December 2009
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have you ever been in love? if so how did you know? what was it like?
oh. see, i fall in love all the time. i know that folks say, well, that cant really be ‘falling in love’ because falling in love only happens once or twice in a life time. but romantic comedies aside. my experience is that falling in and out of love is a daily occurence. just most of the time i...
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Write to Done - Part 2 →
Have you ever felt like your writing was in a rut? I’m not talking about writer’s block. I’m talking about the feeling that everything you produce is the same, that your writing just doesn’t spark like it used to. It’s a frustrating feeling. Oh sure, you try to create something new, something interesting. You try to challenge yourself and push your boundaries, but nothing seems to work. You might...
new years resolution: cultivate mindfulness →
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what rites of passage(s) are you creating for your child(ren)? what do you hope they gain/learn/take from it?
honestly this was a hard and good question.
one, i want to teach her to take her menses blood and give it to the plants. to see that her blood is powerful. and not powerful in the: now, you can have babies kind of way (although that is an awesome power) but also in...
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what is the song you hear in the middle of the night? do you see a music video to go with it?
lately its been envogue’s dont let go. do you remember that song? with mekhi phifer in the video? and all the envogue ladies in black lipstick and black eyeliner? good dreams.
the longstanding song is: mary j blige’s im going down. sleep dont come easy/please believe...
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Gaza Freedom March Protests Continue in Cairo, Organizers Say Egypt Offer to Allow 100 into Gaza Not Sufficient
Hundreds of activists with the Gaza Freedom March are staging continued demonstrations and sit-ins in Cairo to protest the Egyptian government’s refusal to allow them to cross the border into Gaza. Organizers say an offer by Egyptian authorities this morning to allow just 100...
“or to put it another way: white skinny bodies are allowed to be art. you see...”
– isabelthespy’s response to an LA Times article about Lady Gaga’s “grotesqueness”.
Very, very good read.
(via kittenbear)
There are a bunch of tumblrs that have quirky/pensive/melancholic women in various poses (and sometimes clever/sappy caption) and the vast majority of them are white, thin...
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“Memories are like a garden. Regularly tend the pleasant blossoms and remove the...”
– Linda Fifer Ralphs (via justbesplendid)
“You are what you want to become. Why search anymore? You are a wonderful...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via justbesplendid)
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Okay, then… more importantly, will you take me with you? ;)
yes!!!!!! it is rare in my life that i have gotten to travel with a girl (other than aza) im not sure why… and i have almost never gotten to travel with someone who had good music tastes. and you obviously do.
i knew a couple that lived in a van run on veggie fuel and traveled the middle east, turkey,...
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what place do you most hope to travel to that you haven’t yet been to and what would you like to do there?
okay. i cant keep it to just one.
so in no particular order
—india
—gaza
—antigua or really just the caribbean islands in general
—the atlantic coast with afrolatino populations: venezuela, veracruz, nicaragua etc.
—sudan...
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what songs would be on the soundtrack of your life? what song would relate to specific/impt events?
toni braxton’s unbreak my heart: the first time….
wyclef jean’s the carnival: first year in college…
lauryn hill’s miseducation: late teens. hitchhiking, couch surfing, traveling by any means possible…
christina aguilera’s im a genie in...
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What languages do you speak?
english.
french and spanish—pretty well. a lil rusty now, but i pick it back up after a couple of weeks/months…
arabic—pretty well. ny resolution is to become fluent.
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how did you choose your childs name? (you don’t have to tell me what it is for privacy).
oh! i love this story! when i was a teenager, i met a girl at my aunt’s church whose name was: aza. and she was so so pretty. and i loved her name and decided right then that i was going to name my daughter aza if i ever had one.
ten years later, i had just found out i was...
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what is your fav photograph of you? describe it for us.
oh. there is this pic that el compa took of me in a a midriff and a skirt with a chain around my belly that i love because it is the first pic i liked of myself after aza was born. the stretch marks add a cool texture. most pics i see of women’s bodies after pregnancy have this sad, lost quality. and i wanted to...
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What advice do you have for someone just beginning doula training?
pam england (birthing from within) had this article once about ‘the empty bowl’. she says that you enter into a birth room as if you are holding a bowl. and you are willing for that bowl to be filled with the birth. in otherwords you leave everything else -other than the mother and the birth -outside...
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from your travels & experiences what would you tell at 14 yo, 16 yo, 21 yo you?
god, good question. okay…
14 yo me: girl, you need to get it together. you are gorgeous. the girls dont like you because you are so confident in yourself. the boys dont like you because you wont play their game or stroke their egos. i know its hard and you are lonely. nobody likes to...
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what is your fav childhood memory?
one day in first grade, my friend touched my arm and said that the skin was so soft. i felt like i was made of velvet.
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I used to blog but quit. Now I have the urge again, so I give it another go - or does the world have enough blogs?
the world does not have enough blogs. i think blogging is an incredible platform. that is really flexible and allows us so much creativity. but most of us bloggers barely utilize it. instead we end up posting the same shit over and over again. a herd mentality...
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what was the last book you read?
i just finished the witch of portobello by paulo coelho. great read. not usually into new agey narratives, but i love books about witches and dancing. i was sick and just laid in bed for hours and read. currently reading murakami’s the wind up bird chronicle — really good so far. but murakami writes a lot of his work from the...
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Mr. Winterbottom Alternatives:
youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1znEGyHqI0
myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/mrwinterbottomband
restorm profile: http://mr-winterbottom.restorm.com/
does this help you?
first impressions from one song: varia
its better than i was expecting. the video is annoying and pretentious. i would have answered this sooner but it took...
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How do you like the band “Mr. Winterbottom”? ( www.mr-winterbottom.com )
sorry. i cant answer that question because the site requires that i download the entire album in order to listen to the music. and because of my internet plan i have a limit on the amount of downloads i am allowed per month. if there is a way for me to listen to the music without having to...
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You do not know how refreshing it is to find another feminist, radical and strong minority woman. Do people ever tell you to tone it down? How do you respond to that kind of thing?
wow thanks for the compliment. as you know, strong and radical women rarely receive ego strokes. so they always feel good.
oh yeah. i get told often enough that i am being too extreme or that...
“Another kind of love and compassion is not based on something appearing...”
– Dalai Lama, “The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness” (via justbesplendid) (via mariamjaan) (via ma-salaama)
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does the quran mandate hijab, the covering of the head and body? what are the surah that mandate the covering?
i do not think ‘mandate’ is the best phrase. in islam, there is no compulsion (2:256 “There is no compulsion in religion, for the right way is clearly from the wrong way.”) no one should do things that they do not sincerely believe in. as such, i say women...
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“How many mothers or midwives have ever held a rugby ball? The “rugby...”
– Breastfeeding Nemesis - by Suzanne Colson
“Breastfeeding is a relationship, and as in all relationships, there is no one...”
– Breastfeeding Nemesis - by Suzanne Colson