photogenic posts - Sonoma

Went away for a weekend and it threw off all my "extracurricular" activities. Here are a couple shots from within, or near, the 'mansion' in which we stayed.
Sometimes a nearby stable, thousands of dollars of wine (along the barrel tasting way), and very nice conversation can't make up for the very strong sense that the Sonoma landscape is populated with a culture of MINE (of I WILL get mine)...

UnChurch - Justice definitions

Unchurch
definitions:
justice
no mean things happen

Some kids were asked a question this past Sunday,
What does justice mean?

Here is a couple of the few things they answered:
courage,
respecting people,
no mean things happen

buy a small press book and write a poem!

Tusday begins small press month

...and next month is national poetry month!

band names: bloc, styl

band names - bugs

...band names
children
recipes mandolin
reading and travel stapled and taped

I was looking at a new calendar Exquisite Creatures, by Christopher Marley, and have to submit some more buggy band names:

Jeweled Scarab -- a good little bug

Shield Bug -- foul smelling, but pretty

Javanikei -- (paraphrase) of wood boring beetle

Circulion -- (paraphrase) of a weevil found in New Guinea, another borer

Seram beetle -- there's a larval form that devastates host trees

children's stories and podcasts

Do you
know of any
sources for
children's storiesin mp3 format?

I have been working on gathering some kids stories, visiting web sites and looking around for podcasts I could save to playback later on long trips for my children.

As I noted briefly before I had listened to several BBC shows, including several children's shows. Unfortunately, the BBC is just beginning the podcasting option. There is not alot available yet.

Do you know of more kids' stories that are available in podcast or mp3 format online?

I've found only a few sites and sources. Yet I really enjoy the littletoe show on BBC.

Also the stories on the Roy Trumbull Children's Stories, although they may be a little too developed for littler kids. Obviously, looking at the web site, there are many for older people - whatever older you want to mean.

There are some cute (obscure) stories too: Kedou, and I was just listening to something from Soundseeingtours about podcaching.

Feast of the Transfiguration

...band names
children
recipes mandolin
reading and travelstapled and taped

Bringing together:

~ the experience of mystical knowing ,

~ desire for practice and

~ willing choice (without knowledge - here as 'proof')

The result is ritual and storytelling-

actions which recount and suggest more than what is there,

and stories of the more, which we hold on to.

band names: rowdy treads

poem - Gone & band names

...band names:
Lavender fur, cascade spring, replide,
untouched, orange cream,
aunt till

I had a thought the other day about driving to work and the people whom I have seen working and getting there. Ther don't seem to be lots of happy smiling faces... [The idea would be to read it in a sort of long stream.]

GONE

steam cleaned bright

shopping carts grim

faced commuters long

gone ceramic browns

steaming now cold

white egrets post

sitting yellow highlights

haloed crops taken