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Raïna interview at VoyageLA page.

[Raïna and her horse Quincy]

Dr. Raïna Manuel-Paris has a multicultural background, born of a French father and a Dominican mother. She was raised in France and England until her early 20’s then moved to the US. Fairy tales and Legends were her refuges. They helped her understand the difficulties of her childhood. By the age of twelve, she had read most of the myths and legends of the world. From Ireland and Russia to Arabia. She holds a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies with emphasis in Depth Psychology from PGI.

She also holds a Masters Degree in Film from Columbia U. She taught Magic and Ritual and Myth and Symbol for 15 years at the Art Institute in Santa Monica, where she also offered guided meditations and somatic energy work. Her own spiritual seeking and evolution has taken her from Bali to the sacred shores of Lake Atitlan in the Guatemalan Highlands of the Sierra Madre… She is also adjunct faculty at PGI where she taught a course in Archetypal Patterns in Cinema. She assisted Dr. Lionel Corbett during his Psyche and the Sacred workshop with its ritual aspect. She has also taught at the Relativity School in Downtown LA. She is a published author of non-fiction and scholarly articles: Trauma War and Spiritual Transformation, Journal of Jungian Thought, 2017; The Mother- to-be Dream Book. Warner Books, 2002.) She is also a poet and published one book of poetry with Raven Books as well as several poems in various publications. Her documentary the Bridges of My Father was selected for the short film corner at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009.

[Raïna's husky mix Numen]

Currently, Raïna splits her time between Los Angeles and Ojai, CA. She works with individuals in a process she calls “The Cradle and the Crown,” assisting men and women in coming to alignment body mind and soul, developing deep aliveness as well as careful listening to the whisperings of their soul’s desire. She also uses the Tarot and other oracle tools to help her clients. She is a speaker /lecturer at the Joseph Campbell roundtable on the Tarot: the 22 universal patterns of transformation and on Love: Primal Agent of Change as well as the Myth Salon in LA. She has given numerous lectures at the Philosophical Research Society and taught workshops based on the Cradle and The Crown process. She practices Natural Horsemanship, with her horse Quincy, and also spends time exploring the Ojai valley with her husky mix, Numen. She also plays the ancient frame drum and sings. She is working to complete a novel with archetypal motifs. She also wrote a play with writing partner Susan Kacvinsky: “Seeking Sophia” which had a staged reading in Los Angeles in 2014.

Her work with students, including many veterans, always emphasizes the ways in which one reconnects the Soul of the World, Anima Mundi, with Corpus Mundi, the body of the world, and how to hold the tension between the inner world and the outer world in a way that engages curiosity and compassion. She worked on an online course “Awakening the Magician Within” as well as on her lecture “What Women Want”. Probably the one thing that has been at the core of her life is the understanding that we are all spiritual beings, whether we know it or not, magical beings with a desire for healing and love. And that archetypal stories, and the ancient mysteries of nature, provide a helpful direction towards an authentic relationship with the Self. Having a life with ritual and contemplation is very helpful as well. Soul, she believes, needs Mystery more than Meaning in order to feel the joy of its divinity.

[Raïna Paris]

Has it been a smooth road? A life is not a smooth ride, ever, if you want to actually live. What I learned as a child was so filled with confusion and misunderstanding, judgment, and rage, I became fear-based and so mixed up inside I had to learn to untangle all the different strands of my life and identify them, like the four impossible tasks given to Psyche, There has been many losses and deep grief along the way as well as health challenges. But always the deepest learning comes from all those challenges as well as the wisdom of the body, Re-learning to listen to the instincts and the intuition, trusting the inner guidance which has always been there but that took time to relearn to trust. I had to learn how to live from a place of inner authority as opposed to outer expectations. The mystical tools, like the Tarot, and the wisdom teachings of the ages, have always been beautiful signposts along the way.

We’d love to hear more about your work and what you are currently focused on. What else should we know? I am not someone who likes to teach or talk about something for the sake of talking. I need to come from love in whatever I do. Specially because I was so fear-based, And I also need to know what I am talking about, what I am trying to convey, not only intellectually but in the body and in the heart. I am a scholar, a guide and a poet. And I do not ever talk about a subject however scholarly without implicating myself on a personal level. It’s not something I decided to do, it’s just how I am. I am always trying to live a life that is absolutely personal and authentic to me and at the same time, share my experience with others in the hopes that it might be helpful or useful.

So I go into the places of the In-Between, of liminality. It is the place of dreams, of imagination, and it is also the world of Nature, where the truth lives, at the threshold between this world and the archetypal world, I work with the tarot from an archetypal viewpoint because it is an ancient wisdom tool and I believe it helps give perspective to this crazy road trip called life, which often seems to spiral back to the same places we have experienced before. I also teach a seminar about the Cradle and the Crown process which helps people connect with the power and passion of childhood joy as well as the wisdom of inner authority. Once the weeds of false beliefs get rooted out, I find there is a beautiful way to live in tune with the Self and the world around us.

[Another photo of Raïna and her horse Quincy]

Let’s touch on your thoughts about our city – what do you like the most and least? I love that the city is surrounded by Nature, so close by, from parks and mountains to ocean.

It is a challenging place with just as many opportunities to heal and transform, as there are opportunities to lose oneself.

Raïna Paris interview at VoyageLA on-line magazine published the 20th May 2020. The name of the person who wrote this article or conducted this interview is not listed.

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More Colorado news outlets got Facebook money. Here’s what it means for them. Your weekly roundup of Colorado local news & media

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Nearly half a million dollars in Facebook money plunked down on six Colorado news outlets this week, part of a multi-million-dollar cash infusion the social networking platform says is to help a hemorrhaging industry.

Across the country, more than 200 local news organizations chopped up $16 million from the tech giant. “These grants stem from $25 million in local news relief funding announced in March as part of Facebook’s $100 million global investment in news,” the company stated.

For Colorado, this was the latest round of FB bucks to drop. In April, this newsletter reported how eight Colorado newsrooms pulled in money linked to the social network run by Mark Zuckerberg, who, Forbes reported, has an estimated net worth of more than $60 billion.

Here are the latest Colorado outlets and how much they, or their companies, received in this latest round of funding:

The Denver Post (Media News Group): $150,000

Animas Del Oeste, LLC / World Journal in Walsenburg: $100,000

Colorado Public Radio: $50,000

The Colorado Sun: $40,000

High Country News in Paonia: $39,450

Left Hand Valley Publishing, LLC / The Left Hand Valley Courier in Niwot: $25,000

Again, these are just the latest grants, made as part of a COVID-19 relief effort. The Sun, for instance, earlier received $60,000 from Facebook. The Colorado Independent received $5,000 linked to Facebook in April.

Nationally, the pool of COVID-19 Local News Relief Fund Grant Program recipients “is notable in that nearly four in five are family or independently owned, half are published by or for communities of color, nearly 40 percent are digitally native publishers, and just over a third are non-profits,” the Facebook Journalism Project stated.

More about how the organizations were chosen:

These grant recipients were selected through a process [led] by the Local Media Association (LMA) and The Lenfest Institute for Journalism and with significant contributions from the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), Local Independent Online News Publishers (LION), Local Media Consortium (LMC), and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB). Past Accelerator participants from the US and Canada are also receiving relief grants to help safeguard the transformation they’ve achieved over the last several years and to capitalize on new opportunities. Remaining funds will be used throughout 2020 to support projects focused on longer-term sustainability in local journalism.

In recent years, Big Tech platforms have siphoned advertising dollars away from news outlets nationwide. Facebook and Google particularly “have used monopoly to rob journalism of its revenue,” argued former USA Today editor Joanne Lipman last year.

Both mega-companies also have created programs to kick some of that cash back into the local news scene, which in turn thanks them for it.

In Colorado, beyond these multiple Facebook grants, Google is funding a newsroom experiment in Longmont. Is this altruism, being a good corporate citizen, or a realization that both large companies need a healthy local news ecosystem to support their bottom lines and also maybe hold regulators at bay as the platforms struggle to limit their roles in the spread of dangerous misinformation online? Regardless of why, is what they’re doing enough? Also: Might it keep some outlets from scrutinizing their behavior? Some news organizations seem loath to take government money for a variety of reasons, but what about money from powerful so-called Net states or “digital non-state actors” some liken to “the equivalent to global superpowers”? All questions to keep in mind as local news organizations scramble to plug holes in a bottomed-out business model that late-capitalism wrought well before the brutal impacts of this current pandemic.

Then again: What are you supposed to say when the editor at a small local newspaper tells you, like one did this week, how a Facebook grant likely kept it from closing? (“Glad to hear it,” was my answer.)

Upon news that The Denver Post earned one of these grants, some readers immediately wondered whether the money would go toward producing more local journalism or be hoovered up by the newspaper’s hedge-fund owner. A very fair question. And the answer to the latter is no, says Daniel Petty, digital director of audience development for Media News Group, which includes the Post. “It has to be spent on reporting and journalism,” he says. That could also mean commissioning freelancers, paying for open records requests for newsgathering, and supporting internships, for instance. About that $150,000 number, though. It might sound big for a single newsroom like the Post but the money will also go to other MNG papers, too, and doesn’t have to stay in Colorado. “It’s being spread around the company,” Petty says. The paper is grateful for the new money (the third grant Facebook has made to The Denver Post), he added, which has helped the paper better ramp up subscriptions.

I pinged a couple of the smaller newsrooms to see what Facebook’s cash meant for them.

From Jocelyn Rowley, editor of The Left Hand Valley Courier:

Our grant funds will be used to bolster our COVID19 coverage, subsidize advertising for struggling local businesses, and provide free subscriptions to elderly and low-income residents. In the coming weeks, we are hoping to add a part-time reporter, an educational outreach specialist, and a social media coordinator, and will begin working with small businesses in the area who want to advertise with us, but are experiencing a financial hardship.

But, I don’t want to overlook the fact that this grant in all likelihood saved the Left Hand Valley Courier. We are a very small newspaper in Niwot, with a small staff and limited resources, and were forced to cut our print edition when advertising revenue plummeted in March. In April, we transitioned to online subscriptions, and the funds provided by the Facebook Journalism Grant will help us continue to publish as we struggle back to profitability under this new scheme.

As for another small news outlet, Brian Orr, co-publisher of the World Journal in Walsenburg, said, “Real basically, we’ll be using the Facebook grant to stay in business.” That paper hasn’t laid anyone off, “and now that threat is lifted,” he said. “We paid our back printing bill, and will be able to sock away ad revenue coming in now for the next big slowdown in the fall.”

‘I got laid off from Westword today’

About two months ago, a newsroom labor union trying to organize its workers announced Westword’s parent company, Voice Media Group, was slashing pay. The employees also warned budget cuts could lead to layoffs. That happened at some of Westword’s sister papers, and now the pandemic-induced contractions have come to Denver.

On May 8, staff writer Chase Woodruff said, “I got laid off from Westword today.” He called writing for an alt-weekly a dream job, and he carried out that dream in the true spirit of the unruly alts of yesteryear with a profane smashmouth style and a social media presence that entertainingly eviscerated the day’s buttoned-down political reportage from D.C. to Denver. As someone who said he planned to vote for Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, these days Woodruff lances the state’s chief executive sometimes better than the governor’s sharpest conservative critic. Woodruff used to have a pinned tweet that quoted Joseph Pulitzer’s creed from 1907, and said about it, “One really striking thing about the National Conversation About Journalism we’ve had lately is how narrowly so many journalists want to define their role. It’s all: we tell stories, we get the facts, we’re defenders of truth. Imagine seeing this from a newspaper editor today.”

Woodruff “pushed Westword in the right direction,” said the paper’s former managing editor, Ana Campbell, who now runs Denverite. On his way out of the alt-weekly world, Woodruff urged his readers to keep supporting Westword “and any other outlet committed to independent, adversarial, occasionally rude and angry journalism. The world needs it.” Indeed it does. (His Westword archive lives here.)

A few days after he was let go, Woodruff penned a powerful essay on his personal website titled “stay mad” that includes a searing media critique. From the manifesto:

It’s obvious who profits from a news media that has grown increasingly sanitized, under-resourced and afraid to be seen as antagonistic or unruly. If you believe at all in the power of the press to make the world a better place, it comes as no surprise that its decline has corresponded with the rise of entire rotten generations of new or newly re-emboldened villains: megalomaniacal tech billionaires and unabashed white-nationalist demagogues, economy-crashing Wall Street robber barons and planet-burning climate deniers, an ever more cartoonish and more powerful tableau of ruthless plutocrats and conspiracist grifters and mercenary political operatives and, not least, the dodderingly despotic reality-television star currently presiding over it all.

Personally, I think we might benefit from more writing like that around here— and hopefully someone might pay him to do it.

How Week Nine of COVID coverage looked on Sunday’s front pages across Colorado

The Gazette in Colorado Springs reported on CDC data showing an undercount of deaths. The Loveland Reporter-Herald reported the latest virus tally. The Longmont Times-Call told readers how the pandemic wasn’t stopping Mothers’ Day festivities in the area. The Greeley Tribune covered a day in the life of eight local residents during the pandemic. The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reported on a sputtering oil-and-gas industry on the Western Slope. The Coloradoan in Fort Collins reported on local restaurant anxiety amid some estimates that one in five of them could close. The Durango Herald covered re-opening efforts in the area. The Denver Post ran a package under the headline “Meat supply chain runs into problems.” The Boulder Daily Camera put a Denver Post Q-and-A with Gov. Jared Polis on the front page.

The governor lauded the local press. And then…

As Republican President Donald Trump continues his anti-media schtick during press briefings and on social media, some governors have taken a different route. They’ve gone out of their way to praise the work of local news outlets during a scary and confusing time.

Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis created a video in which he thanked “our incredible journalists across the state for getting good information into the hands of our residents.” Local news outlets, he said, “are working hard to put out facts, not fear, throughout the pandemic.” By working together “and getting information to, reputable, professional news sources, I have no doubt that Colorado will emerge stronger than ever.”

Some local journalists responded, but not in the way the governor might have expected. From Denver Post senior politics editor Cindi Andrews:

I mean, if @GovofCO wants to show his appreciation for the role of journalists, he can always support stronger state document retention policies and charge less for public information. https://t.co/KnmFquOqOJ

— Cindi Andrews (@CindiinCO) May 12, 2020

“Thanking the press is great,” said Chris Vanderveen of KUSA 9News. “Thinking of how your administration will handle records retention policies moving forward is even better. Committing to full transparency without asking the press to pay thousands of dollars for public records? Priceless.”

Gazette reporter and editor Tom Roeder:

This is a refreshing comment. But complimenting a journalist creates the same reaction as an insult: Increasing our suspicion. :) https://t.co/K03QjzljLj

— Tom Roeder (@xroederx) May 12, 2020

And Chase Woodruff formerly of Westword: “there are some white lies and rhetorical crutches I’m trying to be more tolerant of but sorry, the notion that we’re going to come out of this ‘stronger than ever’ is delusional.”

New site plans to hawk-eye Denver Public Schools

A new digital information site “dedicated to community-based commentary and advocacy-focused coverage of Denver Public Schools” has hit the scene.

Launched by longtime Denver journalist Alan Gottlieb and funded by RootEd, BoardHawk seeks to watchdog the new school board that has “three new members skeptical of the direction the district had taken under its two previous superintendents.” The site’s fiscal sponsor is The Colorado League of Charter Schools.

Here’s what Gottlieb said about the site in an email he circulated recently:

Some of you grizzled veterans might remember that before Chalkbeat existed, I launched EdNew Colorado in January 2008, with Todd Engdahl covering the General Assembly and me soliciting and writing commentaries on the education issues of the day. As I merged EdNews with Elizabeth Green’s GothamSchools to form Chalkbeat, we decided that the edgy commentaries would distract from Chalkbeat’s goal of becoming the most credible and neutral education news source possible. So we did away with that component of what had been EdNews. I’ve always missed the give and take the commentary section provoked, and I’m hoping to revive that here. This site in no way competes with Chalkbeat, which does a stellar job covering Colorado education. What I’m trying to do is provide the op-ed page for Denver education coverage which has been missing for several years.

Gotlieb could have launched the site sooner, “but the Covid-19 crisis delayed us as we waited for what seemed like an appropriate moment,” he said. “Now, however, the school board is about to [swing] back into action, so the time seems right.”

Check out this new site here where it sounds like things could get spicy.

Alt-weekly wags a finger at local dailies. Then…

Last week in this humble little newsletter about the news behind the news I had the embarrassing responsibility of making a correction about a section of the newsletter that, ironically, had highlighted a local newspaper’s front-page correction that had also needed to be corrected. No journalist wants to issue corrections; they’d rather get it right the first time. But when they screw up, which is bound to happen sometimes, they’re supposed to correct them — and swiftly. Also last week, I made the case for why we’re likely to see more typos, errors of fact, and other “howlers” in daily newsprint, leading to more corrections, as more and more editors who do the proofreading are getting laid off.

Amy Gillentine Sweet, who publishes The Colorado Springs Independent, took a different tack, publishing a column in the alt-weekly under the headline “Media should do better in times of crisis — and always.” In it was this:

When the press gets it wrong, it’s just another reason for naysayers to shout, “fake news.” And while we don’t always get it right, we should always immediately correct mistakes and make sure readers understand the facts. Hey, Gazette, I’m talking to you. And to The Pueblo Chieftain, you guys down south. Get it right. When you don’t, admit it and fix it. Let your readers know there was a mistake. The truth is more important than your ego.

Consider last week’s headline in The Gazette, claiming that Leon Kelly of El Paso County Public Health said the county was ready to reopen. They quote Kelly: “We could open businesses tomorrow — open them all — it does not matter if people are too scared to go to those restaurants, too afraid to go to those shops. Our job is to prove that we are ready. El Paso is ready to go.” However, The Gazette failed to report the rest of his statement. Kelly took to social media to correct the record — because The Gazette didn’t.

The alt-weekly column about owning up to errors, omissions, and mistakes was later updated at the end with this: “Clarification: Regarding last week’s publisher’s note, according to Leon Kelly, the media outlet who cut off his remarks was KRDO. While The Gazette also claimed that Kelly wanted to completely re-open the economy in its original coverage, it has since updated the story to more accurately reflect Kelly’s stance.”

Elsewhere in the column, Gillentine Sweet took on The Pueblo Chieftain for that major screw-up I flagged last week. Here’s how she handled it:

…imagine our surprise when the Chieftain printed an editorial allegedly penned by Colorado Publishing House employee and Southeast Express General Manager and Editor Regan Foster. While Regan formerly worked at the Chieftain, she didn’t write the editorial, nor did she contribute to it. She hasn’t been on staff there for more than 18 months. Oops. The Chieftain is owned by GateHouse Media, which says its centralized design team in Austin made the mistake. (We believe you should keep operations local and know your community — and maybe your staff too.)

On social media, Chieftain sports reporter Austin J. White asked for a clarification from the paper.

Can we get a clarification @csindependent? This column sure makes it sounds like the Chieftain didn't run any kind of correction. The paper also is not owned by GateHouse anymore like the story states https://t.co/2FigvsIVE3

— Austin J. White (@ajw_sports) May 13, 2020

(That’s how I read the column, too. The Chieftain’s acknowledgment of its mistake is online here.)

Gillentine Sweet told me she felt she “did say they corrected it — by blaming it on their distant designer” so she doesn’t think a clarification is needed. The following day, this separate clarification appeared in the column: “Some people are pointing out that GateHouse no longer exists as GateHouse. In November 2019, New Media Investment Group, the successor to GateHouse Media, acquired newspaper publisher Gannett. The two companies merged and will operate under the Gannett brand. Subsidiary papers include Pueblo Events and The Pueblo West View.”

Find more of the alt-weekly’s local coverage here.

Mike Littwin moves to The Colorado Sun

️“This is, sadly, my last column for The Colorado Independent. But it’s also, happily, my first column for The Colorado Sun.” That was columnist Mike Littwin’s note to readers today, marking another chapter in the Indy’s ongoing transformation.

From his goodbye/hello column:

I’m gone. I’m back. It’s a weird world, but you already knew that. But first an explanation. I’m leaving The Indy’s employ after seven years because my bosses, Susan Greene and Tina Griego, are going in what we call “a different direction,” which is great for them, great for Colorado, great for journalism, but not so great for me. They are out to help save local journalism in Colorado (they’d never use the word “save” — that’s my take, which I’ll explain in a bit). My mission — as I like to think of it — is not exactly to save the world, but to offer a twice-weekly alternative vision to the surreal one we’re stuck with today.

Now for the big question: Will his writing change? His answer:

But fortunately for me in this new world, my new boss doesn’t want me to change much at all. He wants me to write the column in much the same way I did it at The Indy, which is much the same way I did it at the Post, which is the much the same way I did it at the Rocky, which is much the same way I did it at the Baltimore Sun, which is much the same way I did it at the LA Times. I could go back even further (my first job was covering the Virginia Squires and Dr. J in the old ABA), but, for those keeping score, I’ve been at this for a long, long time — working, in various iterations, as a sports columnist, news columnist, features columnist, op-ed columnist, everything but a men’s-fashion columnist.

Littwin says a lot more about the new direction of The Colorado Independent and its editors, Susan Greene and Tina Griego, and so you should read it here. In their own newsletter today, those editors added this: “The Indy’s thoughtful statehouse reporter, John Herrick, and Forest Wilson, our former intern who has grown into quite the resourceful correspondent, will be ending their stints with us.”

More from that note:

When you come to our site this spring and summer, you’ll find stories from us, from our partners such as Sandra Fish, who is helping journalists and the public root out viral misinformation, and Jeff Roberts, the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition’s public-records and open-meetings watchdog. You’ll find the early fruit of our reporting partnerships. We’ll be highlighting journalism from the Eastern Plains to the Western Slope, from valley to mountain and points in between. You’ll still be able to read Corey Hutchins’s media column as he tracks massive changes to Colorado’s media world. And our guest posts aren’t going anywhere, so please keep submitting.

“Public relations spinmeisters might frame our new mission as innovative – the first alliance nationally between a nonprofit news team, a statewide press association and an organization dedicated to the understanding that local news is a public good,” the editors also say. “Those spinmeisters would not be entirely wrong. The mission is innovative. But it is also practical, a wiser, more strategic way to marshal the strength of newsrooms across the state and to buttress the weaknesses. And it is also an experiment.”

So there you have it. Another news experiment in test-tube Colorado.

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satisfaction-explorations · 5 years

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Maybe the real meaning of being connected to your soul is having access to messages from certain parts of yourself?

e.g. the ‘most important’ parts- whatever those were,

the corest, most internal, or truest parts of yourself (regardless of everything),

or even the messages from most valued parts of yourself?

Would these also include the hardest to reach parts of yourself?

https://animas.org/two-streams-of-animas-valley-institute/

https://animas.org/books/nature-and-the-human-soul/

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Strands-of-a-Personal-Soul-Story--A-Web-of-Numina--Part-1--SM125--Bill-Plotkin-s-weekly-Soulcraft-Musing.html?soid=1102010840526&aid=cwK_l4M5ltw

The problem with knowing yourself too much though is hearing things you don’t like, like in the Underworld Stream mentioned above- responsibilities, duties and what you have committed to (e.g. your family, children, ethics, responsibilities)- are extremely, extremely important to commit to, do properly, and not rip off.

With your soul, you also have the serious problem of internal inaccuracy. Lots of these messages will be from your ancient self- which is the guardian of emotional and physical wellbeing but is adapted to a different time age and time, and needs to adapt to the now. The soul is also the most important parts of an entire lifetime of very random experiences and learnings... and not all of these are correct, or useful, or helpful.

Some people are at point A and really need to get to point J, whatever that it (e.g. some people’s souls are very negative, or unhelpful, or hopeless, or they’re attached to things that don’t really benefit, or they’re unethical, or mean spirited, or they rip people off, or whatever). Making their soul point B- then point C- then point E- then point J and so on- even if it takes months or years- makes it way, way better for both them and for others (meditation?).

Maybe all people experience this to some point? Our souls aren’t meant to be static but are meant to become better through methods?

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Evron Windmiller

"Even if we are not bound by blood, we are bound by soul.” - Everytime his sister would say they were not blood related.

General Characteristics Name: Evron Other Names: Ivy (only from his sister). Titles: The Bloodthirsty (while in slavery), Vengeful (after joining the BloodClaw’s clan). Alternate Forms: Dragonling (human form with dragon secondary traits such has horns or paws). Theme Song: One Reason - Fade. Personal Characteristics Birth Date: Oct 09, 2016. Birth Place: Zephyr Steppes. Hometown: Valley of Four Winds. Death Date: N/A Age at Death: N/A Death Place: N/A Resting Place: N/A Manner of Death: N/A Last Words: N/A Primary Objective: Find his sister. Secondary Objectives: Protect those who can’t protect themselves. Desires: He has no particular desires apart from finding his sister. Secrets: Knows of The Assassin’s past and his real identity. Quirks: He can’t fly. Mental Characteristics Known Languages: Common, Draconic, Eredun (demonic) and Runic are less known. Lures: People he remembers or he thinks he met before. Savvies: Refining weapons, Hunting, Fighting, Sewing. Ineptities: Gathering herbs (they all look the same ???), FIshing. Temperament: Lawful Good. Hobbies: Carving, Picking flowers, Running, Watching the sky. Intellectual Characteristics Logical-Mathematical: Very logical even though sometimes he misses the point. Not so good with math. Spatial: He doesn’t have too much imagination, probably because he is more focused in living in the present than thinking about the future. Linguistic: Good with languages he knows of, very fascinated by foreign languages, gets frustrated when he can’t understand what’s being said. Bodily-Kinesthetic: Very agile, was trained to use his body as a weapon. Musical: He used to like the festival songs of his land, but they soon became forgotten after countless nights of silence. Interpersonal: Sometimes he finds it hard to understand others because he never experienced normal things. Intrapersonal: Costantly tries to act neutral and natural to everyone because he was told that how he was trained to act didn’t suit his current position. Philosophical Characteristics Morality: He acts as a good person is expected or required to act. He combines a commitment to oppose evil with the discipline to fight relentlessly. He tells the truth, keeps his word, helps those in need, and speaks out against injustice. A lawful good character hates to see the guilty go unpunished. Perception: He is a realist on the pessimistic side. If something can go wrong, it will. Spiritual Characteristics Religion: If gods existed they woulnd’t hurt innocent people. Superstitions: He only fears the old tales the men spoke to him about the Old Gods. Virtues: Temperance, Diligence, Humility, Justice. Vices: Greed, Envy, Wrath, Despair. Supernatural Characteristics Ability: No magical abilities. Element: Wind. Strengths: Very good with melee combat. Weaknesses: Gets very dejected when criticized. Restrictions: Can basically become a killing machine but he is scared to immerse himself in his true trained self because he’s scared to hurt others. Likes and Dislikes Likes: Sugary Cookies, Stars, Bright orange, Forget me nots, Running, Long hair. Dislikes: Cold, Too many people or people being too personal with him, Humans, Most fishes. Apparel Equipment: Ravenskull Broadsword, a small dagger, some potions and gauzes. Wardrobe: His relaxed attire is loose sweatpants and a tank top, he usually wears a long sleeved shirt when around others. He wears a golden armor for battle and a full black leather suit for hunting. Social Characteristics Emotional Stability: He got a bit acquainted with facial expression so he tends to relax when around his housemats, however he usually keeps his face blank when getting too emotional or when being serious or cautious. However some sentences can make him snap instantly. Humor: Hatchlings make him laugh a lot because he finds them too cute, jokes never made him laugh much, even less after slavery, even though snarky and offensive jokes never fail to amuse him. Reputation: Most dragons in the clan look at him as a leader and a reference point, some think he is a bit weird but those are only the ones who don’t know about his past. Status: He is usually quiet but can be very passionate on some subjects, always talk loud and clear when acting as a leader while still being kind and listening to others opinions. School and Work Degrees: Never went to an institute. Education: He was educated about loyalties and politics, he is very cultured about specific topics (like weaponry, battle styles and farming) but he is pretty ignorant about history. School: He was taught at the Agency while in slavery. Study Habits: Attention was a must when you were punished for not listening. Learning Type: He is very comfortable associating a concept with a specific word. Occupation: Works for the Assassin, sometimes he goes around scavenging for artifacts requested by other buyers. Boss: The Assassin. Work Schedule: Whenever requested. Income: Depends on the artifact sold. Interpersonal Connections Immediate Family: He has no news from his parents or his sister since the humans enslaved him. Close Relatives: He has no close relatives, his “sister” was just an adopted orphan. Distant Relatives: He has no news about anyone from his old clan. Ancestors: N/A Allies: He doesn’t anyone but the Assassin and Lilith. Enemies: Anyone who exploit those weaker than them. Followers: Electra was always his fan since they were kids. Friends: He prefers not to trust anyone enough to call them friends, but deep down he cares about a lot of people, and a lot of them consider him a friend. Heroes: Heroes are just fame title, everyone who does the right thing can be considered a hero. Pets: He keeps a Sakura Howl named Ai that reminds him of his sister. Rivals: He is very wary of nightbane due to his maliciousness but the only one he can consider his rival is Dathris since he seems to lack any sort of morals. Physical Characteristics Height: 1,77m Weight: 64kg Nationality/Species: Guardian Dragon Skin/Fur Color: Obsidian, Jade, Green. Hair Color: Jade. Hair Length: A little shorter than shoulder lenght. Eye Color: Green Tail Length: Around 7m in dragon form, around 90cm in human form. Tail Color: Obsidian. Scars: A couple on his back and legs, one his lower stomach on the right side and one on his ribcage on the left side. Tattoos and Piercings: No tattoos, his earlobes were pierced, he currently wears rubies or red gems. Locomotion: Digitigrade. Health and Fitness Addictions: He doesn’t like drugs or alchol, his only addition can be food but he’s rather torn between wanting to eat everything and feeling nauseous when he’s too full. Handicaps: His wings were shorn on the edges making him unable to fly. Sexual Characteristics Gender: Male. Orientation: After his slavery he doesn’t really care about the gender of his partners, but he is not really interested in sex anymore. Significant Other: N/A. Story Information Archetypes: Rebel 38%, Caregiver 31%, Athlete 31%. Role: Leader of the BloodClaw’s Clan. Significance: Very important, everyone finds him the person to go to for any of their problem. Personality Anima: Calm and sassy, tends to overshare and shock people with his past. Persona: Blank face, hides his feelings behind coldness and cruelty.

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The Orochi Group

Our wisdom flows so sweet. Taste and see.

TRANSMIT - initiate Kushinada-Hime signal - RECEIVE - initiate eight-branch frequency - BUILDING A BETTER TOMORROW - initiate the seven-dead-daughters syntax - SEIZING THE FUTURE - initiate the Susanoo Proclamation - TRAGEDY STRUCK IN TOKYO TODAY - Flip the Ace of Industry - Witness the Orochi Group

Have you ever had the falling dream, sweetling?

Falling, always falling. You fall so far. You fall into the Unconquerable Sun. The stars go out. You can hear a star scream for aeons and aeons after it's died.

Awake. In the dark. The flicker-glow of the TV. A reassuring commercial for Sycoil energy bleeds into the staccato ad for Diet Zagan Cola. An acrid aftertaste of carcinogen rapture. You reach for a can. Synthetic. No sugar. Weep for the false sweetness, pleasuring your tongue even as it eats your brain cells. You doze.

Have you ever had the eight-branched dream, sweetling?

You cry a name to the heaves, "Yamata no Orochi" - the Eight-Forked-Gargantuan-Serpent. Eight heads and eight tales, its length extends over eight hills and eight valleys, eyes red like winter-cherries. Every year it devours your daughters. You pull out your hair. You look to the clouds and pray for a storm god. You pray that His-Swift-Impetuous-Male-Augustness will come and slay the Eight-Way-Wyrm.

Awake. The television. A commercial for video games by Anansi software. A commercial for Faust Capital. A movie channel, a news network, a children's cartoon station - all under the QBL Media banner. The signal distills divinity into two gods: Stimulus and Response. Wakefulness has its degrees.

Initiate data compiling. Cross-referencing. Distilling the data-stream down to an omni-dimensional Tarot deck. Each card has three sides. Initiate cartomancy. The universe can be viewed rightside up or upside down. Each reveals a truth. Every card can be dealt in the upright or reverse position. Initiate the hand. Deal three cards of the Major Arcana.

Flip the Tower - The Eight-Branch Dragon - The Orochi Group.

THE UPRIGHT POSITION: The largest, most powerful corporation on the planet, the Orochi Group influences every aspect of modern science and innovation - striding forward as a lead player in economical, technological and political fields worldwide, since 1949. Established in Tokyo as an international investment group shortly after World War II, the young corporation attracted the brightest minds. The soil proved fertile, the growth exponential. A few years after conception, Orochi's eight subdivisions took to the global market. Today the enormous conglomerate hosts award ceremonies, donates billions to charities, and encourages youth programs.

THE REVERSE POSITION: There are doors and mainframes that regular Orochi employee security cards will not grant access to. The corporation casts a shadow, and that shadow answers to no outside agency. Rumours of occult research, technology twenty years ahead of its time, elevators that nosy employees enter but never exit - only the board of directors know for sure. The eight heads hold secrets.

Flip the Devil - The Charismatic CEO - designation Samuel Chandra.

THE UPRIGHT POSITION: A handsome face sits at the centre of the eight subdivisions, at Orochi HQ in Tokyo. He smiles from the glossy magazine covers, eyes following you across the room.

THE REVERSE POSITION: He stands against the window, looking down from the apex of a skyscraper. Even this height does not dizzy him, but if he presses his face against the glass and bites his tongue, he tastes blood and feels the fleeting shudder and flutter of recollections that a great height precedes a fall.

Flip the Priestess - the Chairwoman - designation Lily Engel.

THE UPRIGHT POSITION: She controls the board of directors, just behind Mr. Chandra - beautiful, brilliant, and upwardly mobile.

THE REVERSE POSITION: She does not appreciate the old names. We were there. We remember the monstrous nativity. The are tombs that are less haunted than some wombs.

A fourth card lays torn in half: The Lovers. Let us play some more, sweetling. Flip the three-faced cards! Initiate the hand. Deal eight from the Minor Arcana.

Flip the Ace of Pentacles - The Cyan Serpent Head - Váli.

THE UPRIGHT POSITION: A world leader in genetics, DNA research, and biotechnology, Váli produces pharmaceutical drugs that have helped millions overcome disease.

THE REVERSE POSITION: There are closed doors. There are research reports that contain words like "cryptozoology," "cryptobotany," and "paranormal." Their scientists know so much about bees, and so many fragments of the secret world sit on slides and in vials. In the corner of a laboratory, something rattles the bars of its cage while singing lullabies in dead languages.

Flip the Two of Pentacles - The Yellow Serpent Head - Sycoil.

THE UPRIGHT POSITION: A leading oil and power company, Sycoil revolutionised undersea drilling. Recent years see them experimenting in alternate energy solutions to supply the world's constantly growing energy demands.

THE REVERSE POSITION: Secret studies theorise on the use of anima to power technology. Gears and circuits him as they did in ages lost to your kind's memory. Look where that got them.

Flip the Three of Pentacles - The Orange Serpent Head - Zagan.

THE UPRIGHT POSITION: A major producer of packaged foods and drinks, Zagan has released a new line of healthy, genetically enhanced, bioengineered products. Research includes vat-grown meat products which could eliminate the need for animals raised for slaughter.

THE REVERSE POSITION: Board members discuss psychochemical drugs in food as a behavioural modification. In a rain forest, zombie ants shamble up the branches, mind-controlled by the aggressive fungus soon to burst from their bodies. Get the joke?

Flip the Four of Pentacles - The Steel Blue Serpent Head - Manticore Research Group

THE UPRIGHT POSITION: A multinational aerospace manufacturer, global security, and advanced technology company, Manticore develops weapons and defence equipment, satellites, and rockets. Their civilian tech subsidiary builds passenger jets, engines, and turbines.

THE REVERSE POSITION: Anima is gathered to power weapons in secret test facilities. Accidental fatality margins run high, but the cost of company funded funerals and life insurance payouts fall under acceptable expense parameters.

Flip the Five of Pentacles - The Teal Serpent Head - Anansi Technologies

THE UPRIGHT POSITION: Anansi is a high profile computer software and hardware company. Their flashy retail stores, sleek operating systems, game consoles, mobile phones, and multimedia players are found across the globe.

THE REVERSE POSITION: Conspiracy theorist websites and newsletters claim that Anansi is storing information and tracking users through their hyper-modern mobile phones and laptops and conditioning the minds of the masses through games and subliminal control. Anansi's PR department ignores the allegations. The newsletters abruptly cease and the websites close down.

Flip the Six of Pentacles - The Tyrian Serpent Head - Faust Capital.

THE UPRIGHT POSITION: The largest multinational financial institution in the world, Faust Capital covers investment, personal banking, insurance, and stock market trading. In the last six decades, they have uncannily dodged every crash and financial crisis.

THE REVERSE POSITION: Did you hear the news story about a top Faust executive, who was found dead, having leapt from his office window, with charts outlining geomancy and the mystical flow of fortune tattooed to his chest? No. Of course you didn't.

Flip the Seven of Pentacles - The Red Serpent Head - QBL Media.

THE UPRIGHT POSITION: QBL is a media behemoth, owning TV channels in all major markets, a Hollywood movie studio, television and movie production companies, animation and special effects studios, record labels, book publishers, newspapers, magazines, and a handful of theme parks.

THE REVERSE POSITION: Critics claim their ubiquitous presence controls the outcome of presidential elections, directs wars, and sways public opinion. In a digital mass grave of killed data, the story of a certain Faust Capital executive's suicide lies buried.

Flip the Eight of Pentacles: The Green Serpent Head Plethron

THE UPRIGHT POSITION: Closely tied to Váli, Plethron is an agricultural biotechnology company. It uses genetic research to advance farming and pesticides in order to massively increase crop yield, particularly in the third world.

THE REVERSE POSITION: Controversies over their genetically modified food products hover and buzz like blow flies. What are Plethron's intentions? ADD spreads like an epidemic, and it becomes harder to concentrate on such questions with every bite.

Satellites hover over the world like angels, singing to one another in a secret language. The game goes on, sweetling. More cards flip. A tragedy erupts in Tokyo, scattering the deck with nuclear winds. What happened? Perhaps you should ask the Eight-Way-Wyrm.

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Check Out Pet Friendly Ghost Towns With Your Furry Travel Buddy

Visiting animal pleasant ghost communities isn’t

a journey to embark on alone! Simply the thought of these abandoned mining neighborhoods raises scary visions and chilling scenarios. With your faithful(and also furry)travel friend along for the trip, you’re in for an interesting experience. Right here are the most popular animal pleasant ghost towns throughout the country if you’ve constantly been interested about spooky areas. Pet Friendly Ghost Towns in America Animas Forks– Colorado Situated high in the San Juan Mountains at 11,200 feet, Animas Forks was a breaking mining area by 1876.

Every fall the residents relocated south to

the warmer town community Silverton for the winterWinter months By 1910, a lot of the mining had actually ended, as well as by the 1920s, Animas Forks was abandoned to the ghosts. You’ll find expository pamphlets and maps of the ghost community in the parking lot. And entrance to the structures is unlimited, however make sure since some are vulnerable. Bannack– Montana The Montana gold thrill began in Bannack in 1862 when John White located gold in Grasshopper Creek. For almost a years, the community’s populace fluctuated yet by the 1950s the gold as well as a lot of individuals were gone. Currently the site is a state park where you and your family pet can stroll amongst the 60 staying frameworks. There are likewise extracting artifacts as well as a cemetery. Batsto Village– New Jersey Found between

Philadelphia as well as Atlantic City in

New Jersey’s Pine Barrens, Batsto Village is a wonderfully maintained town with roots dating back to 1766. This former iron and glassmaking community has lots of intact structures and a number of nature tracks, consisting of a scenic walk along Batsto Lake. Bring a barbecue lunch and spend the day at this pet friendly ghost town! Bodie– California Bodie When silver and also gold were discovered in the Sierra Nevadas in 1875, ended up being a boomtown. Throughout its prime time, 10,000 people stayed below

, with the last couple of leaving in the 1940s. Today, the ghost town is a state park where more than 150 buildings are being protected in a state of”jailed degeneration.”The interiors remain as they were left, equipped and also stocked with items, with just ghosts roaming the halls. Cahawba– Alabama Carved out of the wild in 1819, Cahawba was Alabama’s initial capital. The state transformed the place of the funding in 1826, Cahawba continued to grow into a affluent and also flourishing river town. By 1870, nonetheless, the populace decreased to 300. By the millenium, the majority of Cahawba’s structures

were shed to fire, degeneration,

or dismantlement. Today at this pet dog friendly ghost community, you can take a self-guide tour of the landscape of damages, relics, columns, and gravestones, hike the nature route through Cahawba’s Town Commons, and also appreciate a picnic neglecting the Alabama River. Calico Ghost Town– California Calico sprung up in 1881 during the largest silver strike in California. With 500 mines, the community created over$20 million in silver ore during the following 12 years. However when silver shed its worth in the mid-1890s, Calico passed away. In the 1950s, Walter Knott acquired Calico and also restored all but 5 of the initial structures to look as they carried out in the 1880s. Today you and your family pet

are welcome to discover Calico Ghost Town’s history

as well as tourist attractions, as well as the stores and dining establishments. They additionally use a camping area, if you and also your animals do not mind oversleeping a ghost community! LEARNT MORE ⇒ Route 66– Pet Friendly Sights from Chicago to Santa Monica Garnet– Montana Hidden high in Montana’s Garnet Mountains, the community of Garnet was called for the semi-precious stone mined below. In 1912, a fire ruined several structures, as well as by the 1940s the town was a bust. Today you can see the 30 staying structures and discover more background of the area by taking a family pet pleasant walk on the Warren Park Trail, the Sierra Mine Loop Trail, and the Placer Trail. Goldfield Ghost Town– Arizona Goldfield, an hour eastern of Phoenix, is a family pet friendly ghost community that’s been resuscitated as a living background museum. You and your family pet can tour the gold mine, pan for gold, take a narrated flight on the slim gauge railway, and also see an Old West gunfight in the road. Keep in mind that family pets need to use their leashes and also can not go in the stores on major road or the basic store. Kennicott– Alaska With it’s red structures set in the rugged Alaskan hills, Kennicott is among the most picturesque pet dog friendly ghost communities you’ll discover. Established in 1903, this was a dynamic

mining camp filled with

miners and their households. But by 1938, the copper had actually run out and only

ghosts roamed the town. Today, it’s a prominent vacationer destination, and also the National Park Service is working to preserve most of the mill and town buildings. The only method to reach Kennicott is by foot or the animal friendly shuttle. McCarthy Road finishes at a footbridge that crosses the Kennicott River, approximately 5 miles from the community of Kennicott. Remember, services are restricted as soon as you begin your trip. Lodging, restaurants, as well as a bar are available at McCarthy and Kennicott, and appointments are suggested. Rhyolite– Nevada Rhyolite grown in 1904, when gold was uncovered near California’s Death Valley. Virtually over night the town grew to consist of hotels, shops, an institution for 250 children, an ice cream parlor, ice plant, two electrical plants, shops and factory, and a healthcare facility. Sadly, it was throughout by 1916. Today you can watch the residues of Rhyolite’s magnificence days. Some of the walls of the 3-story bank building are still standing, as is part of the old prison. The train depot and the Bottle House are two of the few total buildings left in the community. Saint Elmo– Colorado Saint Elmo was a gold and silver mining camp, as well as is one of the most effective maintained ghost towns in Colorado. There are dozens of

buildings still standing

, consisting of the court house, barroom, and also a couple of personal residences. It’s taken into consideration a ghost community, individuals still live in St. Elmo, and also tourism brings lots of people to community every year.

There are ATV trails, fishing, and the basic store is open all summer season long. READ MORE ⇒ Ride the Pet Friendly Gondola in Telluride, Colorado South Pass City– Wyoming Positioned in the Wind River Mountains, South Pass City got its start in the summer season of 1867 when gold was found by a team of Mormon miners. By 1868, the community hummed with enjoyment, and its half-mile long main street boasted various resorts, restaurants, general shops, 2 papers, doctors

, a bowling alley, and lots of hangouts

. Sadly, mining in the location struck a slump, and also by 1872, the community was occupied by just a couple of hundred people. Today, South Pass City is a state historic website with 23 original structures as well as 30,000 artefacts. The park is open from mid-May to late-September, and you as well as your pet can check out the town and enjoy nearly five miles of animal pleasant hiking tracks. Tahawus– New York Embeded the Adirondacks, Tahawus lies in between Lake George as well as Lake Placid. The town was established in 1826 to mine iron ore down payments, and also at its top the neighborhood included 2 ranches, mining and also smelting facilities, a saw mill, 16 residences, a school, as well as a bank. However troubles delivering the product to market caused the community’s ultimate desertion. Today, you’ll find several residences, barns, and the renovated blast furnace from the mining operation. Terlingua– Texas Terlingua is a previous mercury-mining community, located in the remote Big Bend location of western Texas. The ghost community began its new life as an off-beat traveler destination when mining finished in the 1940s. Deserted and also worn out buildings, mine shafts, and the old cemetery now stand along with the trading post, Starlight Diner, and old jail(now bathrooms). For a real reward, strategy to visit during the world-famous globally chili cook-off, which takes place each November. LEARNT MORE ⇒ Exploring Big Bend, Texas With Dogs Thurmond– West Virginia Thurmond was the heart of West Virginia’s New River Gorge, with the railway lugging coal and hardwood from the surrounding area. At its top, the community had 2 hotels, 2 banks, dining establishments, clothes shops, a fashion jewelry shop, movie theater, several dry-good shops, and also several office. With the onset of the Great Depression, the economy failed, and also two large fires cleaned out several major organizations. Today the National Park Service is functioning to stabilize the buildings in pet pleasant Thurmond ghost community till they can be fixed up or recovered. You as well as your pet can roam amid vacant buildings, and also delight in the nearby hiking tracks. FOUND OUT MORE ⇒ Visit West Virginia’s Monongahela National Forest With Pets

location. However the community’s blossom discolored swiftly. By the early 1870s Virginia City’s population had actually been lowered to just a few hundred. Today, the pet dog friendly ghost town of

Virginia City has more than 200 historical

structures as well as supplies a number occasions for site visitors. You’ll likewise find museums, stores, dining establishments, and holiday accommodations. Throughout your browse through, do not miss the reconstructed ghost town of Nevada City, simply a mile away as well as connected by railroad. We hope these suggestions inspire you to embrace the spirit of the period! Appreciate checking out several pet friendly ghost towns with your hairy travel pal.

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Check Out Pet Friendly Ghost Towns With Your Furry Travel Buddy

Visiting animal pleasant ghost communities isn’t

Every fall the residents relocated south to

Philadelphia as well as Atlantic City in

were shed to fire, degeneration, or dismantlement. Today at this pet dog friendly ghost community, you can take a self-guide tour of the landscape of damages, relics, columns, and gravestones, hike the nature route through Cahawba’s Town Commons, and also appreciate a picnic neglecting the Alabama River. Calico Ghost Town– California Calico sprung up in 1881 during the largest silver strike in California. With 500 mines, the community created over$20 million in silver ore during the following 12 years. However when silver shed its worth in the mid-1890s, Calico passed away. In the 1950s, Walter Knott acquired Calico and also restored all but 5 of the initial structures to look as they carried out in the 1880s. Today you and your family pet

are welcome to discover Calico Ghost Town’s history

mining camp filled with

miners and their households. But by 1938, the copper had actually run out and only ghosts roamed the town. Today, it’s a prominent vacationer destination, and also the National Park Service is working to preserve most of the mill and town buildings. The only method to reach Kennicott is by foot or the animal friendly shuttle. McCarthy Road finishes at a footbridge that crosses the Kennicott River, approximately 5 miles from the community of Kennicott. Remember, services are restricted as soon as you begin your trip. Lodging, restaurants, as well as a bar are available at McCarthy and Kennicott, and appointments are suggested. Rhyolite– Nevada Rhyolite grown in 1904, when gold was uncovered near California’s Death Valley. Virtually over night the town grew to consist of hotels, shops, an institution for 250 children, an ice cream parlor, ice plant, two electrical plants, shops and factory, and a healthcare facility. Sadly, it was throughout by 1916. Today you can watch the residues of Rhyolite’s magnificence days. Some of the walls of the 3-story bank building are still standing, as is part of the old prison. The train depot and the Bottle House are two of the few total buildings left in the community. Saint Elmo– Colorado Saint Elmo was a gold and silver mining camp, as well as is one of the most effective maintained ghost towns in Colorado. There are dozens of

buildings still standing

, a bowling alley, and lots of hangouts

Virginia City– Montana Perched high in Montana’s Rocky Mountains, Virginia City got started when gold was uncovered in Alder Gulch in 1863. Within a year, 10,000 people were residing in a number of mining camps in the location. However the community’s blossom discolored swiftly. By the early 1870s Virginia City’s

population had actually been lowered to just a few hundred. Today, the pet dog friendly ghost town of

Virginia City has more than 200 historical

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Job: Fort Lewis College Assistant Professor Gallery Director / Studio Art (Durango, CO)

Job Information

Location:

Durango, Colorado, 81301, United States

Job ID:

51511308

Posted:

November 1, 2019

Position Title:

Assistant Professor Gallery Director / Studio Art

Company Name:

Fort Lewis College

Job Function:

Education

Entry Level:

Job Type:

Full-Time

Job Duration:

Indefinite

Min Education:

Master's Degree

Required Travel:

0-10%

Salary:

$54,000.00 - $54,000.00 (Yearly Salary)

Description

The Fort Lewis College Department of Art & Design invites applications for a new tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level starting in the fall semester of 2020.

The College and the Community

Fort Lewis College, a public institution located in Durango, Colorado, offers degree programs in arts, business, education, health fields, humanities, social and natural sciences, and teacher education. Our inspiring mountain campus is located atop a scenic mesa overlooking historic Durango and situated between the San Juan Mountains and the desert Southwest. We are committed to accessible and high-quality baccalaureate education, and our hallmarks are remarkably close relationships between students and faculty, the freedom of intellectual exploration, and the challenge of experiential learning. Our 3,300 students come from 48 states, 17 countries, with 36% Native American and Alaska Native backgrounds, and 11% Hispanic backgrounds. Durango is a thriving multicultural community of 18,500 set along the beautiful Animas River Valley. Averaging 300 sunny days per year, the community is known for its outdoor lifestyle and friendly, festive atmosphere. Durango is also the cultural and economic hub of the Four Corners region, rich in dining, shopping, and entertainment, and linked with airline service to hubs in Denver, Phoenix, and Dallas.

About the Department

The Department of Art & Design is housed in a specially designed facility. Nine full-time faculty serve approximately 200 majors. The average student to faculty ratio is 20:1 for lower division courses and 12:1 in upper division courses. The Fort Lewis College Art Gallery brings regional and national art and design exhibitions to campus. The gallery is a critical part of academic programming providing students, faculty and community members with a venue that supports research, education and creative exploration.

Requirements

Primary responsibilities

Gallery director responsibilities

Advance the gallery’s artistic and educational profile via an 8-month exhibition schedule, developed in consultation with Art & Design faculty

Schedule receptions and artist events

Manage routine aspects of the gallery including budget, insurance, art transportation, artist contracts

Promote exhibitions and events via press releases, mailings, social media, and up to date gallery page of Art & Design website

Advance the profile of and opportunities for student interns

Pursue external funding, public and private, to supplement gallery budget

Identify maintenance, safety, and accessibility issues and advise department chair on these matters

Expand campus and community engagement with gallery activities

Teaching responsibilities

Teach 2 courses of per semester, 2 terms per year, including a gallery management/professional practices class

Teach other courses in the candidate’s area of expertise

Participate in college and departmental service and governance, and contribute to other program responsibilities

Required Qualifications

M.F.A. in Studio Art

Excellent written and verbal skills

Ability to work in an interdisciplinary, collaborative liberal arts setting

Experience in museum, gallery, or arts administrative setting

Knowledge of installation and transportation of works of art

Record of professional accomplishments relevant to the position

Preferred Qualifications

M.F.A. in three-dimensional focus preferred, but candidates with Studio Art degrees in other disciplines are encouraged to apply

Ability to teach courses such as Ceramics, Sculpture, and 3D Design

Curatorial experience

Successful record of grant writing and fundraising

Experience in marketing and public relations

Experience working in a supervisory role

Two years college level teaching experience

Compensation

$54,000 annually plus a comprehensive benefits package. Start date August 15, 2020.

Application Process A complete application packet includes:

Cover letter addressing interest and qualifications for position

Include details regarding how your course design and personal and professional experiences allow you to encourage a learning environment grounded in equity and inclusion.

Curriculum vitae

15 examples of candidate’s work

15 examples of student work (if available)

Names and contact information for three current, professional references

Submit materials as one PDF file (10 MB limit) via email to:

[email protected]

With subject line “Last Name – Gallery Director / Studio Art”

Please address inquiries about the position to Chad Colby, Professor of Art & Design and Search Committee Chair.

All complete applications received by December 16, 2019 will receive full consideration. The positions will remain open until filled.

The successful candidate will be required to submit original, official college transcripts,

and pass a background check.

Equal Opportunity

Fort Lewis College does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, color, religion, national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, political beliefs, veteran status, pregnancy, or genetic information. Accordingly, equal opportunity for employment, admission, and education shall be extended to all persons. The College shall promote equal opportunity, equal treatment, and affirmative action efforts to increase the diversity of students, faculty, and staff. The College is dedicated to building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment; applications from underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged.

ADAA Accommodations

Any person with a disability as defined by the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA) may be provided a reasonable accommodation upon request to enable the person to complete an employment assessment. To request an accommodation, please contact Kristin Polens by phone 970-247-7459 or email [email protected] at least five business days before the assessment date to allow us to evaluate your request and prepare for the accommodation. You may be asked to provide additional information, including medical documentation, regarding functional limitations and type of accommodation needed. Please ensure that you have this information available well in advance of the assessment date.

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bev100world · 5 years

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Meeting Christ Within Us Going to the Depths Wednesday, May 29, 2019 Christianity’s foundational belief is always incarnation. Yet Christians in the West have focused on abstract ideas instead of actual transformation into our own incarnate humanity. Now that very humanity has grown tired of disembodied spiritualities that allow no validation or verification in experience. Thus, many religions hide an actual agenda of power and control, obfuscating and distracting us from what is right in front of us. This is exactly what we do when we make the emphasis of Jesus’ Gospel what is “out there” as opposed to what is “in here.” For example, insisting on a literal belief in the virgin birth of Jesus is very good theological symbolism, but unless it translates into a spirituality of interior poverty, readiness to conceive, and human vulnerability, it is largely a “mere lesson memorized” as Isaiah puts it (29:13). It “saves” no one. Likewise, an intellectual belief that Jesus rose from the dead is a good start, but until you are struck by the realization that the crucified and risen Jesus is a parable about the journey of all humans, and even the universe, it is a rather harmless—if not harmful—belief that will leave you and the world largely unchanged. Many Westerners today are now reacquiring and accessing more of the skills we need to go into the depths of things—and to find God’s Spirit there. Whether they come through contemplation, psychology, spiritual direction, shadow work, the Enneagram, Myers-Briggs typology, grief and bereavement work, or other models such as Integral Theory or wilderness experience [1], these tools help us to examine and to trust interiority and depth. One of the most profound spiritual experiences of my life came in 1984 during a journaling retreat in Ohio led by the psychotherapist Ira Progoff (1921–1998). [2] Dr. Progoff guided us as we wrote privately for several days on some very human and ordinary questions. I remember first dialoguing with my own body, dialoguing with roads not taken, dialoguing with concrete memories and persons, dialoguing with my own past decisions, and on and on. I learned that if the quiet space, the questions themselves, and blank pages had not been put in front of me, I may never have known what was lying within me. Progoff helped me and many others access slow tears and fast prayers, and ultimately intense happiness and gratitude, as I discovered depths within myself that I never knew were there. I still reread some of what I wrote over forty years ago for encouragement and healing. And it all came from within me! Today we are recovering freedom and permission and the tools to move toward depth. What a shame it would be if we did not use them. The best way out is if we have first gone in. The only way we can trust up is if we have gone down. That has been the underlying assumption of male initiation rites since ancient times but, today, such inner journeys and basic initiation experiences are often considered peripheral to “true religion.” Gateway to Presence: If you want to go deeper with today’s meditation, take note of what word or phrase stands out to you. Come back to that word or phrase throughout the day, being present to its impact and invitation. [1] See, for example, Illuman, Outward Bound, Bill Plotkin’s Animas Valley Institute, New Warrior Training. [2] See IntensiveJournal.org. Adapted from Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe (Convergent: 2019), 114-115. Image credit: Knot the One, by Karen Jacobs, 1993. Used with permission of the artist.

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wdt-art-blog · 6 years

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PNG is NOT the place to test these, but a bigger reminder of things:

https://animas.org/two-streams-of-animas-valley-institute/

https://animas.org/books/bill-plotkins-soulcraft-musings/newsletter-archive/

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wildcard-love · 7 years

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Gratitude without Attachment?

I had the opportunity recently to fall in love again with the Buddhist philosophy of non-attachment during an Animas Valley Institute program in Scotland. We had spent the morning unsuspectingly creating a 'bundle' of things that were totally unique to us as individuals. Things we were born with ~ gifts, fascinations, passions, qualities, skills even. We got ourselves a list, a sense, a clearer picture via deep imagery of what our Mytho Poetic* identity was and I, for one, was starting to feel good about that. Deeply moved and excited in fact.

Then we were instructed to go out to the land, find somewhere that both scared and allured us. Somewhere that made us feel unsafe, uncomfortable, uneasy (not physically but psychologically). Then we were to let go of our attachment to the bundle we had been gathering all morning.

Wow! Game changer! Ok, I get it....... I felt excited about this potential release of what I then realised was a burden I'd been carrying.

After some meanderings I came to a place where there was a long, deep and dark drop. It was actually both physically and psychologically scary.

I spent some time there and entered in to a conversation with the place and myself. I don't need to share all of what happened there but I did let go of my attachment to my Mytho Poetic identity. And it was so liberating! I felt such a huge relief afterwards.

Now, this is something I have spent years crafting, honing, and praying for so in this process I realised just how much I had been grasping to it all like a linch-pin to any meaning of my existence.

I realised something else which leaves me slightly on edge ~ through my commitment to giving thanks, to always showing my appreciation to the Mystery for showing me the gifts I am here to share and, more often recently, giving me the opportunity to share them, I have become more attached to the gifts. Through the very act of saying Thank You I have unconsciously become more attached not only to the gifts but also to my sharing of them. It's as if, by expressing my gratitude, some kind of ownership has developed. That thing has become more mine than it was.

I am left wondering how to then be in the place of gratitude without getting attached to the thing I am expressing gratitude for?

A practice ensues. A new way of being with my soul identity, the thread I was born to live, and giving thanks for that without any expectation that it will remain that way, or that it in some way has a hallmark on it (despite the Mystery – in it's imaginal, not-too-straight-forward-kind-of-way - telling me that it has just that). Not only that, but if I am to adhere to the Buddhist way (and I would wish to follow their lead on this one – goodness knows they've done the research!) then I would want to look into my relationship to myself as an entity. To imagine that I am those gifts and to identify with this being called Rebecca in such a strong way is to miss out on the gift of their teachings on Emptiness: that nothing in and of itself exists. And the only real way of realising Emptiness (without having a rare, one-off enlightment experience) is to meditate. A lot.

I used to do this and I am willing to do this again – longing to in fact. And yet, I am curious to find out if it is possible to offer thanks and hold the awareness that I am not actually my Mytho Poetic identity. Indeed, that there is no identity whatsoever. Boom! Give thanks with a quality of lightness. Notice how I am offering the gratitude – do I want more? Is there a stuck, slightly tight feeling around the thanks? Does it feel like I am trying to own what I am thankful for?

Well, that's the best I can do. For now. And some day soon I will be sitting back on the cushion, eyes closed, breathing in, breathing out, until that is all there is. No me, no identity, no thing. Just an immense gratitude.

*the term Mytho Poetic was coined by Daniel Deardorff in his book 'The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in myth, culture and psyche' and eludes to the part of each of us that is the completely unique creative expression of soul.

I leave you with the glorious poem by William Stafford named The Way It Is ~

There is a thread that you follow. It goes among

things that change. But it doesn't change.

People wonder what it is you are pursuing.

You have to explain about the thread.

But it is hard for others to see.

While you hold it you can't get lost.

Tragedies happen; people get hurt

or die; and you suffer and get old.

Nothing you do can stop time's unfolding.

You don't ever let go of the thread.

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