Here's Jenny!

These last few weeks have been crazy. Forgive my apparent loss of interest by suddenly falling off my schedule to post regularly. My partner and I have moved into a new house, I landed full time employment (impressive considering I’m 20 weeks pregnant) working with at risk teen boys, our internet is not even connected to the house yet, and we had quite a few financial issues all crowding my mental space. But rest assured, I will not quit this project. Delays should be expected, especially now that I will be working, but if anything my job will give me fuel to write more.

Quick update, baby is healthy. We had an ultrasound today to determine sex, which we are keeping on the DL because we want to avoid gender bias among our family and friends. No barbies or steroid infested GI Joes relatives! Let's not establish an unrealistic body image that quickly. At some point in your lives, I hope you all take the time to watch this video by Jackson Katz called "Tough Guise" about the cultural standard of being male and its connection to domestic violence, and low emotional maturity in men. Watch this video and then you will understand my caution.


In other news, You can now contact me with comments, ideas, etc. via email. Even if you just send a quick greeting, I will be tickled to know I got an email for the site. I need to find the motivation to research ways to increase my readership and make the site findable. So keep reading!

Loves.

Give a Little Bit

(Click to play song). Gotta love cheese.

Local florist Judy's Flowers & Gifts and radio stations are giving away 10,000 roses on Sept. 1st 2010 in spirit of Good Neighbor's Day. The idea is you pick up a bouquet (12 roses), keep one for yourself, and hand out the other eleven to friends, strangers, family, neighbors. Gifting a simple rose to a person might be the only good thing they receive that day.

I know of a few other towns and cities that would greatly benefit from such an event, but of course it happens here in the Rogue Valley where everyone already loves each other. Ew. Just vomited a little.

I plan on participating in this event. It is first come first serve, starting at 8am. I invite my friends to break the routine of that day and join this beautiful event.

The more I talk about this, the more nauseating it sounds. Obviously this is a targeted marketing campaign by the community. But if you're going to advertise, what a great way of going about it.
Just mark your calendar and do it.

This is the perfect scheme to disperse my newly developed neurotoxin. All of the valley will yield to my commands! Muahah!

Absence, An Origin Story (Reference)

I sort of went link crazy today and decided to go ahead and exemplify what cultural references might connect to this project.

Since I can't seem to find a clip of this anywhere... Here is the story Gabrielle, from Xena: The Warrior Princess, tells Iolaus as he lay dying ["Prometheus" Season 1, Episode 8]. Its better when the actress tells it of course, but I always found it a beautiful explanation for why we psychologically and spiritually seek companionship. Another origin story if you will.

• Gabrielle: Once, a long, long time ago, all people had four legs and two heads. And then, the Gods threw down thunderbolts, and split everyone into two. Each half then had two legs, and one head. But the separation left both sides with a desperate yearning to be reunited, because they shared the same soul. And ever since then, all people spend their lives searching for the other half of their soul.

This story is originally from Plato's "Symposium" [ref].