this is really happeningBlog!http://www.thisisreallyhappening.com/blog/2009-12-15T08:37:55ZSquarespaceYes Yes! Hey Hey! It's time to ratify!http://www.thisisreallyhappening.com/blog/2009/12/15/yes-yes-hey-hey-its-time-to-ratify.htmlmonica way2009-12-15T08:29:33Z2009-12-15T08:29:33Z

100.000 people march for climate change in Copenhagen. December 12, 2009.

]]>where are these two goin'?http://www.thisisreallyhappening.com/blog/2009/12/2/where-are-these-two-goin.htmlmonica way2009-12-02T16:11:00Z2009-12-02T16:11:00ZIs that a bear in a Russian taxi?

]]>girl scout spottinghttp://www.thisisreallyhappening.com/blog/2009/3/8/girl-scout-spotting.htmlmonica way2009-03-08T20:25:13Z2009-03-08T20:25:13Z$4. The simple cost of heaven.

Kith and kin, Samoas are on the scene and Tagalongs are coming down the mountain. I bought my boxes this morning as the sun was still tucked behind the hills like a thin mint. Holy Girl Scout posse on Lakeshore Avenue in front of Peet's Coffee.

]]>Mary Wollstonecraft said in 1797http://www.thisisreallyhappening.com/blog/2009/3/4/mary-wollstonecraft-said-in-1797.htmlmonica way2009-03-04T21:18:47Z2009-03-04T21:18:47Z"Vigorous minds are with difficulty restrained within the trammels of authority; a spirit of enterprise, a passion for experiment, a liberal curiosity, urges them to quit the beaten paths, to explore untried ways, to burst the fetters of prescription, and to acquire wisdom by an individual experience."


Thanks to A.K. for introducing me to this quote.

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Proof that yet again, we see what we want to see. There's more.

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Photo credit: The infamous, George Chan

]]>bird peoplehttp://www.thisisreallyhappening.com/blog/2009/1/8/bird-people.htmlmonica way2009-01-08T23:22:32Z2009-01-08T23:22:32ZI first encountered Erich Fromm in International Relations 202 nearly ten years ago. He's one of about thirty or so authors I read as a sophomore whose name I can actually remember and whose wisdom has informed many of my political, historical, and philosophical opinions.

If Erich Fromm is right; if "creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties," then these 'fellas are our gift to creativity. For anyone struggling through The Artist's Way, perhaps it's time to go get a wingsuit:

]]>go laura!http://www.thisisreallyhappening.com/blog/2009/1/8/go-laura.htmlmonica way2009-01-08T23:01:52Z2009-01-08T23:01:52ZShake up that boy's club!

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