't hear her. Love, Diane Visit our community site: Lynn's Minions | 
