tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-194455952024-03-07T00:52:47.938-08:00Pirate Papa: A Journal of Anarcho-Green D(o).I(t).Y(ourself). ParentingAnd now our little world is filled with papa blogs, mama zines, alternative child rearing tactical manuals, a plethora of organic ideas, food and diapers. I wonder, will we remember the beginnings of our humble remaking of the world? Pirate Papa seeks to share a small sliver of life experience with those interested souls seeking advice, common ground, friendly words. Let us redefine our selves, and in so doing redefine the rules and relationships around us.skyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04060344690179547080noreply@blogger.comBlogger311125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445595.post-32361695257122659782015-05-02T21:28:00.006-07:002015-05-02T21:28:51.940-07:00sometimes my extracurricular reading catches up with me and I have to clear the slate, but keep the links without flooding the bookmarks (which I never use)<a href="http://www.rebellesociety.com/2013/11/05/become-the-prayer-7-tips-for-discovering-your-lifes-purpose/">http://www.rebellesociety.com/2013/11/05/become-the-prayer-7-tips-for-discovering-your-lifes-purpose/</a><br />
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<a href="http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/fukushima-todays-titantic-and-costa.html">http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/fukushima-todays-titantic-and-costa.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.darbiansphotography.com/berkyn-manor-urbex/610yk2cet6ftif40uhh1pa4fwdg0ci">http://www.darbiansphotography.com/berkyn-manor-urbex/610yk2cet6ftif40uhh1pa4fwdg0ci</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/27/robert-macfarlane-word-hoard-rewilding-landscape">http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/27/robert-macfarlane-word-hoard-rewilding-landscape</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20150423/news/304239979/poet-with-port-townsend-8217-s-copper-canyon-press-named-pulitzer">http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20150423/news/304239979/poet-with-port-townsend-8217-s-copper-canyon-press-named-pulitzer</a><br />
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<a href="https://morethanthinking.wordpress.com/">https://morethanthinking.wordpress.com/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/joe_sabia_the_technology_of_storytelling">http://www.ted.com/talks/joe_sabia_the_technology_of_storytelling</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span> wonder <span style="font-size: large;">if anyone</span> still reads <span style="font-size: x-large;">this blog</span>, given my <span style="font-size: x-large;">lapse</span> in posts for the <span style="font-size: large;">past</span> ten years, <span style="font-size: x-large;">pretty</span> much...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445595.post-42234482868723310712015-02-11T10:51:00.003-08:002015-02-11T10:51:45.724-08:0075 Years In The Making: Harvard Just Released Its Epic Study On What Men Need To Live A Happy Life<a href="http://www.feelguide.com/2013/04/29/75-years-in-th-making-harvard-just-released-its-epic-study-on-what-men-require-to-live-a-happy-life/">http://www.feelguide.com/2013/04/29/75-years-in-th-making-harvard-just-released-its-epic-study-on-what-men-require-to-live-a-happy-life/</a><br />
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In 1938 Harvard University began following 268 male undergraduate students and kicked off the longest-running longitudinal studies of human development in history. The study’s goal was to determine as best as possible what factors contribute most strongly to human flourishing. The astonishing range of psychological, anthropological, and physical traits — ranging from personality type to IQ to drinking habits to family relationships to “hanging length of his scrotum” — indicates just how exhaustive and quantifiable the research data has become. Recently, <a href="https://www.google.ca/search?q=george+vaillant&rlz=1C5CHFA_enCA503CA504&aq=f&oq=george+vaillant&aqs=chrome.0.57j0l3j62l2.3621j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; color: #1fc260; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;" target="_blank">George Vaillant</a>, who directed the study for more than three decades, published the study’s findings in the 2012 book <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Triumphs-Experience-Harvard-Grant-Study/dp/0674059824" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; color: #1fc260; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;" target="_blank"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Triumphs of Experience</em> (Amazon)</a> and the following is the book’s synopsis:</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #339966; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“At a time when many people around the world are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers some welcome news for the new old age: our lives continue to evolve in our later years, and often become more fulfilling than before. Begun in 1938, the Grant Study of Adult Development charted the physical and emotional health of over 200 men, starting with their undergraduate days. The now-classic ‘Adaptation to Life’ reported on the men’s lives up to age 55 and helped us understand adult maturation. Now George Vaillant follows the men into their nineties, documenting for the first time what it is like to flourish far beyond conventional retirement. Reporting on all aspects of male life, including relationships, politics and religion, coping strategies, and alcohol use (its abuse being by far the greatest disruptor of health and happiness for the study’s subjects), ‘Triumphs of Experience’ shares a number of surprising findings. For example, the people who do well in old age did not necessarily do so well in midlife, and vice versa. While the study confirms that recovery from a lousy childhood is possible, memories of a happy childhood are a lifelong source of strength. Marriages bring much more contentment after age 70, and physical aging after 80 is determined less by heredity than by habits formed prior to age 50. The credit for growing old with grace and vitality, it seems, goes more to ourselves than to our stellar genetic makeup.”</span></em></div>
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As you can imagine, the study’s discoveries are bountiful, but the most significant finding of all is that <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Alcoholism is a disorder of great destructive power.”</em> In fact, alcoholism is the single strongest cause of divorce between the Grant Study men and their wives. Alcoholism was also found to be strongly coupled with neurosis and depression <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(which most often follows alcohol abuse, rather than preceding it).</em> Together with cigarette smoking, alcoholism proves to be the #1 greatest cause of morbidity and death. And above a certain level, intelligence doesn’t prevent the damage.</div>
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With regards to income, there was no noticeable difference in maximum income earned by men with IQs in the 110-115 range vs. men with IQs above 150. With regards to sex lives, one of the most fascinating discoveries is that aging liberals have <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">way</em> more sex. Political ideology had no bearing on overall life satisfaction, but the most conservative men on average shut down their sex lives around age 68, while the most liberal men had healthy sex lives well into their 80s. Vaillant writes, <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“I have consulted urologists about this, they have no idea why it might be so.”</em></div>
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In <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Triumphs of Experience, </em>Vaillant raises a number of factors more often than others, but the one he refers to most often is the powerful correlation between the warmth of your relationships and your health and happiness in your later years. In 2009, Vaillant’s insistance on the importance of this part of the data was challenged, so Vaillant returned to the data to be sure the finding merited such important focus. Not only did Vaillant discover that his focus on warm relationships was warranted, he placed even <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">more</em> importance on this factor than he had previously. Vallant notes that the 58 men who scored highest on the measurements of “warm relationships” (WR) earned an average of $141,000 a year more during their peak salaries (between ages 55-60) than the 31 men who scored the lowest in WR. The high WR scorers were also 3-times more likely to have professional success worthy of inclusion in Who’s Who.</div>
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One of the most intriguing discoveries of the Grant Study was how significant men’s relationships with their mothers are in determining their well-being in life. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/grant-study-reveals-what-makes-us-happy-2013-4" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; color: #1fc260; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;" target="_blank">For instance, <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Business Insider</em> writes</a>: <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Men who had ‘warm’ childhood relationships with their mothers took home $87,000 more per year than men whose mothers were uncaring. Men who had poor childhood relationships with their mothers were much more likely to develop dementia when old. Late in their professional lives, the men’s boyhood relationships with their mothers — but not their fathers — were associated with effectiveness at work. On the other hand, warm childhood relations with fathers correlated with lower rates of adult anxiety, greater enjoyment on vacations, and increased ‘life satisfaction’ at age 75 — whereas the warmth of childhood relationships with mothers had no significant bearing on life satisfaction at 75.” </em></div>
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In Vallant’s own words, the #1 most important finding from the Grant Study is this: <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop.”</em> You can purchase your own copy of <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Triumphs of Experience at your local independent bookstore (I edited out their stupid plug for Amazon).</em></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SEE ALSO:</strong> <span style="border: 0px; color: #99cc00; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.feelguide.com/2014/11/17/intersecting-research-reveals-the-most-powerful-force-that-determines-source-of-meaning-in-life/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; color: #99cc00; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Intersecting Research Reveals The Most Powerful Force That Determines Source Of Meaning In Life</span></a></span></div>
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<iframe frameborder="0" height="54" src="http://www.thetakeaway.org/widgets/ondemand_player/#file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetakeaway.org%2Faudio%2Fxspf%2F253747%2F;containerClass=takeaway" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 656.875px;" width="640"></iframe><a href="http://www.feelguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/HarvardHappiness.jpg" rel="prettyPhoto" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; color: #1fc260; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;"><img alt="HarvardHappiness" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-34433" height="329" src="http://www.feelguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/HarvardHappiness.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" width="648" /></a><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pvQZfLavWfU?rel=0" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 656.875px;" width="640"></iframe>Sources: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/grant-study-reveals-what-makes-us-happy-2013-4" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; color: #1fc260; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;" target="_blank">Business Insider</a>, <a href="http://www.thetakeaway.org/2012/nov/30/triumphs-experience-studying-happy-life/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; color: #1fc260; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;" target="_blank">The Take Away</a>, and <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/06/what-makes-us-happy/307439/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; color: #1fc260; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;" target="_blank">The Atlantic</a></h6>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445595.post-57913719901615651312014-09-23T14:09:00.001-07:002014-09-23T14:09:20.026-07:00What's all the Rushin' Fer?<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;">I've been looking for this for awhile. It's on an old framed picture at my father's cabin. I'll try to rustle up a photo.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;">Rushin' to the office, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;">rushin' out to eat, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;">Rushin, back an, rushin' home, Rushin' down the street </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;">Rushin' up an, rushin, down, rushin' in an' out, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;">Say, what,s all the rushin' fer? VVhat's it all about? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;">Rushin' after money, rushin' after fame, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;">Climbin' pushin', shovin', It's a dizzy game. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;">Steppin' on each other,s heels, let me by-lookout! </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;">Say, what's all the rushinl fer? VVhat's it all about? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;">What's the use of rushin'? Let us loaf a while, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;">VVatch 'em push, an' run any grab, We'll just sit an' smile. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;">As they scramble down the road gaily we will shout, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;">"Say, what's all the rushin' ferr, VVhat's it all about?"</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445595.post-47768261354618367172014-09-09T21:31:00.001-07:002014-09-09T21:33:08.950-07:00A bit of fiction to friction your brain against... #lastword<div> Something smoke-like in his undulating thoughts clutched at him, making him think now of grasping her about the waist until something gave, but the only thing forgiving in the room were his calloused hands.</div><div> The witch just sat simply, looking very witch-like in her beauty bereft of any indicators of age, timeless as a broken clock, her very countenance tick, tick, ticking towards trouble but influencing and inviting the inevitable storm of sensual self-reflection commonly found in these pawns of prophecy.</div><div> His gaze, driven by a guilty conscience, darted round the room, lingering perhaps too long on various bits of its Spartan decor, deconstructing motives nonsensically as her votive candles flickered and the thin incense sticks drew a cloudy heaven amongst the cedar rafters above.</div><div> How his thoughts could craft a sexy specter from the sad sorceress before him was the traffic of this stage, his rage and rancor settling to a mediocre malice as she spat blood onto bone and drew symbols in the dust with a single, long nail.</div><div> Outside, the dark had dropped her skirts upon the town and bats divebombed their dinner while the streetlamps blinked their dusty orange lashes of light down streets empty save for the myriad unseen denizens of night.</div><div> He pulled his fedora down a fraction of an inch, catching an almost invisible bead of sweat beneath the band before it trickled to tickle the tip of his nose. In his left hand, a lucky strike, sans filter, threatened the rug below with it's bayonet of ash.</div><div> Everything was made of molasses, and he had a hard time judging how long he had been watching her perform this rite, or ritual, or whatever it and she purported to be, or be becoming.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445595.post-23415445024194728662014-07-06T13:50:00.000-07:002014-07-06T13:50:07.440-07:00Dove Real Beauty Sketches & Always #LikeAGirl #Parenting #SelfImage #SelfConfidence<div>
Thanks Charlotte, for showing me these. They're inspirational, as the father of twin young girls on the precipice of puberty and adolescence.</div>
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Dove Real Beauty Sketches<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/XjJQBjWYDTs" width="560"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445595.post-34407246674376364312014-05-20T07:31:00.002-07:002014-05-20T07:31:26.955-07:00May is the season when other people overreact... and I underact.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445595.post-38861258707034378262013-09-18T03:10:00.000-07:002013-09-18T03:10:08.896-07:00So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's. -- Nietzsche<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445595.post-33029951063702368342013-09-05T08:45:00.002-07:002013-09-05T08:45:21.697-07:00Free Range Kids MovementInteresting...<div>
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http://www.freerangekids.com/</div>
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good thing I don't obsess over parenting blogs anymore.<br /><br /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445595.post-62916727141244735572013-09-05T08:32:00.000-07:002013-09-05T08:32:01.288-07:00For to Seei wove you a garland of poems before we met<br />
which you cobwebbed like yesterday's mothballs<br />
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as if cotton had crawled inside the mouth of god<br />
and died there<br />
and its name was me<br />
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of course, your petty sidesteps only served to invoke<br />
in me a greater fervor<br />
a fever matched only by our very memes<br />
and fleeting memories of a night and a day<br />
shared in ecstasy<br />
and spared the longevity of heartache.<br />
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i think…<br />
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I pour a drink despite<br />
a shaking hand<br />
and head full of brass tacks<br />
and bliss<br />
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i kiss my future and she tastes of you<br />
and a mourning of spent cigarettes<br />
and second-hand emotions<br />
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I ocean over your body<br />
the sea I see<br />
eyes closed<br />
against this torrent<br />
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my head bent in prayer and retrospection<br />
ever since you deigned<br />
to darken my door<br />
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lady, shade, scant dream<br />
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this seam I preen and prod<br />
a road trod in reverse<br />
like a novel lived back words<br />
plots spiraling inward<br />
to knots and scars and stories<br />
we need bear witness<br />
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flit feathers like the birdsong in my mouth<br />
when I touched you in my mind a year<br />
before our fear<br />
came realized<br />
out a gate of our own making<br />
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a lust must longing for release<br />
when no port is home<br />
and our stars are the only map to heaven<br />
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9.5.13Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445595.post-67893236654567867002013-07-23T05:10:00.000-07:002013-07-23T05:09:53.177-07:00 “Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.” ― Robert Frost<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Cobain, Journals<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/33041.Kurt_Cobain" class="leftAlignedImage" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; float: left; margin-right: 10px; "><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Kurt Cobain" src="http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1292575376p2/33041.jpg" style="border: 0px; "></span></font></a><div class="quoteText" style="padding: 0px 5px 10px 0px; text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><br></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445595.post-30640473663257116932013-07-15T03:55:00.001-07:002013-07-15T03:55:21.776-07:00Apps for Yer Children Part One<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://teacherswithapps.com/">http://teacherswithapps.com/</a></span><br />
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Your Diet Affects Your Grandchildren's DNA, Scientists Say</div>
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Published: 07/27/2012 10:00 AM EDT on LiveScience</div>
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You are what you eat, the saying goes. And, according to two new genetic studies, you are what your mother, father, grandparents and great-grandparents ate, too.</div>
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Diet, be it poor or healthy, can so alter the nature of one's DNA that those changes can be passed on to the progeny. While this much has been speculated for years, researchers in two independent studies have found ways in which this likely is happening.</div>
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The findings, which involve epigenetics, may help explain the increased genetic risk that children face compared to their parents for diseases such as <a href="http://www.livescience.com/20167-american-obesity-rates-rise.html" style="border: 0px; color: #024382; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">obesity</a> and diabetes.</div>
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The punch line is that your <a href="http://www.livescience.com/15362-live-100-longevity-good-genes.html" style="border: 0px; color: #024382; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">poor dietary habits</a> may be dooming your progeny, despite how healthy they will try to eat. [<a href="http://www.livescience.com/11355-top-10-worst-hereditary-conditions.html" style="border: 0px; color: #024382; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10 Worst Hereditary Conditions</a>]</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Epigenetics</strong></div>
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<a href="http://www.livescience.com/7736-epigenetics-revolutionary-humans-work.html" style="border: 0px; color: #024382; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Epigenetics</a> refers to changes in gene expression from outside forces. Different from a mutation, epigenetic changes lie not in the DNA itself but rather in its surroundings -- the enzymes and other chemicals that orchestrate how a DNA molecule unwinds its various sections to make proteins or even new cells.</div>
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Recent studies have shown how nutrition dramatically alters the health and appearance of otherwise identical mice. A group led by Randy Jirtle of Duke University demonstrated how mouse clones implanted as embryos in separate mothers will have radical differences in fur color, weight, and <a href="http://www.livescience.com/18244-sugar-toxic-regulations.html" style="border: 0px; color: #024382; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">risk for chronic diseases</a> depending on what that mother was fed during pregnancy.</div>
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That is, the nutrients or lack of thereof changed the DNA environment in such a way that the identical DNA in these mouse clones expressed itself in very different ways.</div>
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Building upon this Duke University work, a new study led by Torsten Plosch of University of Groningen, The Netherlands, delineated the numerous ways in which nutrition alters the epigenome of many animals, including adult humans. The paper has been submitted to the journal Biochimie with lead author Josep C. Jimenez-Chillarón of the Paediatric Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, in Spain.</div>
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The researchers said that the diet of human adults induces changes in all cells -- even sperm and egg cells -- and that these <a href="http://www.livescience.com/6370-eat-affects-kids-grandkids.html" style="border: 0px; color: #024382; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">changes can be passed on to offspring</a>.</div>
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Such effects on a single generation have been known: Children born to mothers during the Dutch famine at the end of WWII had susceptibilities to various diseases later in life, such as glucose intolerance and <a href="http://www.livescience.com/19293-carb-diets-heart-attack-risk.html" style="border: 0px; color: #024382; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">cardiovascular disease</a>, depending on the timing and extent of the food shortage during pregnancy.</div>
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In 2010, Jimenez-Chillaron and his colleagues took this a step further and found that overfed male mouse pups developed the telltale signs of metabolic syndrome -- insulin resistance, obesity and glucose intolerance -- and passed some of these traits to their offspring, which then developed elements of metabolic syndrome <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">without</em> overeating.</div>
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But what still is missing, Jimenez-Chillaron told LiveScience, is an understanding of how such information is remembered from generation to generation. Unlike a gene mutation, all of the epigenetic inputs to the DNA environment should be forgotten when a newly formed embryo begins to divide.</div>
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"The dogma is that during the process of meiosis [cell division], all epigenetic marks are erased," said Jimenez-Chillaron. "But our work, as well as [the work] from many others, suggests that this is not completely true. Although the majority of epigenetic marks is erased, some marks are spared for unknown reasons."</div>
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A second study, led in part by Ram B. Singh of the TsimTsoum Institute in Krakow, Poland, published this month in the Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, examined nutrients that affect the chromatin. The chromatin is like the chemical soup in which DNA operates.</div>
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Aside from creating epigenetic marks, Singh's group speculates that these nutrients also can cause mutations, both good and bad. But the evidence is still inconclusive.</div>
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Hints of this were reported in a 2011 paper in Nature by Stanford University scientists who found lingering, <a href="http://www.livescience.com/16618-inherited-genome-longevity.html" style="border: 0px; color: #024382; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">positive effects on longevity from nutrition</a> on three generations of the <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">C. elegans</em> worm.</div>
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"It is possible that eating more omega-3 fatty acids, choline, betaine, folic acid and vitamin B12, by mothers and fathers, possibly can alter chromatin state and mutations, as well as have beneficial effects...leading to birth of a 'super baby' with long life and [lower risk] of diabetes and metabolic syndrome," Singh told LiveScience. "This is just a possibility, to be proven by more experiments." [<a href="http://www.myhealthnewsdaily.com/1970-ten-tips-eat-healthy.html" style="border: 0px; color: #024382; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10 New Ways to Eat Well</a>]</div>
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Both teams of scientists said that cells in an early state of development are more prone to epigenetic changes from nutrition than adult cells, hence the most notable changes are seen fetuses and infants.</div>
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Yet it may be only a matter of time, they added, until there is evidence of how we pass along to subsequent generations the consequences of our own nutritional habits.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Christopher Wanjek is the author of a new novel, "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hey-Einstein-novel-nature-nurture/dp/0615650503" style="border: 0px; color: #024382; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hey, Einstein!</a>", a comical nature-versus-nurture tale about raising clones of Albert Einstein in less-than-ideal settings. His column, <a href="http://www.livescience.com/topics/bad-medicine" style="border: 0px; color: #024382; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bad Medicine</a>, appears regularly on LiveScience.</em></div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445595.post-38244324464943575332012-07-12T17:59:00.001-07:002012-07-12T17:59:02.156-07:00Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David ThoreauUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445595.post-37389285324543502742012-06-13T18:41:00.003-07:002012-06-13T18:41:49.618-07:00Scarecrow by Fady Joudah<br />
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When it happens, there will be no time to look for anyone.</div>
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You will drop your sugarcane-stick-beating of plastic bucket,</div>
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They will load you in trucks and herd you for a hundred miles.</div>
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They’ll let you keep your life. And if you jump off the truck,</div>
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The army jeep trailing it will run you over.</div>
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Later, you will stand in distribution lines and won’t receive enough to eat.</div>
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Standing with eyes shut tight like you’ve got soap in them.</div>
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_________________________________________________Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445595.post-56011703056410237312012-02-18T12:58:00.000-08:002012-02-18T12:58:54.574-08:00"My imagination counts with horses and flags and ships." - Scarleht Marcos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">And a drawing she did this morning:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyNwWFzesqeDNHMG1pEcHNrJWq3mkRd49BBZGAVrJE5Lc-yE6Uja3WrklapJ9KL0LLXGQ-PgZpfBBS50tbPZU1wWXwz6gXLBx7ITbwAwMS9EfpjW-cnccL_W1ca4mZY8Uu_4PNwQ/s1600/change.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyNwWFzesqeDNHMG1pEcHNrJWq3mkRd49BBZGAVrJE5Lc-yE6Uja3WrklapJ9KL0LLXGQ-PgZpfBBS50tbPZU1wWXwz6gXLBx7ITbwAwMS9EfpjW-cnccL_W1ca4mZY8Uu_4PNwQ/s320/change.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445595.post-40174135192660538942012-01-04T15:14:00.001-08:002012-01-04T15:14:44.365-08:00Elementary School Budget for the 21st CenturyBudget at my daughters' elementary school in Olympia, Washington<br /><br /><br /><a href='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/show_photo.php?p=12/01/04/2427.jpg'><img src='http://photo.blogpressapp.com/photos/12/01/04/s_2427.jpg' border='0' width='450' height='450' align='right' style='margin:5px'></a><br />- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445595.post-90803047916525209632011-12-23T15:33:00.000-08:002011-12-23T15:34:10.136-08:00A Thesis Thing: Free Play and Democratic Education for A Better World<i>I won't hassle them too much for misspelling Democratic in their thesis title (I fixed it here)... since the rest of it is pretty good. I'm lucky my kids are enrolled in an alternative public elementary school that has a lot of free-play factors built into their curriculum and really strives to put a child's perspective first in most matters.</i><br />
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<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://preschoolpunks.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/4981573140_8b9611ffb9.jpg" style="color: #20a3ca; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-258" height="189" src="http://preschoolpunks.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/4981573140_8b9611ffb9.jpg?w=300&h=189" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(231, 232, 230); border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(231, 232, 230); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(231, 232, 230); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(231, 232, 230); border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 3px;" title="4981573140_8b9611ffb9" width="300" /></a>Schools today don’t play fair. We’re on a crooked path educationally because of an addictive dependency on academics. Unmistakably our reliance on experts, instruction, and anything curricula related has caused a destructive path to our society and the way in which we relate to each other and the natural world. We’re an “uptight” and “rigid” society that has almost forgotten how to play.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Our traditional school system in archaic, unsustainable, and fails at preparing students as citizens to take utmost responsibility with their education and in facing the critical </span><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://http//www.villagefreeschool.org/" style="color: #20a3ca; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></a></em><span style="font-size: x-small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">issues and concerns of our times. Play barely makes the class schedule or curriculum agenda. Little time in schools is devoted towards providing non-structured and uninterrupted activities for kids to freely choose. Conventional schools have the home field advantage on academics and play is usually the first to be ejected, suspended, cut from the budget or other wise broken up into chunks of time on the school bell schedule, we call recess. Recess, a time when youth common freely play, has culturally become marginalized by the high demand of standardized testing, prescribed curricula, methodologies, and surveillance measures sprung forward from bureaucratic policies and demands. In school the pupil is “schooled” to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is “schooled” to accept service in place of value (Illich, 1972).” In a world of academics there is no balance, imagination, creativity, and our natural pull in childhood to freely play receives a crushing blow. The purpose of these pages is reexamine the value of free play as a trusting way for youth to follow their interests and guide themselves towards taking on more responsibilities.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://preschoolpunks.wordpress.com/2010/11/20/a-thesis-thing-introducing-free-play/">Read more...</a></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445595.post-85214473737266516342011-12-14T23:30:00.000-08:002011-12-14T23:32:02.389-08:00What is Radical Parenting?<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jR9d0NRexI4/TMVaciv5J1I/AAAAAAAAB_s/eMPEIa-LrYA/TOOLS%20AND%20HARDWARE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jR9d0NRexI4/TMVaciv5J1I/AAAAAAAAB_s/eMPEIa-LrYA/TOOLS%20AND%20HARDWARE.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
Came across this article: <a href="http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/extreme-parenting-what-radical-parents-do-better-than-you-1013755.html">Extreme Parenting: What Radical Parents Do Better Than You</a>... and it got me to thinking about how I define myself as a radical father, and what's so radical about the way that I parent? So here are some thoughts, enjoy them:<br />
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I thought it was a little dumbed down... but I guess that's the point. At least its giving gender-neutral parenting a bit of limelight, even if its getting boxed as 'radical' when its more widespread than most folks would imagine.<br />
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To me, radical parenting means parenting for your child with their perspective in mind, with the knowledge and toolbox of an adult at hand to draw lessons from in a shared experiential mutually educational relationship. It means humbling and educating oneself in order to educate and raise a creature capable of changing our world for the better. In order to do this one must invariably challenge the given norms of our day and age, from rampant capitalist consumerism, to coercive schooling, cultural imperialism, and general apathy and ignorance.<br />
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Developing the ability to teach yourself these lessons in order to impart them to your child while juggling work and responsibilities and family and life and flying by the seat of your pants is the hard part.<br />
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</tbody></table>I attempt to hold these intentions in my heart and mind while juxtaposing them with the hurdles of generational poverty, corruption, crime, gender bias, domestic violence, and an increasingly authoritarian, militarized society and government in bed with huge corporate conglomerates waging wars on drugs and terror and effectively wiping out the bio-diveristy and general well-being of our planet at a rapid pace. Then I try not to scream, or you primal-screamers can scream at this part, and swallow my pride and fear and forge and forage ahead, into this future, hand in hand with our children.<br />
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And here I still have the pipe-dream of raising non-violent, anti-authoritarian little tree-hugging people without an evil bone in their bodies... when the sad truth of the matter is that I should probably ramp up their radical sustainable eco-activist herbal Ewok monkeywrenching training camp time so that they're ready to go out and kick the shit out of capitalism with a smartphone and a laser rifle by age twelve... (you got that <a href="http://www.technoccult.net/">Technoccult</a>?)<br />
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I better get a move on.<br />
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Here's the <a href="http://wiki.infoshop.org/Radical_Parenting_Reading_List">Radical Parenting Reading List from wiki's infoshop.</a> Check with the folks at Last Word Books, <a href="http://www.lastwordbooks.org/">Olympia's awesome radical independent bookstore</a>, they've probably got some of 'em in stock.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445595.post-80998575802356390912011-11-30T18:23:00.000-08:002011-11-30T18:28:16.399-08:00Teaching Good Sex<div class="articleSpanImage" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: left; width: 600px;"><img alt="" border="0" height="205" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/11/20/magazine/20sexed1_span/20sexed1_span-articleLarge.jpg" width="320" /></div><nyt_byline style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;"></nyt_byline><br />
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I am amazed and entertained by how divided people are on the issue of protests and children... and how quick to judge folks can be. It's either scabies, child-porn pushing police, random jack-offs and I-Can't-Believe-You'd-Put-Your-Child-In-That-Sort-Of-Situation mentalities, or it's the dawn of a new age, with ten year old labor organizers and soapbox speakers spouting anti-capitalist rhetoric with the best of 'em before joining in the drum circle. I have one thing to say to you people: the world is not this black and white. Go down to the nearest Occupy Protest, take some food and a blanket and a good book and have a few conversations. That's how minds are changed.<br />
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In the meantime, here's some interesting links regarding parenting and the Occupy Movement:<br />
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<h1 style="background-color: white; color: #002e53; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="http://www.newyorkfamily.com/newyork/blog-2478-toccupyt-parenting.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"OCCUPY" PARENTING: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: small; text-transform: none;">How Parents Have Been Sharing Occupy Wall Street With Their Children</span></a></h1><h1 style="background-color: white; color: #002e53; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-transform: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.cafemom.com/group/106206/forums/read/15460976/_Occupy_Movement_Parents">"Occupy" Movement Parents Forum Post (Anyone can change their mind)</a></span></span></h1><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-transform: none;"><a href="http://blogs.babble.com/babble-voices/home-work/2011/11/15/what-the-occupy-movement-could-learn-from-us-parents/">What the Occupy Movement Could Learn From Us Parents</a></span></div><div><a href="http://www.outinleftfield.com/2011/10/25/preview-class-warfare-not-all-movements-are-created-equal/">Not All Movements Are Created Equal</a></div><div><a href="http://kezi.com/page/231089">Occupy Eugene Extends Reach to Children</a></div><div><h1 class="title-news" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font: normal normal bold 32px/36px Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/17/children-occupy-wall-street-education_n_1100408.html">'Children's Brigade' Joins Occupy Wall Street On Two-Month Anniversary</a></span></h1></div><div><a href="http://photos.denverpost.com/mediacenter/2011/11/photos-occupy-denver-adds-a-youthful-twist/25089/">Occupy Denver: Protest With Kids</a></div><div><a href="http://www.observer.com/2011/10/occupy-children-kids-night-down-at-zuccotti-park-on-friday-with-occupy-wall-street/">Occupy Children: Kids Night Sleepover at Zuccotti Park in NYC</a></div><div><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445595.post-743583766122596512011-11-24T09:58:00.000-08:002011-11-24T09:58:36.855-08:00Memorable Kid Quotes Part Ninety-Seven<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilQHsK6r9ZOO_vDBCK6dJPRy_VEpqbwhkqw9kerS9OocjIJQkCnJzPwZKPL5veddtn22hEVIE4RB1YavdHiN9EHXkXAXlD2flgZ8G673hb3RTnJfJfW7QwMkN8VyubvOpOmu1AkQ/s1600/Lyli+on+beach.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilQHsK6r9ZOO_vDBCK6dJPRy_VEpqbwhkqw9kerS9OocjIJQkCnJzPwZKPL5veddtn22hEVIE4RB1YavdHiN9EHXkXAXlD2flgZ8G673hb3RTnJfJfW7QwMkN8VyubvOpOmu1AkQ/s200/Lyli+on+beach.jpg" width="112" /></a>(Happy International Protest Against War Toys Day!)<br />
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"I wish we had never invented guns. Why can't people just die on their own?" - Lyli Dei Marcos, on the assassination of J.F.K.<br />
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"The world would be a much better place, and people would die a lot less, if there were no cars and no war." - Lyli Dei<br />
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"When I want to go to sleep I just think of blank paper... or a dolphin jumping." - Scarleht Eyve MarcosUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445595.post-62638467622533831512011-11-22T19:26:00.000-08:002011-11-22T19:37:57.902-08:00Radical Fatherhood in the 21st Century<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCY0CbTRiI1gSEL5bnEw8Sxoe3NH4Qdk75oV66HayLyQs7uuqqVrt7G7b74bOnMrZgCxjIHcOrpgbMzOMSvQnEHaFll5iVhHN4Zh_5aDYKQej9hHbB6sg2KBnW-zmRHEyMm6KPzg/s320/raddadfinal300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCY0CbTRiI1gSEL5bnEw8Sxoe3NH4Qdk75oV66HayLyQs7uuqqVrt7G7b74bOnMrZgCxjIHcOrpgbMzOMSvQnEHaFll5iVhHN4Zh_5aDYKQej9hHbB6sg2KBnW-zmRHEyMm6KPzg/s320/raddadfinal300.jpg" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"> I wanted to take a moment to congratulate my friend, editor, and fellow Rad Dad Tomas for all his hard work over the past several years on <a href="http://raddadzine.blogspot.com/">Rad Dad</a> out of Berkeley. <a href="http://raddadzine.blogspot.com/">Rad Dad</a> won Utne's 'Zine of the Year in 2010, Best of the Bay in 2011, and came to print as a book this year as well.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"> I'm proud to have written for half a dozen issues of the 'zine. Keep up the good work Tomas! </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">And this is a nice little project I just found recently:</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Re-post from From the blog <a href="http://cuntastic.org/">Cuntastic.org</a>:</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://raisingrebellion.wordpress.com/zine-distro/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #df0000; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1047" height="258" src="http://cuntasticblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/tricycle.jpg?w=300&h=258" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 2px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-right: 11px; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" title="tricycle zine distro" width="300" /></a>Just wanted to give a shout out to a fabulous rad-parent-zinester across the oceans over in Fiji, Lara at Tricycle Zine Distro! We’re thrilled that CUNTastic is now being distro’d by Tricycle, along with other titles that are the backbone of any radical parenting library.</div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here’s some info about her 3 new exciting projects:</div><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 30px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; quotes: ''; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.7em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://raisingrebellion.wordpress.com/zine-distro/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0060ff; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Tricycle Zine Distro">Tricycle Zine Distro</a> </strong>was created to distribute and inspire the writing of radical parent/ing* zines and other zines/resources useful to parents, caregivers and allies. </div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.7em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://raisingrebellion.wordpress.com/building-blocs-zine/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0060ff; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Building Blocs Zine"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Building Blocs Zine</strong><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">: parenting, movement and little folk</strong></a> is a compilation zine of radical parenting* challenges, experiences and reflections. The zine is open to contributions from parents, caregivers, children and allies .The theme for the inaugural issue is “Firsts.”</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.7em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://raisingrebellion.wordpress.com/zine-distro/zine/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0060ff; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Raising Rebellion Zine">Raising Rebellion</a> </strong>is a zine I started writing when I was pregnant. I wrote the first issue to share with my unborn fetus, family, friends and friendly folk. My plan is to keep writing as life with Ruby unfolds.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.7em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://raisingrebellion.wordpress.com/zine-distro/zine/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0060ff; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-1049 alignnone" height="148" src="http://cuntasticblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/rr2cover-e1294567129706.jpg?w=112&h=148" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" title="rr2cover-e1294567129706" width="112" /></a><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-1048 alignnone" height="148" src="http://cuntasticblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/rr1cover-e1294567188508.jpg?w=112&h=148" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" title="rr1cover-e1294567188508" width="112" /></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.7em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">*Radical Parenting is an imperfect term and is meant here as inclusive and diverse – an exploration of parenting styles that value respect, trust, autonomy, diversity, non-oppression, learning, love and revolution.</div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For more info, or to submit a piece for the upcoming issue of Building Blocs, or if you have a zine or resource you’d like to distro through Tricycle, email Lara at<a href="mailto:utopia@riseup.net" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0060ff; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">utopia@riseup.net</a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445595.post-90160974436684340762011-11-21T11:17:00.001-08:002011-11-21T11:17:53.797-08:00Testing PP's TwitterfeedUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0