Virtual Choir 3.0 - Water Night: My story

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Thursday February 02, 2012 · 3:03 PM PST

2012/02/02 · 15:03

What follows is an email I wrote in response to the Virtual Choir team's request that we send in our story about our experience with Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir 3.0. I hadn't thought to share it here, but a dear friend, and fellow Kossack, suggested I do so. I don't know that it will be of any use to you, but you never know. And anyway, another Kossack I queried about it request I do so. So, there you go.

I'd like to thank elfling right here at the start, as if it hadn't been for her diary, I would never have found out about this at all.

Without further ado then, please follow me over the orange embellishment for my Virtual Choir story.

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When I was small, I spent a lot of time watching ants

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Thursday October 13, 2011 · 12:45 PM PDT

2011/10/13 · 12:45

When I was small, I spent a lot of time watching ants.

Hours in my backyard, intently focused on their comings and goings. Sometimes I would choose a particular ant and follow it about; sometimes I would stake out one of their hills. I was equal parts humbled and awed by their complexity and community, and aggrandized by my power over them. I wondered if my view of the ants, and my ability to destroy one of their hills with a single step, was how God saw us. I wondered if we were God’s ants.

I also spent a lot of time watching clouds. Lying on my back, with the grass tickling my ears, and an occasional ant wandering along the mountains of my body, I would stare up into the sky. For hours at a time. Watching the movement of the clouds. Sometimes choosing one particular cloud, seeing how it moved and transformed. Sometimes watching the whole panorama shift. It felt like flying. And swimming. I wondered if God moved like that, and if we could, when we were one with God.

I wondered a lot.

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Sunday October 09, 2011 · 8:02 PM PDT

2011/10/09 · 20:02

Today was the second General Assembly meeting of Occupy Albany. I decided to actually get off my computer and go take part.

A bunch of us got together about a mile away, in Albany's Delaware Ave. neighborhood, to march down to the meeting together, doing outreach to the community as we walked.

Here are a few pics of us moseying on down to the meeting:

This gal was really creative:

Evidence of the movement preceded us:

Join me below the decorative Kosicle for more, if you like.

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Wednesday October 05, 2011 · 2:18 PM PDT

2011/10/05 · 14:18

[hat tip to Eileen B for the updated title]

How is this not a diary yet?

Jesse LaGreca: The Smartest Man on Wall Street?

Mr. LaGreca certainly does not fit into the media’s stereotype of the obtusely disenfranchised ne0-hippies that have been camping out at Zuccotti Park. He’s been a freelance writer for the Daily Kos under the name MinistryOfTruth for the last three years and is one of their most frequent writers and commenters.

Way to go, Jesse! So proud of you.

**UPDATE*

From Eileen B in the comments:

"Jesse LaGreca (MinistryofTruth) just emailed me saying:

"I just did MoveOn dot Org. Hannity is next. If you can help get the word out I'd be very appreciative"

Hannity Vs Jesse? YEAH! It's ON. Hannity is so going to regret this!"

*UPDATE the second**

Hold the phones - Eileen has a new update:

"News: Jesse just emailed me again, so I posted this:

It might fall through. He's currently on hold and waiting for confirmation. He'll keep me updated. My guess is that Hannity is scared. As he should be!"

The plot thickens. Stay tuned!

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Barriers and Bridges: On Getting a Clue.

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Thursday September 22, 2011 · 8:15 AM PDT

2011/09/22 · 08:15

I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed and more than a bit ambivalent, as I sit here, trying to begin this ~~diary~~ post. I took part in the boycott last week, in solidarity with a group of folks whose voices I value and respect. As a blog dedicated to electing more and better Democrats, voices of diversity should not only be tolerated, but cultivated. There are more than enough mostly, or only, white spaces in my life, and the life of our body politic.

Anyway, I promised a dear friend (made on Daily Kos, by the way) that I would turn into a diary an email I'd written to her during boycott week. I’m not convinced of its utility, and I’m already uncomfortable with the number of times I have typed “I,” recognizing that I will be typing it many more times before I am done.

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Saturday June 20, 2009 · 2:32 PM PDT

2009/06/20 · 14:32

My DIARY cherry, that is. What were you thinking?

This is my very first diary. It never would've happened without the sometimes derided community diaries.

The community diaries at dKos serve a very important purpose. Beyond building community, they may also encourage formerly inactive folks to take part in our democracy. I oughtta know. I'm one of those people.

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Virtual Choir 3.0 - Water Night: My story

When I was small, I spent a lot of time watching ants

UPDATE with video - Occupy Albany, with pics - High energy, slow process

[UPDATE Jesse LaGreca taking on Hannity?] NY Observer: MoT "Smartest Man on Wall Street"

Barriers and Bridges: On Getting a Clue.

Netroots for the Troops - busting my cherry edition