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Mother of two adult children, freelance artist with fine works in private collections in 20 US states, 7 European countries, Africa, China, and Japan, concerned citizen of the US.

Overreaching corporate controls of food, housing, clothing, medicine, transportation, information, and education have been a serious concern of mine for decades. Consequently I've spent a great deal of time studying and practicing self-sufficiency/ removal from "the grid".

I no longer have credit cards, I raise my own vegetables and chickens, am an herbalist, a reiki master, a shiatsu practitioner who's worked with people with serious illnesses for more than a decade, as well as an ordained minister [I call myself a shamanist because it's the closest description of what I do, not because I'm from Tibet].

I've worked in construction for many years, and I've spent some time beating dead horses on the subject of independance from corporate control and learning to live a life of value as opposed to one of dehumanization.

My message to surburbanites: rototill your front lawn, grow vegetables, put up solar panels, stay home more often, make things for yourself, and cut up your credit cards.

Live your life as if truth, honor, and love were the most important things.

The corporate culture would have us believe that we owe someone rent for the privilege of being on the planet, that some pigs are more equal than others, that it's important to be royalty- as opposed to noble- and that happiness is available for purchase.

I spend a lot of time trying to figure out the truth of things.

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17 Articles, 55 Quick Links, 844 Comments, 4 Diaries, 0 Polls

17 Articles

Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Help the Mohawks of Akwasasne Protect Themselves
(17 comments) The Mohawks of Akwasasne Reservation are being brutalized and intimidated by the Canadian government, the NY state troopers, and the US military because they do not want border agents carrying guns on their reservation. And NOBODY is covering the story.

Friday, June 12, 2009
BREAKING: Internet Swine Flu Bomb
(7 comments) a virus that is wiping out contacts in hotmail has struck ME. No Snopes'ing necessary.

Sunday, May 31, 2009
Single Payer Healthcare
(17 comments) My personal boilerplate to my congresscritters. Feel free to copy at will.

Monday, May 25, 2009
Mark Twain's War Prayer
(10 comments) Mark Twain's War Prayer, for Memorial Day.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Single Payer or CSM?
(10 comments) So, the insurance industry doesn't want the rest of us at the table? Fine. Let's keep them out of our medicine.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009
One World, Out On the Street
(6 comments) Get out this weekend and walk around town.

Saturday, April 18, 2009
Dying Lions
(8 comments) Ruminations on the economy- a symptom of the dying of "empire". The philosophy of conquest, consumerism, the "bottom line", all are inherently dysfunctional and must die. We, however, have other things to do now.

Sunday, March 8, 2009
Manifest
Part Three in a Series of Small Steps for Sanely Dealing With Big Changes

Thursday, February 26, 2009
Dream
(2 comments) Part Two in a Series of Small Steps for Sanely Dealing With Big Changes

Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Dream
(9 comments) Part Two in a Series of Small Steps for Sanely Dealing With Big Changes

Thursday, February 19, 2009
Ditch the Illusions
(6 comments) Part one in a series of steps for sanely dealing with big changes.

Thursday, January 8, 2009
Art, Apples, and Safety Concerns
(2 comments) NY 'interior landscape' artist recalls her encounters with the homeless while painting on the street - in upstate New York and in NYC - among other places, in Grand Central Terminal.

Monday, January 5, 2009
"How is a spiritual experience different from a sensory experience?"
(6 comments) Ben Dench wrote an excellent article, "Methodology for the Mature Spiritual Seeker". Someone asked a question. I took a long while to respond- too long to be a regular response...

Saturday, November 29, 2008
Mumbai Twitter Conspiracy Blues
(7 comments) Was Mumbai a False Flag attack?

Sunday, November 9, 2008
The Pyramid and the Net
(4 comments) We need to reinvent our systems, and we need to do it now. President-elect Obama can only get in front of the parade that we invent. Let's get moving.

Saturday, October 25, 2008
This Election Will Not Be Stolen
(10 comments) A mean, cranky elections inspector with a solution to the impending attack on our Democracy.

Sunday, October 19, 2008
Anti American
(6 comments) musings on extremists, karma, and the dogmas it runs over.

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