Echo Boomers

September Williams' Chasing Mercury, the Great Lake Michigan, mercury + Krypton

September Williams' Chasing Mercury, the Great Lake Michigan, mercury  + Krypton

 Lake Michigan has always been important to me. It comforted me after long nights on call when seeing it the next evening as I headed home. I looked out at it with my first cup of morning coffee from my balcony. But Environment Illinois explains, Lake Michigan has been something of a dumping ground for years.

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September Williams' Chasing Mercury and the Nun with the Diamond twinkle eyes...

September Williams' Chasing Mercury and the Nun with the Diamond twinkle eyes...

This weekend I had the honor of attending a young friends First Communion at the San Rafael Mission in Marin County. People do not generally think of me as Catholic for good reason.  The character Sicily Marshall in Chasing Mercury reflects a bit of mine in an excerpt from Chasing Mercury, Chapter 15, Santa Monica Bay 1960-1962...

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Quotes in September Williams' novel 'Chasing Mercury' inspired by Asya Abdrahman's mixed media art 'I am Human'

Quotes in September Williams' novel 'Chasing Mercury'  inspired by Asya Abdrahman's mixed media art 'I am  Human'

"The ballerina envies this couple’s courageous passion, which spits in human desperation’s face."

"His sinew and muscle defy the command that human beings should not fly."

"Secure in the knowledge that citizenship alone did not confer civil or human rights in the land of their birth, the American Japanese couple had not considered themselves crossing the color line, instead acknowledging where on it they stood..."

"Apparently, he was an expert in this human phenomenon..."

"...at risk for losing this human potential."

"...at risk for losing this human potential"

“How can human beings be living here?”

"...accumulated human blood levels have not been calculated yet...”

Sicily reads the title aloud, “Declaration of Helsinki-Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects..."

See more about I am Human at :http://www.asyaabdrahman.com/i-am-human

 

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Chasing Mercury, Chapter 5, 'Bohemian Forest Water Shed, July 1973'

Chasing Mercury, Chapter 5, 'Bohemian Forest Water Shed, July 1973'

As the sun rises, the bus crosses the River Spree, pulling through the gates of Berlin’s Humboldt University. Hundreds of young adults perch in the stone courtyard, some hanging from the balcony, guarded by marble pillars and neoclassical Roman roof sculptures. Guitars in hand, a chorus of ‘C’s serenade them—Cape Verdeans, Cambodians, Cameroonians, Czechs, Chileans, Colombians, Costa Ricans and Cubans. They greet the tardy Canadians, voices filling the sweltering damp dawn with Cat Stevens’s song Baby, Baby It’s a Wild World--

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