First, RantWoman is not going to make it to the following event but has asked to remain on the mailing list:
Faith Action Network A Partnership for the Common Good
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Some Items on Racism and Friends and faith and faithfulness
First, RantWoman is not going to make it to the following event but has asked to remain on the mailing list:
Faith Action Network A Partnership for the Common Good
Monday, October 6, 2014
Why Didn't you leave: HuffPost item with multiple links
RantWoman thanks Peggy Senger Morrison for two stories:
--On one of Peggy's trips to Africa, she was helping a widows support group. Peggy reported that, when the women heard about rights expressed in various UN documents, one of the students said something along the lines of "Teacher Peggy, we would be glad to have husbands even if they beat and raped us."
--In Peggy's most recent book "Miracle Motors: a Pert Near True Story" there is a chapter about doing a talk in the morning about experiences with domestic violence and in the afternoon having MANY one-on-one conversations with women who, for a very large number of different reasons just CANNOT leave.
RantWoman has had little time to wade into current news items about domestic violence and the NFL but here is a blog as filing cabinet item should RantWoman eed to say more.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/12/why-didnt-you-just-leave_n_5805134.html
RantWoman holds all these situations in the Light and also holds in the Light people around these situations for whom itis seldom obvious what will help.
--On one of Peggy's trips to Africa, she was helping a widows support group. Peggy reported that, when the women heard about rights expressed in various UN documents, one of the students said something along the lines of "Teacher Peggy, we would be glad to have husbands even if they beat and raped us."
--In Peggy's most recent book "Miracle Motors: a Pert Near True Story" there is a chapter about doing a talk in the morning about experiences with domestic violence and in the afternoon having MANY one-on-one conversations with women who, for a very large number of different reasons just CANNOT leave.
RantWoman has had little time to wade into current news items about domestic violence and the NFL but here is a blog as filing cabinet item should RantWoman eed to say more.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/12/why-didnt-you-just-leave_n_5805134.html
RantWoman holds all these situations in the Light and also holds in the Light people around these situations for whom itis seldom obvious what will help.
Johan Maurer on Functional Ecumenism
Blog as filing cabinet item.
Johan Maurer on Ecumenism and Friends structures
http://johanpdx.blogspot.com/2014/10/functional-ecumenism.html
Johan Maurer on Ecumenism and Friends structures
http://johanpdx.blogspot.com/2014/10/functional-ecumenism.html
Sunday, October 5, 2014
If it saves one life? Exchange about I 594
RantWoman thanks YouTube for another Vote yes on I 594 No on I 591 posting:
Morning Oatmeal with Multiple
Morning Oatmeal with Amazing Artist Friend
One good thing about someone RantWoman is very fond of crashing on her couch: RantWoman also gets more sleep because she does not just fall asleep in front of the computer but instead gets dressed for bed and becomes properly horizontal in her bed before falling asleep. This morning everyone woke up with oatmeal on our minds and when it was prepared sat down to chat.
RantWoman remembers some time sequences before and after Amazing Artist Friend started speaking of the several of her. RantWoman does not apologize if the time sequences are hard to follow. RantWoman is confident that the key points should emerge regardless.
How did you first recognize...?
Amazing Artist Friend now she does not lose time but in the past has told RantWoman of numerous moments when something happened or others told her something happened and she has evidence of it happening but no conscious memory. This makes sense of some RantWoman experiences around Amazing Artist Friend; some of these experiences could be REALLY annoying without this frame. RantWoman does not remember any specifics except the ones that Amazing artist Friend has told her involving other people. RantWoman THINKS talk of events with no conscious memory may have been what made RantWoman's own counselor stop questioning RantWoman about the issue of there being several of Amazing Artist Friend.
Amazing Artist Friend reported just sitting at a desk or a table and looking out a window and having this sudden sense of someone else walking into her body. Amazing Artist Friend said no one would have been able to tell just from looking at her sitting.
How many are there of you?
21 or 23, we are not sure.
And on average for multiples?
16
Dang? RantWoman only hangs out with overachievers?
And did the Buddhist meditation help?
Amazing Artist Friend said that she felt lucky not to to have to fight the denial some multiples have to overcome. Amazing Artist Friend said for her, the experiences of alters emerging tended to come with very strong emotions attached, but she was able just to work with new alters as objective realities, not something to be fought or hidden from.
And were you seeing a counselor when all this happened.
Yes, but she didn't get it. She said things that made some of Amazing Artist Friend's selves suicidal and then took it personally when they spoke up about this.
RantWoman remembers some Ai-yi-yi phone conversations about this. Amazing Artist Friend is fairly retrograde technologywise and RantWoman would have had to call rather than email.
RantWoman remembers calling more frequently for awhile. RantWoman also remembers a phone conversation about how whoever came to the appointments, they would all probably be better off if they let Amazing Artist Friend be available to sign the billing paperwork.
Amazing Artist Friend said things got to a point where she was having to drag some of her selves to appointments and she refused to do that anymore. So she asked around and found ...another multiple!
Amazing Artist Friend says it's like gaydar.
One good thing about someone RantWoman is very fond of crashing on her couch: RantWoman also gets more sleep because she does not just fall asleep in front of the computer but instead gets dressed for bed and becomes properly horizontal in her bed before falling asleep. This morning everyone woke up with oatmeal on our minds and when it was prepared sat down to chat.
RantWoman remembers some time sequences before and after Amazing Artist Friend started speaking of the several of her. RantWoman does not apologize if the time sequences are hard to follow. RantWoman is confident that the key points should emerge regardless.
How did you first recognize...?
Amazing Artist Friend now she does not lose time but in the past has told RantWoman of numerous moments when something happened or others told her something happened and she has evidence of it happening but no conscious memory. This makes sense of some RantWoman experiences around Amazing Artist Friend; some of these experiences could be REALLY annoying without this frame. RantWoman does not remember any specifics except the ones that Amazing artist Friend has told her involving other people. RantWoman THINKS talk of events with no conscious memory may have been what made RantWoman's own counselor stop questioning RantWoman about the issue of there being several of Amazing Artist Friend.
Amazing Artist Friend reported just sitting at a desk or a table and looking out a window and having this sudden sense of someone else walking into her body. Amazing Artist Friend said no one would have been able to tell just from looking at her sitting.
How many are there of you?
21 or 23, we are not sure.
And on average for multiples?
16
Dang? RantWoman only hangs out with overachievers?
And did the Buddhist meditation help?
Amazing Artist Friend said that she felt lucky not to to have to fight the denial some multiples have to overcome. Amazing Artist Friend said for her, the experiences of alters emerging tended to come with very strong emotions attached, but she was able just to work with new alters as objective realities, not something to be fought or hidden from.
And were you seeing a counselor when all this happened.
Yes, but she didn't get it. She said things that made some of Amazing Artist Friend's selves suicidal and then took it personally when they spoke up about this.
RantWoman remembers some Ai-yi-yi phone conversations about this. Amazing Artist Friend is fairly retrograde technologywise and RantWoman would have had to call rather than email.
RantWoman remembers calling more frequently for awhile. RantWoman also remembers a phone conversation about how whoever came to the appointments, they would all probably be better off if they let Amazing Artist Friend be available to sign the billing paperwork.
Amazing Artist Friend said things got to a point where she was having to drag some of her selves to appointments and she refused to do that anymore. So she asked around and found ...another multiple!
Amazing Artist Friend says it's like gaydar.
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Hunted: new HBO documentary about gays in Russia
Posted with prayers for many people RantWoman knows
In Memory, Stephen Seymour, Russian Interpreter
RantWoman posts this unedited except for some format fussing from one of her translator lists a couple days ago. There are things it might occur to RantWoman to edit, but RantWoman is touched by the late Mr. Seymour being remembered for his translations of his wife's poetry. More often it's the wife supporting her husband in this way.
In Memoriam: Translator and interpreter Steven Seymour
May 22, 1946 - Sept 23, 2014
Today is the 9th day commemoration meeting in New York.
Steven Seymour was a professional interpreter/translator who had worked for years as a contractor to the US State Department at the Geneva negotiations on nuclear arms control and disarmament, as well as at the US Embassy in Moscow. In recent years, he had been working on literary translations from Russian, Polish, and French.
The first collection of Steven Seymour's wife, renowned poet Vera Pavlova, in English, If There Is Something toDesire, translated by Steven Seymour, is published by Alfred A. Knopf.
Vera Pavlova was born in Moscow. She graduated from the Gnessin Academy, specializing in the history of music, and is the author of fourteen collections of poetry,four opera librettos, and lyrics to two cantatas. She is currently oneof the best-selling authors in Russia.
Video: Poet Vera Pavlovadiscusses the unique satisfaction she feels when Steven Seymour translates her poetry.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/video/199
Steven and Vera met in 2001 at19.00 p.m. in Spaso House, the residence of the U.S. ambassador to Russia. WhenVera met Steven, she met someone who already knew her poems by heart. After working in Moscow for 8 years, Steven returned to the United States where he continues working as an interpreter. They have been together for twelve years and married for seven. This personal touch gives Seymour an immediate advantage in translating his wife’s work.
Vera: “Almost all of my poems of the last ten years are dedicated to my husband. It’s easier for him to translate because he’s lived through it and he knows the context.”
Seymour: 'The main differencewith translating Vera is that my other clients don’t argue with me.'
“Most couples argue over who should have done the dishes – we argue over the rightword in a translation,” Vera Pavlova said with a chuckle. “It’s incredibly cathartic and makes the rest of our family life very peaceful.”
Vera Pavlova:
Когда последняя бедазатмит все наши горести,отправлюсь за тобой тудана следующем поездене потому, что нету силобдумывать последствия,но - вдруг ты что-нибудь забыл? -Таблетки, галстук, лезвия…
Translation by Steven Seymour:
Whenthe very last griefdeadens all our pain,I will follow you thereon the very next train,not because I lack strengthto ponder the end result,but maybe you forgot to bringpills, a necktie, razor blades …
Vera Pavlova:
Богачам, нам нечего терять.Старикам, нам некуда спешить.Нам ‒ подушки прошлого взбивать, будущего угли ворошить,нам ‒ о самом главном говоритьна излете медленного дня,нам ‒ бессмертных наших хоронить:мне тебя, потом тебе ‒ меня.
Translation by Steven Seymour:
We are rich: we have nothing to lose.
Weare old: we have nowhere to rush.
We shall fluff the pillows of the past,
poke the embers of the days to come,
talk about what means the most,
as the indolent daylight fades.
Weshall lay to rest our undying dead:
Ishall bury you, you will bury me.
Eternal Memory.
In Memoriam: Translator and interpreter Steven Seymour
May 22, 1946 - Sept 23, 2014
Today is the 9th day commemoration meeting in New York.
Steven Seymour was a professional interpreter/translator who had worked for years as a contractor to the US State Department at the Geneva negotiations on nuclear arms control and disarmament, as well as at the US Embassy in Moscow. In recent years, he had been working on literary translations from Russian, Polish, and French.
The first collection of Steven Seymour's wife, renowned poet Vera Pavlova, in English, If There Is Something toDesire, translated by Steven Seymour, is published by Alfred A. Knopf.
Vera Pavlova was born in Moscow. She graduated from the Gnessin Academy, specializing in the history of music, and is the author of fourteen collections of poetry,four opera librettos, and lyrics to two cantatas. She is currently oneof the best-selling authors in Russia.
Video: Poet Vera Pavlovadiscusses the unique satisfaction she feels when Steven Seymour translates her poetry.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/video/199
Steven and Vera met in 2001 at19.00 p.m. in Spaso House, the residence of the U.S. ambassador to Russia. WhenVera met Steven, she met someone who already knew her poems by heart. After working in Moscow for 8 years, Steven returned to the United States where he continues working as an interpreter. They have been together for twelve years and married for seven. This personal touch gives Seymour an immediate advantage in translating his wife’s work.
Vera: “Almost all of my poems of the last ten years are dedicated to my husband. It’s easier for him to translate because he’s lived through it and he knows the context.”
Seymour: 'The main differencewith translating Vera is that my other clients don’t argue with me.'
“Most couples argue over who should have done the dishes – we argue over the rightword in a translation,” Vera Pavlova said with a chuckle. “It’s incredibly cathartic and makes the rest of our family life very peaceful.”
Vera Pavlova:
Когда последняя бедазатмит все наши горести,отправлюсь за тобой тудана следующем поездене потому, что нету силобдумывать последствия,но - вдруг ты что-нибудь забыл? -Таблетки, галстук, лезвия…
Translation by Steven Seymour:
Whenthe very last griefdeadens all our pain,I will follow you thereon the very next train,not because I lack strengthto ponder the end result,but maybe you forgot to bringpills, a necktie, razor blades …
Vera Pavlova:
Богачам, нам нечего терять.Старикам, нам некуда спешить.Нам ‒ подушки прошлого взбивать, будущего угли ворошить,нам ‒ о самом главном говоритьна излете медленного дня,нам ‒ бессмертных наших хоронить:мне тебя, потом тебе ‒ меня.
Translation by Steven Seymour:
We are rich: we have nothing to lose.
Weare old: we have nowhere to rush.
We shall fluff the pillows of the past,
poke the embers of the days to come,
talk about what means the most,
as the indolent daylight fades.
Weshall lay to rest our undying dead:
Ishall bury you, you will bury me.
Eternal Memory.
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