RHODE ISLAND RALLY ~ SOLIDARITY WITH WISCONSIN SAT FEB 26, 2011

We are all Wisconsin. We are all Americans. Rhode Island had two rallies to support the right to be in a union, freedom to bargain, Wisconsin Citizens and Wisconsin Democrats who have taken a stand to support "the right to exercise rights" wtihin a democracy. One rally was on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 and the other on Saturday, February 26, 2011. This video includes highlights of the Saturday Rally at the Rhode Island State House. Presented by Sandra Hammel

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Uploaded by me ~ ilovemylifesblog
Correction: Spelling on one side of my poster's last line...
Governor Walker. I was very much in a hurry when I did the sign.
I had to drive 45 minutes to get there and I was late in leaving by 10 minutes.

Notable ~ The organizer of the Rhode Island Saturday rally asked the attendees how many were Union members and almost all those attending were not Union members.

Rhode Island rally to support Wisconsin on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 ~ Photostream
More photos

Rights are called rights because they are rights.

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Twitter #WeAreWI

Comments will be moderated at my discretion. This is a support post for the cause expressed on this post. Those who differ may post their own posts on their own blogs or leave comments where they are accepted by the owner of the blog or website.

50 Photos from the 50 State Rallies to save the American Dream
(Saturday, February 26, 2011)

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Interview with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Sunday, February 27, 2011 with David Gregory on Meet the Press. Video of the interview at Meet the Press transcripts

Found the following at moveon.org

Posted by GabrieleSe

Original by Dietrich Bonhoeffer:

“First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out.

Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out.

Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out.

And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”

Then this posted by HollyandJohn ~

Perhaps the new version goes something like this:

First they came...

First they came for the car unions,
and I didn't speak out because I didn't work in Detroit.

Then they came for the air traffic controllers,
and I didn't speak out because I thought, yeah they are too entitled.

Then they came for the welfare mothers,
and I didn't speak out because I thought, yeah they are lazy, aren't they?

Then they came for the all the industrial workers,
and I didn't speak out because I thought, well, NAFTA could be good for me.

Then they came for the free press,
and I didn't speak out because I believed it was fair and balanced.

Then they came for everyone's savings and retirement money,
and I didn't speak out because I thought bubbles happen and deregulation will make me money.

Then they came for people with houses and predatory loans,
and I didn't speak out because they said greedy low-income people brought down the system.

Then they came for the right to an education,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a student or a teacher.

Then they came for those who organized to fight the rich,
and I didn't speak out because I believe them when they said it was about the budget.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me. show more

Then this posted by lillymouse ~

Then they came for the mentally ill
and I didn't speak out because I didn't have a problem and didn't know anyone who did.

Then they came for the sick, unable to afford treatment,
and I didn't speak out because I was healthy and had a job with what I thought was good health insurance.

Then they came for the old and disabled
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't either and I believed them when they said social security was broken and there was no way to fix it and we must all settle for less.

A TRIBUTE to PAUL WARREN ALLEN ~ Warum ist das licht gegeben dem mühseligen

First
Worked on a project of putting together a video.
Second
Imported it at Youtube.
Third
Youtube compressed the movie and the timing was all off. So, I didn't make the video "public".
Fourth
I tried to rework the video seven times to correct this, then upload at Youtube. But, the timing was only wrong after uploading to Youtube, which made the corrections a calculation game at best and a guessing game at worst.
Fifth
Surrendered and made the final upload "public" even though the work of trying to coordinate text, transition placements and singing was not evident at Youtube.

Then days later, my project in the software program was no longer coordinated because I had been changing it, guessing at how to make it come out right at Youtube. But then, I had the idea to try to upload it at Facebook to see if the timing would come out how I had created it in the first place. But I had to retrieve old versions in Quick Time formats and splice them together, then downgrade the quality in order to downsize it below 1 GB, which is a Facebook requirement (Youtube's requirement is 2GB). I know it is hard to follow...but in the end, the Facebook upload came out with the timing correct. So I post it here.
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North Central College Choir ~ 1968

by Sandra Hammel

12:52

Warum ist das licht gegeben dem mühseligen (opus 74, 1877)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), op. 74 no. 1 (1877) [satb], from Zwei Motetten, no. 1.

Other songs from the record uploaded are
"DICHTERLIEBE" ~ "Art Songs" Robert Schumann
www.facebook.com/video
"The Eyes of All Wait Upon Thee" by Jean Berger
www.youtube
"I Am the True Vine", arranged by Salli Terri
www.youtube
"It's May", Robert Schumann's "Art Song"
www.youtube

Source of the following is
www.cantate-choir.info/ProgrammeNotes/Brahms-WarumIstDasLichtGegeben

The imposing opening Adagio (in D minor) of this motet, is punctuated four times by the urgent cry of Warum? (wherefore?). The following sections are in flowing cannon form with a 'warm F major glow' reflecting the text. It ends with a nunc dimittis in chorale form.

About the composer
Johannes Brahms was born 7th of May in 1833 in Hamburg, Germany
Bio:
www.johannesbrahms.org/JBbio.htm
and more at www.johannesbrahms.org

Johannes Brahms - (7 May 1833 in Hamburg, Germany to 3 April 1897 in Vienna, Austria)

Brahms studied piano from the age of seven and composition from thirteen. He had a lifelong interest in early music and amongst his generation he was without equal in sophisticated contrapuntal technique. He did not enjoy a meeting of minds with composers of the New German School, but his artistic kinship with Robert Schumann and his passion and veneration for Clara Schumann are well known influences on his life. Whether or not Brahms was a believer, he whole-heartedly accepted the Christain ethic and admired and embraced the literature and poetry of the Bible. His background was North German Lutheran Protestant. This inheritance gave to his choral music 'a noble human consolation' and air of hope.

His musical style was of the romantic school; his nature was introspective, reserved, logical and studious. Musicologists point to the essence of all these influences being demonstrated in the a capella motets spread over thirty years, and in his other sacred music, but most especially in the German Requiem.

Warum ist das licht gegeben dem mühseligen (opus 74, 1877)

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; which long for death but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures; which rejoice exceedingly and are glad, when they can find the grave? Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? (Job 3, 20-23)

Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens (Lamentations 3, 41)

Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy. (James 5, 11)

With peace and joy I go forth in the will of God, my heart and mind are comforted, gentle and still. As God has promised me, death but becomes sleep to me. (Martin Luther - 1524)

HE RODE LIFE LIKE THE WIND ~ FOREVER LOCKED IN HIS LIGHT a poem for HEATH LEDGER by SANDRA HAMMEL

One of my favorite pictures of Heath

Somewhere I have the information of the person who shot this.
But at the moment I have to get to practicing piano and singing,
so I have not the time to look it up.
Apologies to the photographer.

Click the post title to see Heath flying a plane.

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Sweet Bright episode of Roar

A favorite scene from a favorite episode of mine

starring a very young Heath Ledger

Uploaded by ; ) lparker0

Poem written by Sandra Hammel ~

He Didn’t Know

He was a young man with a dream

Not wanting to wait for life to pass him by

without trying that dream,

He drove off across Australia,

He rode life like the wind

and added joy to the universe,

opened hearts,

brought total strangers together

through the power of what we saw in his eyes …

On the screen, big or small,

it worked…

A slight movement of the head, a wrinkle in a look,

The way he took a woman’s hand and cocooned it in his,

The rhythm of his walk,

Creating his characters from the inside first,

trusting the outside would take care of itself.

We fell in love.

And he didn’t know.

He didn’t know the sway he had.

He didn’t perceive what he had done to us

never to be undone.

Forever locked in his light

I can only say “Thank you” and dance like Heath did.

That is what I can do.

To pass on what he gave to me.

Here is what I know ~

The power of the shared need to feel connected to our own souls

and reaching out to the big Soul of the Universe ~

Heath was and continues to be a catalyst for this connection,

for what is good.

He embodied the spirit that we all share.

And I am so grateful

to have been here while he was here in body.

But I also know this ~

His spirit is alive.

It is alive in me.

And it is alive in you.

I talk to him,

I sing for him,

I sing for me, too.

I dance the dance of life

And I know that is what Heath did so well,

DaNcE LIFE

And what continues to make me want to feel him,

To be connected to him

Is that I feel more me,

more alive,

more hopeful

about who we are.

And what we can do.

Now.

Today.

Every day, Heath ~ Thank you.

~

Dedicated to my friend Johanna

and inspired by Tina's video Heath ~ I Hope You Dance

Written by Sandra Hammel 4:32 p.m. USA EST ~ May 18, 2010, Tuesday

TWO YEARS AGO WE LOST THE GIFTS OF HEATH LEDGER ON JANUARY 22, 2008

As I get ready to do one of the most frightening things in my life this Saturday, I am doing a lot of thoughtful internal dialogue with myself and I lean heavily on this quote:

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you, not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Marianne Williamson in Return to Love

I know Heath Ledger has inspired many - and I am one - to reach for our own destinies. He has unconsciously given many of us the permission to manifest our own gifts. He has done his part to help us liberate our own stymied wishes and dreams and we reach for the stars of our destinies.

Heath Ledger
April 4, 1979 ~ January 22, 2008
Heath's current and final movie:
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

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Be Still My Soul
Uploaded by springrose147

Some are born with a gift to shine a light for the rest of us to touch,
connect to and receive their radiant beauty.
Heath was one.

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Loving tribute by jopicca

January anniversary date of Heath's passing away

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Two of my blog posts about Heath - the second link has the entire interview that jopicca uses in her loving tribute to Heath today :

http://ilovemylifebrothersandsisters.blogspot.com/2009/07/moving-aura-after-death-heath-ledger.html

http://ilovemylifebrothersandsisters.blogspot.com/2009/07/poetry-by-sandra-hammel-beauty-can-be.html

Here, I have transcribed some of Heath's responses from my favorite interview of Heath. I especially connect with Heath’s statement about success:

Cause for me, like, what a success is – is, I mean the only time that I’m alive, and living and expressing and feeling, and, and relating is, is, is when I’m on set and that time between “action” and “cut” and so that’s the only thing that’s really important is how that experience is, and, and how that experience will affect my life and what I have to give from my life to that experience.

Partial transcript included below of Heath’s interview about “He’s Not There” and where he mentions the movie, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus:

Sometimes , you just, you-you have to kind of throw away the care, like you have to not be too conscious of what will be a success and what won’t be. Uh, cause you really – that’s out of your power. And, and, like I said, look what is success? And um, uh, so I, you know I just, I- I try to look at what I feel like…the, the

Cause for me, like, what a success is – is, I mean the only time that I’m alive, and living and expressing and feeling, and, and relating is, is, is when I’m on set and that time between “action” and “cut” and so that’s the only thing that’s really important is how that experience is, and, and how that experience will affect my life and what I have to give from my life to that experience. And everything that happens after that – is just irrelevant. You know, it’s when I’m on set and that time between “action” and “cut” and so that’s the only thing that’s really important is how that experience is, and, and how that experience will affect my life and what I have to give from my life to that experience. And everything that happens after that – is just irrelevant. You know, it’s kind of um, if it’s a success, great, if it’s not, great, fine. You know, it’s um, it affects you, or it doesn’t. But it’s, that shouldn’t in my, my mind, it shouldn’t kind dictate what your choices. Um, I, I –I just want to enjoy myself. I want to learn more. I want to work with good people. Um, creatively and as people who really just good people.

And duh, uh, so that, that, that drives me more than, then, well you know Terry (Gilliam) had a really hard time on Brothers Grimm and you know, uh for some odd reason is finding it hard to get his next movie up and running. Oh, w-w, that’s too risky, I can’t be involved with that. No, no it’s like he’s one of the most creative, most visionary minds of, of, ever, in film history. I – I – I and a wonderful figure in my life.

Links to the interview that the above quotes were transcribed from:

Part 1 Beyond the Subtitles

Part 2 Beyond the Subtitles

Part 3 Beyond the Subtitles

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Click this post's title to read Heath and his gentle way

To light a candle in Heath's memory

HEATH LEDGER GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN ~ "HAUNT ME IN MY DREAMS IF YOU PLEASE"

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Haunt Me by Sade
Uploaded by MihaelaFlorenta from Romania

Lyrics

Haunt me
in my dreams
if you please
your breath is with me now and always
it's like a breeze

so should you ever doubt me
if it's help that you need
never dare to doubt me

and if you want to sleep
i'll be quiet
like an angel
as quiet as your soul could be
if you only knew
you had a friend like me

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Ariana is accepting messages for Heath Ledger and she is taking a trip to 421 Broome Street in New York to leave our messages there for him and his family.

You can go to her live journal page for her message about this:

http://community.livejournal.com/inmemoryofheath

I think she is accepting them until at Tuesday, January 19, maybe even until January 20, Wednesday. Her email address can be found at the link above.

I sent my message tonight and she has responded to me already.

She is going to post all the messages that she has received for Heath Tuesday, January 19, at the link above.

Here is my message

For Heath Ledger
who continues to touch my life

Human life must know ecstasy.

Intense beauty is liberation.

…Here again, as everywhere,

the great river passing –

I passing,

you passing . . .

. . . forever flowing down through time,

flowing through many channels,

fading out of the embraces of its names . . .

. . . simple as the voice of a child

and never to be quite known.

In this light and breeze are resurrection echoes.

Suddenly one becomes aware one lives in an eternity,

And hears strange footsteps

Ascending anciently trodden pathways.

Our lives like dreams endure

and reach out over the universe.

Nothing real is to itself alone.

There are sidestreams to rivers,

there are overtones to thought.

Great love reaches out

and is involved in the world’s purposes.

Our loves are only symbols of an unknown immortality.

Where communion is deep,

there exists no separation at all,

for what needs telling those we love is understood already,

and what is supposed to be gone and past

is often more real than ever.

Through the sculpture of experience,

that part of ourselves which survives, like cloud, resolves continuously.

This is the spirit of my hope and my religion.

Cedric Wright

Words of the Earth

With love and affection,

Sandra Hammel, Rhode Island

January 22, 2010

Daneil Auber's work for

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Daniel was a friend of Heath Ledger's
Click to enlarge - it is fabulous enlarged

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Heath's final film has a support site, if you can click this post title to go there. To go directly to the post about Daniel Auber - it has fantastic information and wonderful pictures - click here for

EXCLUSIVE! A Trip Through Dr. Parnassus’ Mirror With Concept Designer, Daniel Auber

More of Daneil Auber's work for

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Click to enlarge

DO NOT REMOVE THE WATERMARKS (Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus Support Site) on the Daniel Auber's works

THE RIPPLE EFFECT OF LOVE BROUGHT TO US THROUGH HEATH LEDGER

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you, not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Marianne Williamson in Return to Love

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I "met" Johanna and Carla at youtube and because of our shared adoration for Heath Ledger. Here are two videos, Johanna and Carla have made recently. I posted Johanna's in an earlier post
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If I Could Be Where You Are
sung by Enya
Uploaded by mimccd

Thank you so much Carla for sharing this lovely work that you did for Heath and all his adoring fans. Heath will never be gone because people like you bring us such lovely tributes to remind us he is loved so deeply, intimately and with such tenderness. The music is very spiritual and so fitting to our love for Heath.

If I Could Be Where You Are
Lyrics written by Roma Ryan

Where are you this moment
Only in my dreams
You're missing, but you're always
a heartbeat from me.

I'm lost now without you.
I don't know where you are.
I keep watching,
I keep hoping,
but time keeps us apart.

Is there a way I can find you?
Is there a sign I should know?
Is there a road I could follow,
to bring you back home?

Winter lies before me,
Now you're so far away
In the darkness of my dreaming
The light of you will stay

If I could be close beside you,
If I could be where you are,
If I could reach out and touch you,
And bring you back home.

Is there a way I can find you?
Is there a sign I should know?
Is there a road I could follow,
to bring you back home?

To me...

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Johanna's was made after she saw Heath Ledger's final movie, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus for the fourth time.

I saw it for the first time January 8th. And being in the presence of Johanna through this video helps during this time of processing my feelings about Heath. Maybe, it will touch you, as well.

It was two years ago now that Heath was shooting the scenes in London for Doctor Parnassus.

It was difficult watching for me....this movie, Doctor Parnassus, but also I am grateful it was finished. I missed seeing Heath playing all of Tony.

Angels or Devil by Dishwalla ~ by jopicca

This is the last time
that I'm ever gonna come here tonight
this is the last time - I will fall
into a place that fails us all - inside

I can see the pain in you
I can see the love in you
but fighting all the demons will take time
it will take time

The angels they burn inside for us
are we ever
are we ever gonna learn to fly
the devils they burn inside of us
are we ever gonna come back down
come around
I'm always gonna worry about the things that could make us cold

This is the last time
that I'm ever gonna give in tonight
are there angels or devils crawling here?
I just want to know what blurs and what is clear - to see

Still I can see the pain in you
and I can see the love in you
and fighting all the demons will take time
it will take time

The angels they burn inside for us
are we ever
are we ever gonna learn to fly
the devils they burn inside of us
are we ever gonna come back down - come around
I'm always gonna worry about the things that could break us

If I was to give in - give it up
and then
take a breath - make it deep
cause it might be the last one you get
be the last one
that could make us cold
you know that they could make us cold
I'm always gonna worry about the things that could make us cold

WATCHING HEATH LEDGER IN DOCTOR PARNASSUS IS BITTERSWEET

I saw The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus for the first time on January 8, 2010.

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This tribute was made by jopicca. She saw The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus for the fourth time. It is best to see it at youtube, where the screen can be bigger. Pictures of Heath, done by Vincent Fantauzzo.

Angels Or Devils by Dishwalla
Lyrics

This is the last time
that I'm ever gonna come here tonight
this is the last time - I will fall
into a place that fails us all - inside

I can see the pain in you
I can see the love in you
but fighting all the demons will take time
it will take time

the angels they burn inside for us
are we ever
are we ever gonna learn to fly
the devils they burn inside of us
are we ever gonna come back down
come around
I'm always gonna worry about the things that could make us cold

this is the last time
that I'm ever gonna give in tonight
are there angels or devils crawling here?
I just want to know what blurs and what is clear - to see

still I can see the pain in you
and I can see the love in you
and fighting all the demons will take time
it will take time

the angels they burn inside for us
are we ever
are we ever gonna learn to fly
the devils they burn inside of us
are we ever gonna come back down - come around
I'm always gonna worry about the things that could break us

if I was to give in - give it up
and then
take a breath - make it deep
cause it might be the last one you get
be the last one
that could make us cold
you know that they could make us cold
I'm always gonna worry about the things that could make us cold

It was two years ago now that Heath was shooting the scenes in London for Doctor Parnassus - the movie opened January 8, 2010 in nearly 600 theatres in the USA.

It was difficult watching for me....this movie, but also I am grateful it was finished. Difficult for probably obvious reasons. But while watching the final movie of Heath's, my mind would wander off thinking of what Heath was going through when shooting the movie. Pained about his relationship break-up, missing his daughter, worried about lawyers, battling the cold of London nights while having pneumonia, not able to sleep, but staying with his work.

It just is impossible not to do that, I think. I feel we should still have him here.

I couldn't take my eyes off Heath. If he was on the screen, I just stayed with him. I think I have to see the movie again, to actually watch the movie.

I loved Heath in the role and of course would have rather he was in the entire movie. I missed him playing all of Tony.

This is the first movie of Heath's that I have seen on a big screen. I am about the only one who stayed all through the credits....it was like I wanted to stay there as long as possible to be in his presence.

Our paper's review was quite good and had two Tony pictures of Heath and a huge colored photo of the Imaginarium stage. http://www.projo.com/movie_reviews/lb_imaginarium_01-08-10_LQH0G6P_v13.604a77.html

Light a Candle for Heath

Light a Candle for Darfur

SOME THINGS ARE MORE IMPORTANT AT THE END OF THE DAY and I'M NOT CRAZY

I left three 1500 character-limited messages at the Oprah show's website tonight. Here, there are:

Message #1

For me, shows like today....on girls, women, rape, the Darfur genocide...are some of few types of topics that I feel the Oprah show does the best and are the most helpful for us to make the world a better place. So, a big heartfelt "Thank You!!"

As someone who has worked as one of those "grass roots" community organizers to end the Darfur genocide - since 2004, I agree with Nicholas D. Kristof and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, that the media and our world's free nations' leaders have failed in bringing attention and focusing on such vital human disaster stories.

If we had the Darfur story in our faces more consistently - maybe it wouldn't be so easy for our leaders to put it on the back burner of priorities. They simply won't act unless we - the people - say to them loudly, clearly and consistently that Genocide Will Stop With Us. Allowing genocide is a defining issue and I don't want to be defined by allowing the perpetrators to go on doing their crimes without accountability by us, humans who claim we have high values.

So, again “Thank You” for this vital and needed show.

S Hammel

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Message #2

Besides types of shows like today’s which bring much-needed attention to worldwide discrimination of women, rape as a weapon of war, the nearly 7 year genocide on the Darfuri people, etc., I especially am grateful for shows that are positive and show human nature at its best in simply illuminating ways. I will never forget the young beautiful woman who was disfurgured, is cared for by her father, from South America, I believe and only allows herself a daily brief "feeling sorry" for herself. She is the most memorable guest for me personally. I will miss Oprah show contributions like these when the show ends. How sad for us, for women, girls and the world. BUT I am grateful for all that you have done and continue to do to make the world a better place.

"The hair show" for me was interesting, but not so important at the end of the day. I am 60, white and never colored my hair. And luckily still have my natural hair color. Red.

Okay this next one.... somewhat contradicts the thoughts above, but I had no room to explain myself in the character-limited space on Oprah's website. I wanted to add the following as a preface to this next comment that I left:

Having said that I especially like the shows that bring attention to issues that are much neglected by the media...I have a request about something not so important at the end of the day....Please, consider doing a show on Heath ....Ledger, that is.

Message #3

There are a lot (Johanna's Channel) of us around the world who mysteriously find ourselves with a bond to the late actor Heath Ledger. And for many of us, we found his work after he died January 22, 2008. We meet at youtube on our little video tributes to Heath, at director Shekhar Kapur's blog posts about Heath (Mr.Kapur directed Heath in the WONDERful, overlooked movie The Four Feathers). We become friends, share emails that are very soulful, family photos - friends from countries where we resort to google translator to be able to pour out our hearts in native languages. It is a wondefrul experience meeting "spiritual soul mates" from around the planet and share our feelings that only we can say to another "Heathen". Thus, Heath Ledger, the actor, continues to inspire by his work that is still with us. Though he is gone, he remainis the catalyst for these connections.

His final movie The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is opening in Europe in different countries ongoing. We may ONLY see it in the USA in NYC and LA.There is a support site where we hope to spread the word that we want to see it in our local theatres. It is our last chance to see Heath after the Joker role in The Dark Knight.

All you have to do is type in Heath Ledger at youtube and

feel the love we have. We are not crazy, just connected by what we see in Heath’s humanity. As I put on one of my latest tributes - DON'T POSTPONE JOY ~ CELEBRATING HEATH - at my youtube channel: "We never forget those who put us in touch with our own soul."

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Help us get The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus in our local theatres in the USA. It is our last chance to see Heath on screen in a new film. Don't let us be left out. Go to this link to DEMAND IT: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus


From the Support site for The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus:

IMPORTANT! International Dr. Parnassus Fan Brainstorming Chat Saturday, 12/5/09

Tuesday, December 01st, 2009 | Author: Administrator

There will be an important Dr. Parnassus fan brainstorming chat in our chatroom this Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 10 a.m. Los Angeles Time and 6:00 p.m. London Time. Even if Dr. Parnassus has played in your country, please, it is important that you attend this chat if you can. You can find the time in your country that the chat will take place here at the WORLD CLOCK. We have tried to choose a time that will work for as many countries as possible.

Please be there, you won’t be sorry. There’s much to be shared with you about the film and what’s what with it.

CLICK HERE FOR OUR CHAT ROOM

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By clicking on the post title, it will take you to a wonderful article about the making of King Rat - a video about saving the whales which was conceived and created by Heath.

My Youtube Channel:
www.youtube.com/user/ilovemylifesblog

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This was on Oprah today:

CHANGE STARTS WITH A GIRL
http://www.youtube.com/girleffect

The Girl Effect
http://www.girleffect.org

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Darfur In the News

Reuters: Millions Could Miss Sudan Elections-Observers. Millions of voters could be left out of Sudan's first elections in 24 years because of a failure of authorities to persuade more people to register for the poll, international observers said on Tuesday. The Carter Centre urged Sudan's National Elections Commission (NEC) to increase publicity and funding for teams signing up voters across Africa's largest country, saying current figures showed most states might miss registration targets. It said there were concerns over the turnout for registration in western Darfur territory as well as the east, south and the central Kordofan regions. Registration was due to end after a 30-day period on November 30 but was extended for one week following concerns about low turnout and public awareness. The presence of government intelligence agents at registration centres in Darfur might intimidate voters there, it said.

Reuters: U.S. Blasts Sudan Over Darfur Peacekeeper Harassment. The U.S. envoy to the United Nations sharply criticized Khartoum Monday over a U.N. report that accused the Sudanese army of harassing and threatening international peacekeepers in Darfur. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his latest report on the U.N.-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur, known as UNAMID, that limits on the freedom of movement of UNAMID personnel violated an agreement with Khartoum on their deployment and made it difficult to protect civilians. "The United States is particularly concerned about ... the secretary-general's report of some 42 instances in which UNAMID personnel and patrols have been denied freedom of movement and access," U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice told reporters after a meeting of the Security Council on Sudan. "It impedes UNAMID's ability to protect civilians and do its vital work. It is utterly unacceptable, as are the threats by the government of Sudan against UNAMID."

Sudan Tribune: Peace mediator calls for truce in Darfur. The Joint Chief Mediator for Darfur peace process urged today all the parties to the six-year conflict to agree to a cessation of hostilities and to work for the improvement of security on the ground. Mr Djibrill Bassole, briefed on Monday the United Nation Security Council about the state of the "Darfur peace process and the Doha peace talks, as well as the short and medium term vision of the Mediation." The Joint African Union United Nations Chief Mediator for Darfur, in his update about the peace process to the 15 members of the UN Security Council, urged the Sudanese government and rebel groups to engage a cessation of hostilities in order to build confidence between the warring parties but also to improve the security and the humanitarian situations. Bassole stressed in his remarks that the current lack of confidence between the parties "makes for slow progress in the peace talks and for an end to military hostilities."

Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Land Rights Confusion Hinders Darfur IDP Returns. As pressure mounts to send IDPs home, little is being said about the crucial issue of land rights. IDPs would like to leave the camps and return to their former villages, once the situation improves, but fear that they no longer have land to go back to. Nor are they confident the government will ensure they return safely or protect them once they return. The dispute over land rights in Darfur has long fanned the flames of the conflict, which broke out in 2003, and many observers are baffled by the international community's apparent reluctance to do anything to address the problem. Since land ownership is such an integral part of the conflict in Darfur, many believe that, unless steps are taken to address the problem, it will be difficult to achieve a lasting peace in the region.

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GENOCIDE IS NOT OKAY

USE YOUR VOICE
TO CALL UPON OUR LEADERS
TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT
ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS VERY WRONG

standnow.org
www.savedarfur.org
whilewewaitsudan.blogspot.com

www.henryjacksonsociety.org/stories

THE BEST THING I EVER DID IN MY LIFE

I met my son when I was a music teacher in the public schools. He was in second grade and enrolled just before Halloween, that October. He wasn’t my son, then.

November is National Adoption Month and I am getting this in just before the end of the month. But in celebration of the great time we shared this afternoon and the best thing I have ever done, below is uploaded a video and some photos from today. It is not easy to get him to stand for a picture, but we had a ball watching the video that we made together today.

“Did you know it would take less than one percent of the U.S. population to provide a forever family for every child in foster care available for adoption? November is National Adoption Month and we’re part of a coordinated effort between the U.S. Children’s Bureau, Ad Council, and Child Welfare Information Gateway to make the difference of a lifetime for about 130,000 children who deserve a family of their own.” www.adoptuskids.org

I met him when he was eight. Now, he is 22, getting his Bachelors and Masters degrees, simultaneously in engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. A great young man.

No regrets.

The music my son was playing initially, while we were having some fun after sharing our meal together, was David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”.

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Uploaded by cutelisha

However, I was afraid that if I wanted to upload this to Youtube, it would be banned. And I had already tested some songs from Susan Tedeschi’s CD Just Won’t Burn for another Heath Ledger video tribute, so I put the song, It Hurt So Bad on and here is “our fun”.

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Uploaded by ilovemylifesblog

The picture at 2:28 is the day of his legal adoption.
We had just left the court room and were at JW's Seafood Grill
with his dad, and his dad's mom and dad.

His dad and I are no longer together,
but still help each other out,
when one or the other asked.

I sent food for his dad after our "little party".

Before we ate today, I asked Jonathan to say one thing he is grateful about life and one thing he is grateful for - about me... and I did the same for him.

He said:
I am grateful for your love, the way that you love me.... And for the understanding that you have for me not being able to talk to you, as I am studying and tutoring so much...

And I am grateful that I am able to do the work (in his engineering courses) - that I have the ability to do it (and so well, I added).

I said:

I am grateful that I have been with such great spirits lately. And I am grateful that Jonathan came to be with me, today.

It was a lovely idea and I thought he put "it" so nicely.

Jonathan's First Video - May 27, 1996

This is blocked in Germany due to the music we had playing in the background for Jonathan to dance to. This is when Jonathan was my student and visiting my home on Memorial Day. I gave him piano lessons at that time. We had planted a evergreen bush in the front yard and named it Jonathan.

9 Ways To Help Children in Foster Care

Map Quest for my area - Beautiful

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Rafa lost his third round-robin match
to Novak Djokovic 6-7(5), 3-6


Rafael Nadal of Spain reacts during the men's singles round robin match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia during the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena on November 27, 2009 in London, England. November 26, 2009Photo credit: Julian Finney/Getty Images Europe

17 pictures: Rafael+Nadal

Tournaments Website: www.barclaysatpworldtourfinals

Final
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Singles
2.30 pm London Time
9.30 am USA EST
Davydenko vs. del Potro

Online viewing ( for a fee): www.tennistv.com

You might try these links for free viewing:

www.atdhe.net

www.channelsurfing.net

Great Sources of Information

vamosbrigade.com

Sponsored by Babolat

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(I Ain't) Missing You Heath
Uploaded by mimccd
This tribute is about Heath's early films
Two Hands and The Things I Hate About You


A Very Young Heath in Roar
Uploaded by jopicca

I ordered both Two-Hands and Roar this week from Amazon. Roar came today! Two Hands is shipped and on its way.

A LITTLE STEP UP ON MY SOAPBOX

I was motivated to purchase these two dvds because mimccd and jopicca posted these two videos. Just wanted to say that ~ because of the battle over copyright infringement issues on youtube....and the problem of being able to post movies and especially, music on youtube. As I have said before the whole copyright issue and banning use on youtube-type sites is way behind the curve on utilizing the benefits of gaining sales by our use, not losing sales. Get with it, WMG, Sony Music, Warner Brothers, and whoever else is banning music and movie use on youtube type sites. Think outside the box

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GENOCIDE IS NOT OKAY

USE YOUR VOICE
TO CALL UPON OUR LEADERS
TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT
ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS VERY WRONG

standnow.org
www.savedarfur.org
whilewewaitsudan.blogspot.com

www.henryjacksonsociety.org/stories

Sandra from Rhode Island, but pictured here, many years ago in Paris.

That is the Arc de Triomphe in the background.

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