On Being Evacuated: It’s every volunteer’s worst nightmare.

Originally posted on Sara in Peace Corps Guinea:
Today volunteers in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia received the information that we will be sent home for an undetermined amount of time as a cautionary move against the rising risk of Ebola. Electron micrograph image of the Ebola virus. Friends and family back home are overjoyed…

The Third Letter

Little Mama is dying. I wrote her some letters, and Milena told me she read them to her, and that she told everyone to make plans to go to Ft Worth for the big art opening in December. That makes me happy, to know that she wants to go. That project was a big one […]

Tamara Cortez’ Flow Notes: Gifts of a Truly Compassionate & Loving Healer

Tamara Jo Cortez’ new book, Flow Notes (E-book version reviewed, available at Balboa Press or Amazon) may at first glance seem a sweet, simple collection of positive affirmations. However, while her notes do positively affirm my oft-disturbed spirit and give rise to smiles in the same way as do sweet and simple post-it notes on […]

Daily Fitbit stats

My fitbit #fitstats for 11/15/2012: 1,321 steps and 0.6 miles traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/23P44B

Surging Toward Oneness

Surging toward Oneness; toward the reunification of all that I am, and all I am yet to be, simultaneously; no less me than I am now. Surging toward an expanded perception of all that “I” really am, not exchanging one limited expression of limitation for another. (inspired by “Oneness,” by Rasha) (website) (Amazon)

Psychedemia Podcast Jingle: “happyMorning”

2012-07-27: Android Jones is one of the primary visual artists for Psychedemia. He’s known for his spiritual/techno/futuristic creations, and I was focusing on his work when I created this bubbly “ancient tribal funk” jingle for the Psychedemia Podcast. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Psychedemia-Podcast/121569081316731 2012-06-19: Daniel said they LOVE it, so it’s a wrap! I just made sure there were […]

Milena at Tikal

This image of Milena atop one of the Mayan pyramids at Tikal strikes me on many levels. First of all, you see what she is seeing, you feel what she is feeling. The photo is taken over her left shoulder, and we can see that we are above the jungle treetops, and way off in […]

Health vs. Pork: Congress Debates the Farm Bill >> Autumn 2007

Autumn 2007• Volume XVI, Number 4 Health vs. Pork: Congress Debates the Farm Bill The Farm Bill, a massive piece of federal legislation making its way through Congress, governs what children are fed in schools and what food assistance programs can distribute to recipients. The bill provides billions of dollars in subsidies, much of which […]

MODEL 850 COMFORT CRAFT Massage Table

via youtube.com Steve wants this fancy-shmancy massage table.

Xray: Spondylosis 2

via flickr.com Here is an X-ray of my L5 vertebra/sacrum, showing the forward misalignment of the L5, which is pinching my sciatic nerve. Explains why my legs go numb and hurt after 5-10 minutes of standing/walking. This was taken Oct 10, 2009.