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Section One: Table Notes
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(Note: these notes were taken by me, Ellen 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 6 September, 2006:
Spencer Konicov, Mr. G., Alan Scheidt, Cheryl Hayden, Mira Rodwan, Vlasta Molak, Janet Kalven, Steve Sunderland, Ellen Bierhorst, Firooz Namei
Mr. G. read the Preamble.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Alan: watch for Omnium Gatherum at the Artist's Warehouse in Northside, produced by Lyle Benjamin. Brilliant.
Alan: this week is the opening of Cinti. Theater season,… Cinti Shakespeare Co. is opening "As You like it". Tomorrow playhouse in the park "Of Mice and Men" about homelessness, Steinbeck. I will review it for CityBeat. Ensemble theater Co is opening with a musical, about Mack Senet and Maple Norman, by the composer who did Hello Dolly.
Mira: Women's Day of Prayer (men may come), Saturday 9 Sept. Presenters include Mira and Ellen.
Steve: Walk for peace Sunday afternoon 3:30, walk to mosque. For info call Steve 919 2538.
Vlasta: Earthsave picnic Sunday 17th 2 pm in Newport at the park where Licking R. empties into Ohio.
TOPICS NOMINATED:
Cheryl: …House and Garden issues. Mentions of New Orleans.
In the June issue … someone gave a big party. In July issue article about wall decorations hand painted scenes of bayou life. I find this offensive … Last night I read how even in upper class neighborhoods there is still wreckage, people living in FEMA housing.
Mira: Diane Rheme's show this am. Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins, "Brave New Ballot". Shocking
Firooz: there is a law suit now in Ohio about the 2 004 election in Ohio. A lot of African American pre punched ballots were distributed. ACLU suing Ohio to preserve the ballots rather than destroy it.
Mira: also he talked about Diebold's voting machines. Easy to compromise the machines. Every voter should be vigilant as they go to the polls.
Firooz: anybody can vote absentee. ?
Ellen: yes.
Firooz: naturalized citizens now have to have proof of naturalization before they can vote.
Mira: Jamie Lee Curtis wrote Is there really a human race? Charming. …making sure you have special quiet times with your children. … I saw "Little Miss Sunshine"--movie, laughed so hard!
Spencer: 3,4 or 6 books you have read in your lifetime that have influenced your thinking, and you refer to them.
Mira: what environmental "green" things we have done this month.
Firooz: Catherine Harris got nominated for US senate for Republicans. Yesterday. She was Sec'y State in Fla… she single-handedly elected Bush.
TOPIC SELECTED: WONDERFUL BOOKS THAT HAVE INFLUENCED YOU IN YOUR LIFE
(this was a “different” conversation... Not political for a change. We enjoyed it hugely. You had to be there... Notes don’t do it justice. Ellen)
Spencer: Who gets what ; how, and why?" about money and politics. Gives a good understanding of how things come to be. For example New Orleans… The second one is Numerical Illiteracy-- we Americans have no understanding of numbers. The level of destruction in New Orleans is unfathomable. Things are happening. Let's imagine that Hyde Park, East Walnut Hills, Evanston, Norwood, Mt. Auburn, Clifton were completely destroyed. How long would it take to clean up that? It took 7 yrs. To clean up San Francisco earthquake mess. Things take time.
Those who have the money will get taken care of first (in New Orl.) The last person to be taken care of is the poor, old house owner. Blocks and blocks of those will be raised, not rebuilt. Common buildings will be put up. …city has declared that any new structures -the living areas must be higher than the flood plane. So the poor of New Orleans will be sent elsewhere. I get this from the two books.
NPR radio has been following displace New Orleans refugees. They are now building a new life.
Cheryl when I was in college, I read books then. Don't any more. Newspapers and magazines now. Lord of the Rings trilogy made a real big impression on me. Read it two times. …the striving. The small person doing something that seemed impossible, by taking one step at a time. … About a Utopian society; young people were required to go into service positions before settling into a vocation. Jobs I had as a student gave me an appreciation of how non-professional folks live, work.
Mira: the most exciting moment of holding a book in my hand was when I was a freshman at college, Wayne State in Detroit. In the poetry section, A Coney Island of the mind by l. Ferlingetti. Saw a few lines that were thrilling to me. A new way of writing … falls out of his brain onto the paper; colorful and expressive. Later Reflections on a slice of watermelon pickle an anthology of poetry for ch ildren. I used them to dance to.
Firooz: Ferlingetti just closed his bookstore.
Janet I remember being read to… I was 15 mos older than my brother…being taken to the children's room at the branch library. We decided to read all the books. We got to C. … Women Breaking Boundaries about the Grail as a movement.
Vlasta When I was 17, the Little Prince by St. Exupery. Left a lasting influence. …he describes the different characters. …an alcoholic who drinks because he is ashamed… friendship with the fox, and the rose. The time you invest in a person is what nourishes the relationship. When I was 25, Jonathan Livingston Seagull about practicing for perfection rather than fighting for food, competing with each other. Was in love with flight. Reached a new dimension of flight.
Also when I was 25, thinking of moving to the U.S., in Israel, Stranger in a Strange Land by R. Heinlein. Michael Valentine Smith. The word "grok". Good description of American society. Phony friendliness…
Firooz "Grand Inquisitor" chapter in Brothers Karamatsov, when Jesus comes back during the Spanish Inquisition. He is thrown into the dungeon. The Grand Inquisitor says "It is a fallacy that man does not live by bread alone" … the issue is whether or not the kiss of Jesus is enough…. I find that the most important single chap. In the book. So clever, so important. Even Hitler used it in Mein Kampf… people are isolated, alienated. Eric Fromm wrote about the same thing.
Mr. G: I am film guy. Top of my list, "Ordinary People" -- began my maturation process. The other is "Somewhere in Time". I have seen it numerous time. Christopher Reeves, Christopher Plumber… a college kid, becomes successful playwright in Chicago; something is missing in his life. Falls in love with a photo of a woman. Learned she had died in 1912… it is about bonds between people that can transcend eras.
Alan …so many… amazing play "lost Electra", a new play at the Playhouse. Magic realism, time travel.
Mr. G: science is like that, you are relating to dead scientists…
Alan an inconvenient truth about Lyman Baum (Wizard of oz) [and I think that was one of the greatest books]. Salmon Rushdie did a book on the film "Wiz. Of Øz"
Lyman Baum … advocated the genocide of Native Americans. His family have recently apologized for that.
Mr. G.: you can have a villainous person write something that the public finds sublime. So is that projection?
Alan … two books. End of last year I went through a profound life change. Read Quaker book of wisdom. I am not a Quaker, though it is my favorite Christian sect. I am not into the incarnation thing. It is a handbook on how to live. Service, spirituality, family. …E.B. White charlottes' web and Stuart Little. There is no more noble character in all lit. than Charlotte, and Stuart. I love that they do not have happy endings. At the end, Stuart Little is still on his search for Margallo. … charlotte dies, but her legacy lives o n.
Ellen: Don Juan: a Yaqui Way of Knowledge. Aldus Huxley Island, a Utopian novel. Islandia by G.T. Wright, another utopia. (I Never can take notes and talk at the same time... These books gave me hope, opened up the world of possibilities when I was in my 20’s.)
Alan … Great Gatsby, made me weep.
Mira: "Rashomon", the Japanese movie by kirasawa. Same story told by many different points of view.
Alan the downtown library has an excellent selection of foreign films on DVD. E.g.. "Jules et Jim" by Truffaut. "400 blows". Also Truffaut. Resnais, "Mon Oncle d'Amerique" begins with a lecture by a psychologist.
Mira: "Places in the heart", Sally Field, widowed at the beginning… "La Pomme Lucienne" "Murmur of the heart" by Malle.
… like during Katrina when patients were given lethal doses of morphine …
~ End of Table Notes~
Hugs to everyone,
Ellen
Section Two: Announcements
(The Women’s Day of Prayer today was really something! I had Alexander Teacher Training school all morning—wonderful, but also exhausting— and then went for lunch and to hear the afternoon presenters and give a short presentation on Judaism myself. I thought it was only in Cincinnati that we had this annual event... Nope, they have it in other cities as well. Women gathering to invoke spirit is a heavy thing. Next year I hope to b e there for the whole day.
Then I rushed back to the Lloyd House for our weekly study group on Wallerstein and the world system with David Rosenberg, Daisy Quarm, Mike Murphy and Shari Able. And so tonight I am whipped! Rather than wait and publish on Sunday, I want to send out the weekly tonight and remind you about the 9/11 peace walk and peace talk tomorrow, Sunday. You can walk, talk or do both. I plan to be there!
So the Weekly will be short this time. See you next week!
Smiles to all. And... Remember how united we felt on 9/11/01? How the strife of political divisions, cultural, racial, economic divisions all melted away during those shocked days when the skies were silent of airplanes? Let us all remember. Let’s do our best to get along, to help our country, our world. Shalom, salaam, peace. Ellen)
9/11 Peace/Commemoration March on Sunday 9/10
From Steve Sunderland
Dear Friends:
The Peace Village September 11 Peace Walk will take
place on SEPTEMBER 10TH, SUNDAY, AT 3:30PM STARTING AT ST.
MONICA/ST. GEORGE CATHOLIC CHURCH, 329 W. MCMILLAN STREET, (this is the fancy church at the corner of Ravine and McMillain, behind Hughes High School, behind Deaconess Hospital--ellen)
PROCEEDING DOWN CLIFTON TO THE CLIFTON MOSQUE. At aproximately 5:30 A one hour seminar on
the topic, "STILL WALKING/WORKING FOR PEACE," will be held at the
Clifton Mosque following the walk. All are invited.
This will be our fifth walk. We will be walking
slowly and stopping at many locations on Clifton including UC,
Hillel, Wesley Foundation, Hebrew Union College, the Fire House, the
park, Clifton United Methodist Church, Annunciation Catholic Church,
St. Johns Unitarian Church and ending at the Clifton Mosque.
An interfaith planning group has worked to put the
walk and conference together. Our hope is that we can walk in peace,
for peace, and with open hearts of compassion. Our tradition is to
pause at the above locations for water, a prayer, a moment of
reflection and then continue moving toward the next location.
Our seminar at the Clifton Mosque will start at
5:30pm and give everyone a chance to rest and to discuss the many
meanings of our walk and peace. Steve Sunderland, Director of the
Peace Village and professor of educational foundations and peace
studies at UC, will chair the meeting.
We invite everyone to join us in these events and to
add their voices and ideas to our understanding of peace and justice.
Please call for more information: 513.919.2538.
In peace,
THE PEACE VILLAGE PLANNING COMMITTEE
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