From my summer in Croatia
1, 2 and 3:Nature photos from KRKA Nature Reservate
5. Emergency landing in Zagreb due to error in fuel system, scary...
4 ...and a sundown from Rogoznica
Starting June 10th, Stop Genocide Now will bring you For 12 consecutive days, i-ACT (interactive-activism) connects you with the faces, names and lives of Darfur refugees who escaped, for now, genocide in their homeland. Watch daily videos from the field team; read journal entries and add your comments; take action daily that will change the way the world responds to genocide. The violence in and around Darfur has escalated since our last trip in February 2008, when there was an attempted military coup in Chad. Since diplomatic ties have been but cut between Chad and Sudan, and thousands are stranded on the border in between. Visit Stop Genocide Now i-ACT (www.stopgenocidenow.org/iact) to join the community and connect with a Darfuri who needs your voice and action.
The situation on the ground is unstable, and the rainy season has begun. But we feel that at this time the refugees need to be heard by the international community and to feel your hope more so than anytime in the past. Escalating violence in Darfur, Khartoum, S. Sudan, and Chad threatens their already hard life in the camps and adds to the trauma they have already felt.
The field team will include: Gabriel and KTJ from SGN, and Scott Warren and Colin O'Brien from STAND (Student Anti-Genocide Coalition).
For 12 consecutive days, i-ACT will bring you daily videos from the field so you can reconnect with so many of our friends, like Adam, Yakoub, Islam, and Anima; and meet new friends. We hope to visit Camps Kounoungo and Mile once again; and sit down and speak with newly resettled refugees who escaped the most recent bombings in Darfur. We will also be posting our journal entries, and encourage you to post your own comments to us, the refugees, or to one another. i-ACT will also offer daily action items for you and your community to participate in. Please join us as an i-ACTivist in this journey and experience.
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I'm apparantly all over the place lately.... between the store blog, here, and my ancient livejournal.... yikes. Its hard to remember what I put where.
I've been thinking of consolidating the store blog in with my personal blog... but I havent found time or the inclination to actually -do- it just yet.
I'm having severe issues concentrating at the moment on anything. I've been in a race against time, having most of the store on sale as that silly fundraiser I keep getting nagged to do. I have had several people asking me to do one, and I told them it wasnt likely to do very well. There are times when I really wish I weren't right... On the good side, no one can pull the "you should/I told you to/I think it would work" card on me for a while... and the next time someone suggests it, I have a good example to point them to.
I have whatever the newest bug is that is going around, and whats funny about this, is that anytime I get sick, I wind up getting customs... or.... it will be completely dead for days and then all of the sudden, when I'm nursing a fever and trying to get myself into bed, I'll be bombarded all at once from all directions with IM's from people who need me or want my opinion/skills for something. I'm not ungrateful, by any means... and I'm hesistant to even mention it as thats usually the cue for the powers that be to come in and do something to nail me. -grin-
I think I likely should have gone back to bed, once I DID get to bed last night I laid there awake thinking about a hundred other things (store, two new clients, Sue and the Nox build that I hadnt gotten to open up until this morning... which led to another can of worms I cant quite grasp at the moment...) instead of what I should have been thinking about (sheep hurdling over hedgerows or somesuch)
This morning was awful, lots of arguing and temper tantrums trying to get the boy-o on the bus.... lets just say that he DID get on the bus, but he was screaming 'MOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!" through the bus window with tears rolling down his face. -sigh- And... I know I had a point to coming here and rambling but now I'll be damned if I can remember what the hell it was or even what I've been talking about all this time. -sigh-
To bed? Or not to bed.... That is the question.
Too much to get done today :(
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html
There is a zen to being uncaring, I think.
For some, its like second nature, and for others its a struggle.
Its like speaking in binary, feeling in numbers. I imagine that some people can do that quite well.
And I think for others, its more difficult.
It's a difficult thing for me. Its a struggle. It takes -work- not to care.... for me.
Someone made a comment today, that as Dane Cook would call it, rather torpedoed me.
It slunk in and infiltrated my thought processes.
Something obvious, something simple.
"Why can't some people just follow the rules?" and the answer..."Because some people just don't want to."
Simple yes? Obvious maybe? Torpedo, nonetheless.
(LIkely why I'm up at this hour babbling about it, otherwise I wont sleep.)
Well why not? Seems very silly doesn't it? Why does this bother me so much? It really shouldn't. Its not news.
And the more I thought of it, the more silly it really was. But... the more silly it was, the more frustrated I became.
And perhaps envious.
For some people, not caring, about people. Not caring about guidelines and morals, and ethics.... its just not a struggle. Its not a thought process. It has to be terribly freeing, yes? Waking up and only caring about yourself and actually having a -choice- about the things to bother caring about? Having to likely make a -decision- to care about something or someone or about doing the right thing?
It certainly has to be much easier, I would think, depending on the extreme you take those particular things.
I think, a hue of that ability would be nice ... sometimes.
To be first in your own mind, for at least the little things..... Not to have your first thought always being about someone else and their well being.
I sadly, think its just another language I can toss into a bucket with all the others I'm not wired to understand.
@ Esthetique sim, Aprod Garden. Just have to love the Windlight viewer.... sigh...
I am remembering you like a fever
Chilled in a facade of ice
a roiling boil under the surface.
A glowing red beneath the frost.
I am remembering you in lazy fingers
that trace over words and breath
lips pendulate with
heat and veiled malice.
The wry smile and cold eye.
Warm honeyed tones lost in rosin
on the strings
That bend into silence and
leave nothing but their chill.
I've lost alot of poetry.
Alot of it.
I cant find it anywhere... Most notably.. Tobasco, and Words as Fat as Oranges.
I had files and files carefully saved...
And now it turns out I lost them all when I had the computer mishap.
If you have anything, please send it my way.
Bloody mess. this.
I saw this incredible picture by silverdrake posted on Flickr today, and I realized it was the one that I wanted to come back to my blog with. This "homage to Wyeth" feels like a homecoming, and it felt right.
This is one of the most stunning treatments of a Second Life canvas I've ever seen. No surprise as it comes from a very talented denizen of the SL community.
Hope everyone's well. I've got some catching up to do.
Cheers, all :^)
Sue.
Well vacations are over, the trip to the Yukon was glorious! and we got back 1 day before school started!
This year after 11 year of homeschooling, all my big kids went to school! what a traumatic time, baby Keiara and I cried for the first four days, neither of us could stand the quiet house! but we've survived, and I console myself by remembering that it's only for the first semester and then I have all my babes in arms again to go to Africa in the new year.
I worked frantically on the road in hotel rooms to finish the house and furnishings I designed for this month's edition of Prim Perfect. Being designer of the month was an amazing opportunity, but I was in terror thinking I wouldn't get it all done.
Thank goodness Delia and Zeke were around to give interviews as Better World Island was also featured on the cover of the magazine as the SIM OF THE MONTH! Editor Saffia Widdershins did an excellant job of describing our amazing island in her feature article. I'm so proud of the work we've all done and are continuing to do.
Fall is silently creeping up on us here, leaves yellowing and the smell of woodsmoke in the air as people start their stoves and fireplaces up in the cool evenings. I love the smell of fall! Soon it will be Halloween, Thanksgiving and then horror of horrors! Christmas! LOL LOL time flies...
hugs to all,
River
