The Ann Arbor Observer published my story on the canoe trip Gary and I took from Ann Arbor to Ypsilanti. It is now on line, as well as their other “My Town” stories. That’s my photo as well.
So all of you out of towners can check it out. It was a great trip, a lot happened in just 30 hours!
I just have these two links –
The growing story of demonstrators and political activism at the RNC – one of the better earlier reports
More to follow I think…
(and it applies to kids and partners as well…)
Invest 15 minutes in this lovely inspirational piece from TED
Here is my guest editorial published in today’s Ann Arbor News on biking. I’m ready in teh flame proof suite. Nothing brings out hate mail as much as same sex issues and bicycle rights. Bizarre country we live in — but hey, it’s always interesting.
Ahh, now I see what I’ve been missing.
I hope that even Christians can find this absurd and really funny.
Did anyone do a taste taste afterwards??
we could press charges against George Deutsch for attempted murder.
Because lying about climate change and purposely delaying and obfuscating the truth will end up costing lives. Not to mention the loss of confidence in science and our open “democratic” government that sought to change the truth. It is so deeply offensive. This man should face the most severe penalties possible.
The ongoing theme for me especially this month is pushing limits, continuing to find out how far my body can go, creating a new strength and stamina for myself, losing the excess weight I carry and raising the bar of what an “active lifestyle” means for me.
I’ve been learning to welcome sore muscles. I’ve had a number of encounters with “I can’t do this” and just doing it anyway. I’ve used exercise as a way to recover from exercise, rather than working too hard and then turning sluggish. Canoing after roofing all day, taking a walk to deal with tiredness or stress, figuring out ways to leave behind the truck and walk or bicycle instead, all becoming habits rather than things to be talked into or that I push myself to do.
I hope that I can continue, full speed ahead, with no injuries, no getting off track, just becoming this different person who learns and enjoys through motion, activity, and doing.
The hardest part of putting a new roof on the cabin is not what you might expect. The hard part for me is to allow people to give back, enjoy supporting me and my ideals of community participation and support, to come through as friends and generous and kind people and for me to have the benefit of that.
I’ve gone through enough therapy to have a good grasp on the unconscious and conscious issues that are afoot, I can easily talk about my feelings of guilt and conflict and even embarrassment when people become generous and I’m a recipient. It just is, at this point, I watch it and marvel at how persistent my awkwardness is.
There is a part of me that figures everyone will start being mad at me by the next day, even as I can talk about building bonds and community I also seem to expect some negative reaction to suddenly flash up, for the scales to tip to far too precariously to bad.
It doesn’t happen, but I still get very watchful and concerned. And I run around trying to take care of everyone and get exhausted.
I’d rather play this issues out and watch what happens then hide away and never have them triggered. So there are a lot of ways I’m encouraging that in my life, mostly it is helping.
But I expect over the next few days to be a bit more edgy, a bit more paranoid, because it really was a wonderful gift that a whole bunch of people gave me – a show of support for community and sharing the space at the lake, as well as personally coming through for me and believing in one of my small dreams. Just a bit of my own personal emotional backlash. Oh, it is good to be human.
I need to listen and learn from this man.
He reinforces my ideas and concepts about food and nutrition and food politics. His languge and concepts are simple and enjoyable.
This is an hour long talk he gave to Google, well worth the investment of time to hear his message. Eat food, not too much, mostly vegetables. But more detail – stay in the edges of stores, don’t eat what your great grandmother wouldn’t recognize, and more. I liked the new concept, which again puts into simpler terms what I like to practice – you can eat junk food but make it yourself. His example is french fries, and it is an example I have used countless times.
Enjoy this very good and grounded advice about food and eating and supporting local farmers!
new server, new bells and whistles, more alter
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