Wednesday, September 16, 2015

love is the answer

loving the masterpiece song by Byron Stingily 

Monday, September 14, 2015

good wishes for 5776

Happy 5776! It is always a pleasure to follow the activities of Diane von Furstenberg, and the series on DvF is fascinating. I am thrilled to have been sent a copy of her memoir in 2008.
I was so thrilled to get a copy of the memoir by Diane von Furstenberg, after writing to say I was sorry for being so rude to Barry Diller whom I oft saw riding his bike in Central Park in the 1990s. I was usually involved in debriefing myself prior to my work then with homeless women havinguntreated psychiatric issues in a shelter we created. From 2008 through 2013, I shared the book and my critique of her memoir as a research method with my graduating seniors in my Methods of Research cours in midtown Manhattan. I also shared her memoir with my Columbia University School of Social Work students. The students generally loved the real life challenges and opportunities and themes! Many of my students work(ed) in fashion. I am always amazed how much love there is for DvF! Thank you!
Having once lived for almost 30 years between Horatio Street and West 39th street (including 488 7th Ave), I have known many garmentos, seen Ms Von Furstenberg and Mr. Diller. My first social work job was organizing small businesses for a coalition including the old Hatter's Union in the early 1980s! My comrade Gale Brewer is now the Borough President of Manhattan. We all admire DvF's involvement in the life and zeitgeist of New York City, and the world. I admire the hard work, so many demands, determination , and most of all the spirit of good will and caring, and bringing beauty in our world! These are rare qualities, thank you.I
I am now on social setcurity disability, homebound, and have to use a rollator to get around. I have been unable to really get around Manhattan since 2013 and have yet to even see the HighLine whilst spending years with a life on Horatio and Washington. I hope to soon enough. Thoughts for the future this first of 5776

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

"Morning", 5am Pines Pavillion murder?

hello morning!

listened to Money Safari yesterday on the new Detected post. and a host of 5am dancing thoughts.  https://soundcloud.com/defectedrecords/defected-in-the-house-radio-09614-guest-mix-monkey-safari


this am had this 5am dream:
by the bar with a buddy, wonderful songs.. two in a row.. unknown to me, one pure diva.
it seems an argument at the DJ box Someone in back going through whatever, the DJ seems arguing in the front of the box to get out. Me and my buddy say maybe it is a robbery.

The security nutjob with a gun at my building is there, overhears us and lets out two shots over the heads of all. People are leaving in the lightening up presunrise, the noise level is still loud.

The shooter leaves and we go up to the booth.

The DJ disappears through the back exit of the booth. The alleged robber has a huge mustache and carries a huge bag. He is saying the DJ is "gone". My buddy thinks.. "dead" so phones the Brookhaven LI police.  The booth empties out and we are now asking "Was there any murder, really?"


Monday, June 2, 2014

winking at the homophobe haters and those sinful AIDS folks again!

Community and press discussions about the early response to AIDS (1981-2) with the HBO film "The Normal Heart". There continues to be the ongoing high rates of HIV infection among young gay black men. Issues of racism and exclusion. 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/29/aids-new-york_n_5411886.html

Saw a posting on Facebook and disagreed with it. The following interactions happened.


I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread. -Psalms 37:25
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  • R Michael Wright i have seen the righteous forsaken and children begging. one can only look at the AIDS genocide, fact that 25% of children live in poverty. This is one of the weird sayings that supported slavery, racism, ethnic cleansing.. this is scary
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  • Bishop Ronald Martin R Michael wright...King David said that HE has never seen the righteous forsaken...If you were a man after God's own heart like King David , you would at least thank God for waking us up each morning because he dosn/t have to
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  • R Michael Wright i think less grandiosity but more compassion.
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  • Bishop Ronald Martin LOL. .we all think with the brain God allows us to think with and speak words he allows us to speak with a heart he allows to beat each second...you think you are doing all that on your own ?
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  • Bishop Ronald Martin Our brains are only tissue and water...it/s HIS compassion that allows life and all the lives that we love
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  • R Michael Wright om mani padma hung.. I can believe what I believe but I do know the suffering of many who are seen as less then,. the poor, people with mental illness, people with AIDS, the physically challenged. To get into God's mercy and God;s will leads us to the doors of Aushwitz.
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  • Bishop Ronald Martin You can always tell God how you feel , and remember , if you don/t have aids then thank him because he spared you...tell God your concerns ..he hears you...
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  • R Michael Wright I have no doubt about God. AIDS has never been about me but the thousands of patients I had in hospitals whose family and ministers saw them as not doing God's will. As our Pope Francis says "Who am I to judge".. but if not me to help, who then (sadly not usually among the righteous).
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  • Bishop Ronald Martin I/m glad you believe in God ; maybe you have a concern for the sick because the Lord gave you compassion to pray for those with aids..Jesus is a great healer
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  • R Michael Wright I have no doubt about God. AIDS has never been about me but the thousands of patients I had in hospitals whose family and ministers saw them as not doing God's will. As our Pope Francis says "Who am I to judge".. but if not me to help, who then (sadly not usually among the righteous).
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  • Bishop Ronald Martin I/m glad you believe in God ; maybe you have a concern for the sick because the Lord gave you compassion to pray for those with aids..Jesus is a great healer
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  • R Michael Wright I do not think of God nor Jesus since our minds are only tissue and water. I do thank my Mom for being an example and sitting with hundreds of people having mental illness and just listening. When she died hundreds demanded a state memorial for this volunteer, a Mom who had 9 children. I had a grandmother who sat in Chicago gay bars and was a friend to those denied basic civil rights. I have the memory of an Aunt who was Mother Superior of a Catholic religious order with a college charged with the mission of educating women to change the world. Most of all, I also have the witness to Bishop Manny Cruz of the Newark Archdiocese who found nuns for me to train in pastoral counseling or resources to help those deemed the misfortunate and undeserving, among them I would say the Mary Magdalens of our time.
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  • Bishop Ronald Martin A man with that type of experience should have total peace with God.
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  • R Michael Wright I have no doubts as to my blessings but I do fight for righteous who have been forsaken and for the children who are hungry or abused or just forgotten. http://www.wilpfinternational.org/sarajevo-peace-event-2014/

    www.wilpfinternational.org
    SARAJEVO PEACE EVENTFrom the 6th to the 9th of June 2014, an international peace
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  • Bishop Ronald Martin That/s precisely my point..since you fight for the hungry , abused and forsaken ; and since the Lord created such a wonderful mother just for you , then think of how great God/s mercy is , and should be forever praised in public and never doubted.
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  • Bonni Rucker Then sir you are the blessing. Sharing your gifts and talents with those in need is His will. He has made you the blessing for those in need. Thank you for all you do!
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  • Brian Blakely God bless you Ms. Bonnie Watsoncoleman
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  • R Michael Wright i have seen the righteous forsaken and children begging. one can only look at the AIDS genocide, fact that 25% of children live in poverty. This is one of the weird sayings that supported slavery, racism, ethnic cleansing.. this is scary. No one would work with the lgbt kids in Newark in the early 2000s, I remember the voice of the daughter of an Apostolic who was thrown out into the streets for being a lesbian. she is one of the human faces such as in today's rally. Her father still preaching God's mercy.. .https://www.facebook.com/AliForney


    The Ali Forney Center (AFC) in New York City, is the nation's largest and most comprehensive organization dedicated to homeless LGBT youth
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  • Bishop Ronald Martin I think your disappointment is with man and that disappointment has lead you to be uncomfortable with God^s word....God spoke through King David , and David wrote under God/s inspiration ; God/s word also says, "he shall give perfect peace to who/s min...See More
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  • R Michael Wright i have problems with a calvinist interpretation period that particular psalm refects a matter of dogma (whether one believes each of these psalms to be God's word). The Council of Trent reinforced that. We just have to see the world in different lenses and live in parallel universes. forgive and be compassionate as everything changes. enjoy the jewels in life and radiant light illuminating them. dream one's dreams.
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  • Bishop Ronald Martin It was and is God/s word that has caused and informed you that there is a God in whom you believe. Calvin was just a man..The Bible is here for everyone to read and accept in it/s simplicity . When we pray , we talk to God ; when we read the word , God talks to us..again your disappointment is with Calvin , a man . You are also disappointment with people who mistreat people and not God or his word.
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  • Dolores Pollard Amen again!
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  • R Michael Wright it is all that and it is my objection to the psalm I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread. -Psalms 37:25. I have seen the righteous forsaken and I have seen children begging for b...See More
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  • Bishop Ronald Martin God also created the nuns and his wisdom is far greater . Since you are preoccupied by aids you can pray that God will intercede . He is our only hope ; God bless you as well.
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  • R Michael Wright You are blessed that AIDS is not your preoccupation. I live in Newark which was ravaged by AIDS. Certainly there has been much prayer, even exorcisms by Baptists. However, I know from almost 25 years teaching social science research that finding concr...See More
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  • Bishop Ronald Martin Everything that sin causes is my preoccupation . That/s why in all of your experience , I am called by God today to teach you that the bible and God are inseparable . If you really want to be effective , teach abstinence of sexual sin with your ministry; an ounce of prevention is worth a pound or cure .
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  • R Michael Wright i supported Bonnie Watson-Coleman but I did not realize her campaign is so theocratic. I am particularly concerned with the disregard for AIDS as an issue. I am also concerned with the lack of compassion. I did not expect to read about sexual sin today. I think the communities need to know whether these thoughts are of hers or just the public. I think taking objection to a particular psalm should not lead to dissing of the thousands of AIDS patients, family members, loved ones, neighbors. What is the science of sexual sin? Will that be an agenda of a possible Congress Member? I shared these comments with the other candidates for Congress as they may be surprised by them.
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