May 17, 2009

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

You need to get outta Dodge. You want a change of scenery. You want new places, new faces and adventure! You also want to learn something new and exciting. You need to raise the bar and seek a fuller, more enriched life. I suggest you go someplace you've never been to before. Explore new territory. Meanwhile, be extra patient with partners and close friends because Mars is opposite you. Fortunately, fair Venus is there to soften the blow, make amends and repair bruised feelings. Since this year is your chance to party and enjoy yourself -- grab the baton and run with it! Remember: the day after tomorrow, is the second day of the rest of your life.

May 15, 2009

Wistfulness

Alone tonight in my empty house,

Remembering that which now is gone.

I try to imagine tomorrow's gifts,

But all I see is cold, grey dawn.

My Prometheus, you brought me fire,

Rekindled passion in my heart.

To share with you my wounded soul,

Once more to love, I dared to start.

Such promise seemed within our reach,

Such resonance I felt within!

So many joys we found we shared,

Now reduced to might-have-been.

The camping trips we thought we'd take,

The nights of love, when all felt right.

So many memories not yet made,

The poem I promised you I'd write.

JG

Dead End Driving - Ari Hest

Dead end driving in the dark
We don't know what we're headed for
Like lighters flicking off sparks
We've been counting on a little more

Dead end working every day
Wondering how we're gonna get through
And the time will come when we don't want to play
Along just to make do

Well, I don't know what you want
I don't know what you want
But we've been dead end driving in the dark
That ain't no way to make a mark

My philosophy
New ways I have found
To see things I have not seen
Bright enough to turn me around
Sure, it's a wasted thing
Someone is going to carry is down (or out)

Dead end talking about a dream
That we really ought to set free
Cause it likely isn't what it seems
And it no longer appeals to me

And, I don't know what you want
No, I don't know what you want
But we've been dead end driving in the dark
That ain't no way to make a mark

My philosophy
New ways I have found
To see things I have not seen
Bright enough to turn me around
Sure it's a wasted thing
Someone is going to carry us down
Carry us down, no

Dead end driving in the dark, we don't know where we're headed for
Dead end driving
Dead end driving in the dark, we can count on a little more
Dead end driving
Dead end driving in the dark, we don't know where we're headed for
Ohh, Whoah, Dead end driving
Dead end driving in the dark, we can count on a little more

Best 'green' seafood choices

By Bill Daley |Tribune reporter

March 18, 2009

Ecologically minded consumers need to ask questions when they step up to the fish counter to make sure they get the "greenest" seafood possible. Wallet-size guides listing the choices, distributed via the California-based Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch at aquariums and zoos across the country, are a valuable shopping tool. They list "best choices," "good alternatives" and seafood to "avoid."

Printable versions of guides are available online at seafoodwatch.org. You also can sign up to receive Seafood Watch recommendations on your iPhone or other Web-enabled mobile device.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has its own seafood facts site called Fish Watch at www.nmfs.noaa.gov/fishwatch.

When shopping for seafood, Seafood Watch advises asking these questions:

•Where is the seafood from?

•Is it farmed or wild-caught?

•How was it caught?

Here are Seafood Watch's "best choices" for farmed seafood:

Abalone

Arctic char

Barramundi (U.S.)

Bay scallops

Catfish (U.S.)

Clams, mussels, oysters

Crayfish (U.S.)

Rainbow trout

Striped bass

Sturgeon caviar (U.S.)

Tilapia (U.S.)

"If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity
to shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth
that we find individually fulfilling,
then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham,
in which our selves are determined by the will of others,
in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us"

Nena O'Neil

Wish I could check this out - if you do, let me know what his work is like

Starbucks Features Alastair C MacKay

February 16th, 2009 - Thunder Bay, ON

Starbucks Chapters location in Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada features six new works by photographer Alastair C MacKay until February 28, 2009.

This is Alastair's second show at Starbucks. (January 2008).

Three black and white works and three colour.

Subjects unclude Alastair's 2 Cows (B&W), light industrial (B&W), a solitary closed for the winter chip-shack in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, as well as colour images of back lane garages and magenta concrete walls and an alternative image of a picture showing in another show, Heavy Metal, at the Thunder Bay Museum.