#greenshill

[gordiesworld]

#brownsandrussets #autumn #oaks #autumnleaves #autumncolors #greenshill #bassriver #beverlyma #beautyeverywhere #everythingisholy #eveningcommute (at Beverly, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkeXwHCvEhS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[williamvapespeare]

“One Day More,” Les Mis 2019 UK Tour

5th February, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh

Zac Hamilton (u/s Jean Valjean), Nic Greenshileds (Javert), Tegan Bannister (Eponine), Harry Apps (Marius), Bronwen Hanson (Cosette), Martin Ball (Thenardier), Sophie-Louise Dann (Madam Thenardier), Will Richardson (Enjolras)

I’m happy to give the full audio to anyone who wants, just message me!

[greenshi]

Going live with my first ever attempt at hardcore Minecraft, come see how fast I die.

[hdshaw-blog1]

week 5 (1hr)

Diversity through time A focus on the idea that Greenhills is not who they were, Greenhills has changed over time just like the rest of the world. They are progressive and forward-thinking. We will acknowledge the fact that Greensburgh hasn’t had the best representation of diverse community members in the past but have now evolved to a more accepting and diverse society and Greenhills wants to show that their community space represents the current times. Through the idea of time, we will demonstrate that the community house isn't stuck in its old ideas but that it has continued to grow and develop, the nana house is no more! We will use the idea that things change, we will show the development of the community both physically and politically and at the centre of this change is the neighbourhood house, the house itself will be used as a symbol of this development, the logo becomes a symbol for the change of times and for the future progress Greenbough will make.

 Diversity through Community StorytellingIn this exploration of diversity, we focus on the idea that without each community member and without their stories Greenhills isn’t a community at all.We will focus on the idea that the building blocks of this community space is through the individual story. While also proposing that there is an integral piece missing from Greenhills, this piece is the voice of the newest member who is yet to discover their community space. The potential member's story can only enrich and diversify Greenhills. The focus is on how Greenshills have come to a beautiful and open space, not through time but though sharing each of our stories and from building a new community together. ideas write up (park oof document) 

( Written by me after group meeting shared in google doc for all of team 1hr of writing)  

[electrxc-ghost]

Metro Bank, Asia's fintech challengers and Softbank's stake in Greenshill

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[zzihan-blog]

Diversity through Community Storytelling

In this exploration of diversity, we focus on the idea that without each community member and without their stories Greenhills is nothing.

We will focus on the idea that the building blocks of this community space is through the individual story. While also proposing that there is an integral piece missing from Greenhills, this piece is the voice of the newest member who is yet to discover their community space. The potential member's story can only enrich and diversify Greenhills. The focus is on how Greenshills have come to a beautiful and open space, not through time but though sharing each of our stories and from building a new community together

[acg304-blog]

Week 5 Notes

Separating two themes: 

Diversity through time

A focus on the idea that Greenhills is not who they were, Greenhills has changed over time just like the rest of the world. They are progressive and forward thinking. We will start and acknowledge the fact that Greenbough hasn’t had the best representation of community members in the past but have now evolved to a more diverse society and Greenhills wants to show that their community space represents the current community. Through the idea of time, we will demonstrate that the community house isn't stuck in its old ideas but that it has continued to grow and develop, the nana house is no more! We will use the idea that things change, we will show the development of the community both physically and politically and at the centre of this change is the neighbourhood house, the house itself will be used as a symbol of this development, the logo becomes a symbol for the change of times and for the future progress Greenbough will make.

Diversity through Community Storytelling

In this exploration of diversity, we focus on the idea that without each community member and without their stories Greenhills is nothing.

We will focus on the idea that the building blocks of this community space is through the individual story. While also proposing that there is an integral piece missing from Greenhills, this piece is the voice of the newest member who is yet to discover their community space. The potential member's story can only enrich and diversify Greenhills. The focus is on how Greenshills have come to a beautiful and open space, not through time but though sharing each of our stories and from building a new community together.

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Author Amy Lane on what makes Green’s Hill so special #Quickening #LittleGoddess #UrbanFantasy

If you’re a fan of urban fantasy and you haven’t read Amy Lane’s Little Goddess series, you MUST check it out. The series has a lot of similarities to Laurell K. Hamilton’s Merry Gentry series, but without the retina-burning horror elements and the out-of-control menage. Little Goddess is what Merry Gentry could have been. Don’t let that fool you into thinking this series is “safe”. Vulnerable (the first book in the series) will break your heart, and each new book after it will shock you in ways you can’t predict. But that’s what makes this series dynamite. Author Amy Lane is here today with some personal perspective into what makes Green’s Hill (the series’ home base) so very addicting.

Welcome, Amy Lane!

Why Green’s Hill

I’ve heard it from a lot of people over the years—they wish there was a place like Green’s hill. I mean it’s not perfect—privacy is an illusion, monogamy has all sorts of drawbacks and somebody is literally trying to kill you at every turn.

But the pros are also easy to spot: beautiful people, sexual freedom, guaranteed job security doing whatever you like that helps the collective, and let’s not forget immortality or at least a generously increased lifespan.

Who wouldn’t want to live there?

But people who stop at eternal sex and excellent job training are missing the point.

Mental health problems and drug addictions are sort of my milieu. Not mine personally—in fact, a lot of people I hang out with would be hard pressed to remember seeing me drink more than a glass of wine or a single mojito, and there’s a reason for that. But I’ve seen up close the damage done to lives and promising futures and families when self-medicating one problem with another gets wildly out of hand.

When I was teaching, there were a lot of times I saw the signs of kids who were about ready to fall through those same cracks. There wasn’t much I could do for them—helping them pass English, telling them they had a future, helping them find someone to talk to—in the end, I spent less than 4 ½ hours a week with a kid, and much of that was in the company of 35 other people. (California public schools, where class size is no joke.)

And I had a fondness for kids that nobody else seemed to see. The natural smartass—that was my kid. I didn’t care much if they were always on time—what I liked was a kid who knew how to be late. If a kid got to school late every day, entered the room, sat down, and started the warmup so silently that I didn’t see her, seriously? Why get mad? My personal rule of thumb was that if it didn’t disrupt the learning, I didn’t give a rat’s ass, and the kids who bought into that idea were the kids I showed up for every damned day.

So one day, I was driving to work, and got stuck behind a giant hulking land yacht, rumbling at the U-turn where most of the late-ish teachers were idling. As I was staring into space, pondering the latest urban fantasy novel I’d read, I saw a hand with a cigarette hanging out of the window—the sort of bored smoking that a veteran nicotine addict indulges in.

Then I recognized that kid.

I loved that kid.

She was one of my favorites—she’d already submitted to nursing school, and while she wasn’t top of her class, she was definitely going somewhere.

But the nicotine addiction made me so sad.

Because she wasn’t even eighteen, and that was a thing that would follow her through her entire life. I wanted a do over for her—a chance to re-negotiate that part of her life, to come out with the promising future she’d earned and the zero addictions she deserved.

And then (because seriously, this was a frickin’ long light) I thought about fantasy stories. Why did they only serve the introvert, the super smart kid, the exiled nerd? That always seemed sort of self-aggrandizing to me. I mean, yeah, I was that kid, but I didn’t see any of my favorite kids in my books. The disenfranchised. The ones who didn’t test well, or whose hostility got in the way of their brains sometimes. Remember—this was 2000/2001. There was an entire market of YA books of kids who got addicted to meth and then raped by their dealers (no, I’m not kidding!) but there wasn’t much hope in the way of redemption for those kids.

And not only that, but those books… they always made sex seem like such an awful thing. If you have sex, you’ll break up and you won’t be a virgin for your next boyfriend and that’s BAD! Don’t have sex or do drugs because you’ll become perfectly irredeemable as a person and nobody will ever want you again EVER. OH MY GOD, EVERY MISTAKE YOU MAKE WILL BE HELD AGAINST YOU AND YOU WILL BE JUDGED FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!

That’s not the way life works!

Or it shouldn’t be.

One kid doing X at a party shouldn’t get him put in jail for years. One kid who gets high and laid shouldn’t be given up on—ever. And once the addiction started, what then? What happened to that kid whose self-destructive spiral just can’t seem to end?

Because we all know where it does end, don’t we? We’ve seen the commercials and read the literature often enough.

I didn’t make a conscious decision to write Green’s hill that day—but I was writing. When I wrote Cory and Adrian—and then added Green to the mix, I needed Green and Adrian to have a bigger purpose than themselves. They needed to be doing something important, otherwise if Cory ended up with them, she was just trading in one small town dream for another.

And then I realized what job Adrian would be perfect for. What purpose Green’s skill at sex and healing seemed to lend itself to.

If your number one tenet is no shame, and your creed is sensual and consensual, you are the perfect beings to help unfuck the young and the lost, the addicted and the despondent

These two characters—they were agents of redemption. If your number one tenet is no shame, and your creed is sensual and consensual, you are the perfect beings to help unfuck the young and the lost, the addicted and the despondent, those who have been told that their mistakes have rendered them worthless, when the human being who made those mistakes is, in fact, shining and pure and good.

This idea of the found family has become the cornerstone of my writing since then. The theme of forgiveness and empathy being stronger than hatred and shame has crystalized as one of my most dearly held beliefs.

And when I write about Green and Cory, Bracken and Nicky, and dear, darling, beloved Adrian, I am drawn again to the magic of Green’s hill, and reminded that the true magic—forgiveness and unconditional love—are the most human of enchantments.

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  New to the Little Goddess series?

Start with Vulnerable. This is a series you definitely need to read in order! Grab your copy on Amazon below*:

Buy or reserve your copy online at*: Amazon (Kindle) | Dreamspinner Press

Quickening by Amy Lane Published by DSP Publications on May 2nd 2017 Genres: LGBT, Gay, Fantasy, Paranormal, Urban Pages: 316 Add it to your To Read shelf: Goodreads

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Little Goddess: Book Five, Volume One Cory thought she’d found balance on Green’s Hill—sorceress, student, queen of the vampires, wife to three men—she had it down! But establishing her right to risk herself with Green and Bracken had more than one consequence, and now she’s facing the world’s scariest job title: mother. But getting the news that she’s knocked up takes a back seat when a half-elf hunts them down for help. Her arrival brings news that the werewolf threat, which has been haunting them for over a year, has finally arrived on their doorstep—and it’s bigger and more frightening than they’d ever imagined. Cory throws herself into this new battle with everything she’s got—and her men let her do it. Because they all know that whether they defeat this enemy now or later, the thing she’s most afraid of is arriving on a set schedule, and not even Cory can avoid it. The trick is getting her to acknowledge she’s pregnant before she gives birth—or kills herself in denial.

About Amy Lane

Amy Lane has two kids in college, two gradeschoolers in soccer, two cats, and two Chi-who-whats at large. She lives in a crumbling crapmansion with most of the children and a bemused spouse. She also has too damned much yarn, a penchant for action adventure movies, and a need to know that somewhere in all the pain is a story of Wuv, Twu Wuv, which she continues to believe in to this day! She writes fantasy, urban fantasy, and gay romance–and if you accidentally make eye contact, she’ll bore you to tears with why those three genres go together. She’ll also tell you that sacrifices, large and small, are worth the urge to write.

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from Author Amy Lane on what makes Green’s Hill so special #Quickening #LittleGoddess #UrbanFantasy

[gordiesworld]

#greenshill and the #bassriver #autumn #autumnleaves #reflection #ryalside #beautyeverywhere #everythingisholy (at Beverly, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkB2LxxPv73/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thelittleowlblog]

Volunteering: Kilkenny

Kilkenny S.P.C.A Where: Norebank Lodge, Greenshill, Kilkenny Phone: (056) 777 1635 Email: info@kilkennyspca.ie Website: http://www.kilkennyspca.ie/pca.ie Facebook: www.facebook.com/pg/KilkennySPCA Inistioge Puppy Rescue Where: Cliodagh, Inistioge, Kilkenny Puppy Rescue is open 7 days a week and all visitors are welcome! Phone: (056) 775 8626 Email: puppyrescuekilkennyATeircom.net…

[greenshi]

Makin’ some MC skins, come chill! 

[gordiesworld]

Moss from under the snow on #greenshill #ryalside #beverlyma #macrophotography #beautyeverywhere #everythingisholy (at Beverly, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaxtOLkOj7z/?utm_medium=tumblr

[gordiesworld]

#sparrow in the #pompasgrass where #greenshill meets #bassriver #ryalside #beverlyma #beautyeverywhere #everythingisholy (at Beverly, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaFxhcMuH2k/?utm_medium=tumblr

[gordiesworld]

#imreadyformycloseupmrdemille #barredowl #greenshill #ryalside #beverlyma #beautyeverywhere #everythingisholy (at Beverly, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ63IFWOA88/?utm_medium=tumblr

[gordiesworld]

#peekaboo #barredowl #somebodyswatchingme #greenshill #ryalside #beverlyma #everythingisholy #beautyeverywhere (at Beverly, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ5HjjPuWhr/?utm_medium=tumblr