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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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Thanks
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Glimmers of Hope
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Football
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Thank you!
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The Mind Boggles
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Thank you Alan
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Thanks for that thought
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thanks
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Hierarchy
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Excellent
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I said no.
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This makes me feel like bursting into song...
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Then again...
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Article : "Pilots on Food Stamps"
...
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The Same Reason
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Thought you'd like this
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I'm Hoping
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PS
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Farm Work
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Thanks
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Article : "Christopher Columbus & His Victims"
It wouldn't be taught
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Quicklink : "Marge Simpson on the cover of Playboy"
O.o
Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 4:52:14 PM
Quicklink : "Marge Simpson on the cover of Playboy"
Yes
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Diary : "There's a Goddess in My Life"
Rambling
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When
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Unpretty Truth
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Thank You
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More specifically:
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It Once Was
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Yesbut
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Hir
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Redaction
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THANK YOU
Friday, September 18, 2009 at 4:45:06 PM
Article : "Keep the heat on Glenn Beck"
Signed
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Thanks Yet Again, Ray
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oh, come on
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Cockburn en Montreal
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Entirety
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Church of the Subgenius?
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Jumping the Shark
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Quicklink : "Amazing Time Lapse Video of LA fires"
fixed
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oh geebus cripes
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Empty Hand
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The Buddhists Too
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Article : "Celebrating Woodstock And Jimi Hendrix"
Thanks
Monday, August 17, 2009 at 11:53:15 AM
Diary : "The Thing About Woodstock"
hhmmmmm
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Deja Vu
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Diary : "Something's happening here"
I am so happy
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Vodun
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Wow.
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Agreed.
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omigod
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Bot brains
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I love Matt
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Both Sides...
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According to observers
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Article : "Mything the Point of "White Men Built This Country.""
Thank You
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Fantasy/ Illusion
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Agreed
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TWO WORDS
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In Any World...
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Me too
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Thanks, Scott
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Howard Zinn
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challenging
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Promising
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Dear Mark
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Thanks
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Seriously...
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Cynically
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Agreed
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Well, then again
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From your lips
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Thank You
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Ben Franklin
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Astral Ale
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Gentrification Taxation Elimination?
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Future Shock?
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Big Smooches
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shadow dancer
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Article : "Help the Mohawks of Akwasasne Protect Themselves"
Update
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 5:29:20 PM
Article : "Help the Mohawks of Akwasasne Protect Themselves"
Thanks, Grant
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 11:55:30 AM
Article : "Satirists on Strike!"
Theme Song
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Article : "Rewriting our Stories"
Insight Presented
Friday, June 26, 2009 at 6:35:19 PM
Article : "Here's To The Crazy Ones And I'm One Of Them"
Thanks
Friday, June 26, 2009 at 6:28:25 PM
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Untrue.
Friday, June 26, 2009 at 5:45:26 PM
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Idolatry
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Article : "Rewriting our Stories"
Most Excellent
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At the Moment
Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 10:15:54 PM
Article : "Who's A Low Level Terrorist? Are You?"
When
Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 10:02:34 PM
Article : "When the Lights Went On"
Agreed!
Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 6:40:18 PM
Article : "Dick Cheney for President in 2012"
I doubt there will be
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Article : "Dylan Ratigan?! Really MSNBC, Don't We Have Enough Ranters A"
NoTV
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Article : "Will Romantic e-mails between Gov. Sanford and His Paramour"
Privacy
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Chamber of Commerce
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Article : "Will Romantic e-mails between Gov. Sanford and His Paramour "
Harlequin
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Article : "Who's A Low Level Terrorist? Are You?"
Mark Twain
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Article : "Manufacturing Poor People"
Yep
Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 1:14:59 PM
Diary : "Breaking the Chain"
El Em Ay Oh
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