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s00j @ 02:04 pm: wandering the face of the earth
1. I need to find places to play in New Mexico and Arizona for late January and early February next year. Any and all suggestions are welcome, since I've not yet performed in either state.

Couple things:
-I do not do shows in bars. I would much rather rent a UU church or play a house concert. Bookstores are ok too. Coffee shops are my last resort. Bookstores with coffee shops in them are ok--if they're anything like SoulFood, so much the better.
-Ten people is more than enough audience, 20 even better--especially since I've never performed in NM or AZ before.

Please please please please comment, most especially if you would like a house concert of your very own.
K and I are planning to be in New Mexico from January 28-31. After our Grand Canyon birthday trip, we want to find shows in Arizona from February 5-9.

2. We're planning to be at Pantheacon in SF on Feb. 12-15, but they haven't yet let us know whether or not they say yes to our concert proposal with Sharon Knight. Since we get to go to Consonance with Tricky Pixie on March 5-7, we're going to stay in California for almost a month. California fans and friends, please let us know if you'd like us to visit or try to get a show together where you are. Borderlands in SF and their gorgeous new cafe and the Pasadena public library are both strong possibilities, and I'm going to look into the Goddess Temple of Orange County, also. Again, I'd love to do some house concerts in CA, or find good listening rooms in which to sing to fans and friends. Also, I'll celebrate my actual birthday while we're in CA. Want to help me have a happy birthday? Help me book some shows! :D

Srsly, you guys make all of this easier on me. I can't tell you how many times a suggestion from a friend has turned into an amazing concert for everyone. Please comment on any of this if you have any suggestions or recommendations. Thanks.

ursulav @ 10:55 am: Lousy Tidings
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ursulav @ 08:46 pm: More art!
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ursulav @ 08:07 pm: Someday, My Prints Will Come
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s00j @ 12:23 pm: family and beyond
Taking a moment just now to appreciate anew how surrounded I am by family of the heart.

I was raised by amazing, brilliant, loving people that I'll always be close to.
It turns out I'm still being raised by amazing, brilliant people who surprise me with the force of their love every day--it's just that there are so many more of them now, more than I ever thought my heart could hold.

Tuesday through Thursday morning, I was surrounded by K's wonderful family--I hadn't realized until this week that there was a part of me who still didn't feel she belonged there, not quite. That's all gone now. I know that I'm theirs. Part of it comes from the loss we share now, certainly. In Mike's sweetheart Jackie, I have a kickass sister of the heart in Oklahoma, for life, who's asked me to please come and visit, regardless of the fact that the person who was our shared connection is gone. Without the chosen lack of paperwork to confirm such things legally, K's mother told me yesterday that she considers me her daughter-in-law, and that she refers to me that way in conversation. K's dad and I have always gotten along, and even if he hadn't worked on my truck bunches of times and played a show with me twice now, I'd still think he's awesome. But he lent me his guitar for the memorial service. It must be something about getting to play his Martin for two days, and watching him enjoy me playing his guitar, that banished the last traces of feeling like I didn't belong. Call it a guitar player thing. Laugh if you like. It was my mother's guitar that I first played, and it was my own father, gone five years now, who first made sure I ended up with a guitar of my own in my hands.

I woke this morning in Florida, in a deliciously comfy bed provided by Pagan phamily of the best kind--we're all long overdue for actual hangout time together, too. There's so much sunshine outside right now that it seems illegal. My host's daughter J. assures me that Florida has a whole bunch of sunshine. I'm looking forward to feeling its positive effects on my general self. I'm looking forward to music and laughter all over this house. I'm looking forward to recording in the guest room. I'm looking forward to sleeping in the same place for several weeks, for the first time in a long time. I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving dinner outside, under the live oak tree--Amy plans to hang it with lights for the occasion.

Tonight I will perform once again with two amazing women who are undeniably my sisters, by heart and spirit and song if not by blood, who share and laugh and dream with me and improve my life every time we get together, who sing with me without hesitation, whenever they can.

And that's just this week. There are so many more facets of this tribe I'm in, all over the world, each of them strong and proud, each of them different from the last and just painfully awesome. You all know who you are.

All I can think right now is this: how did I get so very, very lucky?

Good luck to each of you, in finding and keeping and enjoying your own motley, genuine family. May it be as vividly colored and as far-reaching as mine. May it fill your heart to bittersweet bursting; may it delight you and teach you and challenge you and lift you up, always.

Today marks ten months since my surgery, by the way. **LOVE**

Tags: family, gratitude, love, music, phamily, the most amazing things, tribe

ursulav @ 12:03 pm: See, this is how it starts...
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yezida @ 08:19 am: Peniel: Identity is Not the I
What happens when we don't feel strong? What happens when our identity is so wrapped up in what we do that we forget who we are becoming?

This happens to us all.

Last weekend, I did some energy work with a person who was walking on crutches, has been out of work for over a year, and was struggling. She was used to being strong, vital, to running everywhere and being the go-to person. She could not do that anymore and was starting to have trouble holding on after two surgeries and perhaps one more to come. Pain, coupled with a sense of defeat, were making it hard for her to stay in her body. This, of course, made the pain management worse. The more we run away from ourselves, the less life energy can flow in and support our lives and healing. The more we collapse upon our systems, the more we hurt and the more numbing we need. This is true of escaping pain in the body, the emotions, the mind, and the soul.

In my work with her, the message came through clearly that the lessons of her healing were not for her alone, they were her gift to the community. Everyone around her needs to partake of the hard lessons she is currently experiencing. In expanding out, in reaching her energy up and down, rather than choosing to cave in, in calling her soul back into her body, she will become the teaching. Her life is now the lesson, not in what she can or cannot do, but in how she is showing up for it. Her strength will bolster everyone around her. Her pain reflects our pain. We need those lessons. We need to look more deeply at what we run from, what causes us to collapse, what identities have become props for our avoidance of the deeper reality that We Are. Identity is not the I. Our Doing is generated by our Being.

We do not experience learning through avoidance. We do not learn by always feeling strong. We learn by dancing with every particle of life as it moves forward.

We are wrestling with angels. Sometimes they wear our own faces.



[here is a good post on this subject, by my Sister teacher Katrina Messenger.]

ursulav @ 10:41 pm: Walrus And Radish: Together At Last
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dwell, posting in lj_maintenance @ 02:00 pm: Network Maintenance: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 04:00-06:00 UTC/GMT
EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.

Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!

Thanks mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!

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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

yezida @ 01:34 pm: Armistice and Oracles
When we are open to the moment, we are open to the teaching. When we are in a place of gratitude, we are in a state of love.

Feeling love for the city of San Francisco and grateful for teaching today: for the lessons of the body; of presence; of other humans in their frailty and strength... I stood at the bus stop, reading The Gift of Danger by Mary Stein. A mildly lit-up man interrupted to compliment my hair. We struck up a conversation about New Orleans (where both he and my father were raised), race, class, work and finally, attention. Yes, we discussed the importance of attention, which I brought up upon hearing him speak of training and then re-training in the art of construction work. We talked about the many ways that attention helps us, from the basic and personal on out into global consciousness. Then we got onto the bus and went our separate ways.

The sidewalk oracle was telling me to pay attention, to remain in presence, to open to the teaching he had to offer. I could have brushed him off - resisting the encounter - as another early morning drinker not worth my time. Luckily, the music of teaching was strong enough in me today that we were able to have our exchange.

The students in my Daily Practice course are struggling with resistance. Resistance is the act of attempting to stop the flow of connection. Resistance is an attempt to block the energy of the moment. To counter resistance, we need, not more resistance, but a softness. An opening. Unarmored at the bus stop, there was softness in me along with the awareness of surroundings and the bag on my shoulder, and people coming and going. The awareness enabled me to feel safe and alert. The softness enabled me to receive the teaching offered by my fellow philosopher. Had I simply been armored up, I would have been simultaneously less safe, less aware and less open to the moment at hand.

Armor cuts us off and impedes movement. Centeredness is stronger and supports movement. Aikido black belt Mary Stein says this:

...the "no" of resistance is merely a subset of the truth and reality of the greater "yes" of movement. While we're alive, it's impossible not to move.

Can we choose movement instead of fighting against it? Can we breathe when tension enters, and attempt to give ourselves more space? Can we recognize the flow of teaching that is everywhere? Can we open out in gratitude?

Today is Armistice Day, honoring the end of fighting on the Western Front during the Great War. What is the battle we are fighting inside right now? Can we lay down our arms, just for a moment, and see what may happen then? We can pick them up again at any time, but for now, let that in us which resists shake hands with that in us which loves. Who knows what stories they might share?

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yezida @ 07:10 am: Transitions
I write a lot about God Hirself being Process and flow, of how perfection is not static, and how this includes our lives. We each have an opportunity to learn and change, with every breath we take. Below is an announcement from two dedicated priestesses who have gifted many of us with their time, energy, wisdom and service. For myself, I am grateful to have walked their land, had tea in their kitchen, taught in their halls, and done ritual in the sacred groves they tended.

I offer my blessings and thanks to them as their ministry changes, and look forward to what may come.

Blessings to you both, Cynthea and Patricia, and blessings on all the people who have tended Diana's Grove, and to all who have crossed the stream to enter the gates of magic.

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In 2010, Diana’s Grove Mystery School will be working with the story of Persephone. It is a story of cycles, and as we all know, part of the wisdom of cycles is that all things come to an end. While it is our intention that Mystery School will continue, Diana’s Grove Center, as you and we have known it, is coming to an end.

Cynthea Jones and Patricia Storm founded Diana’s Grove on January 17, 1994, and for 15 years their work of myth, story and transformation has grown and deepened on this land. The Grove has been a sanctuary where people could come to experience the world of nature free from the distractions of modern city life, a place to be in touch with the natural elements and to honor wind, fire, water, and earth. A community has grown here as well – a community of people striving to find ways to heal self, world, and relationships that includes the more than 41 people who have lived and worked here, over the years, the Mystery School community, well-known guests such as Starhawk, T.Thorn Coyle, Margo Adler, Ubaka Hill, Trebbe Johnson and Steven Forrest, and the many who have come for other events or simply to experience the magic and healing to be found here.

While blessed with these wonderful supporters who have given so generously of their time, energy, and money, Diana’s Grove Center has nevertheless been suffering under the current economic climate. It’s founders no longer have the energy and stamina required to support their dream, in it’s current form, in these challenging times. They have decided to make major changes before major changes are forced upon them, and will be selling Diana’s Grove. It is their intention, and the intention of the residential and Mystery School staff, to make this transition with as much positive energy and integrity as we can.

What will that look like? Some questions will have to wait for answers as this transition unfolds, but some things we do know. We plan to continue our programming here on the land through 2010. Cynthea and Patricia anticipate sale sometime during 2010 or 2011. If the sale happens in 2010, they will ask for a closing date in late November or early December so that we can complete all Mystery School and non-Mystery School events scheduled here next year.

Mystery School will continue and… next year will be the last in this form, on this magical land. If you’ve been waiting for the right time to join Mystery School, to visit again, visit for the first time, or to introduce friends and family to this land and our work, this could be that time. We will make every event in 2010 a special one. We are planning a grand “reunion” Fall Equinox event, September 17-19, that will be open to everyone. We hope to see many old friends and familiar faces there.

For 2011, we are looking at other locations where we can gather for weekends and week-long events. We will continue seeking out the natural world as our stage for Mystery School, and working with myth, story, and transformation. Cynthea and Patricia plan to stay in the Ozarks, and continue providing a more limited Dog Rescue service. They will travel to Mystery School events and be open to doing workshops in other locations as well.

Here are a few more questions we’ve anticipated:

What happens to the land investors?
Investors in the project will be refunded any monies invested less contributions made. We are unable to refund contributions, as they were reportable as tax-deductible funds. Those who have invested in the land project will be receiving additional information shortly.

How much will the Grove sell for?
That’s one question we also share. We will know more after appraisal by a local realtor. Originally we had 102 acres (more or less). We added 40 acres last year with the land funds. Since moving here we have added the Great Room to the main house, built 15 cabins that house 62 people, added a commercial kitchen, finished the barn to include a 2-room apartment, added 2 pavilions as well as 2 large and 2 small storage buildings, lovely outdoor showers, 6 outhouses, a kennel house, a 2nd sewage lagoon, a decorative pond, a hot tub, 4 decks, and many lovely outside areas. There is no way to put a price on the magic, energy, and memories that live here.

What will happen to the trees?
We have no intention to sell to a logger.

What will happen to the dogs?
We are working diligently to find placement for many of the dogs currently at the Grove. We expect to reduce numbers by not taking more large dogs or dogs requiring long-term care. We have a resource list of alternatives for people needing shelter services. About 50 dogs will move with Cynthea and I. If you would like more information, please contact us.

What can you do to help?
Continue to support us in our transition. Come as often as you can. Recommend our work and let people know this may be the last opportunity to experience a very special and unique place and people. Do magic for the future of the Diana’s Grove philosophy and land. If you or anyone you know is interested in continuing the work here, contact us. We would dearly love to see Diana’s Grove continue in the same or similar environmental/magical tradition.

Next year we will be working with the story of Persephone. It is a story of cycles, and a fitting end to this cycle of an impossible dream, made manifest for so many years. We plan to re-tell and live out this rich, ancient story through the year, in full and reverent awareness that a beloved form is ending, as well as in joyous celebration of our years together, on this land. We anticipate a year of profound, deep and healing work, intentional farewells, glad welcoming of new Mysteries, and laying the foundation for the continuation of this community, this philosophy, this dream that has touched the lives of so many.

Please join us.

adammaker @ 08:42 am: This Time Is Different... ummm, no. No, it is not.
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This Time is Different: A Panoramic View of Eight Centuries of
Financial Crises

Adam sez: This is one of the most eyes-wide-open views of the history of financial troubles. I love how the whole thing highlights the "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it (unwittingly)"*.


Carmen M. Reinhart, University of Maryland and NBER
Kenneth S. Rogoff, Harvard University and NBER

http://www.economics.harvard.edu/files/faculty/51_This_Time_Is_Different.pdf

Abstract
This paper offers a “panoramic” analysis of the history of financial crises dating
from England’s fourteenth-century default to the current United States sub-prime financial
crisis. Our study is based on a new dataset that spans all regions. It incorporates a number
of important credit episodes seldom covered in the literature, including for example,
defaults and restructurings in India and China. As the first paper employing this data, our
aim is to illustrate some of the broad insights that can be gleaned from such a sweeping
historical database. We find that serial default is a nearly universal phenomenon as
countries struggle to transform themselves from emerging markets to advanced economies.
Major default episodes are typically spaced some years (or decades) apart, creating an
illusion that “this time is different” among policymakers and investors. A recent example
of the “this time is different” syndrome is the false belief that domestic debt is a novel
feature of the modern financial landscape. We also confirm that crises frequently emanate
from the financial centers with transmission through interest rate shocks and commodity
price collapses. Thus, the recent US sub-prime financial crisis is hardly unique. Our data
also documents other crises that often accompany default: including inflation, exchange
rate crashes, banking crises, and currency debasements.

* I add unwittingly here because history is made of cycles and we repeat a great many things whether we are aware or unaware of the cycle-spiral.

Thanks to Dave Kellet for pointing this out...

s00j @ 06:29 am: Lady Vagabond checks in - FaerieCon afterglow
Sitting in the Orlando airport right now, waiting to catch a plane to Denver.  Wrote this earlier, and since we were driving all day, this is the first chance I've had to post.  Yay for free airport wifi.

K and I are driving down from Maryland through Virginia as I type, listening to music gifted to us by Amal.  We're going to see more of I-77 than I've ever seen before in my life today, in the same week as seeing the end of I-70.  I'm thinking Golde might need new tires again soon.

Consistently, I look around me and am happily surprised to find dream after dream coming true.  There were several this weekend at FaerieCon, of different sizes.  Reconnecting with Scott and Sam, the Gypsy Nomads, was so good.  Getting true and undeniable confirmation that Mark Lewis and Billy Scudder are friends of ours for life, getting good and genuine hugs and stories from exhausted Kelly, Lio, Silver (who's starting his own clothing line soon!  More on that when the website is ready), Willow, Kimmy, and of course Betsy did me a world of good.  Actually having conversations with Oliver of Faun (I love what he had to say in our shared panel about modern faerie music) and Priscilla Hernandez (what an angel she is, so very sweet and open) was just amazing.  The sweetness and magic of new friendships sparking to life was offset by the warm ache of missing loves and other friends not present in the east-coast, indoor Faerie realm, but as a certain Baltimore icon says, there were musicians, there was beauty, there was wine.  Being contained, FaerieCon is less frenetic than FaerieWorlds, though the sense of chaos is present in its beauty, just like the outdoor event.  Enough of the west coast faerie phamily was there for it to feel wonderfully like home, while making me homesick at the same time.

And of course, K and Betsy were amazing, without fail, all weekend.  We are the ultimate team, you guys.  You know this, and you know all the reasons why.  Love you. 

The crown jewels of the weekend for me: 
-having the rock-solid help of our brother Kevin West at our CD table (and they gave us a table!  So awesome).  All.  Weekend.  Love you, bro, and thank you.
-getting an encore at the Good Faeries ball on Friday night.  Never let it be said that Tough Titty isn't there when we need her.
-sweet conversations with the gents who wrangle the Maryland Faerie Festival--looking at 2011. 
-Moresca garb for me at last, and wait until you see it.  (Thank you, Johanna.)
-spinning poi for the Gypsy Nomads set with my love---ANY TIME, you guys.  I mean it.  Future seeds are planted!
-dancing to Faun with K ("Zeitgeist" back to back with "Iyansa"....I was flying on the ground) and on my own
-later, hearing Oliver say that they love doing acoustic shows just as much as the rock shows, because the period instruments really have their own voice when they're unamplified.  YES.  THIS.  Also, he gave me encouragement for learning my way around a fujara someday, as well as touring Europe.
-hearing my fellow panelists' stories of how they got started in music at the faerie music panel, and 100% unintentionally moving Priscilla to tears with what I had to say about the faerie community.
-blowing Lio and Kelly's minds at just the right time with our "Tam Lin," and getting attention for it from Steve, Jennifer, Oliver, and Priscilla at the faerie music panel--and that was a fun panel, despite how tired we all clearly were.  I learned more than a couple of things.
-Betsy and I got a standing ovation after our Sunday morning concert.  I didn't know what to expect, as we played at 11am the morning after the Bad Faeries concert (Mark and Billy at the doors letting people in and saying "BAD, faeries!  BAD BAD BAD!"  So cute).  Honestly, I never would have banked on a full room of awake fans, old and new, who were unhesitatingly on their feet when we ended the show...but that was just what we got.  I'm so full of joy.
-Charles de Lint and MaryAnn Harris are warm and wonderful people, just as I've been told they are.  I enjoyed their concert on Saturday afternoon, wherein, among other things, they transformed Terri Windling into even more of a Folk Hero than she already was in my mind.  They both were happy to meet me when I introduced myself on Saturday, and I got to thank Charles in person for giving a story to Ravens in the Library--one of my highest goals for the weekend was thanking him.  MaryAnn and Charles came to the Sunday morning show, and later Charles complimented me and said he'd had a great time-- "you inhabit those songs!"  Last night, the three of us sat together in the lobby lounge and swapped songs in strong and silly voices (a highlight was trading "Snake Farm" for "Salad of Doom"), entertaining whoever wandered in (exhausted Faerie folk mostly, which was just fine with us) until sometime after midnight, when the front desk staff asked us gently to stop so that the carpet cleaning crew could come in.  I am a lucky, lucky girl, in that sitting and singing to and with my favorite authors is starting to feel like the norm.  Never shall I ever complain of this.  Thank you, MaryAnn; thank you, Charles.  Please let's do this again, a lot.

Thank you, FaerieCon.  Driving back out into the default world feels rich and strange, and only a little sad.  I carry you with me, as ever, down along the continent and away.  We are music, we are Faerie, we are such stuff as dreams are made on.  Creatures of the Wood and Daughters of the Glade, all. 

And Alec, I did NOT forget your birthday!  We got you a standing ovation, you just weren't on the same coast with us.  **LOVE**




Tags: and then there was joy, faeriecon, magic, music, my amazing friends, one sweet dream came true today, that which does not suck, tribe, win and pie

ursulav @ 01:47 pm: Batbreath, finally!
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ljspotlight, posting in lj_spotlight @ 09:49 am: Spotlights: Homepage Spotlight 11/9/09
sixwordstories
Whether you're in the mood for a creative challenge or you're short on time or attention span, this semi-addictive community is perfect for those who find flash fiction way long. Once you get the hang of it, you won't be able to stop. The prince turned into a frog. The girl ran home to mother. Tough to write. Easy to read. It's a double threesome of fun.

Tags: flash fiction, sixwordstories

ljspotlight, posting in lj_spotlight @ 09:46 am: Spotlights: Homepage Spotlight 11/9/09
dailyfoodie
Delicious, ambitious, and occasionally nutritious dishes make for an eclectic, all-you-can-eat feast. Whether you're searching for recipes for your next dinner party or you're jonesing for a late-night brownie fix, your cravings are sure to be well sated. A warm and inclusive community that welcomes all orientations, from carnivores to vegans, from gourmands to junk-food junkies. Guaranteed bias-free, food-positive, and pan-epicurian.

Tags: dailyfoodie, food, photography

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