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Paul Bunyan's Footprint | Deborah Goodwin
Jan. 23, 2013 (ShapeShiftas) -- I'm still recovering from the week last month when my husband was unfortunately away and I had to do ALL the driving. Living here in the middle of nowhere, Vermont, we spend an inordinate amount of time in the car, all day, every day, all over and back again. Quite the change from our Manhattan life, since there we walked everywhere and didn't even own ca...
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Fresh Corduroy | Deborah Goodwin
Jan. 8, 2013 (ShapeShiftas.com) -- Checking out the conditions at our local ski mountain, I read, "Our groomers will be out laying down corduroy on 69 trails for your carving pleasure." NICE!, I think. For a minute I imagine SnowCats spreading rolls, like the most automated of cutting tables, wrapping the slopes in yards and yards of one of my favorite fabrics. (Christo -- call me!) No,...
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Happy New Year 2013 | Deborah Goodwin
Jan. 2, 2013 (ShapeShiftas.com) -- The second day of the New Year got off to a good start -- Restorative Iyengar yoga in the morning, recommitment to the diet that has been successful in 2012, (no gluten, no dairy, no sugar except sometimes wine) and then to one of my resolutions -- resuming my blog. I hope, kind readers, that you haven't missed me too much! Blogging is something like exerci...
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Kung fu nuns teach cosmic energy to CERN scientists | Robert Evans
Nov. 16, 2012 -- GENEVA (Reuters) -- A dozen kung fu nuns from an Asian Buddhist order displayed their martial arts prowess to bemused scientists at CERN this week as their spiritual leader explained how their energy was like that of the cosmos. The nuns, all from the Himalayan region, struck poses of hand-chops, high-kicks and punches on Thursday while touring the research centre where physici...
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Calling All Revolutionary Artists: Raise Your Weapons | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Nov. 19, 2012 “Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.” - Pablo Picasso "Rock ‘n roll was revolutionary for me. Songs were weapons." - Patti Smith When Percy Shelley called poets the "unacknowledged legislators of the world, William Burroughs declared artists to be the "real architects...
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The New American Dream Radio Show With Guests Sam Smith and Sherwood Ross
Aug. 2, 2012 -- 7:30 p.m. -- Co-hosts Mike Palecek and Chuck Gregory are pleased to welcome Sam Smith and Sherwood Ross to The New American Dream Radio Show this week. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN Sam Smith is the editor of The Progressive Review, which has been providing THE NEWS WHILE THERE'S STILL TIME TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT since 1964. Sam has been an informed observer and analyst of news...
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PILLOW TALK: Drivers Wanted | Deborah Goodwin
June 7, 2012 (ShapeShiftas) -- If you could indulge in just one rich-people's perk, a luxury without cost or bad karma, what would it be? For me, it would be a car and driver, hands down. A daily massage would be my second choice, although if I had a car and driver, I don't think I would need the backrubs quite so much. I spend an inordinate amount of time driving here in Vermont, shou...
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PILLOW TALK: Vermont Fashion | Deborah Goodwin
May 18, 2012 (ShapeShiftas) -- It's not an oxymoron to call what we wear here in Vermont "fashion." All apparel can be in a sense called "fashion," and almost everywhere around the world, people wear clothes, so, fashion is everywhere! (This argument was used by a garmento I used to know to talk me into going to work for him. "No one goes naked, therefore business is...
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PILLOW TALK: What's better than Etsy? | Deborah Goodwin
May 8, 2012 (ShapeShiftas) -- It looks like the latest thing in social media is to be social shopping. Sites where you can vend things and buy things and then tell all your Facebook friends about it. There's something called Payvment that I see go by now and then in the FB ads claiming that it's so easy to import your Etsy listings and start selling, and a new one, Copius, (hate the nam...
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A Little Idea | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Occupy a Beautiful Beginning Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 12, 2012 “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.” --Bruce Lee Like many martial artists of my generation, Bruce Lee was a catalyst and inspiration for my own studies. In fact, I specifically opted to take up his original style of Wing Chun Kung Fu. The first fo...
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PILLOW TALK: Duck, Duck, Goose! | Deborah Goodwin
Apr. 16, 2012 (ShapeShiftas) -- Out back, this time of year, we have a lovely pond. It's really a large hole in the ground with a couple of picturesque boulders that fills up with snowmelt and run-off from the hills above. In the spring, this hole is filled with sparkling clear water and tadpoles of the frogs that overwintered by digging into the muddy bottom. The first day of spring for us...
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