Flight Plan (subject to change with or without notice) as of evening May 29th in Oxnard, CA) right on almost the cleanest beach we've ever seen). Note the Epworth TShirt. I miss home already.
- Wed 30th driving to Prescott and crashing with Susan Adams (Director of The Leadership Center at Yavapai College of the Arizona Civic Leadership Initiative) that night.
- Thu 31st all day is spent at the Grand Canyon
- Fri morning June 1st driving south to Tucson (seeing cool stuff along the way) to spend time with Eric and Brian.
- Staying there until leaving June 3rd, Sunday morning, headed for Roswell by Sunday night
- Monday 4th we explore there and then Carlsbad. Tuesday the 5th we leave Carlsbad and arrive in Dallas in time for a big family dinner before the Keepins head north Wednesday morning early. In Dallas we'll stay a while as I write like mad again, see folks, train at North Texas Aikido, etc.
- From there we'll go to Mason, San Antonio, and Austin at some point (for me to give an Aikido seminar) and return.
Click here for our Flight Plan map thus far. If that doesn't work, try this http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=113377647598955470334.00000112dba90a4fcf04a&ll=32.755879,-96.845537&spn=0.00102,0.002266&t=k&z=19&om=1
Labels: daily, littlefire, travel, walkabout
| posted by Unknown @ 5/29/2007 10:56:00 PM
Below is the podcast of my brief conversation with Bessel van der Kolk during the Imagination and Medicine conference, wherein he expresses his thoughts about the benefits of Aikido relative to processing and recovering from trauma. Also see my earlier blog post. I offered a class on the Sunday morning following our conversation and he returned to campus for the class, even though originally he had not intended to do so before catching his flight home. Several folks came, we stretched and moved together and learned beginning techniques. Afterward I played the Aikido of Berkeley video on YouTube and took questions. One woman had been away from training for some time and is now inspired to return. Bessel will be looking for a dojo in the Boston area.
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Here too is audio of Robert Kennedy Jr speaking at the Sacred Activism conference. If you'd like to purchase the recording (much better quality and you can pass it around to friends) please support Conference Recording Service by going to their website and paying for this (and SO many other examples of) excellent activism in progress. They (we) record for nothing but what we earn from on-site sales, and then give a healthy portion back to the folks doing the excellent work of spreading this word to do this work.
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We disbursed the funds very generously donated to Aidan's "Little Fire Fund" in two portions: half to the Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood (SUDC) project and half to the fund at Epworth UMC to refurbish the children's area. Funds donated to ABC in his name hereafter will support the trip as it applies to building support for the Guardians of Peace. Thank you so much for reading my messages and responding when we have asked for help. More importantly, please let the circuit complete when you have needs of some kind. Send an email or make a call and let me know what is needed (if that is clear - or not) so that word may go out and your situation may be known and responded to.
Things with which we need help/participation which are of immediate concern:
A friend asked where I am in the dissertation process. This was my reply, more or less. I'm still in the "Bit by Bit" mode as we attempt to make the best use of our last week (until Fall) in the Bay Area. After my Aikido demonstration in San Diego on Memorial Day weekend Lisa and I will drive back up to Oxnard for a two-day dissertation writing intensive facilitated by a professional researcher and writer. I need an editable and more or less complete version of my first two chapters to go in to my committee for approval before I take any additional steps and before I may expect any more financial (loan) support. Thanks for asking!
Finding somebody to sublet our apartment is not going so well. The fellow coming from Paris to work at Cal on things economical was very eager, but ended up wanting to stay longer than we will be away and was unwilling to look for or accept help looking for other options for the last week of his visit. So, we're looking again to sublet our one bedroom and one bath, with a large third floor balcony with a beautiful view, one block from Milvia and University for a mere $800/mo.
Please leave comments about anything related to this post and tell your friends this is here.
Gratitude,
B
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Here too is audio of Robert Kennedy Jr speaking at the Sacred Activism conference. If you'd like to purchase the recording (much better quality and you can pass it around to friends) please support Conference Recording Service by going to their website and paying for this (and SO many other examples of) excellent activism in progress. They (we) record for nothing but what we earn from on-site sales, and then give a healthy portion back to the folks doing the excellent work of spreading this word to do this work.
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We disbursed the funds very generously donated to Aidan's "Little Fire Fund" in two portions: half to the Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood (SUDC) project and half to the fund at Epworth UMC to refurbish the children's area. Funds donated to ABC in his name hereafter will support the trip as it applies to building support for the Guardians of Peace. Thank you so much for reading my messages and responding when we have asked for help. More importantly, please let the circuit complete when you have needs of some kind. Send an email or make a call and let me know what is needed (if that is clear - or not) so that word may go out and your situation may be known and responded to.
Things with which we need help/participation which are of immediate concern:
- My Aikido demonstration in San Diego: rehearsals happen every class and the only local presentation is on this Wednesday night during the 6:30 and 8pm class.
- The van still needs any of the following:
- to connect our existing marine (deep cycle) battery to the alternator for charging and to act as starter back-up, and to connect it to whatever outlet or converter will allow it to produce grounded AC for appliances, or at least run DC lights and fans
- repair the relay, the burning out of which prevents our turn signals from operating
- door lock repair from when a guy tried to break in by coring the lock when I was sleeping inside
- maybe front end alignment (not a big problem at the moment)
- Beginning to paint (help?!) the new apartment on Monday morning and moving furniture in on Wednesday night or early Thursday.
A friend asked where I am in the dissertation process. This was my reply, more or less. I'm still in the "Bit by Bit" mode as we attempt to make the best use of our last week (until Fall) in the Bay Area. After my Aikido demonstration in San Diego on Memorial Day weekend Lisa and I will drive back up to Oxnard for a two-day dissertation writing intensive facilitated by a professional researcher and writer. I need an editable and more or less complete version of my first two chapters to go in to my committee for approval before I take any additional steps and before I may expect any more financial (loan) support. Thanks for asking!
Finding somebody to sublet our apartment is not going so well. The fellow coming from Paris to work at Cal on things economical was very eager, but ended up wanting to stay longer than we will be away and was unwilling to look for or accept help looking for other options for the last week of his visit. So, we're looking again to sublet our one bedroom and one bath, with a large third floor balcony with a beautiful view, one block from Milvia and University for a mere $800/mo.
Please leave comments about anything related to this post and tell your friends this is here.
Gratitude,
B
Labels: activism, daily, demo, diss, environment, Kennedy, littlefire
| posted by Unknown @ 5/18/2007 11:40:00 AM
