| | from Ellen
3/28/13
HI Fanchon
Hug to all,
- Son Judah doing fine, adjusting to giving self shots, monitoring blood sugar. He's doing better than his mother. Sent me for a spin, for sure!
- May your Easter be bright and meaningful.
Ellen 
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~ ARTS AND CULTURE ~ - This is where I announce concerts and other lovely stuff. DRUM MAKING Workshop; CSO link; Oscar Shorts... big bunch of goodies. Click on the "Read More" link below....
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HERE there are bits about local politics, issues, plus things that pertain to community,... furor in Clifton over renovation to the fountain in front of the CCAC at Woolper & Clifton; "NUNS on the Bus" legislative update from Washinton, ... click on "read more" below and you'll see. Oh! Don't miss the short video on Economic Inequality in societies and their measures of social wellbeing... This is way important... I am running it a second week. ellen
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Send me, please, your impressions, however rough and short, of movies, books, restaurants, events, etc. I want to print them here. We want to know what you like!
| ~ LETTERS ~ Many kind letters regarding Judah's diabetes. Thanks so much! ellen
FROM: Margalit Tal Dear Ellen, I’ve just read the news of Judah (David) getting sick, in ER , etc. Is it an onset of diabetes? Whatever it is, please let him know I think of him and send my love to him. You must be freaking out, Ellen. Hugs to you! Margalit (Judah has Type I Diabetes, but adjusting brilliantly!)
FROM: Sergio Contreras Dear Ellen: I am so sorry to hear about your son. I hope that no serious damage occurred due to the excess sugar in the blood! I am not a mother, but I have an 85 year old one that would volunteer to die for me. My thoughts are with you. Sergio.
FROM: Barbara Venn Ellen. So sorry to read about your son. Sure hope the hospital's assessment is correct because glucose readings of 500 could potentially be very serious. Have been emailing with an old WHHS classmate, in Michigan, who has been having similar issues with his children - ages 47 & 57. (The 57 year old was diagnosed with type I diabetes as well!) Good luck..........B
FROM MORRIS WILLIAMS Ellen: I am also diabetic. How did Judah's sugar go to 500? what did he consume? Morris
(HE HAS been eating a ton but still losing weight... due to undiagnosed type I diabetes!)
FROM: Suellyn Schupe And thank you for the lovely description of spring coming to Lloyd house. Fewer of the early spring flowers are established in my yard. The crocus are fini, and a few little bitty iris are holding forth, waiting the daffodils whose buds are still tightly wrapped. Suellyn FROM: FROM:
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(Note from Ellen: Apparently Jim's grandfatherhood is interfering with his journalistic responsibilities. ;-) We await your return, Jim!) Tri-State Treasures is a chronological compilation of unique local people, places, and events that may enrich your lives. These treasures have been submitted by you and others who value supporting quality community offerings. Please consider supporting these treasures, and distributing the information for others to enjoy. And please continue forwarding your Tri-State Treasures ideas to jkesner at nuvox.net. Information about Tri-State Treasures and how to submit them, and an explanation of my convention for expressing email addresses and websites is at the bottom of this email. Please help me by providing all basic information, and formatting your submissions as described below. Thank you. Sincerely, Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Read More | | | | | | | | |
| | from Ellen
3/21/13
HI Fanchon
- ...Bad news flash: my 28 year old son Judah Sher
 had to go to the ER yesterday and was admitted to the Mt Auburn, (boston) hospital with blood sugar 500, pissing sugar, getting dehydrated... Is still at the "step down" unit, one removed from ICU, and may have to stay another 24 hours. OMG! Good news is that now it can be treated and his poor health/vitality of last year can get turned around. But it scares me. Duh. News available on facebook... see Shira Lipkin's page (girlfriend). Whew! -
- Spring! Early, early tender spring... I've already had the winter Akonite bloom in January, now over, and the Snow Drops are glorious now and have been for several weeks... and now it's the Crocus Moment. T.S. Eliot said early spring was the cruelest time of year ("April is the cruelest month...") and indeed more people commit suicide as the juices start to flow again with warmer days, and they realize things that have been dormant with the winter. May your spring awakening bring you joy, and strength to meet this new "year".
- Happy Passover!
 May you enjoy the milestone with dear friends and family. - I got all my taxes done! I use Turbotax online. Costs me about $70/year. Each year I learn how to use my Alexander Technique a little bit better and more so that the process may be just a bit less hellish, frightening, nerve wracking and burdensome in every way. This year was the best yet.
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Hug to all,
Ellen 
| ~ ACTIVITIES AND
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~ ARTS AND CULTURE ~
- This is where I announce concerts and other lovely stuff. Click on the "Read More" link below....
| ~ DEMOCRACY AND COMMUNITY ~ ********* ********
HERE there are bits about local politics, issues, plus things that pertain to community,... furor in Clifton over renovation to the fountain in front of the CCAC at Woolper & Clifton; "NUNS on the Bus" legislative update from Washinton, ... click on "read more" below and you'll see. Oh! Don't miss the short video on Economic Inequality in societies and their measures of social wellbeing... This is way important... I am running it a second week. ellen
Read More ... | ~ REVIEWS ~
Send me, please, your impressions, however rough and short, of movies, books, restaurants, events, etc. I want to print them here. We want to know what you like!
| ~ LETTERS ~ FROM: Barbara Venn: Ellen there are two articles you might find interesting to read, both on line. Regarding PTSD - Newsweek Dec 10, 2012 titled "Moral Injury" by Tony Dokoupil (LINK). The other is by Fareed Zakaria Time Mr 7, 2013 about the Keystone Pipeline (Link HERE). Fareed is a democratic environmentalist so I found his take interesting....B
FROM: James Reischman
I’ll keep you in the Solar Orbit. SunSite…SunClipse Drumm On for our Earth Mother! James FROM: Anna Sher (Biology Professor, after reading the NY Times article on weight gain and sleep deprivation) I've heard of this and it makes sense to me. Like the participants in the study, I certainly eat more carbs when I'm sleep deprived. Also, most babies and children today don't get enough sleep (for a variety of reasons)- probably contributing to weight gain in that age group, in addition to a variety of other health problems (e.g. ADHD). Anna
FROM: Steve Sunderland (sending some cartoons) Let's laugh and laugh some more. Love, Steve P.S. I love Robin Wright: what a smart and courageous person. (Refering to Woman's City Club's Plum Street Temple speaker this y ear... anyone go? Let's hear a review.)
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(Note from Ellen: Apparently Jim's grandfatherhood is interfering with his journalistic responsibilities. ;-) We await your return, Jim!) Tri-State Treasures is a chronological compilation of unique local people, places, and events that may enrich your lives. These treasures have been submitted by you and others who value supporting quality community offerings. Please consider supporting these treasures, and distributing the information for others to enjoy. And please continue forwarding your Tri-State Treasures ideas to jkesner at nuvox.net. Information about Tri-State Treasures and how to submit them, and an explanation of my convention for expressing email addresses and websites is at the bottom of this email. Please help me by providing all basic information, and formatting your submissions as described below. Thank you. Sincerely, Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Read More | | | | | | | | |
| | from Ellen Flash: Wow! Pope Francis !!! From S. America !
3/14/13
HI Fanchon
- I hate it! I hate the war; I hate wheelbarrows full of dead children! It fills me with rage. In my work I find myself helping people who have come back from Afghanistan where they encountered these things... where they were psychologically hurt, --the invisible war wounds. P.T.S.D. Knowing, for instance, that a father would shoot his own daughter for the bounty paid by the US forces.
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 I despise the horror of that war, and the anger I feel, the disjointed rage, is from the sense of responsibility I have, I whose country is doing these things on my watch. In the late 60's I felt the same, but then I was out in the streets, demonstrating, and publishing the Independent Eye from my dining room ... because I had to do everything I could to oppose the attrocity. Under the rage there is weeping, and there is shaking in fear. - What redemption can there be for the military horror we wreak upon the world? What? Think.
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 AND... Consider going to Plum St Temple tonight to hear Robin Wright (presented by Woman's City Club) on "When is enough enough?" about our foreign policy. Sounds like she is against this hideous war.
See announcement under the "Democracy and Community" section, second one down.
Ellen
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I'm going to repeat the "Sequester 101"essay by Bentley Davis. Brilliant, clear explanation of what this crisis is all about. Then there are bits about local politics, issues, plus things that pertain to community... click on "read more" below and you'll see. Oh! Don't miss the short video on Economic Inequality in societies and their measures of social wellbeing... This is way important... about the 4th entry below under "read more". Oh, and see the orphaned cats thing. ellen
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| ~ ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH ~ Fracking, Keystone Pipeline, Sierra Club, "The story of stuff", plus health news here. Catch the Crayola initiative! ellen
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(AND ALEXANDER!) ADS ~ Below, info about spaces available for resident housemates or office - we have one vacancy --spread the word!
AND VERY HELPFUL links to videos about the Alexander Technique including tips about how to sit at the computer w/o getting aching shoulders or back, PLUS notice of the best bargain there is, a FREE Alexander practice session for anyone. Also, some of Ellen's YouTube links. fun.
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Morris Williams : FASCINATING RESPONSE RE. "THE N WORD" (Emphases added by ellen)
On Fri, 8 Mar '12 , at 12:32 PM, hccrg05@aol.com wrote: Ellen: First let me say, God be praised that your CT scan was normal. Celebrate:>). However, below I want respond to the “N” word and KKK citing. In addition, I cut and pasted below my commentary some excerpts from the NY Times article for which I want to respond. I borrow the line from Marvin Krislov, who said “classes were canceled for “a different type of educational exercise,” one intended to hold “an honest discussion, even a difficult discussion.” Below I offer a “different type of educational exercise” in two parts that are difficult, especially in trying to keep my response short, but it is honest. I hope you will share this with your readers. Use of the “n” word. When I was about 10 years old, 1959, I began to hear my parent’s generation use the word nigga in a negative and positive way. It was either “I’m going to do something bad to that nigga” or “This is my main nigga.” The words and the inflection of the voice let one know whether to pull your knife or slap a hand. While low grade, this was another emerging example of blacks taking the same sense of self-determination that white have in calling themselves and each other, “redneck, hunkie, peckerwood, cracka, etc.” You have never heard a white person saying the “r” word for redneck or the “c” word for cracka, etc., because white feel they can call themselves what they want. At first, blacks used those words to describe whites, but only in private and to each other. Later, during the 60s and 70s, those words were used out loud and to white people in anger, but by the 80s, as housing integration expanded, blacks stopped using these words to whites, because of fear of retaliation and because we were being instructed by our elders to be more civil, and/or as a way of surviving and advancing in the work place. After the 60s and even today, only the most uncivil whites call blacks nigga to our faces, while many whites are reported to use the word amongst white only gatherings without penalty from other whites. During this same period, Other whites wanted to say the word so bad, that there was a whole lot of, “I was with my friends or family or group and they used the word nigga.” You never heard a black person say to whites that they were with anybody and they used the cracka or hunkie words. In fact even today we just say, “there they go acting white,” as oppose to acting humane. Through the 80s, blacks started beating whites up for their use of nigga, and then the university community started using the “n” word as a suggestion that they were being sensitive and polite, but they still have to say it. Blacks don’t need whites to say what negative word whites call us, we already know. Many blacks were/are even convinced that if blacks don’t use the word nigga, that whites won’t. Some of those same blacks reference the word “niggardly” from the dictionary, suggesting the word describes a way of acting, so that whites can be a nigga as well. I think they are hopeful but confused. Whites may not call blacks nigga, but we are treated like niggas by getting only 1% of contracts or messing with our ability to vote, as just two of many ways whites quietly call and loudly treat blacks as niggas. Then there are those whites, including a good and long time friend of mine who didn’t think anything of calling another black person a nigga, and was mad, thinking he had the right to use the word around me until I hit him in his home. When he complained that he was not talking about me, the example I gave him was “if I told you a cracka or redneck was coming down your driveway, but you couldn’t see him, you won’t know who it is, but you will know they are white because you like other whites only refer to whites as crackas , rednecks, etc.” He finally understood that whites are mad because we say blacks can call ourselves and each other nigga based on relationship and the situation, but nigga is never good out of the mouths of whites. The “n” word isn’t either, they just need to be more civil and acknowledge this to themselves and each other. Just tell us that the person you are referencing does not have the best interest of black people in mind, we will understand. When he took me to his mother’s house to meet her, he reported back that most of her neighbors stopped talking to her. No such situation when met my mother, family and black friends. Wow, that took a long time to say, but I must also comment on the KKK symbolism…and the person who said “it doesn’t reflect the town,” because they are related to the above culture. First, in 2013 as a general rule think about who has the major money and authority, and who provides the most opportunities to get some. Who decides the quality and type of education one will get? Why is there still so much of America where blacks can not only not live, but should not drive through, much less try sleeping in a hotel? The fact that during this depression blacks lost a higher percentage of wealth than whites is because we received the largest percentage of predatory loans…even from black lenders following the instructions of white managers and executives. This is the same in every profession. And while all white people know and many depend on it to secure their position and/or advancement, only a few speak and act out against what is now called “subtle racism,” that is not so subtle to us, because, they “don’t want to start trouble or lose privilege.” It never occurs to them to say that they are not starting trouble, but that they are trying to stop trouble and reduce hostile work and living places. Finally, I believe the reason President Obama is getting so much resistance on things no other president in my time has experienced is because he is black and they want him to be seen as a failure, and they hope to convince the majority of voters never to vote in another black person as president. Even in the article "Sequester 101" by Bentley Davis, she never mentioned that race is a major factor in spite of everybody knowing that what these Republicans are against now, they were for before a black President said he was for them. Honesty about race, civility and humaneness from whites about using this “n” word thing and “n” word behaviors needs to evolve upward and out. ............................................... Excerpts from article (in last week's Virtual Salon, quoting the Oberlin Review). “After midnight on Sunday, someone reported seeing a person dressed in a white robe and hood near the Afrikan Heritage House. Mr. Krislov and three deans announced the sighting in a community-wide e-mail early Monday morning. “From what we have seen we believe these actions are the work of a very small number of cowardly people,” Mr. Krislov told students, declining to give further details because the campus security department and the Oberlin city police are investigating. A college spokesman, Scott Wargo, said investigators had not determined whether the suspect or suspects were students or from off-campus. “They’ll be addressing ways to publicly respond to the bias incidents with what I call positive propaganda, and let people know, whoever the culprits are, that they’re being watched, and people are taking care of themselves and each other,” Dr. Gadsby said. “The opinion of many students was that the incidents did not reflect a prevailing bigotry on campus, and may well be the work of someone just trying to stir trouble. “It seems to bark worse than it bites,” said Cooper McDonald, a 19-year-old sophomore from Newton, Mass. “I can’t see many of my classmates — any of my classmates — doing things like this,” he said. “It doesn’t reflect the town, either.” Morris
From Jane Auer, re. Anna's anniversary video HERE:
WOW!!!!!
From Jackie Millay:
Hey Ellen, So glad your CT scan was A OK. I was at Wholecare Chiropractic last night!! Ended up telling them about our farmers' group/raw milk/organic egg set up & leaving a brochure on Laminine. Dr. Jack was presenting a speech on inflammation and what foods to eat/avoid. Nice man. Glad he was helpful to you. Let the blessings and good health flow. LOL, Jackie
P.S.
Hi, In case you'd be interested, I've put a lap loom I used probably 2 times on Craigslist. No tools are necessary to assemble an Erica loom. Portable/storable/easy to use. Originally, $35.00. In good condition, asking $17.00. Let me know or if you know of anyone else who may be interested, please pass on the email. Thanks so much, Jackie |
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