Virtual Salon 5/913

The Virtual Salon is a publication of Ellen Bierhorst at the Lloyd House, usually out on Thursday afternoons, weekly.  For how to submit material, & to unsubscribe see the very end of this email. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. LLOYD HOUSE  VIRTUAL SALON want just text version?  see bottom of this email. want mobile device version? also at bottom of this email AS UPDATE SUBSCRIPTION PREFERENCES     SIX  SECTIONS: ~ From Ellen ~ Activities and Oportunities ~ Democracy and Community ~ Environmentalism and Health ~  Articles ~ Letters ~ Reviews ~  Can you remember, ever, a May so lovely? from Ellen   Thursday, 5/9/13 HI Fanchon  I lied; not up to full blast this week.  Plumbing issue in the heating system... re-entry from Denver... being a tad more easy on myself.  However, we got some good stuff this week...    Lots of warm letters of congratulation...  FREE CELL PHONES for anyone over 65, anyone else who receives any kind of government assistance, even food stamps.  See in ARTS section.    Review of book about "The Female Brain".   May Festival starts this weekend; Shakespeare for amateurs this summer; etc etc.   Hug to all,   Ellen     ~ ARTS AND CULTURE, OPPORTUNITIES ~   -  This is where I announce concerts and other lovely stuff.  There's a new training in R.C. (Re-evaluation Counseling, aka Co-counseling) starting soon in Northside, WITH INTRO TONIGHT!...  And you may qualify for a FREE CELL PHONE!  I did.  MAY Festival starts this weekend...special award presented to James Conlon by Hebrew Union College on Sunday. ... ...   Click on the "Read More" link below....     Read More , other events in the arts etc.   ~ DEMOCRACY AND COMMUNITY ~ ********* ******** ~ at least glance over all of this to the end or you'd miss some  important stuff, like Friday's demonstration to end corporate personhood, arguably THE issue for democracy in our lifetime... Nuns on the bus "Network" calling for gun control....      MOVE TO AMEND, MOVE ON . ORG,  OCCUPY   all JOIN IN PROTEST TOMORROW! Banner rally Friday 10 May, Central Parkway downtown:  3:30 to 7 pm.   Make a sign that we need a constitutional amendment limiting constitutional freedoms and protections to Persons, not Corporations.  This relates to the Citizens' United Supreme court case giving corporations rights to contribute to political campaigns.  I hope to be there with "Only People (not Corporations) are People!"  ellen Hi Ellen,   From a logistics of folks being able to meet and find parking we picked Coffee Emporrium as a spot to begin at, fanning out from there to at least 2 blocks east of there, maybe more depending on turnout, as there is a large grassy median between the east and west bound traffic.  I spoke to the folks at Coffee Emporium and they said that was fine, and that finding parking at that time should not be too difficult. Here is the Google maps street view.       Read More ...  ~ ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH ~  Click on Read More below.    ellen    Read More     ~ LLOYD HOUSE  (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.     Read More     no articles this week... enough other stuff!  but send me things you'd like shared with 547 others of like mind... ellen ~ ARTICLES ~ ~ LETTERS ~ I simply LOVE getting y our letters!  Thanks.  Catching up here for 2 weeks worth   Outpouring of love and support for the Civil Union of Colorado gay couples, including my daughter Anna and partner Fran:  FROM STEVE SUNDERLAND GReat news, great picture, and great event!   Love,   Steve  FROM PAULETTE MEIER Hi, Ellen,   I'm SO GLAD that I opened up your Salon newsletter today!  How incredibly exciting, to see the picture of your daughter and her partner at their wedding in Denver and all the circumstances surrounding it. I had no idea!  What a thrill that must have been, Ellen, to be able to lead the singing at the event, too.  I'm very happy for you!!   Warmly,   Paulette  FROM KRISTEN FRYER Unbelievable picture I am so thrilled for you guys.  Thanks for sharing.  I loved seeing it.  I just watched the movie Milk so the tears are flowing! Love you so,  Tell them congratulations!!!! Kristen  FROM DIANE FISHBEIN Sweet little Jeremy.   So very happy for all.  Was just emailing about. With Aaron.     This is the picture of a life time.  So so happy you were there. Or. Are there.    FROM KAREN DOEPKE Anna and Fran, well that is WONDERFUL.  I am applauding too!!!  FROM CYNTHIA BEDELL  Congratulations to your family!  It is wonderful to have the blessings and legal status marriage brings.   May your daughters have a wonderful life together!   Love,   Cynthia  FROM LOUISE SPIEGEL Hello Ellen--- congratulations to the mothers of the brides.  The wedding appears to be a great source of joy for the whole town.. The ceremony must have been wonderful. On the local scene  Art and I are just beginning to come out ourselves--his health is so much better and he is eager to do more than his duties at the court. But truly- at our ages nothing happens easily.....I do hope the Pastor is pleased with your strong support.  Louise  FROM JENNY STANTON So happy for Anna and Fran. Also loved the picture of you with your grandson. What a blessing!  I am in Belfast with Emily and her family for three months!  I will  find out how to post photos to my facebook page.  FROM YVONNE VON EIJDEN Congratulations with Anna…….so happy for her and you. Love   Yvonne van Eijden  FROM PATSY MORRISON; Wow Babes, they did it!  And what a really great picture.  Congratulations.  FROM: JANE AUER We loved your photos and words (made me weepy) from Colorado.  I am so happy for Anna. Your salon notes are FANTASTIC.  You sure make Life interesting!!!!! We are lucky to know you. Steve joins me in sending love, Jane AND RE. THE V-DAY FILM  FROM LAURIE LAMBERT Ellen,   I found your card today as I was going through items from the V-Day event a week ago.  It was nice to meet you at the film screening, and I was glad to hear that you found the film to be worthwhile.  I would be happy to send/lend you my copy of the film  "Until the Violence Stops"  if you would like.  I would be delighted to attend and/or help out with a screening as well, whatever would suit you best.  I look forward to hearing from you.   Thank you again for attending WWf(a)C's first V-Day event!   Laurie Lambert  FROM MARA HELMUTH RE. LYNN WASNAK Hi Ellen, I gave Diane (Waz, Wasnak) your email thinking you may already know her mother (LYNN WASNAK...SEE IN "DEMOCRACY &COMMUNITY" SECTION ABOVE), who has been ill for a while. She lives on Telford near Graeters. I thought you or someone in your lloydhouse network may want to be on a call list for them, in case something goes wrong. Diane lives in Louisville but will be working in Mississipi this sumer, and is concerned about her mom.  Teri and I were over there yesterday to help with her house.  We will be on the the call list, but live in Finneytown, which is kind of far away.    Hope you're doing well!   Mara       ~ REVIEWS ~  CINCINNATI WALDORF SCHOOL GREAT FOR ADD KIDS My acupuncturist has a 13 yr old son with ADD.  Has him at the Cincinnati Waldorf School http://www.cincinnatiwaldorfschool.org/   He outlined the program... sounds perfect for your son.  Now this is a private school, and it is not cheap, BUT if you live in a district where the local school is a "school in emergency", an official designation, then you will get a voucher that will pay most of the tuition. For example, my acupuncturist, Martyn Thomas, lives in College Hills which does have such a designation.  What you do is enroll the child in the public school and THEN enroll him in the Waldorf school.  College Hill is a nice, integrated neighborhood.  Several miles North of here on Hamilton Ave (is roughly the 1 mile diameter circle around Hamilton Ave and Cedar Ave.)   I'll bet Adrienne Cooper could help you find a good place to rent in College Hill.  Did I give you her phone number?  She's a realtor.  Here it is:  (513) 702-1692    The program sounded so ideal for a boy like yours.  Lots of movement... work off the 'wiggles' in the morning with running; then when you are all calm, do the focused brain work.  Lots of special movement education that is brain-related, lots of cross - over (right to left) for instance, and other enlightened things to help develop the brain.     Lots of art, music, dance, etc. etc.     I really hope you will visit the website asap and phone them and make an appointment.  They like to interview the child in his home... it will have to be at the Lloyd House, of course.     This sounds fabulous for your little guy, in my humble opinion (  ;-)  ], even better than SCPA, but I would still advise calling them as well.   No time to lose.   Ellen ..................................................  NEED CALORIE COUNTER? I can give you just what you need.  It is an "app" called My Fitness Pal.   http://www.myfitnesspal.com/ You enter the food and the portion size and it calculates the calories for you.  Also has the advantage of letting you form 'communities' with other users of the app.  Anna and I did it together for a while...  A client of mine does it, and her trainer is also on the app and sees exactly what she eats and also her exercise each day.  Cool!   The app is free.  Get the souped up version for a couple bucks.   love ellen ................................................  LIGHTWEIGHT BATTERY LAWN MOWER http://www.neutonpower.com   Takes me 40 min to do both front and back, with front having quite a slope.   Battery lasts ~5 yrs, more if you treat in well! FROM Anita Sorkin ...................................................  "The Female Brain"... must read for everyone, especially women... especially men.   We really are different... structurally.  Check it out.  is at the lib.     Fascinating... a million scientifically documented differences between male and female brains... before birth, in childhood, adulthood.  It will give anyone a big boost of understanding about themselves and the opposite sex.  Like, at 8 weeks of gestation the feotis, if it is to be a boy, is bathed in a heavy dose of testosterone which kills off a huge number of brain cells relating to reading other's expressions, emotions, and communicating to others.  Sound familiar?  So females really are better at relating and forming relationships and reading others' feelings and other cues.  It's not just that we give boys trucks and we give girls dolls and talk more to daughters than to sons.  Check this out.  Our public library has it. ellen Facebook Twitter

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