Mon, Apr 9, 201811:00 AM Tue, Apr 10, 201812:00 PM
For about 6 years I have been dancing with the incomparable Sylvie Minot the director of the Syzygy Dance Project. The 5Rhythms is a simple movement practice designed to release the dancer that lives in everybody regardless of shape, size, age or experience. While the practice itself is simple, it has the power to catalyze deep healing and creative expression. As 5Rhythms Founder Gabrielle Roth states, "if you put your psyche in motion, it will heal itself."
Syzygy has brought dance and dance therapy to hundreds who believe, or the world believes, can't or shouldn't dance. This is just an FYI: Monday April 9 we will be Dancing with people who reside at Laguna Honda Hospital from 11 AM to 12PM. If you want to invest in a program that makes a difference for people at the deepest level, have a look at the work of the Syzygy Dance Project. See http://www.syzygydanceproject.org
Come experience a night of amazing creators sharing their work and unique backstories on the topic of mortality, loss, memory, and love. Our exceptional contributors include: Dr. Paul Ekman and his daughter Dr. Eve Ekman, Angelica Ekeke, Yoko Sen, Dr. Liz Ogbu, Loren Rhoads, Daniel Barash, and September Williams, MD
I can't actually remember when I fell in love with sculpture. I was very young. It was either seeing "The Thinker" by Rodin on Dobbie Gilles ( a 1960s sit com.) Any way, I've often visited one of the "Thinkers" at the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco. I was delighted when my son chose Sculpture as his major in college. Is sculpture practical? No... but it is it important. Infact there is an entire scene in front of Victor Hugo and his Muse in the Weighing Lead the second book in the Chasing Mercury Toxic Trilogy.
International Women's Day is March 8, 2018. http://www.un.org/en/events/womensday/history.shtml. Can I count you in again? I need my "Street Team" of Chasing Mercury supporters to mobilize and buy copies of Chasing Mercury (print edition) on Amazon this Sunday 2/25/2017 (12:01AM to 12 Midnight). If you have any questions shoot me a note. The timing will help assure the now available print version of CM’s success. Go to the Print Edition at https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Mercury-Toxic-Trilogy/dp/0692059660/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Why should you care about Chasing Mercury's success for International Women's Day-- besides your affection for, well, me?
On March 2, 2018 I will be at the University of Illinois, Chicago Medical College. We are going to do some exercises looking at narrative, creativity, enhance the capacity to be good clinicians by being healthy creative people who listen actively and understand and are fed by stories. It should be fun. The notes for the reading and screening are here.
Today, Chasing Mercury is #1 Best Seller in Memoirs/Biographies and environmentalist E books., #7 in all books in that category, and #78 ( Top 100) in ebooks Mysteries, thrillers & Suspense and international Crime!
That will last a day maybe — they recalculate Amazon best sellers every hour! But thank you so much for every one who has been reading and buying Chasing Mercury over the past week!! Part of the proceeds go to Green Action for Health and Environmental Justice, www.greenaction.org and to freegrassy.net
Writer-director Guillermo del Toro’s film, THE SHAPE OF WATER (2017), screened at the Mill Valley Film Festival (MVFF40) this past October. Sadly I was unable to make that screening. I was barely back from Geneva having attended the Minamata Convention on Mercury first conference of the signatories of that treaty. Much of my work over the past year has been focused on writing and publishing the novel Chasing Mercury—a cross cultural-romance-suspense-memoir about mercury poisoning, and the coalition of outrageous marginalized characters it bands together. THE SHAPE OF WATER had covered all my basis and so many more. This film sprang from Guillermo del Toro’s mind, like Athena from Zeus, making me stand up and salute.
Dear Fan's of Bioethics Screen Reflections: The original Bioethics Screen Reflections website is now serving as the archives for articles on film over the past 7 years. Those articles are still available to you. New articles can be located on this website under the journal blog by searching September Williams' Bioethics Screen Reflections . Sorry for any inconvenience during the period of development the book series on Chasing Mercury -- but I'm back.
See The Bioethicsscreen Reflection Archives at http://www.bioethicsscreenreflections.com
What makes waves have power? Wind speed, Wind duration, Wind distance traveled determined-- wave height, wave length, wave time interval (sets -- come in 3 to 20) -- all of this makes power -- every bit has it's role.Women's rights are human rights - has declared in the Declaration of Human Rights, the emancipation proclamation, the founding documents of the French Revolution -- the all come to this point.
Everyone has a role in this movement for change that advances the humanitarian and environmental justice — on the street or not. But for all the women who will be on the streets marching in tomorrow, Saturday, and all the other work that women do — I wish you Peace, I thank you, and above all TELL YOUR STORIES BY ANY MEANS POSSIBLE. See https://www.womensmarch.com
There may be some bumps in availability of Chasing Mercury over the next three days but it will be short term. Many of you know that my McMillan/Pronoun book seller is shutting down its ebook platform. It's a long story but I am now forced to distribute Chasing Mercury to Amazon, only through Amazon -- instead of a third party book seller. In the process I had to remove all the sales material and advertising and re-enter it with a new ISBN and ASIN -- same book different ID numbers. In that process many of the links on Amazon using the earlier ISBN/ASIN no longer get you to Chasing Mercury -- just look again for the new one.
Here it is -- the environment and our children-- the Prize. The depths of the pain and suffering of this year are only matched by the joys--yet, this is a year is one I have never been happier about seeing the back of.
Here it is -- the environment and our children-- the Prize. The depths of the pain and suffering of this year are only matched by the joys--yet, this is a year is one I have never been happier about seeing the back of.
“This is the San Francisco, America pretends does not exist.”
Green Action ( greenaction.org) enters its 3rd decade of coalition building and stalwart support for environmental justice, health and against environmental racism and classism in Bay View Hunters Point, Kettleman City, Richmond and in coalition with so many others struggling for Environmental Justice. If you could bear to make it to the end of my ebook or audiobook Chasing Mercury - You would notice that the last point in the final “Authors Acknowledgements” reads, “A portion of the proceeds from Chasing Mercury go to: http://freegrassy.net and also to http://greenaction.org/?page_id=181”
HOLIDAY BOOK BIZARRE FOR WRITERS LAST LUNCH OF THE YEAR: Give Independent Published books for the holidays WITH Social and Environmental JUSTICE Justices to boot! - SEE YOU AT THE MECHANICS INSTITUTE LIBRARY.
Mechanics Institute Holiday Gather has always been fun with lots of literary chat, great food. It's in that San Francisco early evening commuter respite period of 5:30-7:30PM. Annual Members' Holiday Gathering This year on December 14, 2015.
Hors d'oeuvres, gourmet cheeses, delectable desserts, and tempting libations!
Besides ending mercury poisoning and lead poisoning-- I have a simpler request.I have two samples of the audiobook. Each of them is different - One starts at the beginning of the story. The other sample starts in the middle of the story. I need to know which one is more interesting to you and likely to make you want to hear the rest.
While I was walking to the TV Cove today, I thought about the good news for a change -- and we have some. On Wednesday, under intense pressure from Grassy Narrows First Nation in South West Ontario -- the region where much of Chasing Mercury is focused--and their supporters, the Canadian government committed to build a Mercury Home in Grassy Narrows. That is a clear recognition of Canadian Minamata disease on both the environment and the people affected by pollution from mercury. this is the result over 40 years of struggle-- Movements Matter.
