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bgallen · 8 months ago

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The Friday list is FINALLY back!

It has been quite a bit of time since my last Friday list, five months to be more exact. This year has flown by, and it has already been full of some hard things and some great things. The hard things don’t necessarily outweigh the great things, but the hard does seem to consume more brain power.

In March I was able to spend a week in Sedona with some good friends and I saw the Grand Canyon for the first time in person. It is an incredible place that no picture can do justice to. We took so many pictures trying to capture the depth and layers to the canyon, but no mere iPhone can quite capture it. I am including some of my favorite shots from my time there.

Without further ado, here is my first Friday list of the Summer. I hope that you enjoy and can find something that you enjoy. Happy weekend!

Here are some links to commemorations of the 80th anniversary of D-Day, which was yesterday!

D-Day Veterans return to Normandy 80 years on

D-Day 80: Remember Them, “I am not a hero, I just did my job. The real heroes are laying here on the cemeteries. These are our heroes and we should never forget them.”

WWII veterans visit Omaha Beach to mark 80th anniversary of D-Day, “less than 1% of the men who fought on D-Day are still with us.”

Tombstones of fallen WWII soldiers lit up Normandy cemetery for D-Day commemorations

How D-Day unfolded: Newly restored, rare footage from the CBC archives

Honoring the women of Normandy on 80th anniversary of D-Day

D-Day Anniversary: Hundreds Watch Stunning Sunrise Over Normandy Beaches

Archive Video Of The D-Day Normandy Landings

D-Day Footage in Color.

Podcast:

History That Doesn’t Suck, hands down my favorite podcast.

“Think of HTDS as covering the basics of what an American should but possibly doesn't know (or has forgotten) about history. The episodes are roughly one hour, story-driven, and irreverently educational. Each episode stands on its own as a story, but taken together, they will also walk you through a survey of US history that starts with the Revolution and will (eventually) go right up to the present. It's everything you need and want to know. And it's a damn good time.”

Music:

Richard Goodall Receives The GOLDEN BUZZER for “Don’t Stop Believin” | Auditions | AGT 2024, what a beautiful tone he has and I love how there is one part of the song where he goes down instead of up and it adds the nicest tweak to the song.

Jelly Roll feat. T-Pain – Should’ve Been a Cowboy (Amazon Music Original), I love this pairing for this song!

Ben Fuller – “O Death” (Truthful Sessions), a beautiful rendition of a traditional Appalachian folk song.

Beyoncé – 16 CARRIAGES (Official Lyric Video), I am not a country fan nor do I prefer Beyoncé’s solo work but I have really enjoyed this album and this is my favorite song from the album.

To watch:

Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors | Official Trailer | Netflix, an incredible burial site where they continue to learn more about the site.

BRATS | Official Trailer (2024), this looks to be so interesting.

#history #music #fun #fridaypost #weekendpost #weekend #funjoy #remember #dday #wwII #grandcanyon #travel #photography #beauty #nature

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rastronomicals · 1 year ago

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Been listening to The Great Destroyer all day.

And it's like this movie is playing in my head, this neo-noir hardboiled whodunnit. Not sure how well the lyrics would agree if I broke it down, but:

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The Man and His Wife are living on a farm in West Kansas. The work's hard and the money's OK, but the relationship, it's not good.

On a night that involves some fucking ("Monkey"), the toxic detente they had is broken.

In the morning after the dust has settled, it's agreed: they'll sell the farm and move to Los Angeles ("California").

But it's no good, they sell the farm but they break up before they get to Los Angeles so they are each dropped in LA alone, by themselves. ("Everybody's Song").

The woman there meets a dark shady man nicknamed The ("Silver Rider"), guess he'd worked as a cowboy, or maybe he was just a mediocre actor, who gives her in an unconsidered moment the Macguffin of the album title.

And she falls in with him. Theirs is a violent relationship, no uneasy detente or spaces unfilled, it's heavy with menace and violence, loud arguments, thrown glass, the sex is bondage with weapons, stilettos, leather. ("Just Stand Back")

And it gets her killed. The Silver Rider's got some kind of conman scam with The Great Destroyer as the lure in mind; he wants the MacGuffin back from the woman who used to be The Wife, but she's pawned it for clothes, stupid frilly clothes, so he kills her with a jade bludgeon though he probably shouldn't have and he certainly didn't have to ("On the Edge Of").

Two mornings later, Her ex-Husband reads about her found corpse in the LA Times {"Death of a Salesman"), and after stumbling around a bit through the downtown streets, stumbles into the dick's dusty office with the smoked glass insert in the door and the empty hatstand in the corner and it takes him five minutes to hire the detective.

At some point later on, the gumshoe has to go to a law office? A bank? And in this huge waiting room, the mural on the wall is the cover art of the album, suggestive of the 10,000 ft cloud palisades of the California coast. But though the detective quickly susses what's happened, and by whom, The Silver Rider has disappeared.

It's like Chinatown, Jake, there's no saving anybody no retribution for anybody and in the end the gumshoe has the truth and so does the ex husband but so what, and everybody complicit skates, including the Silver Rider, who's last seen entering with shaven head the ziggurat-like monastery of a violent, tattooed, betel-nut chewing sect in Burma.

Cut back to California. The dick in full uniform, cheap dark suit, trenchcoat and fedora, the beach sand in his shoes, takes a "Walk Into the Sea," to cleanse himself of the awful case.

http://lahistoriadelamusicarock.blogspot.com/2023/09/low-great-destroyer.html

#Low #The Great Destroyer

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terrainofheartfelt · 4 years ago

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SVDW - A Playlist

over the course of one train commute, I was hit with inspiration for a playlist for Best Girl, Serena. There's a lot of Kesha. It's mostly Kesha.

(it does get sad I'm very sorry)

playlist link

Track listings and color commentary under the cut.

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My Own Dance - Kesha "You're the party girl, you're the tragedy" / But the funny thing's I'm fucking everything

Boys - Lizzo the sex positive anthem our girl deserves!

From the playboys to the gay boys / Go and slay, boys, you my fave boys

Crazy Beautiful Life - Kesha With the parties, the disasters / With my friends, all pretty and plastered

Vegas - Sara Barellies the beginning of the restless anywhere-but-here-themed songs

It's always just around the corner or you're / On your way to somewhere / That is bigger or better / If you could only get there

the last great american dynasty - tswift ah yes, the classic Rhodes family folk ballad

She had a marvelous time ruining everything

Eden - Sara Bareilles It's the whole, the life that looks outwardly perfect is actually less than great. And Sara, of course, knows how to carry an extended metaphor: Eden, Eve, fallen woman, etc.

Let me paint a picture for you / Then I'll have to teach you to see it / Illustrate the remnants of the life / I used to live here in Eden

Thursday - Jess Glyne The beginning of the Serena Sads

I won't wear makeup on Thursday / I'm sick of covering up

Secret Life (feat. Lana del Rey) - Bleachers blairena. it's blairena.

You're always looking like a photograph just took / Acting high life, reading your old Russian books / Don't I know that you think I think I'm better than I am

Colors - Halsey this song is like: is she the subject? is she the narrator? I like that it's a little bit of both

Your little brother never tells you but he loves you so / You said your mother only smiled on her TV show

Wanderlust - Frank Turner is it a Liz Playlist without her shoving some Frank in there? in truth though, this also strikes me very much as a song for a girl who keeps getting pulled elsewhere. I didn't really think it at first, but now on repeated listens this has a Sad Blairena Vibe which I'm kinda into.

I didn't choose, no, I was chosen / By a life that must be lived in passing through

I Am Disappeared - Frank Turner these songs are getting sadder and sadder. my apologies

I sleep with my passport / One eye on the back door / So I can always run / I can get up, shower, and in half an hour I'll be gone

Go Where You Wanna Go - Echo in the Canyon

the first of several break up songs on this playlist. and it's a nod to the writers in Laurel Canyon, which I firmly believe Serena loves.

You don't understand / That a girl like me can love just one man

Someone New - Hozier Love with every stranger / The stranger the better

Beach House - Carly Rae Jepsen so many boys. much boys

I've been on this ride / This roller coaster's a carousel / And I'm getting nowhere

No More Virgos - CMAT enough boys!

My mental health is banking on my chastity / And you're bad for me, although / I only made that deal with myself / And you're treating me well

Don't Know Why - Norah Jones More wandering heart, wandering soul vibes

Something has to make you run / I don't know why I didn't come

Just Like a Woman - Bob Dylan It's her! or her, pov Daniel...

'Til she finally sees that she's like all the rest / With her fog, her amphetamine, and her pearls

California - Joni Mitchell Joni my beloved.

Oh, will you take me as I am / Strung out on another man / California, I'm coming home

Cowboy Blues - Kesha if I could gif I would have SO made an edit of these lyrics with Serena with Dan, Carter, and Nate. But alas, I cannot gif. You get this playlist instead <3

Did I fuck my whole life up? / Did I miss my one true love?

My Brother - MisterWives this is just so s1 Eric & Serena

Our love will never face a drought

Kyoto - Phoebe Bridgers And now we have our "will van der woodsen is a piece of hot garbage" songs.

I don't forgive you / But please don't hold me to it

Father Daughter Dance - Kesha Oh, I wish my heart wasn't broken from the start / I never stood a fightin' chance

LA Devotee - Panic! at the Disco obligatory SVDW on the West Coast (along with the Joni)

The black magic of Mulholland Drive / Swimming pools under desert skies / Drinking white wine in the blushing light

Only Human - MisterWives I figured I needed to throw in another bop for the sake of appearances.

only human / As beautiful as the sea, glistening so dangerously

Fuck it I love you - Lana Del Rey Lana, like Kesha, also gives me a lot of Serena vibes, but I am admittedly less acquainted with her discography. This song, tho.

So I moved to California‚ but it's just a state of mind / It turns out everywhere you go‚ you take yourself‚ that's not a lie

cowboy like me - tswift idk, this just screams Serena/Carter to me.

Perched in the dark / Telling all the rich folks anything they wanna hear / Like it could be love

Beautiful - Carole King I wasn't going to add any more and then I remembered this song! And it's just that like, classic Serena optimism of being hurt but continuing to have faith in people.

I have often asked myself the reason for the sadness / In a world where tears are just a lullaby / If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness

Summer - Kesha after all this I have to end on a happy song right? whatever Serena ship you sail on, just picture them with this song.

When I'm with you, I feel like a teenager, we're dynamite / It's dangerous, but beautiful, ain't that the point of life?

#playlist #serena van der woodsen #this one gets intense sorry not sorry #gossip girl #source: senamarais

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1989album · 5 years ago

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Manic first listen thoughts under the cut

Ashley: oh shit I’ve got CHILLS fuck. This song is good I feel like it has early 2000s vibes but with a modern twist. “It’s getting harder everyday somehow, I’m bursting out myself” FuCK my life I guess. What is this talking at the end who is that HUH

Clementine: perfect transition from Ashley……has been, will be, a fucking good song.

Graveyard: they say, I may be making a mistake. THIS SONG IS STILL SO FUCKING GOOD

You should be sad: anyways

Forever … (is a long time): fuck this hits hard…….damn. that sarcastic line. DAMN. I love her voice on this? Its different from what she usually does. The rain in the background? Whew. THE PIANO INTERLUDE? Yes. Ive got fuckin chills “tell your man he’s got bad news coming” fuck.

Dominics interlude: I don’t know what the fuck this guy is saying ill need to google later. This sounds like a beach boys sample

I HATE EVERYBODY: THE TRANSITION? that was so smooth. Memory of a feeling…man I felt that. I love this instrumental playing off her singing man. Maybe if I can make you love me I could make you make me love me……god she’s such a good writer.

3am: its late right now and this is so fast but I love this already. Oh hell yes what evEN. This chorus? Yes hunny. This is so fucking good. The guitar and the vibe of it all makes me feel but also wanna dance. I don’t know why but this song makes me feel both of the things HFK and badlands both made me feel. WOULD YOU PLEASE PICK UP THE FUCKING PHONE? Right? Wake tf up bitch. What is that voicemail lmao

Without Me: oh shit ok that’s what the voicemail was? Without me? orrr. FOUND YOU WHEN YOUR HEART WAS BROKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I FILLED YOUR CUP TIL IT OVERFLOWED BITCH. This is her best song she has ever released no joke like it was good on day 1 and a year and 2 months later I am still not sick of it. YOU KNOW IM THE ONE WHO PUT YOU UP THERE, BEING IN THE SKY DOES IT EVER GET LONELY?

Finally: such a good song. it gives feels. Crystal green, sour apple baby but you taste so sweet. My heart MELTS every time. Oooooooo were dancing in my living and up come fistssssi say im only playing boy, the truth is this. THAT IVE NEVER SEEN A MOUTH THAT ID KILL TO KISS. AND IM TERRIFED BUT ICANT RESIST… *sad cowboy emoji* this song still gives me tears….the fact that she felt this makes my heart soar…the fact that it is gone makes my heart sore.

Alanis’ interlude: ur pussy is a wonderland. That’s it. All I can say. I COULD BE A BETTER MAN? Oh fuck. Also i havent heard it yet but killing boys after this song? yes mama…… thank u for bi rights.

Killing boys: ok I love the vibe of this song. “You dont need me anymore” shit. “ the only numbers you dont hide in your phone” GOODDDDDD FUCK. Yeah.gif

Sugas interlude: very good. I wish there was a direct translation they put on the lyrics so I can see whassup. Its ok because his voice is so soothing.

More: this song is so vulnerable and nothing like she has done before,, im so proud but also this song hurt a lot. The childhood like background…..just hurts.

Still Learning: girl…we feel this song so much. Its kinda crazy that she’s such a famous artist now but she still somehow remains relatable? I thought this would be kinda lost but it hasn’t and I am so ):

929: baby ): love of my life to ivory powder….fuck. this rap/sing thing? Im for it. This is so soft and im so ):

#tp #manic #halsey

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kayliemusing · 4 years ago

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28: take a shot every time i mention taylor swift

AC/DC - What are your favorite bands? - Of Monsters and Men, Sleeping At Last, The Lumineers.

Aerosmith - What are your favorite songs? - Oh boy. There's a lot but these are the ones I'll never be able to get over: All Too Well by Taylor Swift, Exile by Taylor Swift ft Bon Iver, Wild Heart by Bleachers, Saturdays by Twin Shadow, Wild Roses by Of Monsters and Men, Fast Car by Tracy Chapman, Every Breath You Take by The Police, Robbers by The 1975, Hunger by Of Monsters and Men, and Sleep On The Floor by The Lumineers

Aretha Franklin - Do you have a favorite jazz song? - No, I don't really listen to jazz

Alice Cooper - What is your favorite type of music? - I mostly gravitate to folk/alternative, pop, country-pop, and singer-songwriter genres (I like a little bit of EDM too depending on the song).

Beach Boys - Have you ever been in a concert? - I've never been to a concert of someone I super duper admired, but I've been to a Jonas Brothers concert when I was ten lol and then Marianas Trench when I was 15 which I remember being a pretty good show.

Black Sabbath - A song that motivates you? - Shake It Off by Taylor Swift gets me in a good mood

Bob Dylan - Do you know how to play any musical instrument? - No lol. I tried to learn how to play guitar but I just don't really have any sense of rhythm at all lmao

Bon Jovi - Your favorite song about love? - Can't Help Falling In Love With You by Elvis Presley (and various cover artists) has always been a favourite of mine.

The Beatles - Latest song that made you smile? - Mr Perfectly Fine by Taylor Swift bc it's peak sassy teenage taylor

David Bowie - A song that makes you feel happy? - again, probably Shake It Off by Taylor Swift, but also Truth Hurts by Lizzo

Eric Clapton - Have you ever been in love with a rock artist? - No

Creedence Clearwater Revival - What is your favorite instrument? - I really like the sound of an acoustic guitar, but also the violin is so beautiful. (Honourable mentions: Fiddle, Banjos, cellos)

Deep Purple - Do you prefer bassists or drummers? - I don't have an opinion, really, but maybe bassists?

The Doors - What is your favorite lyric? - "If I can't relate to you anymore then who am I related to?" from Coney Island by Taylor Swift and The National. I have so many favourite lyrics though. Also "I'm not your homeland anymore so what am I defending now?" from Exile (also by Taylor lol)

Fleetwood Mac - Female or Male vocalists? - Both have different, unique things to offer, but I guess female vocalists.

The Grateful Dead - What song are you listening right now? - Nothing right now. I usually can't focus when musics on because I just end up singing along or getting distracted lol

Guns n’ Roses - What song describes your emotions right now? - I'm somewhere in between Mirrorball by Taylor Swift, Reasons Not To Die by Ryn Weaver, and Wild Roses by Of Monsters and Men.

Heart - Do you know a song that you want at your wedding? - Yes! Tbh I want to have a playlist of love songs played during the reception at my wedding lol. I think I want to walk down the aisle to A Thousand Years by Christina Perri (maybe the piano guys version tho) and I want the first dance to be Lover by Taylor Swift or Can't Help Falling In Love by Kina Grannis

Iron Maiden - Do you frequently listen to your songs on shuffle? - Mostly, I do. I don't usually know what I'm in the mood for unless I've had something stuck in my head or a new song has come out so I usually just play shuffle until I know what I feel like listening to.

Jimi Hendrix - A song that represents “your aesthetic” - Love by Lana Del Rey, just that very soft, breezy, dreamy aesthetic.

Joan Jett - Who do you think when you listen to your favorite love song? - I'm not usually thinking of anyone in particular because I don't have anyone like that in my life, but I'm usually imagining a scenario to write about.

Janis Joplin - What is your favorite 70s song? - I'm not super good with years so forgive me if I get it wrong, but You're So Vain by Carly Simon

Journey - Do you have any famous crushes? - Not crazy insane crushes and I currently don't have a crush on any singers, but some celebrities I find attractive are Matthew Daddario, Henry Cavill, etc. Lol I'm too tired to think but those are the first that pop in my head.

The Kinks - What is the last single you downloaded? - Drivers License by Olivia Rodrigo

Kiss - What is the perfect song to describe your relationship with your boyfriend/girlfriend/crush? - I don't have any of those right now lol but a song that represents a relationship between two characters I've written is Half of my Heart by John Mayer

Led Zeppelin - Do you like loud guitar solos? - Sometimes if they hit right

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Do you like instrumental songs? - No, I'm a lyrics girl. Sometimes they're nice, but I'm not one to actively put that on.

Metallica - A song that you think everybody should listen to? - Coney Island by Taylor Swift ft The National because the lyrics are *chefs kiss* and if that one isn't your vibe then Exile by TS ft Bon Iver (basically please go stream folklore and evermore)

Nirvana - A song that breaks your heart? - You Said You'd Grow Old With Me by Michael Schulte

Pink Floyd - Name your top three songs in any language. - currently my top 3s are (all ts songs obvi bc she's all i've listened to for months on end) cowboy like me by taylor swift, coney island by taylor swift ft the national, and exile by taylor swift ft bon iver (have i mentioned taylor swift enough yet)

Pearl Jam - A song to drive to? - Getaway Car by Taylor Swift

Queen - A song to dance to? - Stealing the show once again, Shake It Off by Taylor Swift

Bruce Springsteen - A song that you would sing in a karaoke? - just put on anything taylor swift and i will scream the lyrics

The Rolling Stones - Your favorite album? - Red by Taylor Swift (but evermore by ts is quickly stealing the show)

U2 - A artist/band you’re proud of? - Taylor Swift bc of how she literally overcomes everything no matter what kind of bs people say or throw her way.

Van Halen - Favorite guitarist? - I don't really have one

The Who - Favorite bassist? - Again, don't have one

Yes - Favorite drummer? - and i oop

Dusty Springfield - Do you have a favorite soul song? - I don't really listen to soul.

The Supremes - Your favorite girlband? - Haim

Simon and Garfunkel - Your favorite acoustic song? - Free Fallin by John Mayer (tom petty cover) or fast car by tracy chapman

Derek & The Dominos - Do you prefer a cover more than the original song? - Sometimes, depending on what the cover brings. Sometimes I'll like both. For example Circles by Post Malone is a song I already love but Of Monsters and Men did an amazing cover of that one and made it even sadder and I'm obsessed with both.

The Mamas and The Papas - What’s the song that have a harmony so good that makes you want to punch something? - the bridge in driver's license

Santana - Your favorite artist hairstyle? - Taylor Swift is obviously my favourite artist if you hadn't noticed and my favourite hairstyle from her was probably her short hair during 1989 when it was to her shoulders, but I also really like her Lover era hair (medium-length with bangs)

Ramones - Do you like punk music? - Not really

The Temptations - A song that you liked when you were younger? - Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis lol

Cream - A song that you associate with summer? - August by Taylor Swift. (Also I associate 1975's entire 2012 album with summer for some reason)

The Band - A song that you never get tired of? - All Too Well by Taylor Swift

Steve Miller Band - A song that need to be played out loud? - Cruel Summer by Taylor Swift

Sonny & Cher - A song by an artist with a voice that you love? - Organs by Of Monsters and Men

Wings - A song that makes you remind of yourself? - She's Got Her Ticket by Tracy Chapman

#I feel like I was too basic to take this survey

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teacherintransition · 4 years ago

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“Oh what a time it was and what a time it was; it was ... a time of innocence... a time of confidences”*

“... long ago it must be ... I have a photograph, hold on to memories... they’re all that’s left you...”*

We think time follows rules; strict and linear and precise... the truth is there are no rules: a moment can be a decade, a memory can immediately transport you back twenty years in a blink of an eye.

On January 6th, 2002 ... Fant Smart, my best friend was murdered ... I have never truly recovered... it’s been nineteen years, a few of us did a little writing about his place in our lives... thank you friends. Today the topic isn’t in question; for me, it’s a sacred day.... a day where time has no meaning... for this I’m glad. As I was contemplating how I would approach this, I was drawn to how unfathomable and meaningless the passage of time can be. I’ve known people for up to 50 years or more and many move in and out of my life like shadows passing through tall grass in the wind. I knew my friend from 1996-2002... in that short period of time we became close friends, good friends don’t need anymore time than that. In truth, my bond to Fant was cemented after only a couple of days as I’m inexorably drawn to eccentric, non conforming characters. But Fant was gentle and kind ... the only time I can recall him confronting someone in anger was when he confronted me over misplacing some photograph prints in his classroom. Even though I was getting the “chewing” I felt bad for him because he looked so damn uncomfortable being angry. A hour later, he came up to me and said, “hey, you know I found those prints, they were on my desk.” With an air of , “I told ya so,” I answered him with a snarky, “uh huh.” Fant looked embarrassed and said, “I guess half the story can be a dangerous thing, but not with friends huh?” We grinned at each and I replied, “...especially not with a couple of weird hippies like us.”

Fant Allison Smart was born in 1946 in East Texas. He and I taught together for six years which I think for him was sixteen years at his end. He was a songwriter, a traveler, a stone mason and about a dozen other things. To quote from an essay written by a friend of his in Goliad named Rocky trying to describe him on first sight,

“Most of our group were Children of the Sixties, and, try as some did to overwhelm their innate look of Child of a Small Town, one thing most of us didn’t sport—even those who lived and worked the ranch and farm—were cowboy duds.”

This fellow had a nice gingham shirt on, pressed and the pearl buttons all intact with the right about of luster. Wranglers and shined on kaboy boots, and a big kaboy hat on the bar in front of him. Well, to the side, really, since in front was a domestic beer.”**

Fant was a walking, talking conversation piece with all he did and said. Once we had a rented a beach house in Bolivar to celebrate the retirement of a colleague. Having just the right amount of “coldbeer,” (to Fant it was one word without the hint of a pause), I sat down beside him on the deck. He was wearing flip flops I noticed as he always wore the aforementioned kaboy boots, and I looked down aghast at the sight that on his left foot, his big toe was missing. I freaked, “SON OF A BITCH, DAMMIT, WHERE THE F*** IS YOUR TOE?” He barely looked up and giggled and said, “I guess somewhere in Nacogdoches county. I kicked a running mower when I was eight... off it went.” Still recovering from the sight, just seeing Fant’s feet was shocking enough as it appeared that any type of pedicure had never entered his mind, “SHIT! I’m sorry dude.” He winked at me, “don’t be... it kept me out of Vietnam.... hmmm, that might make a song.” It was always like that with Fant...

A victim of heart break and unrequited love, Fant could no doubt be the inspiration for any old school, wang tangy, heartbreaking country song. He didn’t wear it on his sleeve; the bits and pieces of his hurt would escape on FAC (Friday afternoon club), song lyrics, or cryptic emails delivered late, late Friday nights or early, early Saturday mornings.. it just depended on how much coldbeer we had consumed. His mysterious late night emails which often were song lyrics written in reverse and signed to the love of his life, “we should’ve done it different Tressie Ann” or “ in my heart you’ll be Tressie Ann;” was his gesture to let his friends all over the country know that he’d made it home safely...we could all rest with a clear mind. His emails and correspondence were signed with one of his two nom de plumes: J. K. Schwartz or Vance Mart. There is a memorial brick on the square in downtown Nacogdoches with J. K. Schwartz placed on it. What a guy, you getting the picture?

Once, Russell, Fant and I had cooked out and had drinks at Russell’s home. We told him, “you’re not getting out of here tonight... your staying here,” to which he acquiesced pretty easily. There was nothing small or quiet or anything done with finesse when it came to Fant, yet as surreptitiously as a ninja, that six foot, 275 pound bear of a man snuck out of the house. We waited viewing the computer, waiting for his email so that we’d know he made it home safe. 12:10 an email from J. K. Schwartz hit the inbox, we could go to sleep.

FAC, (wasn’t that what I was writing about before chasing a rabbit), was where the witticism flowed like wine ... often literally. One night at O’Malley’s, he had his lap top out which had no Internet service, and we spent the night drinking and typing to no one how our conversation would sound if spoken in an Irish accent. Two big guys with ponytails, drinking copious amounts of coldbeer, speaking like Irishmen, and rolling with laughter at how the conversation looked typed on his lap top and no one was getting hurt. Ahhh “shiny times” ... his term for the best of times...and that they were.

Self discipline has to come into play with this piece, for truth’s sake, I could write for hours. I laugh and I cry when I tell Fant stories even after nineteen years. I’ve mourned him three times the number of years I knew him. I saw him yesterday, I see him now...remember what I said about time having no rules? My biggest fear is that someone so kind, creative, affable, wise, eccentric, funny and human to might be forgotten. We are a poorer species without him, but fewer and fewer people know it. At Lufkin Middle School where we taught, the kids and I and Madeline Porter made a memorial sidewalk to honor Fant. On the day of dedication, it was rainy and gray. I had my guitar and some kids accompanied me as I sang two of Fant’s songs: “Would it Matter if I Misspelled Thermometer” and “We are the Standing People,”(which is a grace he said over Thanksgiving one year as if the tall trees were praying). So many of the staff has moved on (myself included) and all the students grown to adulthood, that I reckon no one even know who the sidewalk is for. It is unavoidable I suppose, but as Merlin said in L’Morte de Artur, “it is the doom of men that they forget.”

I’ll not forget ole Bean, Frijole Compadre ...I know I write about him this time every year ... and it may seem morbid to some; but I subscribe to the Druidic belief that no one really dies, we just change form and we can hold on to special characters if they aren’t allowed to be forgotten

Kaep in kickin' mah stoatin mukker Fant Alisson Smart... I’ll nae ferget ye

Nineteen years ago, I lost my best friend to a senseless act of violence. There has not been a day that I haven't thought of him ....and the days have never been the same. The world lost one of the kindest, creative, gentle, imaginative, idealistic human beings I have ever known.... and had the most fantastic sense of humor that was delivered with a keen and childlike wit. I have experienced loss since and will again .... but have never lost such a rare spirit. I wish I could play guitar with him again ... as I have never played as well since, I wish I could dig deep into the well of philosophical dialogue again.... as I have never visited such since... I wish I could revel in nonsensical humor with him again .... as nothing has struck me as funny since.... I wish I could have one more Friday afternoon club at Flashback as Friday afternoons have felt much more lonely since. No one I know has started a phrase with, " I've heard it said," since I met my friend ... and only the best stories could begin with such words . The world has not been the same since his ugly departure from this realm. I don't feel anger or vengeance .... just loss ... deep loss. I miss you old friend ...the world is somewhat more dim since you went away, but my life is the better for having known you.

“You don’t know what you had Tressie Ann”

*”Bookends” by Paul Simon

**”Where You Bean, Frijole Compadre, J. K. Swartz” ...Rocky and Rosemary.

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optimisticvibeworld · 7 years ago

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'Call To Action' by Robert John Cook

Calling to Action... All Ages!

'Wisdom of Elders' has a long list of things to do!

Help us help you decide what you would like to work on...

Learn about Wisdom Of Elders. We are folks just like you and I. We are ready to help out. Take a look at workload and no matter where you live we will assist you in the easy to follow Next Step. Simply call us at today (808) 250-8746, or fill out the form below.

We need your help with...

Organize an amazing team of passion hard at work pulling together the tasks, budgets, and schedule to lift ‘Wisdom of Elders’ off the ground with Jeanne Rasmussen and Dr. Cliff Robbins, President & Chair of the Julie Ellen Robbins Foundation.

Announce… with an introduction by the University of Hawai’i Small Business Development Center in Hilo, we have partnered with Carbonaro CPA as our financial management team. And for the very important people we serve, for our employees we have selected ProService Hawai’i as the best in the state to bring full employee benefits to life for us.

Social market Sisterhood Ohana is teaming up with Wisdom of Elders’ business incubator, courtesy of the Julie Ellen Robbins Foundation, to provide the empowerment to a select group of Single Mothers.

Social market ‘Become a Member’ and enjoy the behind the scene features and benefits of Education For The People. Should you love wellness as much as we do you will really enjoy Meditation For The People. Should music be your thing, toss off your slippahs and join us down the beach for Music For The People.

Announce ‘One Hand Up’… Certificate Program is more than just a job, 'Awakening Your Truth Within', define and offfer LoveLiving Awakening Certification Training Program, and publish LoveLiving Truth Within workbook for Employees.

Announce Sisterhood Ohana is teaming up with LoveLiving Wellness to provide an online Truth Within workbook for exploring passion-based architecture to produce your dream come true… 'Designed By Heart'.

Jeanne Rasmussen is the first member of Sisterhood Ohana to experience the joy of ‘Designed By Heart’ passion-based architecture. Social market… By exploring her Truth Within with the aid of LoveLiving Wellness online workbook, Jeanne discovered what she needed for her spiritual temple to include to bring her passion to life.

Announce Press Release ‘Join our environmental advocacy project ‘One Living Green’ as we deliver zero-waste Alternative Homes’.

Announce Sisterhood Ohana is proud to offer Alternative Homes Hawai’i’ On The Job training. As part of the business incubator that Julie Ellen Robbins Foundation serves, Single Mothers will be provided a Certificate Program as a benefit of their employment from the business incubator.

Announce… The first ‘One Hand Up’ Certificate Program project will be to build a scaled model of Jeanne's ‘Wétū’ on Hoku’s trailer.

Distribute Sisterhood Ohana brochures as invitations to Alternative Housing Community Conversation at Ka’apau Library on ???

Create Sisterhood Ohana Community Events calendar.

Manage Newsletter and Press Release Announcements.

Sisterhood Ohana announces ‘Wétū’ as our Alternative Home Model. Using passion-based architecture our Spiritual Temple design uses free wooden pallets salvage material.

Build our first project, ‘Wétū’ the Optimistic Vibe Basecamp. Currently under discussion, we are looking at possibly start building ‘Wétū’ the Optimistic Vibe Basecamp at 'Lorna's Garden' in Lapahoehoe.

Announce to HGTV our proposal presentation for Sisterhood Ohana’s weekly television show ‘Alternative Homes Hawai’i’.

Host a free workshop to the public at Lorna’s Garden to participate in a live demonstration of dismantling wooden pallets without tolls and free how-to construct lessons in building a scaled model of ‘Wétū’ the Optimistic Vibe Basecamp on a trailer pulled by our adorable VW Camper, HOKU.

Announce other workshops we are including in our series range from hearing from local Alternative Home professionals to alternative living enthusiasts.

Social market Sisterhood Ohana is quickly becoming the Alternative Home lifestyle experts on HGTV! Produce our first episode of ‘Alternative Homes Hawai’i’.

Announce Land Trust, collaborate with options, purchase 10 acres minimum.

Press Release… We are super excited for the land trust ‘ Garden In Paradise’ will be providing Sisterhood Ohana a location to prove the business incubator concept.

Then it’s off to the politicians, Tim Richards, Cindy Evans, Russell Rudermen, and the amazing Jen Ruggles, as we discuss 20 acres of state-owned land for Sisterhood Ohana to expand the function of Dr. Cliff Robbins business incubator.

We need your help!

Help Wanted, $15/hour plus Full Employee Benefits

Hire Sale/Marketing person to market Julie Ellen Robbins Foundation Land Trust by announcing via a presentation to HGTV that Garden In Paradise is a business incubator proving the concept of Self-Reliance. Invite each of the 1,700+ OV Facebook friends, 1,500+ LinkedIn friends, plus existing social marketing friends (Instagram, Google+, Tumblr, Twitter, YouTube, etc). From this that become our Friend we send them a video inviting them to join us in spreading the word… Each Task/Blog described above will be uploaded as daily social media to Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr, and re-directed to Post on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+.

Crowdfund

Marketing/Sales Manager prepare individual press releases for Alternative Homes Hawai’i, and ‘Hoku’ VW Camper.

All social marketing goes through Patreon for crowdfunding purposes.

To reach our overall Crowdfunding goal each Employee invited to participate in our weekly Newsletter will issue a variety of blog/social marketing campaigns.

Deliver weekly blogs on the following Crowdfunding campaigns:

Kickstarter

We Fund

Seed Invest

Crowd Funder

Microventures

IndieGoGo

Sellaband

EmployeeShare

Go Fund Me

Social Marketing

The Sales/Marketing Lead will collect each Friday blogs from each Team Member describing an inspiring and uplifting part of their project. Social Marketer will create Newsletter and distribute to each Newsletter member, and each Like/Comment friend:

a) Newsletter, issue a weekly Newsletter utilizing a collection of social media from the week’s Postings of Daily Vibe Updates.

b) Host Weekly Contest. ‘Did Ya Know?’ is a playful engagement whereby we social market an inspiring suggestion each day. Make a contest of the daily engagement by awarding a ‘Did Ya Know?’ T-shirt on each Aloha Friday to the member of our audience that replied to our Twitter with the most inspiring comment of the past week.

c) Build a Ground Swell. Strength in numbers, show a large and diverse following by giving away ‘Did Ya Know?’ T-shirts (?) to each person we interview for film documentary footage. The questions asked during the interview are strategically arranged so the answer is suitable for social marketing of our message.

d) Inspire Audience. Inspire those of our Audience coming to Hawai’i for HOKU to joins us before they leave the Mainland by social marketing our video tour guide. Inspire those of our Audience not coming to Hawai’i (yet) to follow us like a television show by regularly scheduling the release of our HOKU tour guides as part of a series they can follow our adventures in Hawai’i with stunning photos, exciting stories, and interesting people.

e) Gather Volunteers. Publish HOKU daily online events with 'View from HOKU': People feel happiness from sharing wonderful montages of our social architecture vision because it makes people feel nurtured. Wisdom of Elders is among many other things, the way we talk and write about Seven Teachings as our voice to be heard. Honor Ancient Elders by the example 'View From HOKU' sets, very kind, beautiful, and different in a very great way because we touch people’s heart and soul. Free-spirited HOKU beach lifestyle suits the personality of our audience. HOKU beach adventures, him wearing cowboy hat, her wearing sarong. Be all that Optimistic Vibe stands for by posting daily passion-based 'Awakening Your Truth Within' Teachings from 'View from HOKU'. Be fearless, passion-based (makes it exciting to look forward to a new lifestyle), self-actualization (unlike anything our audience has come across), generous giving lightning rod, positive force, publish videos of pro-environment position. Publish Music For The People as ‘Awakening’, music and lyrics, and photo's with the colorful guitar and ukulele case, music with songs of very personal lyrics. Publish passion-based metaphors that are refreshingly unique and different. Share an optimistic vision and creativity that is inspiring with wisdom, words, and ideas that are comforting, especially a fabulous day in paradise with HOKU. HOKU travels island, action, not words, our optimism and spirit, a breath of fresh air. Plein Aire, Meditation & Music, island art, and writing, very prolific, colorful music, text, and movement to highlight our Awakening message from the many wonderful sources of inspiration in your life, churn out quite a bit of different works, we color outside the lines, a lot. Inspire audience to love the way we think, as wisdom, power, strength, makes people want to Awaken. Tour Guides show the cool passion-based people in Hawai’i that people are glad to meet, people feel happiness. HOKU delivers the gorgeous day the island brings to your Awakening. HOKU makes it so people can see why OV Team is drawn to Hawai'i. People feel they are Awakening to have cool people in Hawai'i in their Ohana that people are glad to meet, people feel happiness. HOKU is a spiritual being, HOKU's spirituality is loved by our audience, it represents trust in fate, karma, and synchronicity in our Awakening, seen as the amazing gift we are, truly an angel of Awakening to others. It is nice what RJC writes in his journal about Awakening with ‘Just Be Happy’ through RJC’s connection to David. People see HOKU with others as excellent team work. HOKU delivers the gorgeous day the island brings to our audience's Awakening. HOKU makes it so people can see why OV Team is drawn to LoveLiving. People feel happiness from HOKU sharing messages, it makes people feel they are Awakening. HOKU inspires passion-based alternative lifestyle based on Awakening Your Truth Within with Garden In Paradise’s co-living international approach. People are drawn to OV Team's kindness and energy.

Public Relations

Marketing/Sales Manager manages media and press responsibilities:

What makes us newsworthy?

Contact Editors for lead business story

Press Release for HGTV appearance

Develop series of Press Releases

Schedule weekly Press Release

What are other large volume media opportunities are available for us to reach via Internet?

List of Newspaper Contacts

What are other large volume media opportunities are available for us to reach via Radio?

What are other large volume media opportunities are available for us to reach via Magazines?

List of Local Access Television Contacts

What are other large volume media opportunities are available for us to reach via Honolulu TV?

Contact Honolulu television

Press Release

Marketing/Sales Manager works with creative agency producing HGTV presentation and develop a series of press releases on the entire product line and service.

Prepare press releases for each new service introduction and participation in an event, and music performance.

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flower crown fairy lights daisies 1975 matte black nail polish pantone moodboard stars plants converse lace handwriting cactus sunrise oil paints overalls combat boots winged eyeliner pastel tattoos piercings bands messy bun cry baby grunge space white bed sheets old books beaches eyes 11:11 painting lightning thunder storms love clouds coffee marble

T H E N E V E R E N D I N G A S K (I wasn’t ignoring you, I’m gonna be honest, I forgot this was sitting in my drafts waiting to be completed aaaaa)

flower crown: when did you last sing to yourself? - A few minutes ago. I left my iPod in my co-worker’s car so I kinda have nothing better to do. All my favorite apps are on there.

fairy lights: if a crystal ball could tell you the truth about anything, what would you want to know? - Are alternate universes real and is there one where I am content and happy? (sorry to get depressing there bud but life just ain’t what I want it to be rn)

daisies: what is the greatest accomplishment of your life? - I haven’t experienced enough things to really say I’ve accomplished anything. I guess getting a job and keeping it for as long as I have? Six months and counting.

1975: what is the first happy memory that comes to mind, recent or otherwise? - Seeing a gif of a kitten walking over to a camera man and then proceeding to nap on him and walk all over his shoulders and sit on his head while he had to hold almost completely still.

matte: if you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are now living? - This question as me depressed and low key anxious I don’t think I can answer it without crying sorry

black nail polish: do you have a bucket list? if so, what are the top three things? - Not really. I try to avoid really confronting my own mortality. Thinking about dying both scares and tempts me and it’s really weird and terrifying and no bueno. Gosh my answers seem so depressing I’m sorry bab aaAAAA

pantone: describe a person close to your life in detail. - I’m too lazy to describe anyone again but um my brother c’: Again. Heckie

moodboard: do you feel you had a happy childhood? - I suppose. I mean it definitely could have been better, but it’s not really on “tragic backstory” level so I guess yeah. I dunno how to answer this, in all honesty.

stars: when did you last cry in front of another person? - Earlier tonight

plants: pick a person to stargaze with you and explain why you picked them. - My friend Antonio. He’s weird but he loves space and it’s nice to hear how excited he gets talking about the stars and planets because he’s super passionate about it. I just like when my friends are happy ya know? So I know stargazing with my space buddy would be fun.

converse: would you ever have a deep conversation with a stranger and open up to them? - Honestly I have before. I don’t mean for it to, but sometimes the conversations just take that direction. I’m a big oversharer.

lace: when was your last 3am conversation with someone, and who were they to you? - fam I’m always up at 3am wym I stay talkin to ppl at 3am (for the record it’s usually my mom and/or brother)

handwriting: if you were about to die, and you could only say one more sentence to one person, what would you say and to whom? - Again, I can’t answer this without crying I’m sorry.

cactus: what is your opinion on brown eyes? - I have them and I love them why is this up for discussion why is this a question is there brown eye discourse???

sunrise: pick a quote and describe what it means to you personally. - “I don’t care what you think, as long as it’s about me.” …….. I really like attention. More seriously though, I like knowing that I’m real to other people. I know it sounds weird but sometimes I just like being reminded that I actually exist in other people’s lives and that I’m a real person???? Idk how to describe it but yeah. That line makes me think about that aspect of myself a lot.

oil paints: what would you title the autobiography of your life so far? - “Still Figuring It Out”

overalls: what would you do with one billion dollars? - cry because I can finally get my family out of our rough situation, spoil my mom and brother rotten, buy lots of pretty makeup, travel the world, and still have enough left over to live comfortably for the rest of my life without ever having to work again unless I want to to have something to do.

combat boots: are you a very forgiving person? do you like being this way? - I am. Sometimes too much for my own good. Sometimes I like it just cause it can help settle conflicts quicker and sometimes I don’t because not only do I let toxic people back into my life but it causes me to miss them and desperately want them back because I convince myself “it’s in the past, it wasn’t that bad, and they’ve probably changed so I should let it go”.

winged eyeliner: write a hundred word letter to your twelve year old self. - Dear Mikii,

First of all what a weird nick-name you dork. I’m Gabby. I’m still just as much of a dork so don’t feel bad. You’re going through a weird phase in your life right now. You’re confused and probably questioning who you are. That’s not really going to stop, but it gets better. It gets easier to deal with. Eventually you’ll work for your favorite pizza place and, while it’s stressful, you’ll make cool friends and you’ll make money, and nobody will be able to tell you what you can and can’t buy. It’ll be awesome. You got this

pastel: would you describe yourself as more punk or pastel? - I guess I lean closer to the punk side. It’s kind of funny because I have the soft cute personality that you’d think would fit on a pastel type person and honestly that’s my aesthetic but style wise, I usually go for darker colors and stuff. My brother is the polar opposite. Punk personality and pastel style.

tattoos: how do you feel about tattoos and piercings? explain. - Yes. Body art is yes. I love it and I want it. If you have tattoos and/or piercings I am 75% more likely to get some kind of crush on you.

piercings: do you wear a lot of makeup? why/why not? - yes, because I like it and it’s pretty.

bands: talk about a song/band/lyric that has affected your life in some way. - I dunno if this counts much, I had to think long and hard on this one, but Crossfire by Stephen makes me think a lot about current events and police brutality and the bombings in other countries and just a bunch of sad stuff that’s going on now which I know is the point but it makes me really think about the privilege I do have compared to those who face discrimination and oppression far more harshly than I ever will and I just heckin

heck

messy bun: the world is listening. pick one sentence you would tell them. - “Prince didn’t die for this.”

cry baby: list the concerts you have been to and talk about how they make you feel. - I’ve only ever been to one and it was a local band so

grunge: who in the world would you most like to receive a letter from and what would you want it to say? - Idk man probably my dad. Not gonna go in depth but I’ll say this. I’d want a large sum of money included and a 5 page long apology letter.

space: do you have a desk/workspace and how is it organised/not organised? - nope nothing is organized and I dont have a workspace

white bed sheets: what is your night time routine? - stay up til I physically cannot hold my eyes open anymore then fall asleep

old books: what’s one thing you don’t want your parents to know? - that I’m not Christian and that I have a um…. device. Of some sort.

beaches: if you had to dye your hair how would you dye/style it and why? - Keep it red / make it redder, probably some kind of undercut or side shave

eyes: pick five people to go on an excursion with you. who would you pick and where would you go/what would you do? - 1. Alin2. Mikey3. Kaylee4. Dom5. Rose

I’d take these nerds with me as I travel the globe and try new experiences, shop cool unique things, and just live my dream life with. I’d go to the ends of the earth with these precious babies.

11:11: name three wishes and why you wish for them. - (1) Wealth. I want to pay off my mother’s college debt, buy her a nice place to stay as well as somewhere for myself, buy my brother anything his little heart desires, donate to fundraisers and charities, live my dream life, etc. (2) Clear skin. I’m pretty confident in my body shape and all, but I can’t stand my skin. Especially everywhere that isn’t my face. My shoulders have it the worst. (3) Someone willing to date me who doesn’t live thousands of miles away would be lovely. I mean I can do long distance but I just crave physical affection ya know? I dunno man I’m just lonely.

painting: what is the best halloween costume you have ever put together? if none, make one up. - Well, last year I was a dead cowgirl. I used my day of the dead makeup and wore a flannel, jeans, boots, and a cowboy hat that I got from party city. Relatively simple, but it was still fun to see little kids’ reactions and everything at work.

lightning: what’s the worst thing you’ve ever done while drunk or high? - this implies I’ve gotten drunk or high before (I’ve been kind of tipsy before but otherwise I’m fucking lame and I don’t do that stuff)

thunder: what’s one thing you would never do for one million dollars? - kill somebody (there are a few exceptions but in general ya know?)

storms: you can only listen to one song for the rest of your life, or only see one person for the rest of your life. which and why? - both of these would drive me literally insane let’s not and say we did

love: have you ever fallen in love? describe what it feels like to realize you’re in love. - I think I have. I don't know. To me it's realizing the things I'd be willing to do for that person. Just wanting to make them happy. Wanting to spoil them, see them smile, hear their stupid jokes even if they aren't funny, see all the ugly or silly faces they make, and just loving everything about them. Overcoming my biggest insecurities and discomforts for them. Realizing that there are certain things I can only see myself doing with them. When I read those couple posts I think of them, even though it's been over a year since we've been together. Hearing a certain song or artist is tainted by thoughts of them, when nothing would come to mind before I got to know them. Filling spots in my mind and heart that for years had been left vacant. Realizing that despite how much they've hurt me, I'd gladly take them back if they asked. Feeling like it was the right love at the wrong time, even though it probably wasn't the right love at all. Falling in love to me is having them lurking around every corner of my mind, the darkest shadows, the deepest trenches, even when I'm not thinking of them, they're always there. Even when I'm not thinking about them, I somehow am. I don't know if this is love or obsession, admittedly. Maybe I just need help lol

clouds: if you’re a boy, would you ever rock black nail polish? if you’re a girl, would you ever rock really really short hair? - I’d rock both and look sexy while doing it

coffee: what’s your starbucks order, and who would you trust to order for you, if anyone? - I don’t go to starbucks enough to really say

marble: what is the most important thing to you in your life right now? - my family and getting us out of the tough situation we’re in right now

#dxrk-sxxls #long post #answers #about me #dxrk sxxls

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What's In It For You...

Excitement!

Good News is Here!

Sisterhood Ohana announces ‘Wétū’ as our Alternative Home Model

Using passion-based architecture our Spiritual Temple design uses free wooden pallets salvage material

Join our environmental advocacy project ‘One Living Green’ as we deliver zero-waste Alternative Homes.

Sisterhood Ohana is teaming up with LoveLiving Wellness to provide an online Truth Within workbook for exploring passion-based architecture to produce your dream come true… 'Design By Heart'.

Once the ‘Design By Heart’ of your Alternative Home is complete and ready for land Sisterhood Hana has announced 'Built With Confidence'.

Sisterhood Ohana is teaming up with Wisdom of Elders’ business incubator, courtesy of the Julie Ellen Robbins Foundation, to provide the empowerment to a select group of Single Mothers… ‘Built With Confidence’.

We hope you stay tuned with our online Sisterhood Ohana Community Events calendar. All events are free and open to all people.

Currently, we are distributing Sisterhood Ohana brochures as invitations to Alternative Housing Community Conversation at Ka’apau Library on possibly Aloha Friday 11 May. Nice and close to Mother’s Day, so all you Single Mothers come on out for a Friday evening and learn what our voice together sounds like. Sign up for our Newsletter and stay tuned for our upcoming Press Release.

Following our event and announcements we are off to build our first project, ‘Wétū’ the Optimistic Vibe Basecamp. Currently under discussion, we are looking at possibly start building ‘Wétū’ the Optimistic Vibe Basecamp at 'Lorna's Garden' in Lapahoehoe.

Next step is to announce to HGTV our proposal presentation for Sisterhood Ohana’s weekly television show ‘Alternative Homes Hawai’i’. To show HGTV our stuff we are hosting a free workshop to the public at Lorna’s Garden to participate in a live demonstration of dismantling wooden pallets without tolls and free how-to construct lessons in building a scaled model of ‘Wétū’ the Optimistic Vibe Basecamp on a trailer pulled by our adorable VW Camper, HOKU.

Other workshops we are including in our series range from hearing from local Alternative Home professional, alternative living enthusiasts, and following each week the building of our Farm To Table Organic Garden and Farm To Table Café design videos and blogs.

Sisterhood Ohana will quickly become the Alternative Home lifestyle experts on HGTV! Stay tuned as we produce our first episode of ‘Alternative Homes Hawai’i’.

Become a Member and enjoy the behind the scene features and benefits of Education For The People. Should you love wellness as much as we do you will really enjoy Meditation For The People. Should music be your thing, toss off your slippahs and join us down the beach for Music For The People.

Business Incubator is purpose behind Julie Ellen Robbins Foundation

Takes some organizing, we are an amazing team of passion hard at work pulling together the tasks, budgets, and schedule to lift ‘Wisdom of Elders’ off the ground. Thanks to the efforts of Jeanne Rasmussen and Dr. Cliff Robbins, President & Chair of the Julie Ellen Robbins Foundation.

As many of you might know, Jeanne Rasmussen is the first member of Sisterhood Ohana to experience the joy of ‘Design By Heart’ passion-based architecture. By exploring her Truth Within with the aid of LoveLiving Wellness online workbook, Jeanne discovered what she needed for her spiritual temple to include to bring her passion to life.

Should you desire to learn more about ‘Wétū’ and the ‘Design By Heart, Built With Confidence’ offered by Sisterhood Ohana please sign up here.

With an introduction by the University of Hawai’i Small Business Development Center in Hilo, we have partnered with Carbonario CPA as our financial management team. And for the very important people we serve, for our employees we have selected ProService Hawai’i as the best in the state to bring full employee benefits to life for us.

Sisterhood Ohana is proud to offer Alternative Homes Hawai’i’ On The Job training. As part of the business incubator that Julie Ellen Robbins Foundation serves, Single Mothers will be provided a Certificate Program as a benefit of their employment from the business incubator.

The Certificate Program is more than just a job, it’s a One Hand Up experience. We are currently interviewing human resource enthusiasts to hire the help we need with our online One Hand Up workbook. The candidate chosen will create brochure for 'Awakening Your Truth Within', define and offfer LoveLiving Awakening Certification Training Program, and publish LoveLiving Truth Within workbook for Employees.

The first Certificate Program project will be to build a scaled model of Jeanne's ‘Wétū’ on Hoku’s trailer. With action from employees building Jeanne’s scaled model we can create ‘Wisdom of Elders' ‘Wétū’ on Land Trust options for ‘Garden In Paradise’.

We are super excited for the land trust ‘ Garden In Paradise’ will be providing Sisterhood Ohana a location to prove the business incubator concept. Then it’s off to the politicians, Tim Richards, Cindy Evans, Russell Rudermen, and the amazing Jen Ruggles, as we discuss 20 acres of state-owned land for Sisterhood Ohana to expand the function of Dr. Cliff Robbins business incubator.

Help Wanted, $15/hour plus Full Employee Benefits

Help us lift Julie Ellen Robbins Foundation by announcing via a presentation to HGTV that Garden In Paradise is a business incubator proving the concept of Self-Reliance. Invite each of the 1,700+ OV Facebook friends, 1,500+ LinkedIn friends, plus existing social marketing friends (Instagram, Google+, Tumblr, Twitter, YouTube, etc). From this that become our Friend we send them a video inviting them to join us in spreading the word… Each Task/Blog described above will be uploaded as daily social media to Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr, and re-directed to Post on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+.

Crowdfund

Marketing/Sales Manager prepare individual press releases for Alternative Homes Hawai’i, and ‘Hoku’ VW Camper.

a. ALL social marketing goes through Patreon for crowdfunding purposes.

b. To reach our overall Crowdfunding goal each Employee invited to participate in our weekly Newsletter will issue a variety of blog/social marketing campaigns.

c. Deliver weekly blogs on the following Crowdfunding campaigns:

1. Kickstarter

2. We Fund

3. Seed Invest

4. Crowd Funder

5. Microventures

6. IndieGoGo

7. Sellaband

8. EmployeeShare

9. Go Fund Me

Social Marketing

a) Newsletter

i) Issue a weekly Newsletter utilizing a collection of social media from the week’s Postings of Daily Vibe Updates.

b) Host Weekly Contest

i) ‘Did Ya Know?’ is a playful engagement whereby we issue an inspiring suggestion each day via Twitter, such as:

ii) ‘Did Ya Know?’: Adventurously explore a new Gift, follow a hidden passion, allow creativity to lead you, just get started, no expectations

iii) ‘Did Ya Know?’: Giving is the greatest reward we will ever receive. Give a surprise compliment, watch what comes back, you will receive.

iv) Issue daily Twitter connecting each of the following platforms to ‘Did Ya Know’; Alternative Homes Hawai’i, Seven Teachings, LoveLiving, Wisdom of Elders, Ted Talks

v) Make a contest of the daily engagement by awarding a ‘Did Ya Know?’ T-shirt on each Aloha Friday to the member of our audience that replied to our Twitter with the most inspiring comment of the past week.

c) Build a Ground Swell

i) Strength in numbers, show a large and diverse following by giving away ‘Did Ya Know?’ T-shirts (?) to each person we interview for film documentary footage. The questions asked during the interview are strategically arranged so the answer is suitable for social marketing of our message.

d) Inspire Audience

i) Inspire those of our Audience coming to Hawai’i for HOKU to joins us before they leave the Mainland by social marketing our video tour guide.

ii) Inspire those of our Audience not coming to Hawai’i (yet) to follow us like a television show by regularly scheduling the release of our HOKU tour guides as part of a series they can follow our adventures in Hawai’i with stunning photos, exciting stories, and interesting people.

e) Load up Volunteers with HOKU daily online events with 'View from HOKU':

(1) People feel happiness from sharing wonderful montages of our social architecture vision because it makes people feel nurtured

(2) Wisdom of Elders is among many other things, the way we talk and write about Seven Teachings as our voice to be heard

(3) Honor Ancient Elders by the example 'View From HOKU' sets, very kind, beautiful, and different in a very great way because we touch people’s heart and soul

(4) Free-spirited HOKU beach lifestyle suits the personality of our audience

(5) HOKU beach adventures, him wearing cowboy hat, her wearing sarong

(6) Be all that Optimistic Vibe stands for by posting daily passion-based 'Awakening Your Truth Within' Teachings from 'View from HOKU'

(7) Be fearless, passion-based (makes it exciting to look forward to a new lifestyle), self-actualization (unlike anything our audience has come across), generous giving lightning rod, positive force, publish videos of pro-environment position

(8) Publish Music For The People as ‘Awakening’, music and lyrics, and photo's with the colorful guitar and ukulele case, music with songs of very personal lyrics

(9) Publish passion-based metaphors that are refreshingly unique and different

(10) Share an optimistic vision and creativity that is inspiring with wisdom, words, and ideas that are comforting, especially a fabulous day in paradise with HOKU

(11) HOKU travels island, action, not words, our optimism and spirit, a breath of fresh air

(12) Plein Aire, Meditation & Music, island art, and writing, very prolific, colorful music, text, and movement to highlight our Awakening message from the many wonderful sources of inspiration in your life, churn out quite a bit of different works, we color outside the lines, a lot

(13) Inspire audience to love the way we think, as wisdom, power, strength, makes people want to Awaken

(14) Tour Guides show the cool passion-based people in Hawai’i that people are glad to meet, people feel happiness

(15) HOKU delivers the gorgeous day the island brings to your Awakening

(16) HOKU makes it so people can see why OV Team is drawn to Hawai'i

(17) People feel they are Awakening to have cool people in Hawai'i in their Ohana that people are glad to meet, people feel happiness

(18) HOKU is a spiritual being, HOKU's spirituality is loved by our audience, it represents trust in fate, karma, and synchronicity in our Awakening, seen as the amazing gift we are, truly an angel of Awakening to others

(19) It is nice what RJC writes in his journal about Awakening with ‘Just Be Happy’ through RJC’s connection to David

(20) People see HOKU with others as excellent team work

(21) HOKU delivers the gorgeous day the island brings to our audience's Awakening

(22) HOKU makes it so people can see why OV Team is drawn to LoveLiving

(23) People feel happiness from HOKU sharing messages, it makes people feel they are Awakening

(24) HOKU inspires passion-based alternative lifestyle based on Awakening Your Truth Within with Garden In Paradise’s co-living international approach

(25) People are drawn to OV Team's kindness and energy

Public Relations

Marketing/Sales Manager manages media and press responsibilities:

What makes us newsworthy?

Contact Editors for lead business story

Press Release for HGTV appearance

Develop series of Press Releases

Schedule weekly Press Release

What are other large volume media opportunities are available for us to reach via Internet?

List of Newspaper Contacts

What are other large volume media opportunities are available for us to reach via Radio?

What are other large volume media opportunities are available for us to reach via Magazines?

List of Local Access Television Contacts

What are other large volume media opportunities are available for us to reach via Honolulu TV?

Contact Honolulu television

Press Release

Marketing/Sales Manager works with creative agency producing HGTV presentation and develop a series of press releases on the entire product line and service.

Prepare press releases for each new service introduction and participation in an event, and music performance.

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optimisticvibeworld · 7 years ago

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'An Elder's Thoughts About Today' by Robert John Cook

Calling All Elders!

'Wisdom of Elders' has a long list of things to do!

Help us help you decide what you would like to work on...

We need your help with...

Announce Press Release ‘Join our environmental advocacy project ‘One Living Green’ as we deliver zero-waste Alternative Homes’.

Announce… The first ‘One Hand Up’ Certificate Program project will be to build a scaled model of Jeanne's ‘Wétū’ on Hoku’s trailer.

Distribute Sisterhood Ohana brochures as invitations to Alternative Housing Community Conversation at Ka’apau Library on ???

Create Sisterhood Ohana Community Events calendar.

Manage Newsletter and Press Release Announcements.

Sisterhood Ohana announces ‘Wétū’ as our Alternative Home Model. Using passion-based architecture our Spiritual Temple design uses free wooden pallets salvage material.

Announce to HGTV our proposal presentation for Sisterhood Ohana’s weekly television show ‘Alternative Homes Hawai’i’.

Announce other workshops we are including in our series range from hearing from local Alternative Home professionals to alternative living enthusiasts.

Social market Sisterhood Ohana is quickly becoming the Alternative Home lifestyle experts on HGTV! Produce our first episode of ‘Alternative Homes Hawai’i’.

Announce Land Trust, collaborate with options, purchase 10 acres minimum.

Press Release… We are super excited for the land trust ‘ Garden In Paradise’ will be providing Sisterhood Ohana a location to prove the business incubator concept.

We need your help!

Help Wanted, $15/hour plus Full Employee Benefits

Crowdfund

Marketing/Sales Manager prepare individual press releases for Alternative Homes Hawai’i, and ‘Hoku’ VW Camper.

All social marketing goes through Patreon for crowdfunding purposes.

To reach our overall Crowdfunding goal each Employee invited to participate in our weekly Newsletter will issue a variety of blog/social marketing campaigns.

Deliver weekly blogs on the following Crowdfunding campaigns:

Kickstarter

We Fund

Seed Invest

Crowd Funder

Microventures

IndieGoGo

Sellaband

EmployeeShare

Go Fund Me

Social Marketing

a) Newsletter, issue a weekly Newsletter utilizing a collection of social media from the week’s Postings of Daily Vibe Updates.

Public Relations

Marketing/Sales Manager manages media and press responsibilities:

What makes us newsworthy?

Contact Editors for lead business story

Press Release for HGTV appearance

Develop series of Press Releases

Schedule weekly Press Release

What are other large volume media opportunities are available for us to reach via Internet?

List of Newspaper Contacts

What are other large volume media opportunities are available for us to reach via Radio?

What are other large volume media opportunities are available for us to reach via Magazines?

List of Local Access Television Contacts

What are other large volume media opportunities are available for us to reach via Honolulu TV?

Contact Honolulu television

Press Release

Marketing/Sales Manager works with creative agency producing HGTV presentation and develop a series of press releases on the entire product line and service.

Prepare press releases for each new service introduction and participation in an event, and music performance.

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