Cityzen Jane - wherein our heroine pokes (and taps) things with a stick.

Please share this one everywhere folks!! Keep the story in the minds of your friends and family…given everything else that’s going on this can get lost, but it is central to organizing and winning around all of the other things we care about.

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[Note this post started as a comment on Seed's SciBlogs here ]

So to anyone curious or artistically inclined, there is a ready supply of holy hosts - without the hassle of a congregation of hysterics chasing you out the door. It turns how you can get 250 authentic Eucharist wafers for $5.47(US) online. For $39.95(US) you can get a 210 set of pre-filled cups with a Eucharist chaser… the only crime here is one against ‘creation’ —how very, very wasteful.

Perhaps the easy access to the commoditized cannibal snack should be a more serious concern for the seriously concerned. Anyone and I mean ANYONE can buy 500 of them for a mere 85.00(US) and go to town
on a binge and purge session and no one would be the wiser. Therefore, I suggest a RFID tracking system for all containers of wafers traded globally, so the impending scourge of cracker kidnapping and desecration can be avoided.

Idolatry for those interested in religious breech would be the thing that any concerned priest should be chastising his flock for…but consistency has never been the forte of the Vatican or other manufacturers of new and disparate dogma, transubstantiation in fact, is a fairly new twist on the theme, disputed since a few decades after that very bad day at Golgotha.

Those concerned about ‘respect for Christ’…need to go check out this TERRIBLE animated avatar explaining the benefit of the easy open Eucharist kit…

http://www.kingdom.com/category.aspx?categoryID=430&adcode=Google&gclid=CLXi29rzupQCFQOjFQodWnPeSw

This is dedicated to my grandpa George Gruber of Tacoma, Washington -who may not make it through this night, whom I love and whom raised my mother to love me so well and so unconditionally, and to my own dad Donald Christie McLellan.

Both men were always there, not perfect, but always there. Solid. What more can we ask?

I wish all kids this kind of blessing.

With immense gratitude, thank you Dad and Grandpa George.

“You know who did not get a break last week? John McCain. Who took a lot of heat over his endorsement from two controversial preachers, Rod Parsley and John Hagee. Now, I’m not a big fan of Reverend Hagee. He lost me when he called the Catholic church the ‘apostate church’ and ‘the great whore.’ I’ve got no problem with the apostate part because I don’t know what that word means. But the great whore? You’re talking about a religion that is against condoms and the pill. We would be terrible whores. Unless you’re into pregnant whores, in which case shame on you!”
—Stephen Colbert

Actually - no one is wondering… because NO ONE CARES…

Say buh bye!

I am so so happy today. It has been a long long time in coming. I remember actually breaking down in abject tears when the first George Bush, a CIA spook made it into the Whitehouse. Reagan was hard enough, but a CIA guy? That moment confirmed my worst fears for the United States. I voted for Clinton, but was very soon appalled by his treatment of the Haitian boat people. Last night confirmed my best hopes. What a night! What a moment! What a speech! What a man! It’s a new day.

I was diagnosed with ADD way back in 1972 or so. Eventually, my parents tried Ritalin. The whole story is something I can’t really tell right now, but someday I will.

I am posting this video in hopes that kids on meds, and parents who have been suckered in will think it through again…and get the kids off the drugs. I am not saying that a minority of children need help and maybe medication - but we have an epidemic of overperscription and medical control of normal children…

Before you medicate your kids, or allow a school to force you to - please watch this video!

I know what I am.

I am the result of tens and thousands of years of travellers, eaters, baby and music makers. I know that my ancestors are ‘yellow’, ‘black’, ‘red’ and ‘brown’… I know that ‘white’ and all these other colors, replace this word: family.

You are my family. Not only by sentiment, though I love you - I do.

But, by science. That science, trumps love - is a strange historic anomaly

Mother, Father, Sister, Brother, Love and Friend…our time is short

I know that when you walk alone by the sea, in the woods, in the park - you can see me -because I can see you. Someday, if we meet I will tell you stories - of how I saw across time and space - and not by TV.

Let’s do what we know, and that is to love, and to love better.

Life is short.

Let us look back,

Let us love our Mother,

out Father, our breath, the tatse of the soil,

of mushroom, of corn, if rice flour and grub,

let us love,

let us let go,

let us build anew,

a banquet,

let us play music,

let us make new music,

let us make grandchildren,

let us, let go,

let us that have - make do,

let us that don’t, - embibe without restraint,

Let us love our great, great, great, great grandchildren better than ourselves.

Let us love, those of a various nature, the alien, the amoeba, the essential algae. the insistent insect…

better than enough…

It is time. Every story has led us to this.

Embrace!

http://wherearetheynow.sunlightprojects.org/

What a great project!

“It is also associated with attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity. Why humans should evolve FAVORING those conditions is still a mystery.”

David is talking about a gene associated with dopamine reception and ADD and he wonders why we would be as a species favoring that gene.

ADD, ADHD is associated with a few things such as novelty and thrill seeking, curiousity driven autodidactism [is that evena word?]…it seems to me that we live and have lived in a century where the pace of change was extreme and getting more so! For someone with ADD boredom is the enemy! Perhaps we thrive while others try to impose fundamentalisms of all sorts in order to control those around them who enjoy change, novelty and freedom - beyond the freedom to conform. Indeed conservatives of all stripes need to control the pace of change itself-but can’t.

GCT 2007 SantaCon NYC

http://www.onebillionbulbs.com/

No video for this one!

Phillips Marathon -  the lowest mercury CFL!

I would like to encourage everyone to check out this group - The Great Transition Initiative.

What future we will encounter is greatly dependent on the possibilities we envision now.

I haven’t been blogging much, or adding many videos to my “I like to watch” feed because I have been caught up in vlogging on YouTube. This is likely to continue for a while. Here’s a celebration of that community and a few videos about what is happening over there…and how it is different than other online communities….The first is me asking a few questions…

http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/

It’s a great thing he’s and his family are doing, I just really wish they had dropped the ‘no TP’ rule.  Or at least kept that info to themselves.

This is cool. Someone randomly wrote me a song!

She’s got opinions
They don’t hurt any feelings
She’s got a point of view
And she’ll still listen to you
She may not agree fully
But she’ll never ever ever ever bully
When the point is not clear
Cityzen Jane will always be there

In this world of comments and haters
and 14 year olds
It’s nice to hear a sweet voice telling
us not to be told

Cityzen Jane

When the misanthropes
Find a place to spread their grudge
She sees that they are only crying
Helps them with a little nudge
Doesn’t take hate
to turn hate around
Doesn’t take a mean word
to change an ounce to a pound
In these hallowed beds of
the infirm screaming to watch
them as they bleed
Here’s the calming nurse’s voice
saying we see we see we see we see

Cityzen Jane

No time for a bridge
Technology coming over the ridge
Through the combine steel wedges
Her honesty it pledges
With a hope as wide-eyed as Ian
but diligence like a north korean
A waif with a belief in the goodness
in our humanness oh my goodness
maybe this’ll be more than
videos for finding woodness from
young’n too insecure to know
The world’s big enough to grow
kind and true and strong to attain
She believes in you believe in her
bow down to Cityzen Jane

Cityzen Jane
Out to fight in the world
Cityzen Jane
Not with a sword but a word
Cityzen Jane
Sweet tongue to truth
Cityzen Jane
Wiser than her youth
Cityzen Jane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ocAIfR23WI

I’m hoping for a really wide diverse response to this - so if you are inclined please pass the request on!

I’ve posted a video over on Youtube.

In this episode of my vlog I ask the following questions:

Do you live in the city, country or suburbs?

How much time do you spend in a car in a week?

What type of place did you spend most of your childhood?

How did that place change in the first 20 years of your life? (When were those first 20 years?)

What is the biggest tree you ever climbed?

How high did you go?

Have you ever caught or killed your own meat?

Have you spent a night or three out doors?

What animals if any did you see where you grew up?

Did you watch nature shows as a kid on TV?

If you could preserve 3 animals or organisms from extinction what would they be?

Do you consider yourself an animal?

Do you feel you are inside or outside of nature?

If you were raised in a city have you ever spent and extended period outside the urban environment?

Have you ever had a peak experience in nature? What was it?

Have you ever considered NOT having children for any reason? Why?

What is the closest you have ever been to a wild creature?

What is the primary protien of the culture you grew up in?

Do you feel a geniune love or biophilia towards all life?

Do you feel connected to or disconnected from nature?

What does the word ’sustainability’ mean to you?

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You are free of course to answer these here….but I am really hoping for video reponses from a diverse group of folks over on YouTube.
So I’m really hoping YOU will respond there! And also hoping that you will pass this along!

Thanks!

CZJ

[Thanks so much to Judy K over at the Savvy Vegetarian for adding me to the Carnival of the Green! People coming from there might also be interested in my I Like To Watch rss feed covering sustainability and other green goodness!]

I haven’t been blogging much lately - and let the I Like to Watch feed go. Sorry for that folks. I will be back into it.  I had some computer issues.