Albuquerque, NM

I heard him take a call and discovered that he is “loaning” the local Obama for America campaign a lot of computers, printers, cables, and basically whatever they need to operate more efficiently. He works with several non-profits as well. I am proud how he and many smaller businesses do their best to really support local projects. When I asked if I could have permission to blog about this he said, “Sure. However I have something else that really important to me. EWASTE.”
What followed was a long story of countries and companies complicit in a nightmarish tale. The drama is enough to make one sick.

I’ll try to keep this short. Awhile back, Steve took a consulting job with the US Post Office. They wanted to recycle their old scanners. As a good detective would do, he researched the normal story about EWASTE. What he learned was rather disappointing. Most of our waste is sold to companies in China. Many companies that claim to be earth friendly make more money and incur less expenses by selling to the Chinese. “Duh”, you may say, “so what else is new Mary? It’s a global economy right?”
When I go to recycle or do good for the earth, I seek a truely earth friendly venue.

Go visit a Chinese processing plant, and according to Steve, you’ll find children smashing monitors with sledge hammers. Children. Inside you monitor is a lead coating to reduce the radiation from the monitior to protect us. When the kids crash that monitor the lead is airborn. These children work long days, everyday, with thousands of monitors. They work in the dust. They breathe the dust. Look up the effects of lead poisioning. This is only one part of the story.

Steve did further research, and discovered that there are a few businesses in the United States that have safer technologies to reclaim the parts that can be recycable without posioning their workers. It costs more. They are monitiored and have earned the highest DOD and EPA clearances and licenses. The US Post Office went for the American companies. Encourage your community to learn about this.

In the meantime, Steve had to consider his own business. He also is concerned about educating others about these issues. First, he has created a local, at his business, recycling project. Remember this costs money. TO recycle a computer is $15, a monitor $6. Please verify the prices to make sure I am accurate. His customers often complain about the prices. I would have at first thought twice about it. However, he said he explained it to one guy this way,” You have your trash picked up, don’t you?” “Yes”, “The city charges you for trash pick-up don’t they?” “Yeah”. “Your electronics are your trash aren’t they?” “Yes.” So-o-o. It is better to become responsible citizens. It is necessary that we support our earth. Don’t forget those children.

Then I asked Steve, “What about the City of Santa Fe, the State of New Mexico?” He told me about research he has done and guess what? Some entities feel that they can pass on their guilt, responsibility, etc. to the next guy, and somehow become innocent. Sounds familiar, give our toxic waste to a management company and don’t pay attention to where they dispose of it. Hmmm, they dump it in landfills,rivers, on the side of the road….ever heard this song before. Guess what most of our EWASTE still goes to China. Picture those children again. They are just like the poor kids in our cities who are exposed to lots of toxic waste daily. They are like the Native Americans exposed to waste from uranium mining.

If anyone has time and energy, and perhaps a little political savvy to take on our local issues, join in. I’ll ask Steve for notes and names and addresses. Please contact me here. Work locally and change the world. These matters are our responsibility. If you are in Santa Fe, bring your stuff to Santa Fe Computer Works. If you have truckloads, bring friends to help sort parts safely. Call first for lots of stuff. You could also create a fund to help pay for workers, or pay fees to those who don’t have much $$$. Tell him I sent you. Reuse when possible. My computers may last me another 2-3 years!

In the meantime: organize.

Blogsville: about-washingtondc.com , 451Press.com

The best way to understand the above introduction is to visit his site: www.orlandoleibovitz.com

You won’t see a lot of words, but do eeeenlarge the painitings, and of course listen to them too.

From his site:

About the Musical Language

The objects in this series are simultaneously paintings and musical manuscripts. The shapes and colors comprise a rudimentary musical language.

There are three different symbols in each painting. Each symbol is a musical note. The shape designates a different volume. The size of the symbol indicates a whole, half, quarter, or eighth note. The color designates pitch. The melody in each painting is composed by chance. A role of the dice or a turn of a card determines the music. Paul William Simons provided additional harmony and performed the work.

All paintings are acrylic on canvas or linen. The sizes range from 40” by 30” to 60” by 96”.

And then there are earlier masterpieces:

About the Accordion Keyboards

These paintings combine color and music, sound, and light. The accordion series includes twelve paintings, each a different color on the color wheel. When displayed together in appropriate sequence, the paintings constitute a color map.

You see, the site has few words. They don’t convey the beauty, inspiration, and creative thinking that dynamically voices the artist’s vision via the image. Please go visit his site.

http://orlandoleibovitz.com

Pleas comment.

“I want to rock, and convey…”listen to the video it is fantastic! Young, intense, genuine, rather good too.

More music on: kathleenedwards.com
kathleenedwards.com/blog

good morning. Another bumpy ride through the night on America’s highways. It’s 8:30am, I’m wide awake, but one step shy of happiness without my morning coffee yet. I woke to find my mind racing about all the things I’ve neglected and the blog seemed like the easiest to attend to, as it involved not moving. The last 6 weeks have been busy and full of wonderful and strange things. The earliest memory I have is at the Black Sheep Inn where it all started. My friends Jeff, Leigh, and Mark bought and run a great spot down the road from the Sheep, and it was there that I realized my Dad and Jim look similar, but more importantly, I finally found the world’s best dill pickle. I’m not joking. Here it is.

I saw a video interviewing the Govenor after the superbowl. He met up with Bill Clinton there. Govenor Richardson isn’t about to endorse anyone yet. However he has grown a beard. Looks a bit like a bandito, perhaps he just needs to catch himself for awhile after all the hard fast paced work he’s been up to. The interview is not easily found on You Tube yet.

This is what is called a slow news day. A co-worker came to me at work tonight to point out that I had been quote in The New Mexican with my exit polls comments. AH only if he had asked me for my url…hmmmm….

“Because she’s the most experienced and the most intelligent.” ~Clinton voter Louis R. Garcia, 72

“He’s the leader we need right now, with a new vision.” ~Obama voter Linda Tausan, 64

“Because she’s a woman. She’s more forthright than Obama. He’s not talking about his voting record. He went to the Senate to do certain things, but he started being just another politician. People are bashing Hillary because of Bill Clinton, but she’s not Bill Clinton.” ~Clinton voter Mary MacIntyre, 55

“I was on the fence, but I heard him speak (at Santa Fe Community College) and was totally inspired. He gives us hope and meaning.” ~Obama voter Eleanor Leighton, retired

“I feel she has the most experience and knowledge. And having Bill as a husband has a lot to do with it. I loved it when he was president.” ~Clinton voter John Lujan, 36, state employee

“He represents the future. (Clinton) represents the past. If Hillary wins, I’d vote for John McCain instead of her.” ~Obama voter Rosemary Thompson, 54, real estate sales

“She has a better grasp on the economy. To me that’s the most important.” ~Clinton voter Leo Hunt, 60, state employee

“I like everything he says. I didn’t like the things Bill Clinton has been saying. But if Hillary wins, I’ll work for any Democrat.” ~Obama voter Nancy Malmouth, 69, retired

“It’s about time we get a woman in there.” ~Clinton voter Veronica Encinias, 42, homemaker

“He’s a fresh, new and different. He’s not a politician politician, not embedded in politics.” ~Obama voter Charlotte Golin, 75, artist

“Her experience is extremely impressive. She’s the most knowledgeable on the issues.” ~Clinton voter Michael Olguin, former House majority leader

“He seems very real and in touch with common people.” ~Obama voter Colleen Guengerich, 37, marketing and lobbying for New Mexico Tech

“I just feel more confident in her.” ~Clinton voter Michael Connolly, 54, small business owner

“I think he’ll unite the country. And he’ll get us out of the war faster than anyone else.” ~Obama voter Tom Ross, 49, artist and gallery owner

“He’s shown the same kind of animosity in his politics. He doesn’t walk his talk completely.” ~Clinton voter Frank Walker, 60, landscaper and astrologer

“Because I’m for change.” (One of her two sons added, ” ‘Cause he’s chill!”) ~Obama voter Kathy McKennan, 41, homemaker

“He’s the greatest hope this country has ever seen, at least since Thomas Jefferson.” ~Obama voter Marissa Del Rio, 52, real estate sales

“We support Hillary Clinton. She’s more experienced. You can’t just get someone whose not experienced and put them in.” ~Clinton voters Ernest and Dolores Vigil, 67 and 66

“I would like to see him have a shot about making a difference up there.” ~Obama voter Michael Costello, 50, print maker

“I think she’s best qualified. Experience counts a lot.” ~Clinton voter Art Garcia, 75, retired school principal

“I really have a good feeling about him. I trust what he’s saying about getting us out of the war.” ~Obama voter Shama Beach, 76, storyteller

“I think she’s the best of what I thought weren’t very good choices.” ~Clinton voter Mary Clayton, 73, retired librarian

“He’s awesome. He’s not politics as usual.” ~Obama voter Brian Arthur, 39, carpenter

“I think the hard decision is who can beat the Republicans, and that’s one of the reasons I did vote for Obama.” ~Obama voter Emily Kaltenbach, 32, works for aging and long-term services agency

“Because I think she’s the best.” ~Clinton voter Richard Mares, 69, real estate agent

“I think he can motivate the population to get together and make changes.” ~Obama voter Anne Coller, 55, housewife

“I’ve read his books and I know what he’s for, and I like him.” ~Obama voter Beverly Katz, 84

“Boy am I ready for change.” ~Obama voter Susan Cort, 49, Human Resources manager

“I think Hillary Clinton is a polarizing figure, and that’s not what the country needs.” ~Obama voter Tom Tiegler, 43, real estate investor

“I would not be disappointed to see either one.” ~Clinton voter Lynn Clark, 65

I want to read and/or post comments on this story
Comment on this story! From the New Mexican www.santafenewmexican.com Comments collected by Steve Terrell. Also he has a blog…more on that later. For more local news and some great columns go and visit their site. These were just a few comments.

As I was saying if only I had thought to include my url…it would have been in from of thousands.

So what do you do after the big push primaries? Go back to work. I did send Hillary an email about a few ideas: few people will actually see it. So let’s have some fun and go to blogsville and music.

Blogsville: www.countrymusicherald.com
www.creativemomcafe.com

Hey wouldn’t ot be cool if you went to the online version of your favorite paper and left comments? Need another social community go find Wayn and register.

So now I am warming up..let’s do another blog….

You are entering this portal toward the end of a several part story. Scroll back and see all 4 parts plus a couple of other blogs about SXSW. If I mistakenly attributed other grand works to these guy, I apologize. Just let the wind blow away those exaggerations like dust on a plain. Now feel refreshed? Get ready to dance.

He’s been in NM for 30 years and playing how long? Along the way he has started these music festivals both in Taos and Austin Tx. Need a break from wherever? Got some time saved up for a Spring Break. Austin might be somewhat warmer and the excitement is building, there will b e 50 stages around town and how many bands can keep a city spinning per day? Musicians flocl from all over far beyond the SW to gather like a mixed flocks of birds ready to sturt their stuff and dance, sing, congregate and let the world know that music carries the
world through the roughest and best of times.

Intro: (from a previous festival)

Variety:

Want music? Go to previous BLOGS! Well maybe…

You are entering this portal toward the end of a several part story. Scroll back and see all 4 parts plus a couple of other blogs about SXSW. If I mistakenly attributed other grand works to these guy, I apologize. Just let the wind blow away those exaggerations like dust on a plain. Now feel refreshed? Get ready to dance.

He’s been in NM for 30 years and playing how long? Along the way he has started these music festivals both in Taos and Austin Tx. Need a break from wherever? Got some time saved up for a Spring Break. Austin might be somewhat warmer and the excitement is building, there will b e 50 stages around town and how many bands can keep a city spinning per day? Musicians flocl from all over far beyond the SW to gather like a mixed flocks of birds ready to sturt their stuff and dance, sing, congregate and let the world know that music carries the
world through the roughest and best of times.

Intro: (from a previous festival)

Variety:

Want music? Go to previous BLOGS! Well maybe…

Yes this is a blog about SXSW. I just like Cathryn McGill too and her opeing words to this video expresses what I wanted to say, just differently. The ability to hold a vision and manifesting dreams of musicians…however I am getting ahead of myself.

Once upon a time and still today, there was a band who called themselves: SXSW. They love southwestern music and much more and this band is creating a legacy that reaches far beyond themselves. Let’s start with a little history, this will be a four or 5 part review. Please take time to visit each blog. SXSW

These look like old videos but I don’t really know. It sets the mood, and the simple part of the story, is long, long, ago this dude Michael Hearne set to playing the “gee-tar” just cause he loved playing and singing.

Michael also mentions Bonnie Hearne, who also is real famous in these parts. She can’t perform anymore but her husband Bill still does.

I thought I’d find more videos focusing on the whole band but when you youtube search by the band name you get the festival, so I’ll divert just a little and tell more of this story AHA! I remembered the SFBC’s writeup from the previous blog about their upcoming performance here in Santa Fe (SXSW BAND) so I did a quick copy:Michael Hearne’s incredibly smooth voice and amazing acoustic guitar style combined with Carmen Acciaioli’s musical mastery of the steel guitar, fiddle, mandolin, dobro, and hammered dulcimer, with the extremely talented Zeke Severenson on stand up and electric bass and you have what people all over the Southwest and beyond call their favorite band. If we are missing anyone my apologies. I know Shake Russell sometimes plays too, and if Bill Hearne is in the audience almost every band will call him up to sing…you get the drift: a lot of fellas and a few gals may show up and play together cause it just sounds so good!

Back to the diversion:

This creates a nice mini-directory too.

Here’s just a quick fun update and I may return soon with other interviews. I heard Marci talk on the radio a few days ago about happiness. The interview on ksfr.org with Diego Mulligan had some more depth and hit on more topics. See if you can find his podcast there. However,
this interview is available now here and you may find some good points. One of her sumary points is: if you are going to set a new years resolution: set an intention for happiness…oe increasing the happiness setpoint. Why? Happiness for no good reason has multiple positive side effects. Listen to learn more.

from the email:

Mary,

As promised the other day, I’m very excited to let you
know that I’ve posted an interview with Marci Shimoff
that I’d love for you to hear.

http://www.wealthbeyondreason.com/marci.html

Of course Marci was in “The Secret” (assuming you’ve
seen that) and is best known for being the catalyst
behind the “Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul” book,
as well as many others.

Her new book is “Happy for No Reason.” As I write this,
she’s just a few hours away from being on the Today Show!

But where they’ll only give her about 6 minutes,
I gave her 25 minutes to share some of her insight
into happiness and more specifically
how happiness relates directly to the Law of Attraction.

There was a time when a topic like “happiness” would
have probably not inspired me to invest my time into
listening to an interview on the subject…but this is
WAY different than what you probably expect.

There is an entire physiological SCIENCE around happiness
and Marci has researched this more deeply than anyone I’ve
ever met, and I’ve learned a lot from reading the book.

I know you’re going to learn something from the interview,
so I invite you to go give it a listen.

Her book is released today and she has an amazing promotion
going on, part of which is over $3000.00 worth of products
that will be yours if you purchase the book during the
promotional period. One of those items is an enhanced
version of our Wealth Beyond Reason Starter Pack.

If you’re not familiar with Marci, I know you’ll enjoy
meeting her through this interview:

http://www.wealthbeyondreason.com/marci.html

To your happiness!

Bob

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Bob’s newsletter offers a lot too.

I also believe that my photos can set a positive peaceful feeling too. So if you want contact me about how you could use them. Stop by www.bizzyblogz.com/Mary Leave me a message there.

Richarson gave up, and so now we can focus on 2 forerunners in each party. Sad but true. Do add to the upsurge of voters getting out to vote! Go to caucuses and participate. If you want a voice in the leadership of this country, the first step is to vote.

A dear friend and internet marketer had a serious upset last week. The California storms left him without power, phone, etc services. His name is CHUCK BARTOK. At the same time a hacker broke into his system and raided his server plus more! Within a few hours he was in action having been using a neighbors computer…he has lost a lot of data but he had a smart dude work hard to reconstruct his system. So click on Chuck Bartok (sidebar) and sign up if you want. HOWERVER THE MORAL OF THIS inspiring story is TAKE ACTION POSITIVELY even if the wrold may appear to be falling apart, there’s still a LOT one CAN DO! Bravo to all who TAKE ACTION!

Blogsville: www.about-albuquerquenm.com, www.about-sanjoseca.com about-sanfranciscoca.com www.about-seattlewa.com

Five Graces is almost like renting a first story condo. La Posada will be expensive but has a restaurant and SPA. Rio Chama a famous exquisite dining experience whre the chef knows how to really cook lotsa MEATs. Big portions. Get breakfast down the street at Guadulpe Cafe.

The movies will be located all over town so you will need a car rental. There should be plenty available. Bring WARM WINTER CLOTHES: it’s already snowed the the temps have been in the 30’s the last several days.

If you surf, you’ll find great deals with breakfast included: example there’s a small inn near the Espiscapal Church on Palace across the street from La Posada Inn. See if you can google that! Anyway, it’s a simple accomodation with a dining room. Small, quaint, close to the Plaza. They bake their own muffins and have a large healthy selection for breakfast/brunch.

The film festival is fun, however people around these parts are being challenged by prospects of oil drilling in Santa Fe County, near a large and needed water basin.

http://www.thesun-news.com/Nov11Issue.pdf www.thesun-news.com

I had intended to copy part of an article in the Sun News which is now on the stands but not online yet regarding the proposed drilling in Galisteo. The article is called Progress? by Cyril Christo. This is a pretty political newspaper with affordable advertising. Subtitles for the Paper include: Environment, Sustainability, and local news. In addition to a wide range of articles, they are great undercover agents and publish what few papers would dare to say.
This issue has 65 or more advertisers which show that local businesses support the free press and the enviornment.

This month’s issue is not online yet. However you can read recent issues at the above link.

You could be warned, get past te first 60 seconds and…

There will be a lot of films, in many categories, on all sorts of topics. Come to Santa fe and enjoy the warm theatres, the parties, meeting the actors and sometime directors. You might even have a chance to see an incredible sunset between movies. If you are a film maker, it’s a good place to network too!

People form all over the planet come to this film festival. So do the movies.

OK I spent less than $10 on Black Friday. I had to work and came home right after work. When I got to work late, there was an expired pasta asian style pasta waiting for me for my lunch. I was lucky. There was also apple pie, sweet potato casserole and pumpkin cheesecake. Our boss likes to cook. Sometimes I get spoiled. Could you go a day without spending $10? It’d be a good challenge every so often. Do you think we consume too much? Write me. Mary

Blogsville: If you would lie me to list your blog once in awhile, leave a comment. www.creativemomcafe.com, www.outrageousdreamsbymary.herhangout.com, www.countrymusicherald.com, www.momisteaching.com, www.about-chicagoil.com

Here’s a funny story a co-worker who is an ex-Marine and a tough smart well prepared guy said, ” So I borrowed my Dad’s truck to go deer hunting, and I knew the area very well. I was bow hunting. Well I hiked and hiked and no deer. So I rested by a big tree as it started to snow and decided to smoke some—-and soon fell asleep. When I woke up there were deer tracks all around me! I burst into laughter figuring the story was done and caught in seeing all these deer walking a few inches from him and laughing. But the story continued. He got up and started back for the truck. It was getting dark and cold. He thought I know where I am, just over that hill. He looked at his compass and couldn’t figure out where the truck was. So he decided to rest and took a smoke and fell asleep. He woke up about dawn, emarassed to have slept all night in the snow. He looked ahead just over the hill’s rim and about 1500 feet away was the truck! “Twice Mary, twice in one day!” (2X’s he made a fool of himself, and him an ex-marine.) The laughing was great and I didn’t feel so bad about mixing up the time of the lecture and missing the lecture! I felt glad to be working at the store PT. Great attitude adjustment.

A little curiousity can be great: think of the laughing deer.

Blogsville. See the side bar. By clicking the links of ads you can learn a lot too.
I walked into the dairy section and overheard two guys talking about blogs. I answered a few questions and they got excited and 2 new bloggers enter the world!

Some peole who’ve been around awhile: www.earthlyeating.com, www.etchedbystone.com, www.etchedbystone.com www.earthlygardens.com

The following is a bit loud….

Well beware of the deer! Deer 3, hunter one. If you are goin hunting this Novemebr be most careful and shoot no cows! Eat and be merry. Mary

I’m finishing up a fun Jack-O-Lantern flag to hang up on the front door. I’m hoping to get it finished this week, though it seems that something is always getting in the way. One thing that I let stop me is the chance to gt crafty with my kids. I love doing crafty art projects, so getting to sit down with my sons and do some is loads of fun.

One great project we have done is a hanging pumpkin. It hangs up in my oldest son’s room where he can admire his handy work. It was so easy to make too. A circle cut out of orange paper, with black jack-o-lantern face pieces glued on. I used a hole punch to put even holes along and he got some sewing practice in sewing it shut. We filled it out with strips of newspaper to give it a fat pumpkin look.

Another thing they enjoyed doing was kleenex ghosts. We took a kleenex nd folded it over a small rubber ball (trust me, they have tons of those). Then tied a bit of string under the ball to hold it in place. The string was also used to hang them on the walls.

If you are looking for more fun Halloween craft ideas there is a ton listed here. You can also head over to Scribbit and check out what others have posted to the Winter Bazaar.

Halloween yes this is only the beginning! For the whole scoop of enchilada, go to:

www.momisteaching.com

Now some don’t want to listen to a mom or mother. Others ARE MOMS doing homeschooling. For all of you, and the many grandparents raising grandchildren Mom Is Teaching is a MUST READ, and a very valuable site. Subscribe too.

My pumpkins are green still and the frost has hit multiple times very early for us. However all the squah did very well and most were started from seeds from last year! Plus inadvertently, some cross pollinated and I had new breeds of squash as well. Next up is: NM events.