It’s that time again: National Wear Red Day is this Friday, February 2nd. I’m excited to head to NYC to see the Red Dress collection on the runway in person again, and this time I won’t forget my camera! Last year the models were women from the music world, this year, they are saying that the models are “celebrated women” from many areas. I believe that the video I’m in will open the show again.
Dig out something red to wear, and make sure it’s ready for Friday.
If I know Ken, it won’t be long before this incident is national news. He was arrested while taking photos of Gov. Rell’s Inaugural Parade. Apparently he has been put on a “list”, and his photo was distributed to police as a possible threat to the Governor.
Outspoken, aggressive, innovative activist, for sure. A threat? Silly stuff.
Here’s his site: The 40-Year Plan.
And a bit of his remarks on his trip to Syria/Turkey from gaiagal 2005.
Several hours after a conversation about a scene in a movie where a little girl’s appendix was removed….
“What if my stomach hurts so much that the doctors have to remove my independence?”
I submitted a classified ad on craigslist. My first ad! Antique ice box.
So far, I’ve answered 5 emails asking “does it still work?”
One donor sparks domino 5-way kidney transplant.
Domino organ transplants aren’t new, but the size and scope of this one were. With assembly line efficiency, 12 surgeons in six operating suites at Johns Hopkins Hospital harvested kidneys from five living donors to implant into five unrelated recipients.
Lily, explaining the medications that her dad takes every morning (due to kidney transplant) to her younger brother:
Daddy has to take the medicine to make his body work. You see, a long time ago, Daddy’s gills stopped working…
Today is the sixth anniversary of my diagnosis of dilated cardiomyopathy. And they said I wouldn’t survive the night. When I did, they said I wouldn’t survive longer than 5 years without a heart transplant. Here I am, with my original parts, as healthy as can be.
See Mom? That don’t try and tell me what to do or I’ll do the opposite attitude that I perfected as a teen has served me well as an adult.
Setting the scene: Lil and her dad were jumping and playing in a huge pile of leaves. Lily dives in and hits her head, and emerges from leaves rubbing her noggin.
Ouch, Daddy! I hit my head! I hope I don’t have amnesia. Wait a minute, amnesia is a pretty big word, and if I had amnesia, I probably wouldn’t remember that word.
Lilster starts kindergarten today. What will I do without her little voice all day long? I am mostly excited for her, I think she’ll do great. It will take some getting used to on my part.
My poor neglected blog. I haven’t decided if I’ll keep posting here. I’ll see how it goes this fall. We have a big wedding this weekend that both Lily and I are participating in, and Dawit starts preschool next week . Lot of happy stuff, but I’m so busy I can barely check email, nevermind blog.
Some people visit Egypt to explore the pyramids. Others travel to Russia to see the Kremlin.
Hank Wesselman, an anthropology professor at Sierra and American River colleges, has made multiple visits to what may be his favorite destination — Ethiopia.
A researcher, Wesselman has worked with an international team of scientists for the past 11 years in that nation’s Middle Awash Valley, surveying the ancient eroded landscapes of eastern Africa’s Great Rift Valley, seeking answers to the mystery of human origins.
This spring, in a paper published in Nature, a respected British journal, the team said it had found fossil evidence for the evolutionary relationships between the three earliest human species, spanning several million years, but all in one place: Ethiopia’s Middle Awash Valley.
Releasing the results of 10 years of research, the team said the oldest fossils included those from the following species:
• Ardipithecus kadabba, which lived nearly 6 million years ago.
• Its descendant, Ardipithecus ramidus, which lived about 4.4 million years ago,
• Its descendant, Australopithecus anamensis,which lived in the valley between 4 million and 4.2 million years ago.
“These three forms reveal the existence of a succession of species, ancestors and their descendants, within our uniquely human lineage that begins almost 6 million years in the past, culminating with the appearance of our own species, Homo sapiens, 160,000 years ago, and we’ve got all the intermediate links … ,” Wesselman said.
Ardipithecus, the earliest form that appears about 6 million years ago, Wesselman said, is most likely the famous “missing link” that Charles Darwin predicted would eventually be found — the link between apes and humans.
It’s a theory that has found support among a number of other scientists.
He holds a doctorate in anthropology from UC Berkeley and is widely respected by his peers.
He has been criticized by some, however, for mixing science with the supernatural.
Wesselman, who calls himself “a shaman in training,” has written several mystical books with a scientist’s perspective. Some of the books focus on his “out-of-body experiences” that, he says, have shown him a new world dimension.
“Hey, listen, there’s a part of me that still doesn’t know what to do with these experiences,” Wesselman told The Bee in 1995, after he had published “Spiritwalker,” his first book about what he calls his “expanded awareness.”
At Sierra College, Wesselman may be best known for teaching “Magic, Witchcraft and Religion,” an anthropological class that probes religion and magic in the lives of traditional people.
Full article here, worth registering for.
