Happy Day of the Dead! A toast to remembering our family, friends, and even our foes! Oh and HAPPY Bloggoversary to ME! I started this up on this night in November in 2007! Cheers!
Happy Halloween and Dia De Los Muertos!
an ofrenda in the middle of a labyrnth
What, you don’t know what Dia de Los Muertos is? You mean you don’t have an altar to remember those who have passed?
Wikipedia explains that Day of the Dead or in Spanish: Día de Muertos “is a Mexican holiday observed throughout Mexico and around the world in other cultures. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died.”
“The celebration takes place on October 31, November 1 and November 2, in connection with the triduum of Allhallowtide: All Hallows’ Eve, Hallowmas, and All Souls’ Day.[2][3] Traditions connected with the holiday include building private altars called ofrendas, honoring the deceased using sugar skulls, marigolds, and the favorite foods and beverages of the…
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Eclipses come in pairs: following October 8’s lunar eclipse which was visible in North America and which my family woke to watch at 3am, we have a solar eclipse also visible in North America a
nd which we can watch this afternoon. Find out when you can watch the eclipse using this list of eclipse times in major U.S. cities.
Scroll down for SoCal options and how to watch from SAFELY from home.
On the West Coast, the sun is most eclipsed from around 230-4pm and once again Sidewalk Astronomers will be aiding us because it is
NOT SAFE TO LOOK AT THE SUN DIRECT! DON PROTECTIVE GOGGLES OR VIEW IN A SPECIAL TELESCOPE or other accommodations!
Fortunately, organizations like Sidewalk Astronomers and observatories across the country are gearing up to provide us with opportunities to watch safely.
Okay so it’s only a partial eclipse (not a full one) but even a partial eclipse is cool AND there’s also a
MASSIVE SUNSPOT BIGGER THAN EARTH
and YOU just might get a chance to see it during the eclipse! How cool is that?
iPhone photo of May 2012 Solar Eclipse taken by Gwendolyn Alley
Learn more about Oct. 23 2014 eclipse from NASA.
Participate in a tweet chat! That’s right, Marshall scientists Mitzi Adams, Sabrina Savage and Alphonse Sterling will be taking questions about the partial solar eclipse on the NASA Marshall Twitter account: http://twitter.com/NASA_Marshall, using the hashtag #askNASA. Read more…
Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. Malala
In an LA Times article by Ellen Olivier on 10/19/14 titled “The Power To Help Others,”
Jane Fonda says, “I grew up believing that service is the rent you pay for life.”
Blog Action Day 10.16.14 #inequality
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| Do you know about Blog Action Day Thurs. OCt 16. 2014?| Have you registered your Blog? |
| Blog Action Day is a n annual event for Bloggers to call attention to issues of social and environmental justice. |
If you are participating, remember to post or upload your content today or tomorrow.Organizers say that every year lots of people forget to add load up their post on October 16, so please take the opportunity to take part and post up your content, even if you are a day late. If you’re on WordPress, write the post now and schedule it to publish on Thurs. Oct. 16. Use your social media profiles and email to share your Blog Action Day efforts with your friends, family and the whole world: #BAD2014, #Inequality, Blog Action Day. You might use these slugs to promote your content:
What should you write about? Take a look at these ideas and download Blog Action Day images and badges.
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| On Monday, my students registered their blogs for Blog Action Day. For the midterm, my college students wrote about #inequality and their book club books.They then posted their midterms onto their blogs as drafts.They can get extra credit by revising their essays and publishing them on Oct. 16 as long as they link here or email me the link. |
Stress? Take Action!
Why stress?
It’s not like you have a ton of homework to write or grade (or maybe you like me do!)…
or a snake got loose in your house… (also like at my house this morning!), Read more…
#TURNOUTFORWHAT #ROCKTHEVOTE #INEQUALITY #CARELIKECRAZY
#ROCKTHEVOTE #HANDOFPOWER #CARELIKECRAZY #INEQUALITY
Yes YOU have the #HANDOFPOWER and YOU can #ROCKTHEVOTE--at least when it comes to voting in the midterm elections the first Tuesday in November and getting others to vote as well.
How can YOU influence others to vote? What are your skills, gifts and abilities that YOU can use to make the world a better place?
If you can draw, you might take part in a contest like this submission from Ventura County artist Dianne Bennett. Read more…
Sidewalk Astronomers Aid Eclipse Watchers
Do you know about the Sidewalk Astronomers?
They are a volunteer/by donation organization that brings out telescopes and sets up shop on sidewalks to show people the sights in the night sky.
Tangled Webs We Weave: Gone Girl
Gone Girl Review by Ron Wells
Why Blog? Blog Post #1538
What do you do with an extra hour?
I started blogging the night of the time change November 2007.
My poet friends had encouraged me to blog, and so that November night I decided to check it out to see if it was useful for me and for my college students.
Art Predator was born, and in one month, I will celebrate my seventh bloggoversary! Read more…
art predator 