Genevieve Jacobs, M.A.

Sept 2008 by John Laband

A long held ambition to visit the Isles of Scilly became possible in
September last year when the two fundamental variables of ‘time off work’
and ‘fair weather’ briefly coincided. After a summer battered by
successive Atlantic weather systems the Azores high seemed to be heading
north and this was confirmed by internet weather sites such as the Met
office European surface pressure forecast and the North Atlantic NOAA wave
height prediction chart which both look forward about 6 days.

We have been born into interesting times. If you had a moment's doubt about that, check out this 4 minute video, "Information Overload"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia5FxoeFJWI
I'm posting a picture of sailing my OWL last summer as a counterbalance! The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Janis Comb gazing over the November meadows in Johnson at Samhain gathering. Sarab led kundalini yoga, and people offered intentions for the dead, in a ceremony of release and renewal, which i took literally by getting ill about halfway through the tenth round of fire breathing. Ah, well. All good dragons have their day.

Resignation Letter from US Foreign Service Officer Matthew P. Hoh
October 28, 2009

US Foreign Service Officer Matthew P. Hoh,
Senior Civilian Representative, Afghanistan

September 10, 2009

Ambassador Nancy J. Powell
Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20520

Dear Ambassador Powell,

Mis estimados: Do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world right now... Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what matters most to civilized, visionary people.

Well. This is probably one of the best ways I can think of to ruin a camera...or photograph "orbs"!

Just as I began to hack down the last of the bird-planted sunflowers out front, this monarch alighted. I had to drop the cable cutters and pick up the camera instead.

NORA drawing abeam an unknown yacht in a brisk Westerly on Lake Champlain...pure joy.

This is a sign with a story, like everything else in this great round rolling world. The sign that welcomes you to my consulting room door has another side, visible only from the garden. It is a varnished carving created on the island of Okinawa in 1958. The figures are shaped like little penguins, or maybe bowling pins, each swathed in a neat kimono, with one painted into the margin at a later date.