Swansong

So I’ve realized I have nothing else to really say in terms of this blog. It has been my companion through Grad School and many other things for the past couple years but… I just don’t have anything else to say. I have moved on from much of what I have written here, which is great. I’m so grateful to have had a place to work out my thoughts and you guys were all wonderful. I will keep up the links here because they’re good, but as for me, this is my last post. I hope your days are filled with adventure and thriving, love and light.

_ the LB

Dead Links

Hello World!! I have been getting a few comments from some of you about some dead Library links and I have fixed the one’s I know about; if for some reason you get one that won’t give you the document, please let me know so that we can keep all the files up to date for our reading’s and curiosities’ pleasure.

Thanks All,  the LB

AAEM & Probiotcs v. GMOs

This is some very important real world GMO news and I am sorry if someone else has already brought this stuff to the fore, but I just read this and find it beyond flabbergasting.

We have been reading a fair bit in the news about the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) who has issued warnings in the past several weeks urging the public to avoid genetically modified foods (common sense? hallelujah) and has also called for a moratorium on GMOs until long-term, independent studies can prove their safety. “The group has also called for required labeling of foods that contain GMOs, a move that has been strongly opposed by the Food and Drug Administration and Big Biotech which cooperatively purport that consumers should not have the right to know whether or not the foods they buy come from traditionally bred or genetically engineered sources.”

I have been against GMOs since the very beginning, there is no good that can come from splicing mackerel genes with a beefsteak tomato. And I am so very very happy that someone besides the left-wing foodies are coming out about this, although I’m sure anyone someone can accuse the AAEM as being full of “tree-huggers” if they wanted to be persnikety.

In any case you can read the whole article here at NaturalNews but there are a few key in-particulars that I wanted to call your attention to, and some other info in response… I promise it will all make sense by the end, well. Hopefully.

Here is a part I’d like you to pay close attention to:

Probably the worst finding in the AAEM report is the fact that GMOs can live and reproduce in the intestinal flora of the body long after being eaten. The genes present in the genetically modified organisms transfer into the DNA of intestinal bacteria, the good bacteria that digests food and maintains bodily health. This reprogramming can cause the intestinal flora to begin reproducing Bt pesticides, for example, rather than producing the living bacteria it is supposed to. The permanent, deadly implications of these alterations are mind boggling since intestinal flora is crucial for life.

If you were ever uncertain about say, the environmental impacts of GMOs, which are ginormous (but that’s another post), then at least take your own inner ecology into consideration, for heaven’s sake! A farmer who fed his pigs Bt engineered corn (which is still permitted for feeding of livestock) saw the birthrate of his pigs plummet 80%… in 2007 Bt corn was having such a strong and suspiciously major ecological impact that it was a suspect in the killing off of honey bees state-wide in Michigan (read the the whole story here).

What is Bt you may ask….

well you’ll just have to come over to my other blog to read the whole thing, here!

Missing Till May

I am finishing up school and will continue to go absent…. till then!

be back soon.

AwakeClosedOpen

Art by Jeanie Tomanek

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does – Allen Ginsberg

I am like that crocus in the corner
a gooey center
a light that spills
lip to lip and
petal to petal. I open
like an e.e. cummings poem,
a Whitman blade of grass,
a Spenserian literary wood.
I am made of words you see,
unending phrases which
with their own weight, stand
quivering. I can hear the world
thinking, dreaming, gripping, sinking
into mystery. Into virginal snow blackening
and melted winters penetrated by spring.
You see, I hear singing
when you speak, and you read me like a book;
what a pear we would make, but
I fear the breaking, the heart you
offer. The palms already open; the look in your eyes
when they are  closed, already
sleeping. Awake.
Awake. Awake. Slip that bright light
into the rear pocket of yours
that my hand likes. Such
sweet speaking:
I am new.

© 2009 Lindsay Young

The Department of Seduction

Derrick Jensen: Brilliant. Another reason Why I Will Homeschool My Kids.

Learn your latin! Eudcare vs. seducare