Places I have Lived: timing and synchronicity

OREGON

Many years ago, 1984 actually, I read an interesting article in Cosmopolitan magazine about healers. I was living in Oregon and engaged to be married. Dave proposed to me on Friday the 13, that July. We decided to get married on Crystal Lake at my parents retirement home in Wascott, WI, and the Larrabee siblings were set to meet there for a family reunion, too. When I got to Wisconsin, my adoptive dad was sick. Throwing up sick. Taking him to doctors was my new job, like an ambulance driver. It was during surgery on August 3, the doctors said cancer and gave him 6 months. On August 4th, the wedding happened, many people flew in, lots of lovely gifts, a big meal, but it's still a blur to me. We drove north to Duluth in our wedding clothes to see my dad in the hospital, since he was unable to walk me down the sidewalk/aisle.
When I got back to Oregon, I wrote letters to the healers in that Cosmo article. One of them was Patricia Sun, in California. She mailed me a cassette tape. Patricia was known for making a sound, a mysterious sound.
Since dad wasn't interested in healers or thinking outside the western medicine paradigm, healing spirit wasn't in the realm of possibility for him, sadly.
I had my own ideas then about healing and they have matured as I have.
Take a listen to Patricia Sun's work. (There are more videos of her on youtube, of course.)

2014: Patricia Sun Media announces the release of a free audio recording titled Relationships and Matching Energy: The Good, the Bad and the Wonderful. The audio recording is available at http://goo.gl/1fZiyA. Ms. Sun introduces her insights on wonderful win-win relationships, expanding on empowering both men and women. She also draws on concepts from her new blog, Domestic Abuse..."it's complicated".

Wednesday Words: Message on the Golden Record

Adrienne LaFrance on the Golden Record, a “cosmic postcard” sent out with the Voyager spacecrafts in 1977 to represent humanity to intelligent life:

The record, curated by a team led by the astrophysicist Carl Sagan, featured the music of Beethoven, Chuck Berry, Kesarbai Kerkar, and Blind Willie Johnson, and various folk music from around the world. Images, placed electronically on the phonograph, included photographs of a mother nursing her baby; a woman with a microscope; an astronaut in space, highway traffic in Ithaca, New York; the pages of an open book; a violin with sheet music; men laying bricks to build a house in Africa; a woman eating grapes at a supermarket; and a number of diagrams and illustrations of concepts like continental drift and vertebrate evolution. There were also audio clips depicting scenes of life on Earth—the sounds of rushing wind and the roar of ocean tides, whale songs, elephants trumpeting, human footsteps and human laughter.

It occurred to me last fall that I’d never actually heard the laughter track—and that I wanted to.

Keep reading here, as Adrienne sets out to solve the mystery of whose laughter is on the Golden Record. (And you can hear the golden record!) BOOM

Eddie Vedder, 'Ukulele Songs'

Made calm and open by the ukulele's intimacy, Vedder sounds like someone getting out of his own way and discovering what really matters within his art.

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Vedder said he hopes that Ukulele Songs would encourage listeners to step away from their computers and televisions and make some music of their own, preferably with friends.

take a bow? social rules?

• Strangers being introduced shake hands, as in Western societies, but
  • Bow toward each other, in Korea, Japan and China
  • Do not bow at each other, in the Jewish tradition
  • In the United States, eye contact, a nod of the head toward each other, and a smile, with no bowing; the palm of the hand faces sideways, neither upward nor downward, in a business handshake.
  • Present business cards to each other, in business meetings
• Click heels together, in past eras of Western history^{[citation needed]}
• A woman's curtsey, in some societies
• In the Middle East, never displaying the sole of the foot toward another, as this would be seen as a grave insult.
• In many schools, though seats for students are not assigned they are still "claimed" by certain students, and sitting in someone else's seat is considered an insult

WIKI

OK, for me, some rules are make to be broken! BOOM! (and to all of you who follow this blog experiment - we at Boom here BOW to you!)

cabin fever exhibit: letterpress art

Lisa Hersey, Cabin Fever

At first blush, Lisa Hersey’s exhibit Cabin Fever is familiar — the pieces consist of wood block printed capital letters layered in various patterns and colors on white canvas. The viewer may attempt to literally read what Hersey is trying to say, but the artist challenges this reflex. It isn’t until you step back and let the letters settle into shapes that the message becomes clear. In “I Run for Miles Just to Get a Taste” Hersey flips the letters “F,” “P,” “L,” “U,” and “I” every which way across half the canvas. The letters seem to jam up in the final quarter of the inked print with just the light edges of some red letters breaking past the dark noise into nothing, everything, freedom — it’s what you make it.

In each of her pieces, Hersey communicates humor and punctuates it with a snappy title. 

For example, “Prove to Me You Got Some Coordination” is a geometrical pattern of red “H”s and blue “T”s. After the 2016 election, it can’t be viewed as anything but political. The two contrast and intersect to create a tight, locking pattern that forms a circle in the center. After Trump’s first few months in office and the Syria attack, we have all the “proof” we need.

(VIA Valley Advocate, Springfield MA art review)  BOOM!

P>S> did you notice it's 7/11 at 11:11

.stop it...

Who gets targeted by scammers, and how can we help them? We’ve got some tips to help you help others...

..cons such as catfishing and grandchildren scams continue to grow. With the catfish scam, the senior, as a technology migrant, might not be as technologically savvy, and can be lured by continued attention from a “suitor” they meet on a social network. Likewise, the harvesting of basic data from social networks, like Facebook, position the grandparent for the “grandchild in crisis” scam.

READ: Bad things happen to good people – but you can help stop that – Naked Security

MONDAY MANIAC: Chain Reactions!

uninvited: city of angels

It was 1998 when I saw this movie CITY OF ANGELS and it wasn't the movie that kept me thinking about it - it was the soundtrack. This song UNINVITED especially. (HEY... it's kinda weird-funny Nic Cage did a movie with Meg Ryan, right? That is definitely a BOOM in our book)

FYI: The City of Angels soundtrack debuted at number twenty-three on the Billboard 200 chart on the issue dated 18 April 1998.^[6] The following week it entered the top ten at number seven and eventually reached the runner-up position for three weeks until it topped the charts in early June, selling 165,000 copies.^[7] City of Angels finished the year as the seventh highest-selling album of 1998.^[8] To date the soundtrack has sold 5.5 million units in the United States and has been certified five times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.^[9][10] Additionally, it peaked at number three on the Canadian charts and has sold over 700,000 copies in the country.^[11]

^{U2 did If God Will Send His Angels"}

say what?

Mormon Church Fast Facts - CNN.com

...uh-huh... spirit prison?

This one is very unique to the LDS faith. Basically, everyone on earth now was a spirit in the pre-existence. When we die, our spirits are separated from our bodies and if we were good they go to “spirit paradise.” If we were bad they go to “spirit prison.” The spirit world exists as a place for spirits to go while awaiting the second coming.

Bizarre but real

Sunday Sound: Sinkane - Hold Tight

good tickle

‘We said some shit’ is a curated collection of quotes that were accumulated by Strategy Creative's client during the course of a year long project.

VIA

language of autocrats

• Masha Gessen writes about the language of autocrats:

A Russian poet named Sergei Gandlevsky once said that in the late Soviet period he became obsessed with hardware-store nomenclature. He loved the word secateurs, for example. Garden shears, that is. Secateurs is a great word. It has a shape. It has weight. It has a function. It is not ambiguous. It is also not a hammer, a rake, or a plow. It is not even scissors. In a world where words were constantly used to mean their opposite, being able to call secateurs “secateurs”—and nothing else—was freedom.

“Freedom,” on the other hand, was, as you know, slavery. That’s Orwell’s 1984. And it is also the USSR, a country that had “laws,” a “constitution,” and even “elections,” also known as the “free expression of citizen will.” The elections, which were mandatory, involved showing up at the so-called polling place, receiving a pre-filled ballot—each office had one name matched to it—and depositing it in the ballot box, out in the open. Again, this was called the “free expression of citizen will.” There was nothing free about it, it did not constitute expression, it had no relationship to citizenship or will because it granted the subject no agency. Calling this ritual either an “election” or the “free expression of citizen will” had a dual effect: it eviscerated the words “election,” “free,” “expression,” “citizen,” and “will,” and it also left the thing itself undescribed. When something cannot be described, it does not become a fact of shared reality. Hundreds of millions of Soviet citizens had an experience of the thing that could not be described, but I would argue that they did not share that experience, because they had no language for doing so. At the same time, an experience that could be accurately described as, say, an “election,” or “free,” had been preemptively discredited because those words had been used to denote something entirely different.

Monkey Shines: ”War for the Planet of the Apes”

There’s something weirdly cathartic about the spectacle of humanity reduced to an animalistic throng. And it gives the film

"War for the Planet of the Apes”

a disturbing, powerful kick. Of course, people are often capable of great evil; we don’t need the movies to tell us that. But the mindless, tribal destructiveness on display in this film is not some outside, unfamiliar force. These aren’t zombies. We recognize this impulse, this willingness to embrace raw hatred and give ourselves over to leaders who focus and cultivate our rage. These days, we know it all too well. READ

Appreciation Friday: Artist Jimmie Durham

Artist, performer, poet, essayist, and activist Jimmie Durham (b. 1940, Washington, Arkansas) is one of the most compelling, inventive, and multifaceted artists working internationally today. For American audiences, however, he has been an elusive figure. 

bombmagazine.org 

 

 

Job Emergency Kit?

What if you got stuck at the office overnight?

Let's plan now...Climate change is serious shit. Your workplace emergency kit should fit into a small duffel bag, stashed under your desk or in your locker.  Some of us already have our "bug out bags" or "survival kits" in our cars, but a separate kit at work will prevent you from having to leave the building at all until it is safe.

If you are a business owner and manager-- WE strongly encourage you to give serious thought to ways you can be prep to assist your most valuable assets–your employees–in the event of a disaster hitting during working hours. Every workplace needs to keep an up-to-date first aid kit and extra food/snacks and fresh water. A generator would help too.

YOUR KIT: 

small fleece or wool blanket and pillow

a change of clothes (clean shirt, undies, jeans, head scarf)

Sturdy, warm, waterproof shoes with wool socks are an absolute must (for winter)

Warm hooded sweatshirt

Toothbrush, toothpaste, a small bar of soap, and a hand towel

Quick Food: granola bars, crackers, nuts like honey-roasted cashews, tea and coffee packets

Extra Good: 

Beef jerky

Raw Crystallized ginger (for tummy ache)

Red Wine (also for tummy ache)

Cash (and coins)

Crank flashlight with extra batteries

A book to read and a deck of cards 

Tins you make ahead with jokes and survival tips and snacks

Visit Disaster Prep Consultants to learn how employers need disaster planning.

Particle Masks – you can use a basic dust mask or go with something a little more beefy like an N95 particle mask. But you want something to help cover your nose/mouth if the emergency involves dust and flying particles and/or smoke. You can use a hankerchief, but a dust mask is just as easy to store in your box.
Whistle – If you are stuck in a portion of the building that has collapse from an earthquake, for example, you’ll want a whistle like this one that you can use to let emergency rescuers hear you.