kombucha

Does anyone have a Kombucha baby which needs a good home? I would very much like one if you have. Graci

peace
love
Hope

PERSUASION...

I don't know why today's theme seems to be persuasion, but I found this list and these quotes in a box I recently unpacked. Perhaps it's relevance will be discovered.


I read in The Oregonian about fifteen years ago that ( according to a Harvard study ) the twelve most persuasive words in the english language are:

YOU
MONEY
SAVE
NEW
EASY
FREE
GUARANTEE
LOVE
DISCOVERY
RESULTS
HEALTH
PROVEN

and Confucius said:
"The object of oratory is not truth, but persuasion."

“Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince?”
-Joan of Arc

"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect."
- Benjamin Franklin




power to the peaceful
lovers
and hopeful

Reading List Lust/ Official Scoop on Ewing Benefit/ and soooo much more!

Trusting your May Day was flowerful!

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Here's the whole real deal about Gary Ewing's Benefit...

PRESS RELEASE

SPONSORED BY MUSIC MILLENNIUM & OREGON MUSIC HALL OF FAME
BENEFIT BALL FOR GARY EWING
MAY 21st 2006 at the CRYSTAL BALLROOM

Gary Ewing is the legendary light show artist whose magic brought form and color to the music of so many Portland bands in the early sixties. From Beaver Hall to the Crystal Ballroom, Gary was there. He lit the Mayor's Balls and sat on the board of the Portland Music Association. He is a big man with a big heart. He has helped make the Portland music scene what it is today but that big heart has some big problems lately.~ Gary had
several heart attacks and Quadra by-pass surgery recently and like most musicians and artists, doesn't have health insurance. He and his family need the help of the music community and the community at large. You can help and say thank you to one of the people that got us to where we are today by sending a donation to:
U.S. BANK C/O [GARY EWING RECOVERY] ACCOUNT
Set up by Music Millennium & Oregon Music Hall of Fame. Do it, even if you can't remember the sixties.
Thanks. Billy Hults
MUSIC BY
FREAK MOUNTAIN FAMILY BAND
BROTHERS OF THE BALADI
WONDER TONES
NEW IBERIANS
8TH STREET ENSEMBLE
KingniK
JACK COUSENS
CHRIS WETTELAND
BILLY KENNEDY
GIL REYNOLDS
MOZ WRIGHT, FIRE & SWORD
BELLY DANCERS LIGHT SHOW LIVE VIDEO

$10.00 DONATION
MAY 21, 2006
CRYSTAL BALLROOM
NOON TO 8PM AUCTION @ 5pm

DONATIONS CAN ALSO BE MADE TO:
U.S. BANK C/O [GARY EWING RECOVERY] ACCOUNT.
10 % WILL BE DONATED TO THE OREGON MUSIC HALL OF FAME.

Thanks to McMenamins’ Crystal Ballroom

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So far, here are the results of the "reading list lust" e-mail I sent out last week, I'm sure there will be more. If you didn't get the e-mail, but would like to let us know about a good read, please do so, by all means. Thanks to those of you who contributed.

hope shepherd wrote:

what're you reading? anything you want to write hope about?

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I was reading "Shopgirl" by Steve Martin...comments: wow, I loved this
book. Short, easy read, great entertainment, lighthearted way to approach an
important life topic. Five stars.
Now I am reading "Running with Scissors."
Julie

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Just finished reading "Pontius Pilate" a historic novel.
Made you feel sorry for the poor roman governor.
Doug

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Am reading currently "East of the Mountains" by David Guterson. Recently read "Sailor Song" by Ken Kesey and "The Mermaid Chair" by Sue Monk Kidd. all fiction, all good, so was "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazer. I also enjoyed a biography of Quanah Parker recently, "The Last Comanche Chief" by Bill Neeley... am hoping to make it to the Ewing benefit, see you then if not before.
Love and Peace
Ida

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"Al Capone does my shirts" a newberry honor book is good. About a boy with an autistic sister....
for adults "Cold Mountain" by Charles frezier was great! "The Reader", by Bernhard Schlink was also real good...
love and peace, nat


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Subject: ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY!!!!
Wandering God by Morris Berman

350 pages of the most amazing anthropological study of our theological
development I could have searched for and found, if I imagined it
existed, but alas! It was handed to me.

Mr. Berman (whom you may want to Google up and read the reviews of his
latest release), in Wandering God, follows our development from Hunter
Gather periods, when we were of Immediate Response thinking, through
our earliest agricultural transitions of saving seeds, then planting,
when we became of Delayed Response thinking. It was during this (DR) era
we began to develop what he refers to as Sacred Authority Complex
(SAC), i.e., religous belief systems, guilt, superstitions, future concepts,
etc.

Does that seem like something you might be interested in? He even
refers to the current US governmental administration occasionally.

It's a text book. It can be slow reading. I've been at it for 4+
months, but I love it. I don't care if it takes a year and I read it over
and over again.
Artis

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I'm currently reading "Divine Encounters" by Zacharia Sitchen and "One Woman's Army" by Janis Karpinsky . They're great books , different by all standards , which is how I read.
LOVE & PEACE,
RENALDO


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reading Nature every week
reading the signs of nature every day
reading scifi sometimes
reading the glyphs in the paintings as they
continue to emerge
and then there are a few attachments to consider
love
shrume
Ecosanity_of_OG_rtf
An_Organic_Kinship_BG_rtf
Ecosanity_of_OG_rtf
(Hope's note: if you would like to read these attachments from Mushroom. e-mail me to let me know and I'll forward them to you. Highly reccommended.)


(Barbara's note:
..good books must be shared.

If you don't mind, you could also remind everyone that libraries get most of their funding from the number of books/music/movies that get checked out. The more you use your local library, the more funding they get to buy new material! Thanks. ~~B~~)

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In other kin and kithe type news, this in from mis padre excellente:

"I will be a delegate to the Dems [ Washington ] State Convention in Yakima the first of June.
The party liberals will try to put forward a resolution to impeach or at least censure the president and vice-president."

Si Se Puede!!!! Go Doug!!!!

( special thanks go to my dear miss t, who'd rather be napping, but is helping me with spanish words anyway. )
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Rise
by Public Image Limited
(written by Lydon, Laswell, remixed by Bob Clearmountain)

...May the road rise with you...

Barbara was right! It was PIL who wrote and sang "Rise" in the 80's. Thanks Barbara, you win a prize ( which is yet to be determined, but I know you'll like it! )

via con dios
paz
amor
espiranza

Three Things Please

1) Our friends at Peacemeal Gardens sent this tidbit from yesterday's Oregonian "Letters To The Editor" column. It was written by their good neighbor, Pete. Well spake Pete, thank you, and thanks to Barbara and Kraig for sending it out...

Iraq: No good reason for this war

Monday, April 24, 2006
As of April 20, at least 2,381 Americans had been killed in Iraq. This is greater than the number of Americans killed in Vietnam after the same period of involvement.

Another 17,648 Americans have been wounded. Hundreds of thousands of American service men and women have returned home potentially with the time bomb of post-traumatic stress disorder ticking in their heads.

Meanwhile, the number of Iraqi civilians reported killed is a minimum of 34,511. Most likely the toll is far greater, as people frequently bury their dead without the involvement of morgues or hospitals, which means they are not reported in the media.The fallout from depleted uranium (DU) munitions will continue to maim and kill for decades and possibly centuries. DU is an insidiously indiscriminate killer. It doesn't care about age, nationality, military status or what uniform a soldier wears. Do we, the American people, really want this blood on our collective hands?

The war in Iraq is a problem created by the current occupant of the White House and his associates. There is no good reason for this war. The best way to support the troops is to end this madness. Bring them home now!

PETER J. HAMER U.S. Navy (retired), 1980-2002, Estacada




2) "Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god."
-Kurt Vonnegut ( from Cat's Cradle, one of my all time faves )


3) The Game Of Questions
( from "Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead" by Tom Stoppard, another of my all time favorites )

Questions is a game which requires it's players to respond to an opposing player's question with another question. It takes 3 points to win a game. Points are earned by catching the other player committing a foul.

Fouls are as follows:
☁ No grunts ( or ums, or the like. ) No person can make false starts, or pause for more than a few seconds, or otherwise delay the game.
☁ No non-sequitors. Each question must be a direct response to the last question.
☁ No repetitions. No player may ask a question which has already been asked.
☁ No rhetoric ( language that is elaborate, pretentious, insincere, or intellectually vacuous. )
☁ No statements. No player may make a statement, except when claiming a point.
☁ No synonyms. One cannot repeat back a question identical in meaning to the one being answered.










May the road rise with you.

Peace
Love
Hope

p.s. ten points to the person who can tell me who the heck sang the song that said "may the road rise with you," sometime in the early eighties, new wave-ish. was it Gang of Four? it's driving me crazy...

Ewing Benefit

Please plan to attend a benefit show for Gary Ewing on Sunday, May 21st, 2006
at The Crystal Ballroom from 2pm to 9ish or so

The Freak Mountain Ramblers will be opening
and I was told to "expect surprises..." As far as other acts are concerned
( now how can one expect surprises? If they're expected, do they still count as surprises? )

Send your thoughts and prayers in the Ewings' direction, it all helps.



peace
love
Hope

Playing favorites

NEW QUOTE:
( I heard one of our school's volunteer reading tutors say to a 2nd grader:)

"...We'll have to find you a copy of that,
everyone should own their favorite book."
so very cool.


OLD QUOTE:

" If you know anything
that's hurtful and untrue,
don't say it.

If you know anything
that's helpful and untrue,
don't say it.

If you know anything
that's hurtful and true,
don't say it.

And if you know anything
that's helpful and true,
be sure to find the right time to speak. "

--Buddha on when to speak and when not to speak



SONG:

" I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl "
--Nina Simone

( which is just edging out her "Here Comes The Sun" and
Roscoe Holcombe's "Trouble In Mind.)


BIRTHDAY PRESENTS:

the many and various gifts of music I received! WOW!
Thank you all for loving me, as I do you.

as always, peace
love, now
Hope

Pope Tang Wa Chi's spring offering...beautiful!

Thank you Your Excellency!

fwd from Shoehorn

Artis has just returned from Turkey! Now he's going to
play with my group. We will be mixing up the grooves and
throwing down. Do Not Miss This Show!

Shoehorn and Spoonman at the Blue Monk,
featuring
Artis the Spoonman
“the Sultan of Silverware”
with
Shoehorn’s VonTap Quartet
Dan Gaynor - piano Ward Griffiths - drums
Skip Elliot - bass

ONE NIGHT ONLY!
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2006, 9PM
COVER: $7
THE BLUE MONK 3341 SE BELMONT
595-0575
www.shoehornmusic.com
artisthespoonman.net

STUDY:
Want to learn Jazz/Rhythm Tap? Sax? How to play
an instrument and tap dance at the same time?
How about Improv and/or Theory? e-tap? JAM!
Shoehorn is now accepting private students - $30/hr.
Group lessons can be arranged.
contact: tappercussion@yahoo.com
www.shoehornmusic.com


Hi All
I got this missive from Shoe, this show is going to be exhilarating at LEAST! Plus, if you've not seen Artis or Shoehorn, your mind will be wonderfully bent...Uri Geller style! I'll try to write again this week.
Ta ta for now!

peace
love
Hope



(Uri Geller)

Mom, Malcolm, and Mumia

I'm tired
but I'll write to say happy birthday to ma mere, who's the best mom I've ever had, and one of my dearest friends...
and to honor Malcolm X and his constant learning and expansion...
and to wish good luck to Mumia Abu Jamal, who may be granted a new trial!

Working has eliminated any think-time I may previously have enjoyed
I hope someday to think again...about topics besides reading programs, behavior issues and autism...but, then again, what else is there?

song of the day:
Positively 4th Street -Bob Dylan ( for Mom, 'cuz she likes it )

food of the day:
collard greens, steamed and lightly tossed with some nice goat feta and a little apple cider vinegar

today's word:
synchronicity

My prayers today are for those in prison, that their spirits exceed their confinements, that they be treated with compassion, that they know they'll not be forgotten;
for those who are bearing the loss of a person they love, "this is transitory."

peace
love
Hope

Thank You Coretta

April 27, 1927-January 30, 2006

I am at once humbled and encouraged by the rich example of integrity that Coretta Scott King put forth.

I read about her when I was a teenager, and since then I've marveled at the way she picked up the pieces after her husband was killed. She raised her family well and continued to work ardently for social change...racial and economic justice, peace and non-violence, nuclear disarmament, children's and women's rights, gay and lesbian rights, AIDS, homelessness...her activism was dynamic and unrelenting.
She demonstrated profound spiritual strength throughout her life.

We're blessed to have shared the planet with Coretta Scott King.

More Capricorns Than You Could Shake A Stick At...part two

Let's play:Name That Person and/or Hir Work! Fun!



















































peace in
love
Hope