Why do I just get every second digest??? Can someone please send me #755 and #757 Thank you very much [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Mar 26 14:48:01 1998 Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:47:37 -0500 (EST) From: "loba kola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: intro; and warrior girl, i got yr back :) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:15:18 -0500 charset="iso-8859-1" hello, i am young woman between college semesters because i do not know where i want to finish and because, quite honestly, i dont know what i am going to do with my life. one of 'those.' i have so many balls up in the air that some of them end up deflating before i go back to them. im a writer. a painter. a photographer. an 'animal rights fanatic' to use the vernacular of those with less conviction. i work with clay. i sing and i dance. i just started my own at home desktop publishing business. i am a silly cackling giggler, love music, love to laugh. i have a book-collecting sickness. i get adrenaline surges from certain scents carried in wind. or from certain birds chirping. or for various other reasons that make me feel like im being reminded that 'my pack' is still waiting for me to find them. i pay extremely close attention to my dreams, and sense from others who share theirs, that our collective dreams are begining to gel together somehow. i believe that i have been witness to an unmistakebale level of synchronicity these past few years of this real or supposed global spiritual awakening. i wonder, are we now emerging into a renaissance of sorts? i have had a deep respect and close bond with earth since the begining of my life. fast friends with strange dogs and other non-human animals i meet (human ones too :) hehehe. i am a genealogical mutt. i identify most with my paternal grandmother, who was cherokee. she wasnt raised traditionally. i long for myself the community life she never had, that her ancestors did; the knowlege and practice of natural healing and reverence for every organism. ive experienced many uncaring disrespectful neighbors in the last year. i dont want to belong to a collection of people without roots; without a sense of place beyond their front doors. i believe that blood carries memories----spiritually and physically. i have five four-legged roomates (dog chollo, cats pooka and baggy, rabbits cranberry and e.) and one two-legged, my old-souled-two-years-younger-than-me-gentle-man-boyfriend, carlos. i am one of the most passionate humans i know of in my area regarding earth and her non-human animal inhabitants. i am very vocal and admittedly quite scathing to those who abuse nature in any of her forms. i am trying to be----need to be----more calm when addressing these issues so that i am heard and responded to in positve ways. the issue is so deep in my soul that i can not speak clearly about it and end up sounding like elmer fudd. i am vegan for my own personal spiritual reasons and have the unconditional support of my carnivore family and carnivore friends. i live in n.e. pa where i have grown up watching with repulsion parents and friends of those 'boys who will be boys' laughing off their male offspring murdering animals attempting to cross roads for 'pretend points.' (can you hear the banjos?) i have heard numerous times the desire to drive 'big rigs' so that the larger animals' bodies will yield when hit (deer, bear, dog). i have never seen so many dead animals on the roads out west as i have here. cats, dogs, skunk, groundhog, opossum, porcupine, birds, deer, bear, coyote, fox. i am researching and asking for help on how to stop it. there is a way somewhere and i am prepared to follow it through. now i have to tell you afterward, what my brother said after i told him the following: this summer i will be taking photos and using a hand held voice recorder and taking notes at the county and surrounding fairs' animal exhibits and horse barns because of the "living farside cartoons' " abuse of animals there that i have witnessed too many times. i will be contacting peta for help, the humane society will be on alert, as will the police. i will submit any evidence i gather to our newspapers. i will make a difference for animals there that know that i am their only chance. i will be there every day because we are setting up a booth for our desktop / multimedia presentations. my brother, 2 years younger than me, who grew up watching superhero cartoons with me, said, "sounds like a superhero. what youre doing is what the superheroes did. youre kind of in disguise, being there 'officially' for the booth youre setting up, and youre taking a stand and committing to doing something other people feel helpless to do." i hadnt yet introduced myself to these lists, rather enjoyed lurking :) i was one of the lurkers who was fascinated by warrior girls intro and a bit shamed that i hadnt done as much as i wanted to and realized it when i saw hers and the rest of your posts. i was also encouraged and inspired. when i saw the derrogatory words directed at warrior girl i felt compelled to write. there is nothing low or childish about getting off ones ass and working to make positive change in the world, in any medium. that one weaves story around the actions IS art. warrior girl and her medium strike this neil gaiman / alan moore fan as perfect subject matter for the next story....speaking so much of art, id think that warrior girl's detractor would remember that art is subjective, and can not be put into the rather anal box he/she was attempting to cram it in. because that person does not care for the art does not make it 'not art.' in fact, if that story, that performance, can *spark* then it is a very very valuable tool. if that performance can capture the attention of both adults and children, then the message is going to be heard. a seed. if only one of those seeds grow, the art works. (trolling and flaming someone even in the disguise of 'friend,' by the way, ARE in themselves pandering to the lowest common denominator)....and this person says we live in a much more sophistocated world now....come to or read about my neck of the woods and try again. beedeep beedeep beedeep, that's all, folks! loba kola
