Romeo and The Mushroom

Romeo and The Mushroom
Posted by: wendylewis.

Huh? What's this?

Just a huge, round fungus posing as comic relief while we stumble along dark and dappled forest trails. Damn! Mommy Nature has a weird sense of humor.

Rumsfeld Greets Evil! What a Mover and Shaker!

I'm only posting this to continue the thread we have begun that will surely birth the American Party --- the 3rd party that may take America over the edge to (you guessed it) --- Human Responsibility! Wha-Hoooooooo! Have at it ...

The Case of the Missing Stone

The Case of the Missing Stone
Posted by: wendylewis.

Part I
The Guilty & Horrified: Scout
The Grieving and Forgiving: Lynn
The Search Party: Various casts members over many days since 8/13/05

Part II
The Post: Navigator

Part III
The Hero: North Star Gone Lone Star

Part IV
The Return: NSGLS & Lynn

Can We Give the Titleist An Award?

Can We Give the Titleist An Award?
Posted by: wendylewis.

Don't need to say much about this. It simply ROCKS!!!!

GRASSROOTS DONATIONS

Please pass this address around your mail groups. The grassroots efforts will continue far beyond the federal honeymoon relief & clean-up period. Spend some time on the site. Much information here. http://katrina.mayfirst.org/

Here's one list I gleaned from that site.

Below are some small, grassroots and New Orleans-based resources, organizations and institutions that will need your support in the coming months.

Social Justice:
www.jjpl.org
www.iftheycanlearn.org
www.nolaps.org
www.thepeoplesinstitute.org
www.criticalresistance.org/index.php?name=crno_home

Cultural Resources:
www.backstreetculturalmuseum.com
www.ashecac.org
http://198.66.50.128/gallery/
www.nolahumanrights.org
http://www.freewebs.com/ironrail/
http://www.girlgangproductions.com/

Current Info and Resources:
http://neworleans.craigslist.org/about/help/katrina_cl.html

Bush Tales

Bush Tales
Posted by: wendylewis.

This from Daily Kos (Sept 6). No matter how many articles I read, this is the photograph & story that regurgitates, burns in my throat, over and over again.

Read the full article in the Salt Lake City Tribune. http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3004197

The final paragraph says it all.....

As specific orders began arriving to the firefighters in Atlanta, a team of 50 Monday morning quickly was ushered onto a flight headed for Louisiana. The crew's first assignment: to stand beside President Bush as he tours devastated areas.

Look at that B-rate asshole.... rolling up his sleeves.... git n' her done with his firefighter buddies. Good God.

Kitty Goes Back to School

Kitty Goes Back to School
Posted by: wendylewis.

Station break. There she is. Senior year an' all that. She has a heavy schedule but appears undaunted and puckish. We got more god-light this year, as we have every year since we moved down here, for the "walking away shot". I have a 14 year series, from the first day of Hannah going off to kindergarten .... walking away from home with their colorful little loads on their backs. And at the end of the day, it's all about returning home, coming home. Everything waits there.

Thoughts continue returning to the survivors of Katrina and worse, the abused refugees of Bushco. It is about the stuff you lose -- the family heirlooms, the journals, the photographs. Ultimately, as evidenced by the testaments from evacuees I've read over the last 24 hours, it is mostly not about the stuff you lose. It's about home -- what it means collectively and individually -- the space it occupies in the consciousness of each of us. The memory of home, the future it cradles and, most of all, the present tense of simply belonging there.

I don't really believe in the concept of "safety" but if there is any truth in it, home is its one word definition. Having said that, I understand why there are those who even now, their houses drowned in reeking toxic water, refuse to leave their rooftops. Between too much loss to grasp and the hallucinatory effects of no food or water, these shingles they cling to may represent all they have left inside.

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Posted by: wendylewis.

KATRINA

If you were traumatized, if you were starving & dehydrated, if you had lost everything, if you were hopeless and locked into the brutal jaws of despair, if your friends and family had been swept away and life had become meaningless, who might you conjure to greet you at the bleary, bare-bulb-lit end of that tunnel? I know who I would conjure. And so do all of you.

This in from Trisha Corona tonight.....just got a call from my boss. 200 + evacuees are arriving at the fairgrounds tomorrow. they will stay in our annex building for 30 - 90 days. i'm the point person. finally! i get to do something meaningful up there. we're splitting shifts and will be working 24/7...somebody spends every night up there. send your prayers, darling.

Brent & I looked at each other .... and I said...."We could leave on Wednesday.... " Head south?

After spending days and days reading, watching "journalists" (could it actually be?) return on CNN, MSNBC and even the FOX network ... TC is one woman on the redemption front of disaster gone beyond disaster. Meanwhile, others weigh in. Sugar Q....? Didn't you say there was a family coming to upstate NY? Say more. And Lola says, "i know...it is incredible. what an indescribable loss...and I never even got there. I wish I was able to just go on down there and help hoist whatever needs hoisting, y'know?"

Scott (Andre) sends this: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/opinion/05krugman.html. Read it. Brent is writing a letter to the editor as I write this.

"Often Anonymous" Nick sent these....
http://technolalia.com/~ndronen/music/Marcia_Ball/Let_Me_Play_With_Your_Poodle/Louisiana_1927.mp3
http://billmon.org/archives/002120.html

There is so much.... so much more to read, to say.... to do. Let's get this thread going. It's all I can do right now.