Sunday, January 27, 2008DEALING WITH DEATHIt's not like I've sailed through life being untouched by death. My husband died at a relatively youthful age of 52. I was 10 years younger and had left him years earlier. He was also the father of my child. But I'd had very little contact with him in the years leading up to his death. It was also... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 8:07 AM Comments (10) (link) Wednesday, January 23, 2008WAR INSIDE THE BUSH ADMINISTRATIONWhile the anxieties caused by the turmoil in world financial markets keep us distracted from our usual focus of trying to make the latest body count from suicide bombings in Iraq and Afghanistan, jibe with the administrations insistence that we are "winning", the wars keep on, and so do the other... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 4:44 AM Comments (4) (link) Monday, January 21, 2008GARIFUNA MUSICThere are many things I've discovered as a result of my job as the director of a documentary film distribution company (www.der.org) that I would never have known about because they were someone else's passion, not my own. One of those discoveries came about when a southern ethnomusicologist, Oliver... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 8:36 AM Comments (2) (link) Friday, January 18, 2008THE WAR BUSH IS WINNINGWith the wars against terrorism that Bush has started in Afghanistan and Iraq looking like there is no end in sight. With chaos, fear, and suicide bombings spreading further now that Pakistan has become a haven for training and providing weapons to the insurgents with the money the US has given... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 5:39 AM Comments (4) (link) Thursday, January 17, 2008THE AXE IN THE ATTICMy business is distributing documentary film, so one could say watching films is "work" for me. Most of the films I see in a theatre setting are at film festivals when I'm scouting for new titles to acquire, but last night was one of those times when my partner and I went to a premiere of a new... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 6:01 AM Comments (4) (link) |
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