The very best advice any one ever gave to me came from my friend and neighbor Rich, who says: "You simply can’t go wrong with too much ofeverything!"

Quality and quantity together is his mantra!

The very best advice any one ever gave to me came from my friend and neighbor Rich, who says: "You simply can’t go wrong with too much ofeverything!"

Quality and quantity together is his mantra!

As # 12 0f 14 children of a very Catholic family and an avowed humanist with a brother that is a Jesuit priest all I can say is:

 WHAT DO YOU CALL CIVIC UNREST IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN ?

EVEolution!

get it!  really the first feminist!    

P-shaa!!!!!    You  bit into the media spin that the vietnam experience was JUST!!   Jane was RIGHT!!!

get Right and be HUMANE!!!  That WAR and THIS one are simil;ar and suddenly Jane is FASHIONABLE!  Do you respond to your TRUTH? or  fashion?   

THAQNK YOU!  THANK YOU! THANK YOU! JANE FONDA   ALWAYS AND FOREVER!!!!!!!

Does this mean that Liz Took my suggestion to heart and went to the source to find out what men really want?

Perhaps CHENEY was operating that jumbo jet dressed up to look like AF1

And perhaps BUSH only was able to "keep us safe"  because his handlers declined to pull off another P NAC stunt!   911  gave them enough " capital " to pursue any and all of their nefarious deeds unfettered and unrepentant!    W  arrived in office with surplusses and nothing to attend to but the destruction of an egalitarian society and they had a plan for that!

Obama may have to sway to the entrenched  cabal that actually runs this nation!  Real chances that it’s not the prolitariot!

Read  " the Trance-formation of America"  and " the Gathering Storm"   

Rich gun nuts with meglomaniacal pathologies could actually run more than Fox muse lets on!

I do agree that there should be utter outrage about the air craft buzzing NYC, but like building 7 coming down, I don’t believe you or my own eyes any more!

O K  Here is my dillemma!  

My `17 yo daughter continually cries after soccer.  She is a gifted ball handler, yet work as hard as she does she cannot maintain a level of fitness and stamina that others simply arrive with!   She has (by nature) developed a bit of a trunk below her waste and blames my genetics!   I have enjoyed running as a past time in my youth, but never  really any competative endeavors.  unless you consider math club!

She is so upset and any rationalization about physique and genetics does not asuagige her distemper!

Any suggestions dears!

Susanne,,  I am such a fan of you! 

I thank you for sharing your insights with such depth and references.  this past year  on this sight has been a romp but you have made my time spent here worth every visit ! thank you!!!  in all of your posts in what ever iteration you seem to champion the highest degree of thoughtful and hopeful human interest.  Of course ther are others who I enjoy reading here aswell, and some do not share my hopes as uou seem to but all in all its been a nice place to check in to, and I enjoy your posts  regardless!  merci!

Exactly Susanne!   And if we think that those judges in Baltimore were/are the only ones padding their pockets on the lives of kids these days then we really need to wake up!   Pot laws alone account for an enormous percentage of ‘merican prisoon populations.  Can you say "POLICE STATE?"

tHE LAND OF THE FREE?  What does that mean exactly?  We’re free to make a billion $ as long as that is what our efforts express?

Prison reform begins with head start and other early childhood programs.  Not to mention nurturing and attentive contact early in the lives of children.  

Well,  being marginally literate and less exposed I find it difficult to define which genre of art is more appealing or which has more influence.

I recall the first time I saw Gustav Klimpt’s work. I was so impressed.  And to learn of Picasso’s childhod and what a true talent he became.

But  mostly I am exposed to local potters and painters, woodworkers and metal sculpters, that I am mostly in awe of the youthful vitality that they ehibit.

Additionally I question the premise that only objective artisans quailfy.  Maya Angelou’s poetry evokes a physical response as much as  Van Goh’s "Starry Night"

I Suppose that Dale Chihuly’s expression that he "never saw a color he didn’t like"  makes me think that every artist is worthy of praise for having made the effort!

word smith or doodler, athlete or painter, there is an appreciation of execution that resounds with me.  

See the beauty!   Rejoice in the gift!   and  buy as much local art as you possibly can!

get to know your favorite artist and she / he may surprise you! 

I saw you Ladies  on Charlie Rose and thought WOW  what a great bunch of talent to put together a forum as such.  I must say the past year had plenty to talk about!  You kinda hit the ground running.

FANTASTIC!!!!    CONGRATULATIONS!!!

and   HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!!