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[Randy Weeks]

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[John Burik]

In my get-a-life strategy (beyond the PhD and politics) I got a replacement Miata (same color, red!, a few more bells and whistles), bought two new guitars, am exploring early-, Delta-, and electric blues.

I am going to read Seth Greenland's Shining City, Peter Block's new book, am working on my dissertation, "Attachment Security in Foster Care Children," looking forward to training in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and occasionally working on the Secretary of State's Voting Rights Institute.

In the life they pay me for, I'm doing group therapy with high risk patients at Mercy Hospital Clermont.

In my spare time, I'm doing yard work, watching DVDs, and occasionally edit an article for a CA bar association.

[J.J. Staples]

I'm *still* working on emerging from a period of depression, working to become a more whole and sane person as the first necessary step of becoming a more effective organizer. Also, still trying to get "Free Marie (part 1)" recorded and uploaded. Lately, though, I've been getting my office work for the Industrial Workers of the World, the One Big Union accomplished in fits and starts. I get into the office, start goofing around on the Web and suddenly I find it's hours later and I've been hypnotized again...

Yet often while I've been entering data, I've also been catching up with some radio shows that I used to listen to on Pacifica Radio when I lived out West (and speaking of public radio, ASG fellow Joe Wessels has an illuminating piece on WAIF-FM in the current issue of CityBeat, "Keeping the Dream Burning" http://citybeat.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A145740 I say, "Let's return diversity to our community radio station." But I digress.), and one that struck me was Caroline Casey's Visionary Activist show https://www.coyotenetworknews.com/productcart/pc/radioshow.htm . Ms. Casey, an astrologer and semiotician is the author of Making the Gods Work For You and is one of the few people I hear talking about the metaphorical aspects of our human experience and the intelligence and good will that is available to us all. Her emphasis on our innate oneness, personal and collective responsibility and democratic co-creation reminds me of topics we've explored in ASG. In this vein, I especially recommend the excerpts from Ms. Casey's most recent Summer Solstice address: look for links to the audio under either July 24 or June 26, but you may also scroll down through the plethora of previous episodes for more Big Fun.

Two other shows I wish were available on broadcast radio are Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/ (available on Dish Network) and Flashpoints http://www.flashpoints.net/, which present both common-sense analyses and essential information I rarely, if ever hear from the MSM.

I've also been trying to figure out how to carve out some time to do some volunteering for the Obama campaign, whose Northside office is conveniently across the street from ours, because I think it's crucial to hold the Republicans accountable for their treasonous war crimes, other violations of human and civil rights, systematic corruption, evisceration of our Constitution -- the entire brutal, banal, belligerent kleptocracy. Only in this way can we set the proper example for other would-be tyrants and keep similar depredations from recurring.

I was delighted to have marched in the Northside 4th of July parade with friends from Northside Greenspace. I was wearing a 'no blood for oil' t-shirt and carrying a sign that said (front and back) Think globally. Act neighborly. / Think globally = Solidarity

Really, the key for me is to get my own house in order toot sweet and be more nurturing to the plants I've been trying to grow.