Sometimes

means so much to so many. Sometimes has lead someone down some road. Sometimes goes either way, yet some times it goes neither. Sometimes someone else's words said it first. Sometimes its cuz they underlined that word that grips your mind. Sometimes...

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Don't we all feel like just part of a whole person at times? Half slanted, half beautiful, relaxed and waiting to see if this is all or if there is more.

You can't keep letting it get you down

Struggles

Life has been weighing heavy on these shoulders as of late.  While physically I feel great, and spiritual I understand nothing is wrong with me emotional, and mental existence has beat me up.  Strangely doors have been opening to help me through this.  Thank you

"In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence--as not-bound to life" Sarte

The Importance of Taxa Diversity in an Ecosystem Includes Top Predators such as WOLVES

The Introduction of large human populations have been sculpting this planet for at least 10,000 years as we swept across continents applying our will on the environment often at the cost of other organisms' lives.  In the recent past we removed wolves from Yellowstone Park for our benefit.  It has taken the minds and will of those who love this plant to understand the Wolf's importance, and they have brought wolves in 1995.  How has this changed our National treasure?  Read the following article, but I'll give you a hint to who is enjoy the reprieve.  Birds!  Yes, birds are enjoying the wolf for many reasons.

http://www.wolf.org/wolves/learn/intermed/inter_mgmt/yellowstone.pdf

While this introduction is vigilantly being studied due to all of its implications, to me it begs the question of how non-wild should we make the wild, and if we allow it to be wild, as it should be, how removed should we be forced to be for our own protection?

Insomnia is the best!!

There's nothing like having a grip of energy right before bedtime!!!  It leads to hours of endless fun doing nothing!!!  I mean everybody is asleep, and anything productive gets thrown out the window in order to find useless ways to absorb time until either the sun rises or sleep comes!!  To make matters worse I think Milo can tell I can't sleep as sprinting in and out of the room diving up and off the bed is his attempt at making me count sheep!  freaking BIRDBRAIN, lol.  btw, do not try an amuse yourself finding funny things about insomnia.  Apparently its not funny, nor are the people who have it  ~@~

Okkervil River

Oh will they ever come to town?  Rushing in with their Stage Names, and Golden Dreams;  how I wish I could be a Stand In amongst the crowd.  Swaying back and forth to the jubilee of melodies, and disasters of memories that make up songs worth singing, or even remembering as they cast away any stone of doubt that we are alone.  For in our heart breaks none of us are so alone; we all feel the pain of being alive, of failure, of love lost only to be reborn through the ash once again!

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Winter may have been good, but not this good Bon Iver!

Check it out!  The track number keeps changing so just scroll down to Bon Iver!  Great cover by Outfield too!! Song is known as Your Love, but you probably will recognize it once the chorus kicks in.... "Cuz I don't want to lose your LOVE toNight!!!"

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B.R.M.C. Last Night

Hopefully it wont be three years before they come back though.  Last night they Rocked & Romanced.  Such a great mix of the sweet salty taste of life.

Have you used you're voice?

While, I have received a handful of these, and I understand the electronic copy is much more environmentally friendly there is some guilty pleasure when I do receive one of these letters by mail.  Something about mail feels more authentic.  Curiosity leads me to wonder if it means more to them when I send my 2 cents with a 44 cent stamp...

February 25, 2010

Dear Eckhard,

Thank you for contacting me about important debates in Congress on energy reform and legislation to reduce carbon pollution.  I appreciate that you took the time to share your specific concerns with me about these critical issues.

As a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and, more importantly, as a Westerner, I am very concerned about our energy future.  Our dependence on foreign sources of energy jeopardizes national security and limits economic development at home.  A smart, ambitious energy plan that takes advantage of all of our domestic energy options will create jobs for Americans, improve security, help the environment, and place America at the forefront of the next great, global revolution - the clean energy revolution.

That is why I support a comprehensive energy plan, including responsible onshore and offshore drilling for oil and natural gas, fast-tracking renewable energy sources and energy efficiency technology, and safely expanding nuclear power.  Natural gas, in particular, will be an important bridge fuel between the carbon intensive fuel sources of the last century and the clean energy economy of the 21st century.  We should also continue oil shale and clean coal research, although most experts agree these technologies are still far from being commercially viable.  I also strongly believe that comprehensive energy legislation should include a federal renewable electricity standard (RES).  Colorado is a leader in clean energy, thanks in part to our state RES that requires 20 percent of the state's electricity to be produced by renewable energy resources by 2020.

In addition, we must act to address the threats posed by the emission of greenhouse gases from combustion of fossil fuels, including finding ways to reduce pollution and adapt to our changing climate.  There are numerous proposals in the Senate to combat these problems, including a bill authored by Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer to limit greenhouse gas emissions and a comprehensive, bipartisan energy reform package approved by the Energy and Natural Resources Committee in June 2009.  The United States also continues to participate in international negotiations to coordinate a global response to what is a global problem.  Putting an effective domestic plan in place first will improve our chances of securing a beneficial international agreement.  In this debate, my overriding goal is to strengthen our economy and reduce carbon pollution to benefit Coloradans and future generations.  Please know that as this process unfolds in the coming weeks and months that your concerns will help inform the decisions I make, and I will always keep the best interest of Coloradans as my highest priority.

I will continue to listen closely to what you and other Coloradans have to say about matters before Congress, the concerns of our communities, and the issues facing Colorado and the nation.  My job is not about merely supporting or opposing legislation; it is also about bridging the divide that has paralyzed our nation's politics.  For more information about my positions and to learn how my office can assist you, please visit my website at www.markudall.senate.gov. 

Warm regards,
 

Mark Udall
U.S. Senator, Colorado

MEU/mfl

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SCAMS: I'm a Winner!! or Do the really just want to Rip me off?

 

China Merchants Bank (CMB)

Building 34, Faozhong Damalu,

Baiyun District, Guangzhou,

Guangdong, China.

International Transfer Section.

Attention: ECKHARD GUSTAV KOEHLER,

This is to inform you that we have been instructed to transfer to your account the sum of $1,000,000.00USD (one million United States dollars only) by Transglobe Finance And Security Company, on behalf of the Toyota Company.

The sum of $1,000,000.00USD was deposited in our bank on 18^th Feb. 2010 in your name, attached to this email is a copy of the deposit certificate.

Please note that your fund is being insured with hard insurance policy against any form of withdrawal or deduction for safety of your fund by the Toyota Lottery Organization, so no one has the right to withdraw or deduct even a cent from your fund for any reason.

You are advised to send us the following information for immediate transfer of your fund:

Full Name:

Address:

Telephone:

Bank Name:

Bank Address:

Account Holder's Name:

Account Number:

Bank's Swift Code:

Scanned Copy Of International Passport Or Valid Identity Card:

This is for verification and onward transfer of the fund to your account; via telegraphic transfer for faster safety purpose in your name would make your payment.

In accordance, you must have to make sure these reconfirmations is made immediately, and the requested information should be submitted on or before 48 working hours as we have only 8 working days to finalize with the transfer of your fund as mandated by the lottery organization.

Your urgent reply will be appreciated.

Regards,

Mr. Hong Tao,

Tel: +86- 159-1746-1750

Food, one of our binding aspects is being ruined, and here's the effects

King Corn W/ Metro State Chemistry Club

I love this man!! right mindset!! right Life!! FRED NICOLE, "I am Climber."

Happy Birthday Sir Issac Newton 4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727

Sir Issac Newton has always had my favorite quote as he shows how firmly his feet are planted in reality.  A lesson we all could take.  it reads,

"If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants."
— Isaac Newton (Principia : Vol. 1 The Motion of Bodies)

Winter solstice 2009

This was a essay/letter I received that I felt was worth sharing.  Hope y'all enjoy!


Dear ones:       
Winter solstice: a time of turning, from the cold of winter’s long nights toward the light and warmth of spring’s renewal. 

Solstice as metaphor: Thomas Berry, the visionary Catholic monk who died earlier this year, recognized that we humans are now engaged in a “great turning” from a violating, industrial, egocentric, consumer culture to one of ecological attentiveness. Having treated Earth as a resource for plunder and a garbage dump, we can now see that, in Berry’s words, “our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world about us.” We were too remote from Earth’s various creatures to hear their stories. “The time has come, however, when we will listen, or we will die.” Ecological responsibility is not an option; it’s a necessity. 

I’ve been working throughout the year with Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center colleagues to gather artists and technical specialists for “Rocky Flats: A Call to Guardianship.” The purpose of this “great turning” project is to make the contaminated site of the defunct Rocky Flats nuclear bomb factory a case study in shifting from the polluting risk-based culture we have inherited to a culture of earth democracy in which we humans act on behalf of other beings affected by human activities. We seek to provide a concrete example of ecological caretaking for radioactively contaminated sites elsewhere. We counter government plans to turn much of the Rocky Flats site into a wildlife refuge open for public recreation. If you’d like to support or to participate in this unprecedented work, let me know. We expect to hold major public events in 2010 and 2011. 

Politics is always about relations of power. The great turning involves a shift of power away from hierarchies and pyramids to a sharing that is rooted deep in the veins and vessels of all earth’s creatures. But let me jump to politics as conventionally conceived. At lunch recently with Nick Helburn, a WW II conscientious objector, I asked for his take on President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech. He said it was a good speech but he didn’t agree with Obama’s justification for the war in Afghanistan. I recalled that about a century after Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity and made it the religion of the Roman Empire  turning the pacifist religion of Jesus into a religion of coercion – the theologian Augustine of Hippo came to the aid of the empire with the doctrine of just war. He laid down certain principles that must be followed for a war to qualify as just. What the US is doing in Afghanistan and next door in Pakistan (think drones and Blackwater) patently fails to meet Augustine’s conditions of proportionality, probability of success, attacking only combatants, and so on. If Obama can justify using armed force to achieve his ends, any other party, including Osama bin Laden can do the same, and does. 

In embracing the outmoded concept of just war, Obama denigrated two of the prophetic figures of the 20th century, Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. In the night of violence these two practiced the non-violating politics of the future. Both showed a profound understanding of power when they enabled the disadvantaged to realize that they could put into practice the power they already possess. Their methods spread quickly to every continent in the 20th century. The record of perfecting the technology of violence in this most violent of all human centuries ever is matched by global experiments in nonviolent action.

In Oslo as earlier in Prague Obama raised the hope of finally ridding theplanet of nuclear weapons, the deadliest of human inventions. But it’s not possible to get rid of nuclear weapons while adhering to just war theory. If I or you or any group or any country can justify war on others – can kill with a good conscience – then it stands to reason that some who fight will want the biggest stick available. And since the 1940s this has been nuclear weapons, the only real weapons of mass destruction. So if the US is justified in waging war in Afghanistan or Pakistan or perhaps against Iran or North Korea, why shouldn’t leaders of those countries want their own big stick, their own nuclear bombs? If we continue to rely on weapons, others will do the same, and some likely will want the big one. 

It’s clear on many fronts that we’re now dealing with the fate of the earth and the destiny of our species. We thus need to realize that conflict along the way is a revelatory moment that shows what needs attention. We must pay attention, especially to our adversary. We need to learn what moves him or her or them, and we need to let them know what moves us. This can only happen in an atmosphere free of threat and harm. Now we’re back to Gandhi and King and others past and present who practice the discipline of non-violating action. In the depths of the wintering of our souls reside the seeds of renewal. The turning cannot happen without us. 

Love, joy, peace, 

LeRoy Moore