Lyrics of Current Favorite Nina song

My baby never treats me sweet and gentle the way he should;
I got it bad and that ain’t good!

My poor heart is sentimental not made of wood
I got it bad and that ain’t good!
But when the weekend’s over and monday rolls aroun’
I end up like I start out just cryin’ my heart out
He don’t love me like I love him nobody could
I got it bad and that ain’t good!

Like a lonely weeping willow lost in the wood
I got it bad and that ain’t good!
And the things I tell my pillow no woman should
I got it bad and that ain’t good!
Tho folks with good intentions tell me to save my tears
I’m glad I’m mad about him I can’t live without him
Lord above me make him love me the way he should
I got it bad and that ain’t good!

a poem from karynn

work has been remarkably emotionally trying lately, and my friend karynn just sent me this poem by miguel de unamuno – it’s his last poem, written after he was thrown out of
the university where he taught…:

Shake off this sadness, and recover your
spirit;
Sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate
That brushes your heel as it
turns going by,
The man who wants to live is the man in whom life is abundant.
Now
you are only giving food to that final pain
Which is slowly winding you in the
nets of death,
But to live is to work, and the only thing which lasts
Is the work;
start there, turn to the work.
Throw yourself like seed as you walk, and into
your own field,
Don’t turn your face for that would be to turn it to death,
And do
not let the past weigh down your motion.
Leave what’s alive in the furrow, what’s
dead in yourself,
For life does not move in the same way as a group of
clouds;
From your work you will be able one day to gather
yourself.

i heart vancouver

everyone let’s go to vancouver! its explosively beautiful – mountains oceans beaches cafes rain rainbows sunsets its just gorgeous and dope and amazing and chill and there’s endless ganja and everyt’ing is irie and socialized healthcare. sigh. i love canada! go check www.getyourvoteon.ca to see my hosts, who are doing dope prep work for their may 17th provincial election. big up olive and rubin, kevin, matt good, cass, sarahs g and d, and others who welcomed me with open arms.

me in vancouver

 

 

Get Your Vote On Hub
  and Volunteer Rally

 

9:30am – 5:00pm

  @ the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue

580 W. Hastings St

. – Hastings and Seymour in Downtown

Vancouver

 

LUNCH PROVIDED!

 

 

 

7pm – 9pm

Matthew Good and Adrienne Maree-Brown
  in a discussion on democracy, engagement and activism

 

Chin

ese

Cultural Centre
  50 E. Pender St – Downtown

Vancouver

 

 

Workshops include

 

  • Outreach
           basics (how to get people to do what you want them to in five easy
           steps)

 

  • Media
           training (what to say, how to answer only the questions you want to and
           more)
  • Electoral
           Reform (First Past the Post, BC Single Transferable Vote let’s figure it
           out together.)
  • Election
           nuts ‘n’ bolts (all the gory details you need to know)
  • Other
           ideas you send to us that we can get together before March 19th 

 

 

 

Features

 

Adrienne
  Maree Brown, co-founder of the ‘League of Young Voters’ in the U.S.
  and co-editor of “How to get Stupid White Men out of Office” will join
  us to talk about recent youth voter trends and lessons learned from the U.S.
  election.

 

 

Great reflection piece

Hello friends and associates from around the world,

I just watched this short online film and was struck by how much can be communicated in a short.

I encourage you to give it a look.

This wont change your life but it will provide a moment of reflection.

http://www.bigpicturesmallworld.com/UNEP2/UNEP2Movie.html

 

10 seconds is a long time, 10 years is a decade.
2004-2015 – The Decade of Education for Sustainable Development

To learn more and participate see…
www.uspartnership.org

www.unesco.org/education/desd