Apr
05
Purple: Bombs at the Education Factory: A 2001-2002 Journal, cont.u
Apr
03
A Call for Memories! Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Cruz County turns 30!A Call for Memories! Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Santa Cruz County is celebrating its 30th year of matching children with mentoring relationships! BBBS has created over 4,500 such mentoring relationships between "Bigs" and "Littles". We are commemerating this achievement in June and would love to be able to include volunteers who have been a part of
Apr
03
Soul Journeys into Awakening
by Jenny Davidow, M.A.
Like the mythic Hero who faces challenges, struggles with uncertainty and overcomes fear, we are each on a soul-journey. Each night, while we dream, we dip into an expanded state of consciousness. This natural intelligence is our subconscious mind, which holds vast memories and deep knowing. Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Blink: The
Mar
31
Purple: Bombs at the Education Factory: A 2001-2002 Journal, cont.u
Mar
30
It Still Could Be...Why I Am An Outsider (1)
The Outsider
Alexander Shevek
1. The view from outside.
Dear Reader, I am not like you. I am not now nor have I ever been a Christian. Nor a Moslem. Nor a Jew. Nor a Hindu. All these religions, all organized religion, seem bizarre to me. Yes, I know most humans throughout history have believed (or claimed to believe or tried to
Mar
29
It Still Could Be....Chapter 2 endingEven if the Abbey is Spanish Mission outside, inside it is more Victorian than anything else, spacious and comfy overstuffed furniture indirectly lit by faux Tiffany lamps. Classical music plays in the background. Kelly sees Shevek sitting on a lime green velvet couch. "Prof. Shevek..." "Alex, please. We have "done time" together, have we not? We
Mar
28
Real Estate Predicted Full Recovery by 2015
First, the good news: The real estate market has clawed its way back from the brink and is about a third of the way to a normal, pre-bubble market. The bad news: It's going to take until the end of 2015 to get us the rest of the way, and recovery could take even longer if the economy loses steam again. Real estate website Trulia's new housing barometer
Mar
28
It Still Could Be....Chapter 2, continuedNancy looks in the shallow hole she's scraped and sees bright red flecks of blood in her black diarrhea. "Great," she groans to herself. "Old and fresh blood." Using an almost dry leaf she wipes herself and then brushes her hand over her small round ass, white and muscled. "Well, haven't lost all my fat yet," she childes herself. She pulls up her pants
Mar
26
It Still Could Be.... Chapter 2Chapter 2 -- Sing Goddess...
April 2
Sing Goddess, the wrath of Achilles... --The first line of the Iliad
Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course... --The first line of the Odyssey
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. -- Camus
Kelly is lighting
Mar
25
Purple: Bombs at the Education Factory: A 2001-2002 Journal, cont.u
Mar
22
Economists Predict Home Prices Up 10% By 2016I'm trying real hard to keep a long-term perspective when it comes to statistical real estate trends. So my pledge to ignore short-term moves - read it here - was tested when the folks at Zillow releases their periodic survey of economists across the nation to see their outlook for housing values. I found some interesting data within a Zillow report
Mar
22
Purple: Bombs at the Education Factory: A 2001-2002 Journal, cont.u
Mar
22
It Still Could Be...Chapter 1 ending
The efficiency of the police is based on much practice with UCSC protesters and soon Kelly is being ushered into a holding cell. It has been years since he was last arrested but you couldn't tell by the large drab room, painted in peeling certainly-not-soothing vomit green and furnished with an exposed toilet in one corner and a built-in concrete bench
Mar
21
It Still Could Be...Chapter 1 continuedHe has been feeling restless the last few months. Restless in a good way. Interested. Hopeful. Hence his enthusiasm for the mass picket at High and Bay, where the City on a Hill, the University of California at Santa Cruz, meets Surf City. The real Surf City of Hawaiian princes, O’Neill, and the big waves of Mavericks, not that shit suburb in LA.
Mar
19
It Still Could Be.... Chapter 1
Chapter 1--Santa Cruz, Alta California
April Fools Day
The hardest thing in this world is to live in it. -- Buffy Summers, the Vampire Slayer Right before her second death
Freedom means the capacity to know something about oneself, and the desire to live according to limits imposed on oneself rather than by external powers. -- John Lukas "When
Mar
18
It Still Could Be.... PrologueTo all who believe "...that it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive."
Prologue: Goodbye Simone
------ Original Message ------ Received: 09:49 PM PST, 02/26/1987 From: < This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it > To: < This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it > Subject: amazing what an incredibly weak and cowardly note you left....it completely dishonors anything that was between us over
Mar
17
It Still Could Be...a Santa Cruz novel: table of contents
It Still Could Be
Chris Hables Gray
2012
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The Narrative Arc
Prologue: Goodbye Simone
Chapter 1 -- Santa Cruz, Alta California
Chapter 2 -- Sing Goddess...
Chapter 3 -- The City on the Hill
Chapter 4 -- May Day
Chapter 5 -- Cosmos and Chaos
Chapter 6 -- The Way of the Sainted Cross
Chapter 7 --
Mar
15
A novel about contemporary Santa Cruz
It Still Could Be... a novel about Santa Cruz today, coming
Mar
15
Purple: Bombs at the Education Factory: A 2001-2002 Journal, cont.u
Mar
13
Is the Real Estate Downturn Really Over?
Just five or six years ago, there was near universal agreement with the Donald Trump quote above. The significant equity market swoon, from 2000 through 2002, left investors questioning whether equity markets could produce returns commensurate with the high volatility. Housing prices, on the other hand, bucked the trend and showed remarkable strength in |
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