La rosa enflorece

There are many versions available of this traditional Sephardic song, but this is one of those I like best. Here is one Ladino text: La rosa enflorece en el mez de mayo, mi alma s’escurece, sufriendo de amor. Los bilbilicos cantan, sospiran de amor. Y la pasión me mata, muchigua mi dolor. Mas presto ven … More La rosa enflorece

Digital Worlds

Notice this interesting digital project, brought to my attention by Jennifer, upon which I think Momo should comment. Behind it is an engine which crawls blogs to find the emotions of cities. (Louisiana cities represented are Baton Rouge and Lafayette, both of which apparently record a high incidence of guilt feelings.) Out of this it … More Digital Worlds

Reading for Pleasure Wednesdays: Carbon Imprint Calculators

In the September/October SIERRA, Paul Rauber’s article on/review of carbon imprint calculators is of very great interest! I did one of these before but I do not know how good it was. It said we would need 5 earths if everyone lived like me. It seems that the Berkeley Institute of the environment, at coolclimate.berkeley.edu, … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesdays: Carbon Imprint Calculators

On Transformation

I really am almost finished transforming back. I think. To continue to transform back I would like to say that what Reeducation did was take a distorting picture of one’s moment of trauma and say: This is the real you. Admit that it is the real you. And you had to start living as that … More On Transformation

Alert. En Vida

Everyone needs your time and money right now, I know. But it is important to DEFEAT MEASURE 11 IN SOUTH DAKOTA and women there need your help. Consider it, and consider phone banking for Obama this weekend. One point of phone banking now is to get people to vote early – that is that much … More Alert. En Vida