tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499Mon, 07 Oct 2024 05:55:54 +0000PoliticsCivil LibertiesLoveSocial CommentaryFamily LifeTravelActivismFaithHealthPolice StateLiarsHumorObsessionsFunReligionWarSportsChinaEnvironmentFamilyRelationshipsHistoryParenthoodOlympicsChildhoodLibertyArtEducationHolidaysAfflictionsConstitutionLiteraturepoetryJusticeNutritionBig FoodDNCDrugsElectionHikingLosersMusicTerrorismAdviceArgentinaBirthdaysBooksFoodFriendshipTemperamentAddictionAthletesBig PharmaCharityEpiphanyFDAFashionGreedHolismNaturePeacePropagandaadvertisingBig GovernmentBloggingCosta RicaDivorceLanguageRantSarah PalinSynergyUsuryex-filesAnarchismDeathDebatesEconomicsEdward AbbeyEqualityGeneticsHeadlinesHomeland SecurityImperialismMonkeysObamaPhilosophyRaceSexSpiritualityadventurecultsAnimalsBipolarBritney SpearsCancerColorado SpringsDramaGrossinatorManitou SpringsMedicalPrivacyRNCRecreate 68Richard BrautiganSustainabilityWiiWritinghigh fructose corn syrupliesnational parksphotographyOVER MY HEADhttp://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)Blogger300125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-2711630767160928677Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:43:00 +00002010-12-29T10:48:05.190-07:00ReligionSocial CommentaryWarIt was the fourth day after Christmas in the Year of Our Lord 1890. When the first torn and bleeding bodies were carried into the candlelit church, those who were conscious could see Christmas greenery hanging from the open rafters. Across the chancel front above the pulpit was strung a crudely lettered banner: PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TO MEN.-from Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brownhttp://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2010/12/wounded-knee-remembered.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-282491238172953570Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:02:00 +00002010-12-24T10:04:13.076-07:00HolidaysLiteratureIt was the night before Christmas. The house was very quiet. No creatures were stirring in the house. There weren't even any mice stirring. The stockings had been hung carefully by the chimney. The children hoped that Saint Nicholas would come and fill them. The children were in their beds. Their beds were in the room next to ours. Mamma and I were in our beds. Mamma wore a kerchief. I had http://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2010/12/twas-night-before-christmas-hemingway.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-6920339865864460630Fri, 03 Dec 2010 04:32:00 +00002010-12-02T21:43:55.791-07:00SpiritualityYou have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour. Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered...Where are you living?What are you doing?What are your relationships?Are you in right relation?Where is your water?Know your garden.It is time to speak your Truth.Create your community.Be good to each other.And do not look outside http://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2010/12/message-from-hopi-elder.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-4774612707456373805Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:07:00 +00002010-12-01T15:26:44.957-07:00AdviceHolidaysThe Art of DisappearingWhen they say, "Don't I know you?"Say "no".When they invite you to the partyRemember what parties are likeBefore answering.Someone telling you in a loud voiceThey once wrote a poem.Greasy sausage balls on a paper plate.Then reply.If they say we should get togetherSay "why?"It's not that you don't love them anymore.You're trying to remember somethingtoo important to http://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2010/12/poem-for-holidays.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-1069690808335919597Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:32:00 +00002009-11-26T18:44:29.386-07:00HistoryPolitics"For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead Tree near the River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the Labour of the Fishing Hawk; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a Fish, and is bearing it to his Nest http://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2009/11/respectable-bird.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-1758578539532479672Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:10:00 +00002009-11-16T14:32:16.004-07:00NaturephotographypoetrySometimes a mortal feels in himself Nature-- not his Father but his Mother stirswithin him, and he becomes immortal with herimmortality. From time to time she claimskindredship with us, and some globulefrom her veins steals up into our own.I am the autumnal sun,With autumn gales my race is run;When will the hazel put forth its flowers,Or the grape ripen under my bowers?When will the harvest or http://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-am-autumnal-sun.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-6140092940675258544Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:04:00 +00002009-10-11T12:07:00.814-06:00advertisingpoetryPioneers! O Pioneers!By Walt Whitman1819-1892Come my tan-faced children,Follow well in order, get your weapons ready,Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes?Pioneers! O pioneers!For we cannot tarry here,We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,Pioneers! O pioneers!O you youths, Western youths,So impatient, http://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2009/10/pioneers-o-pioneers-used-to-market.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-6033137654532145819Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:39:00 +00002009-10-02T15:58:16.625-06:00GreedOlympicsSocial CommentaryDespite the efforts of Oprah and the Obamas, it didn't take the International Olympic Committee long to eliminate Chicago from the competition to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Expected to be one of the final two candidates, the city was ousted in the first round. I'm sure this intends a complex message to reach feeble http://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2009/10/woe-to-poor-in-rio.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-3212744923357955596Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:50:00 +00002009-10-06T19:11:42.669-06:00Naturehttp://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2009/08/frisky-bears.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-3983487295892848986Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:51:00 +00002009-08-19T23:56:28.876-06:00JusticePoliticsI Hate to Bother YouBy EDUARDO GALEANO I’d like to share with you some questions–some flies that keep buzzing in my head.Is justice right side up?Has world justice been frozen in an upside-down position? The shoe-thrower of Iraq, the man who hurled his shoes at Bush, was condemned to three years in prison. Doesn’t he deserve, instead, a medal?Who is the terrorist? The hurler of shoes or their http://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2009/08/eduardo-galeano-flies-that-keep-buzzing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-4178258749334720741Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:55:00 +00002009-08-12T17:57:06.902-06:00ActivismBig FoodBig GovernmentHealthThere is a spate of recent films spilling the beans about the corporate takeover of the global food economy. Many are available online or through Amazon and Netflix.Please watch some of these. Show your kids. Host a screening in your community. Donate a copy or two to the local library or public school system. Encourage teachers to show the films. Spread the word! Subvert the dominant food http://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2009/08/subvert-global-food-paradigm.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-6626201457162687398Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:32:00 +00002009-08-12T18:03:43.907-06:00Big FoodFDAhigh fructose corn syrupliesI’m sure you’ve seen the Sweet Surprise commercials. There are several to target different consumer groups, but all involve a person #1 expressing hesitation at the offer of a high fructose corn syrup-laden “treat” and a smug HFCS-pusher asking sneeringly, “Oh yeah? Well, what’s so bad about HFCS?”In the ads, person #1 hems and haws and has trouble articulating a satisfactory reply. HFCS person http://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2009/08/you-cant-hide-your-lyin-eyes-er-ears.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-6090262903722068618Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:35:00 +00002009-08-09T20:30:52.360-06:00AnarchismHistoryPoliticsThere are periods in the life of human society when revolution becomes an imperative necessity, when it proclaims itself as inevitable. New ideas germinate everywhere, seeking to force their way into the light, to find an application in life. These ideas are opposed by the inertia of those whose interest it is to maintain the old order; they suffocate in the stifling atmosphere of prejudice and http://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2009/08/spirit-of-revolt-is-upon-us.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-705262769950904400Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:53:00 +00002009-08-06T08:44:40.601-06:00History"It was about ten o'clock and we were keeping very quiet and hugging close to the bank, when I happened to look up to the moon-lit sky and saw the plumed head of an Indian peeping over the bank. Instead of hurrying ahead and alarming the men in a quiet way, I instantly aimed my gun at his head and fired.The report rang out sharp and loud on the night air, and was immediately followed by an Indianhttp://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2009/08/good-fer-you-little-buffalo-billy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-3537224558632094057Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:13:00 +00002009-07-21T09:16:41.264-06:00ArtTravelhttp://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2009/07/shadow-art-in-french-quarter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-332552431406895111Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:41:00 +00002009-07-10T14:44:28.868-06:00HikingNaturehttp://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2009/07/playing-by-lake-dillon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-5512169818543652557Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:44:00 +00002009-07-08T23:00:42.003-06:00ActivismBig GovernmentPoliticshttp://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2009/07/not-4-sale-to-army.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-4646249971830650804Sun, 10 May 2009 05:50:00 +00002009-07-07T23:57:21.765-06:00EnvironmentSpiritualityTravelI mentioned in my last post that I'd had a visceral negative reaction to Sedona -- undeniably one of the most beautiful places on earth -- which surprised and dismayed me. I had a vague sense that I was offended by the opulence and pseudo-spiritualism of the place, but that didn't completely explain my snarky attitude which, I've come to understand, usually masks a deeper response to perceived http://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2009/07/phony-sedon-y.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-3526921157376116630Sat, 09 May 2009 05:43:00 +00002009-11-16T22:42:03.303-07:00adventureEnvironmentTravelI'd envisioned myself hiking alone in Sedona for three magical days, vortexed into a frenzied energy, taken by wizened hippies to a hillside lair for impromptu meditation. Instead, in spite of the brazenly gorgeous Sedona landscape, I felt the whole place to be a pseudo-spiritual, wildly affluent, corporate-run and supremely phony tourist trap. I was dismayed to feel this way about such a http://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2009/07/yaateeh-from-tuba-city.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-4175296213899716523Fri, 01 May 2009 15:16:00 +00002009-05-01T09:18:13.213-06:00Funhttp://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2009/05/oh-how-i-love-unfettered-soul.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-1595692007604474640Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:32:00 +00002009-04-28T12:50:44.911-06:00Civil LibertiesHeadlinesHealthLiarsDo you have an uneasy sense that someone's trying to pull the wool over your eyes? Does the hullabaloo over a looming swine flu pandemic seem a bit overblown? The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised the pandemic alert level (a 6-point scale) to 4 and is considering moving it to 5 today, with only 7 confirmed deaths worldwide! Keep in mind that seasonal flu kills 40,000 every year in the UShttp://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2009/04/swine-flu-pandemic-oh-really.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-1230596584043437029Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:18:00 +00002009-04-27T21:54:12.377-06:00ArtFamilyLoveLara in CMJH's Kids on Broadway. Sweets!http://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-lovely-to-be-woman.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-1303587844687439429Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:06:00 +00002009-04-27T21:14:20.493-06:00ArtDrugsHistoryDuring the kids’ Snow Break last week, we chanced to visit the Denver Art Museum’s Psychedelic Experience exhibit. Dozens of groovy rock posters from the late sixties, mostly advertising shows at San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium, were on display, occasionally retro-enhanced by black light. More interesting to the kids, however, was an adjoining exhibit where ancient artifacts were displayed inhttp://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2009/04/take-pinch-of-psychedelic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-7964335151820251158Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:59:00 +00002009-04-27T21:04:51.696-06:00Civil LibertiesEducationLiarsLiterary theorist and legal scholar, Stanley Fish, weighs in on the report of the “committee of faculty peers” that found Ward Churchill guilty of academic misconduct. “The verdict did not surprise me because I had read the committee’s report and found it less an indictment of Churchill than an example of a perfectly ordinary squabble about research methods and the handling of evidence.”“The http://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2009/04/churchill-not-guilty-of-academic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7351625215946204499.post-6676183919172679866Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:54:00 +00002009-04-27T20:57:36.326-06:00ActivismEducationPoliticsA few interesting things about the Ward Churchill jury came to light today (a sigh of relief from Pirate Ballerina!). The jury thought -- right up until the judge gave them their instructions -- they were to determine whether Ward Churchill was guilty of academic misconduct. When they realized they needed only to decide only whether the 9/11 essay was a substantial motivating factor in his http://deependofthegenepool.blogspot.com/2009/04/churchill-juror-newill-explains-it-all.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marie Walden)0