Archive for Thoughts

Things I Wish We Were Doing Instead of Cheering “USA! USA!”

Reacting to this piece – “USA! USA!” is the wrong response – in Salon.com. How about we take all that energy and put it to good American use?

  1. Help out relief efforts in the South.  Osama’s passing did not stop tornados and floods.
  2. Continue the dialogue of healing and working toward a better future.  Violence is a vicious cycle and let’s get out of it. 
  3. Speaking of violence, aside from the things happening in the Middle East – there’s crazy stuff happening just south of our border in Mexico.  It is affecting our people, has affected our people, and we’re part of the problem. 

La Vida de Caridad: Hollywood Observations

IMG_2964 Saturday night.  Hollywood Boulevard crawls with tourists and locals.

Cameras flash at Madame Tussauds – faux celebrities are almost the real thing, right?

Pass by Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, compare your footprints with them – celebrities who walked on the air of fame past and present.  How do your hands compare against theirs?  How do your feet?  If they match, is your joy because you are almost like them or that you see that they are more like us – who exist on the fringe of red carpets and lit ceremony?

Be Geekfantastic, Or Just Fantastic

me in my star wars track jacketFor my breakfast study break, I would like to take this moment to be geekfantastic.  I am wearing my Star Wars Celebration IV track jacket. I love this jacket and generally it is worn for my own benefit, but today it’s for a first grader named Katie.  And in addition to that, I’m wearing it today  because it’s fantastic to be exactly who you are. 

This moment is for my fellow girls growing up who played more Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles than Barbies in the sandbox.

This moment is for my Star Trek friends who sojoured on in days before it became a movie with Chris Pine, Zachary Pinto, and Zoe Saldana. 

I Am Not A Hipster

Not A Hipster Venn Diagram

Does it make me a hipster to make a Venn Diagram?

…even if supposedly making that declaration might make me one (MFA Confidential – Jessie Morrison noted in her “Am I A Hipster?” post that denial is a sign that you are).

Veterans Among Us

Honor Flight Guardian at the USMC (Iwo Jima) Memorial

Honor Flight Guardian at the USMC (Iwo Jima) Memorial

As Ed read out the names of Veterans at Sunday service, he left out the rank but affixed to each name a branch of service and the war in which each had served. With every name that echoed within the grey concrete walls of the gothic-style cathedral of the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, a Veteran was supposed to stand to be recognized.  Not all names had a Veteran present, but enough were there that America’s legacy of twentieth-century wars came to life:

World War II…

Korea…

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