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Learning how to create video programs. Just started on YouTube, with digital footage taken with my digital camera. Just got a Mac...can take classes at the local public access TV station...

An idea worth spreading

After decades of being a synergestic personality, I was thrown in with my mother...and NOTHING I did made a difference for her, for two years. Actually, I knew instinctively what was needed, but my sisters wouldn't take the Mother Improvement Project seriously. All my matches extinguished against a wet wick. Eventually my niece came on board, and I could start seeing results. You have to have at least TWO people take this problem seriously.

I don't know exactly what idea is worth spreading, this is so all consuming. A lot of us are headed toward Alzheimersville, though. A lot of bright people are brought down. I'm just fighting the good fight here, scraping for every bit of meaning and consciousness...and memory on behalf of another. There must be a good idea in there somewhere.

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• A comment on Talk: Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim

  Apr 3 2013: wow, just read this news report of a state legislator in state of New York who bribed to be allowed on the ballot. it happens the guy is black, and just when the GOP was starting its diversity campaign.
  
  http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/03/opinion/louis-gop-new-york-scandal/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
  
  "According to federal prosecutors, Smith [actually a democrat looking to jump in to the Republican party] spent months organizing cash bribes to two top city Republican officials in exchange for a slot on the ballot in this fall's Republican primary for mayor." The operation involved a sting, with agents involved. How complex. Anyway, a version of what Lessig was talking about.
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  A comment on Talk: Bono: The good news on poverty (Yes, there's good news)

  Mar 14 2013: There is this new "culture" of SHARE IF YOU AGREE that I find pretty...well, it is an intertia builder. We allow ourselves to be lulled that sharing and agreeing and so forth, having an opinion, makes a difference. Mostly, it does NOT except, that now we think we have. We have taken a position, shown where we stand.
  
  AND SOMEONE WILL TAKE ACTION. Because...because we ... because we SHARE IF YOU AGREE. Know what, assume it won't get done unless we step up and really become involved.
  
  If you go tto the www.ONE.org and sign up...guess what you are faced with? Immediate action choices and a SCOREBOARD OF YOUR PERFORMANCE. oh no not that!!!
  
  I signed up and have done nothing so far, came back to write this post. But I am not going to let my ZERO score sit there. Wow, would it be kewl to see a chart of the scores...how many people sign up and just leave without doing anything.
  
  Bono...would you consider running for president??
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  A reply on Talk: Bono: The good news on poverty (Yes, there's good news)

  Mar 14 2013: "wish the Bonos of the world"...??? that is part of the problem. someone ELSE will have the vision and put their life into it.

• A reply on Talk: Brené Brown: Listening to shame

  Jun 9 2012: your computer video card or wireless connection may not be strong enough. Click on the DOWNLOAD button below the video pane and see options for downloading lower resolution versions of these programs.

• A comment on Conversation: What should I really do with my youth? I'm 18, and I want to really learn. Advice from any adults out there?

  May 23 2012: Hey, that is great to hear of your plans. And TED is a great resource for ideas. We didn't have this, nor the internet, when we were younger. You might actually get clues from us Baby Boomers who are trying now to revitalize what it means to be an elder. On Facebook, LIKE poet/storyteller/analyst Clarissa Pinkola Estes. She has an established Aerial View of life, and much of her writing and research about women ("Women who run with the Wolves")...something you should definitely know about. And now her whole series on The Dangerous Old Woman and being an elder.
  
  On TED, listen to the new lecture by Jane Fonda on the third phase of life. On FB, LIKE Maria Shriver and listen to her commencement speech at her daughter's college graduation. At www.soundstrue.com, download the audio program by poet David Whyte about poetry and midlife. On that program, Whyte talks about what was once called The Grand Tour, where European aristocrat young men were sent on a tour of Europe to talk with the great poets, see the great art and architecture.
  
  TED itself now features lectures by teens and young, so there should be inspiration for you in their example. Have a great life, Mitch!

• A comment on Talk: Jane Fonda: Life's third act

  May 23 2012: Is this not available to add to a custom DVD? What is the reason for having some available and others not? what a great father's day program this would make. And Michael Tilson Thomas's presentation. Darn.

• A comment on Talk: Michael Tilson Thomas: Music and emotion through time

  May 23 2012: is this available to add to DVD? Are some lectures allowed, and others not?? Would make a great father's day gift.

• A comment on Talk: Jane Fonda: Life's third act

  May 20 2012: Sometimes, only poetry will do.
  from David Whyte's new book "Pilgrim"
  
  FINISTERRE
  The road in the end taking the path the sun had taken,
  into the western sea, and the moon rising behind you
  as you stood where ground turned to ocean: no way
  to your future now but the way your shadow could take,
  walking before you across water, going where shadows go,
  no way to make sense of a world that wouldn't let you pass
  except to call an end to the way you had come,
  to take out each frayed letter you brought
  and light their illumined corners, and to read
  them as they drifted through the western light;
  to empty your bags; to sort this and to leave that;
  to promise what you needed to promise all along,
  and to abandon the shoes that had brought you here
  right at the water's edge, not because you had given up
  but because now, you would find a different way to tread,
  and because, through it all, part of you could still walk on,
  no matter how, over the waves.
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  A reply on Talk: Tali Sharot: The optimism bias

  May 15 2012: Tel Aviv, NYU...and London. Why not MORE accent is the question perhaps.

• A comment on Talk: Kamal Meattle: How to grow fresh air

  Mar 20 2009: Hmmm. That's a lot of work to maintain these plants, especially the daily dusting, though perhaps each worker could have four assigned to care for. Also, I did some research helping an author with a book on alternative health, and I remember the kink in the plan was that the plantings of this amount would increase the humidity and cause another problem with mold spores. Something to look into further.