BLOGGING THE LONGEST REVOLUTION
Posted in Feminism on Jul 4th, 2008
The video above shows Ingrid Betancourt, founder of the Colombian Green Party, one-time Colombian legislator and candidate for president, confronting a member of FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, and saying to him in Spanish, “No more kidnappings No more kidnappings.” Shortly after this video was made, Betancourt was kidnapped.
FARC
FARC began in the 60s [...]
Posted in Feminism on Jun 7th, 2008
Women! Rent and watch “The Golden Compass.” The heroine of this story is Lyra, a girl of 12 or 13. She is the girl child who, according to the prophesies of the witches, would emerge as a leader during a time when the universe stands at the brink of war. She is also the one to whom the last “aleithiometer” [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19th, 2008
I worked all day today in my garden. I didn’t plant a garden last year, so there is a lot of work to do, to gynormously understate. By day’s end, I could see the shape of this year’s garden, though I haven’t planted seeds yet. In the center of my garden is an elderberry tree, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 24th, 2008
Gathering the Goddess 2008 — Sept. 5-7, 2008, Santa Cruz, California
“Here we are Sisters in Goddess, coming together to celebrate the birth of the Goddess Movement in our times, through sacred ritual and divine style. We are coming together … old and young … women who stood with me in the beginning and women who [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 14th, 2008
This is an absolutely astonishing video of an elephant drawing an elephant, holding a paintbrush in her trunk. I found the link at Ronnie Bennett’s excellent blog in this post, which Naomi Dagen Bloom linked to in her excellent blog, thanks, Naomi!
Heart
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 26th, 2008
Under a sky the color of pea soup
she is looking at her work growing away there
actively, thickly like grapevines or pole beans
as things grow in the real world, slowly enough.
If you tend them properly, if you mulch, if you water,
if you provide birds that eat insects a home and winter food,
if the sun shines and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 20th, 2008
There’s blood on the moon tonight.
It flows over the white, once bright as clean sheets;
now a contagion of raw yellow over a half-eclipsed sphere.
We drink shiraz,
it stains our lips and tongues burnt orange.
The next eclipse is three years away
and I wonder if your shadow will
engulf me then, burn cheeks red,
block the light.
But that would be [...]
Posted in Feminism on Feb 14th, 2008
The wall in Bil’in, Palestine
The barrier fence is in red.
I’ve been receiving e-mails from an organization called the Bil’in Friends of Justice and Freedom together with links to their website.
Bil’in is a small, peaceful village surrounded by hills and valleys, lying halfway between Yaffa and Jerusalem. It is among a number of local villages that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 12th, 2008
Seed Catalogs!
This is actually a 2007 post, resurrected and revised so I can plug Bountiful Gardens once again! Their 2008 seed catalog which I received a couple weeks ago is as awesome as all their seed catalogs are, more like a book full of good reading than a seed catalog.
From John Jeavons’ annual letter to friends and [...]
