Matt Coleman
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It's a dangerous world and being a mother I would worry about the fate of my children, especially when they were little. My mother, may she rest in peace, taught me that once they leave our bodies, ...More...
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The 1st Gaia Festival was born this past weekend on the sacred land called black oak ranch where hundreds of thousands have gathered over the last thirty years. From the Hog Farm Pignick to ...More...
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I want to hold your hand. I want to give you hope. I want to remind you of the strength you have that has kept you alive and productive your whole life. I want to tell you how much you mean to me. ...More...
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A jillion CCTV cameras on a pole, surveilling
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If I saw one police car yesterday, I saw a hundred. We were driving up from the Bay Area and it appeared that every couple of miles on 101 there was a cop sitting and watching or actually in the ...More...
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Mendocino Headlands Art
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As we see the August 2nd deadline looming and the two parties feuding regarding the US debt ceiling we realize that our government is not so much in the business of conducting business, but ...More...
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Rainbow Jesus
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June is gay pride month. I am so proud to be a Married Lesbian. I look forward to my other Gay brothers and sisters around the country and the world having that civil right any day now. ...More...
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an eye, wide with light and knowledge
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Congratulations to the Mendocino Film Festival for an excellent offering of an independent, inspiring and educational visionary feast attracting a huge turn out that filled up the town coffers, hotels, restaurants, and spirits. ...More...
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It's Memorial day and we get a three day weekend to commemorate the somber and serious service of men and women under the illusion that killing people is going to solve ...More...
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raptured people floatin on up to heaven
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Well here we are again, luckily THIS time we avoided the terrible rapture predicted by the oh so righteous fundamentalist Fred Camping ...More...
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oily bastards - shell oil logo on oil container
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There are endless things for me to rave and rant about today. ARGH! Like the fact that a woman is raped every minute in the Congo, or a young girl in africa is ...More...
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love your mother
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We had the most marvelous Mother's Day. Our daughters joined forces and created a magnificent eggs Benedict brunch, complete with spinach, local salmon, fresh brewed organic ...More...
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childrens hands holding the earth up
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I had the high honor of being the MC at the Earth Day celebration in San Francisco this past Saturday. As mother of ceremonies it was my job to Shepherd the performers... ...More...
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Stic.man and M-1
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I've been exploring the outskirts of my comfort zone. I've been hanging with the youth lately, Last week we accompanied 21 Mendocino high school students including our daughter to ...More...
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Information Symbol
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Yes, that's the date today. Information day. I went to college at San Diego State, majored in English with a minor in Journalism. I was taught that the most important obligation in joining ...More...
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Tax Repellent
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Yes, Change is coming to the USA. The people are sick and tired. The workers are sick and tired. The families are sick and tired and April is here. Ah spring, spring and Taxes. ...More...
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An apple, cored
Word of the Day
Aired: Monday March 21st
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I wandered into the kitchen the other night and saw an apple on the counter. It had been sliced into 8 perfect pieces by a stainless steel apple corer. None of it had been eaten ...More...
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An open sky
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After last weeks' snow blizzards, sky cracking thunder, wildly rowdy lightening and super full moon we have at last, crossed the threshold of Spring in Mendocino County. The equinox is upon ...More...
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An open sky
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Watching and witnessing the devastation in Japan, after New Zealand a few weeks ago and Haiti, which still suffers unimaginable diseases and devastation, I cannot imagine ...More...
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the globe in a heart shape
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According the the pop clock there are 7 billion 905 million 574 thousand 331, 32, 33 of us. Yes, there are a whole hell of a lot of us human beings. Now out of that seven billion ...More...
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A handpainted loving heart
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Ah dear hearts, what a week. Sending out great admiration and appreciation of the Egyptian Revolution overthrowing a corrupt and cruel regime with non-violent tactics, beauty, song ...More...
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Dandilion seeds
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The winds of change are blowing. Do you feel them? It's inevitable, Everything has been stacked so high with little infrastructure, it all must fall. Remember Yertle the Turtle? ...More...
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A Candle, Burning
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The whole world is watching, and tweeting as the people of the Arab world are rising up with relentless energy, courage, and strength. The revolution started in Tunisia ...More...
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Soldiers painting peace symbol Banksy Grafitti
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The opposite of War is not Peace. The opposite of War is Creation. I first heard that quote in a song from the Broadway musical "Rent". It made immediate sense to me...More...
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Queen Elenor
I Am A Queen
Aired: Monday January 17th
Just Kids
Dilma Rousseff
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There comes a time when women get tired. Yes, a woman does get tired. Tired like a Bengal tiger pacing back and forth at the zoo, Tired like the Mama Polar Bear swimming ...More...
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a goose in a moment of silence and stillness in a pond
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The president of the US asked the entire country for a moment of silence today in response to Saturday's massacre outside the Safeway in Tucson, Arizona. The target ...More...
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Christmas Yule Hanukkah Menorah of Life
A New Years Toast
Aired: Monday January 3rd
Just Kids
Dilma Rousseff
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I am deeply aware of the omens, the symbolism in the world especially around the New Year. The first image that came to me on January 1st was the swearing in of the New President of Brazil ...More...
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Here we are on the verge of 2011. Time flies doesn't it? These days are also a very dramatic display of really good story telling, Fortunately, unfortunately, fortunately, unfortunately...More...
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Christmas Yule Hanukkah Menorah of Life
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It's the most wonderful time of the year, It is very beautiful with the all the gift giving and electrifying light displays, but it's also a mixed up, highly emotional, economically challenging...More...
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ts cold. It's really, really cold. This isn't something I am used to so early in the season. It's not even officially winter, but It's been snowing and hailing and the roads have been icy ...More...
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A Lame Duck
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We all know The reason the Democrats controlled all three branches of government for the last 18 months was because the people of this nation had a mandate. In November 2008, we said...More...
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Who creates the laws
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I'm sitting at my office on the Albion Headlands gazing at the great blue Pacific ocean. The Albion river runs east as I look over my right shoulder. The sun is shining, after a weekend of rain. ...More...
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In Weed We Trust
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Midterm Elections are a week away and there's some very strange, even frightening candidates spending hundreds of millions of dollars to buy themselves a seat at the table. There's ...More...
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These are todays headlines: Ecuador makes A Revolutionary Promise to Leave Oil Underground
Happiness is a Right
Indian Tribe in Victory Over Mining Giant More...
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Hey, it's National coming out day. So once again it is my pleasure to announce I'm a lesbian. I didn't decide I was gay. I've just found myself falling in love with my favorite people ... More...
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The U.S. war on drugs has cost our country a trillion dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives, north and south of the border. California Governor, Schwarzenegger ... More...
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Fish dead from navy sonar testing
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I'm driving west from my home down albion ridge road to highway one to go into mendocino for the afternoon. I am thrilled, as I am everyday to see the stunning oceanscape of the pacific... More...
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John Stewart and Stephen Colbert's march.
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The idealistic and good people of Mendocino county were out in droves this last weekend, Friday was the benefit for KMEC in Ukiah and the FUN-raiser for Dan Hamburg in Mendocino... More...
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Earthdance
Aired: Monday September 20th
Earthdance International
Q'ero Waikis
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Peace can get pretty lonely you know. Nobody hardly mentions it's name. Sure there's the occasionally march and festival but generally it's a world of war ... More...
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James Zadroga ( 1971 – January 5, 2006) was a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who died of a respiratory disease that has been attributed to his participation in rescue and recovery operations in the rubble of the World Trade Center following the September 11 attacks.
New Yorker for a Day
Aired: Monday September 13th
Obama's 911 Speech
H.R.847
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I'm a New Yorker - can you tell by my accent? True, I've lived in California for the last 30 years, but I'm still a New Yorker... More...
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Peace, bring our troops home!
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Last Friday I went to the airport to pick up our middle daughter Dana and her Best Friend Larissa coming home from a tour halfway around the world... More...
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Egg
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I love eggs. We all come from an egg. Women are born with all the eggs that our bodies will release in a lifetime, and in those eggs are our children... More...
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Egg
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Wow, while we were away in Michigan for our summer vacation, the oil bp spillage magically disappeared - oil eating microbes arose out of the ... More...
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Moon
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There is so many beautiful stories in the world and the beauty makes me cry as much as the devistation. I know some people had a strong condimnation... More...
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Shakespeare
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A playwright is like god... She looks down on her world, sets the scene, populates it, plots it, decides it's outcome. If it ends with a wedding... More...
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Moon
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A small group of us held a sacred ritual on Big River Beach Sunday, July 11th, at the same time as the total solar eclipse. Only visible in...More...
Flag
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We had a grand fourth of july celebration in mendocino in the streets and at friendship park yesterday. A truely bright and brilliant blue sky...More...
Anarchy_symbol
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My acupuncturist advised me that the current events are taking a terrible toll on my psyche and body and it would behoove me to take a news-fast. ...More...
Golf
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First off I'd like to recognize and honor the pagans among us: happy summer solstice. May the season bring forth an abundant garden, sensual ...More...
OilRig
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I am having trouble sleeping, my mind constantly searches for solutions to how anyone can live beyond petroleum at this point ...More...
Heart
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Today I am Fifty Years Old. It's a lot like twenty I'm told. This life is a short story, a run-on sentence grammatically incorrect...More...
Tear
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You know generally I'm a well balanced individual: I have enormous joy, like receiving a phone call from my Daughter in Egypt today, and hearing...More...
Obama
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Memorial day is upon us again. The newspaper is full of terrific sales, if you don't already have enough stuff, aaand you can afford to buy more...More...
Torch &Pitchfork
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Our mothers were famous for their sayings, like: Don't be such a big-shot, take a jacket; or Don't talk with your mouth full, eat your vegetables...More...
Judi Bari
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I don't know about you, but I can't get this oil leak off my mind - sure I get distracted and excited by magnificent life going on around me...More...
Resist Fist
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Today is World Press Freedom Day. I'm so grateful to free to report uncensored here. Other journalists are not so fortunate so I send out a SOS...More...
Sun
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Ahh Spring! More daylight! Nice. Seeds are sprouting, trees and flowers blooming, animals birthing, and we had a grandson born on Saturday night...More...
Gay Solders
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The military is now leading the way for Gay Rights. President Obama issued his order, and now they are poised to repeal the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" Policy ...More...
Drugs
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I'm sitting here next to my Mother's Dialysis station at the clinic next door to the Cedars- Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles ...More...
Martin Luther King Jr.
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I'm sitting here next to my Mother's Dialysis station at the clinic next door to the Cedars- Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles ...More...

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