Monthly Archives: November 2007
Look Into My Eyes O’Neil
I was sitting in front of my computer in my small upstairs office one cool October morning eight years ago when I received an email from a friend in New England. He forwarded me a wire service report that had … Continue reading
Filed under anarchism, my life, protests, the big picture
Movie of the Week
Rock the WTO One of the best films about the WTO protests isBreaking the Spell; if for nothing else watch it for the moving scene in the middle that lingers on the saddened expression on a policewoman’s face. A full-length … Continue reading
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Justin
Justin got home Monday night; he moved to New England a couple of years ago. Margaret and TR and the dogs leave Greensboro for Austin, Texas in a couple of weeks. But for this one lovely sunny autumnal week all … Continue reading
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Movie of the Week
Sufferbus This is just one of the many bands Justin has been in in the last six years–summer of 2005, Somewhere Else Tavern, Greensboro. The shaky camera work is all mine, but it’s worth watching to the end to hear … Continue reading
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My Bike Takes Me Places That School Never Could
A couple of weeks ago I attended a panel on immigration: descriptions of undocumented workers, mothers and fathers, taken away in the middle of the night and their children turned over to the foster care system. I turned on the … Continue reading
Filed under collective living, the big picture
Safetybike
YIKES! Safetybike update 1/18/08: The Safetybike video will be featured this coming weekend on an CNN show called “News To Me” that runs on Saturday and Sunday at 12:30 and 5:30. Mark and Chris have put together a Safetybike website … Continue reading
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House Keeping
Jodi got a wild hair last week and rearranged the living room furniture. It looks great. “I think we’re growing up,” she said. The room definitely looks more grown up with the sofa and chairs floating companionably together in the … Continue reading
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The best seat in our house is definitely The Invisible Chair. Mark invented it a couple of years ago and we've got the prototype in the living room. Most days it's just a chair--we sit on it to use the house computer, we pull it out on the porch when we need an extra place to sit, visiting children have crayoned on it--but on evenings when people sit around playing music, it reveals 
All six hens are laying now--brown eggs from the two Barred Rocks and these lovely little blue-green eggs from the Americaunas.
