Watch my video submission to the Foods from Chile contest and keep your fingers crossed that they choose me!
“Congratulations! You’re a Finalist!” said the email.
All I have to do now is convince YOU to choose me, Gwendolyn Alley, the Wine Predator, as the one lucky writer to go on a Guided Culinary Tour of Chile!
Please choose me as the winning blogger who takes tours and participates in tastings at vineyards, olive groves, and fruit plantations. Who better than a wine blogger to wax eloquently about wine and food?
Please choose me to meet with local Chilean exporters and producers, and to eat specially prepared meals at the restaurants of local Chilean chefs. I love all kinds of seafood and shellfish, I love game, beef, fowl, pork, vegetables and fruits! My Wine Predator and Art Predator blogs and my twitter and facebook feeds are full of photos of fine food and wine that I share with my followers and friends.
Please choose me to visit the Mercado…
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I made it! I’m a finalist! Thanks for voting for me! Now it’s time to make a video about why they should pick me! Any ideas of what I should say? Please share any tips in the comments! What would convince YOU to send ME?
“Congratulations! You’re a Finalist!”
said the Foods from Chile folks in today’s email that arrived at lunchtime.
“Just one more step & you could be on your way to taking a foodie dream-trip of a lifetime with Foods From Chile!”
Yes, really! One lucky writer will go on a Guided Culinary Tour of Chile with members of top media publications from April 7th – April 13th 2013 with flight, transportation, and accommodations all included!
The winner will visit a number of different areas in Chile known for their wines, olive oils, and fruits (for example, the Atacama, Coquimbo and Valparaíso regions), experiencing tours and tastings at vineyards, olive groves, and fruit plantations. The group will meet with local exporters and producers, and…
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Happy Valentine’s Day 2013 from Art Predator! Have a grand adventure!
Happy Valentine’s Day! Have a grand adventure!
Happy Valentine’s Day! May your Valentine’s Day be filled with love and friendship! How will you spend this magical day? How will you express your love and appreciation to your family and friends?
It doesn’t have to be anything fancy–my husband got up early this morning and brought us back chocolate chip heart shaped bagels for breakfast!
Remember to celebrate Valentine’s Day every day!
Cheers!
Oh and can you help ME go on an adventure? Just vote here for me to go to Chile where I will blog my heart out for you!
http://promoshq.wildfireapp.com/website/6/contests/310099/voteable_entries
PS I found the Adventure Time artwork here. My son and I added text his valentine’s day cards then I changed it to be from me!
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Help Me Go to Chile & Blog!
I’d love to go to Chile! And I might be able to–with YOUR help! Please go here and vote for my blog post: http://promoshq.wildfireapp.com/website/302/contests/310099/voteable_entries Thanks!!
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When I was a poor college student (except for the year I worked at Ridge!), and then a student loan paying underemployed thirty-something artist/poet/writer, my go to wines were from Chile. My friends and I knew that with Chilean wines, we could get the best bang for our buck!
Last fall, I had the opportunity to taste four wines from Concha y Toro’s Gran Reserve Series with TasteLive and we were happily surprised to find that you still get a BIG BANG for your buck with Chilean wine. Since Foods from Chile is hosting a contest to take a blogger to Chile (!!), I figured I’d throw my hat into the ring and turn my notes into a long over due…
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Happy Lunar New Year! What does Year of the Black Snake mean? How should you celebrate? What wines pair with Asian Cuisine? All this and more!
May you be happy.
May all your thoughts be positive
and your experiences be good.
May you be free of problems, sickness, and sadness.
May your life be long and peaceful
and may you quickly reach enlightenment.
–Metta prayer
The year of the Black Snake begins on Sunday February 10, 2013 with the new moon rising in Aquarius–and I’m celebrating with an Italian wine!
According to Geomancer and Philosopher Paul Ng, the year 2013 is “Mountain-Thunder Rhythm”– a year of conservation, a year of rebuilding, and a year of changes.
Han-Ban.com says that “the year of Snake is meant for steady progress and attention to detail. Focus and discipline will be necessary for you to achieve what you set out to create.”
The Snake is “enigmatic, intuitive, introspective, refined.” Hmmn, I wonder which wines are SNAKE wines??
If you will be celebrating with Chinese or another Asian cuisine
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Accidents. Luck. Synchronicity. Spiritual Practice. Intentionality. Phenomenology and the spell of the sensuous.
Gaining enlightenment is an accident.
Spiritual practice simply makes us accident prone.
One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to post more often, and to post about my intellectual travels as a doctoral student in Community, Liberation, and Ecopsychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Conveniently, one of my classes this winter term, Hermeneutic and Phenomenological Traditions taught by Dr Ed Casey requires me to keep a reading journal which I might as well post and share. (Funny, while I’m an avid blogger, I’m NOT into journaling.)
One of our texts is Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
So what’s PHENOMENOLOGY?
“Phenomenology,” Merleau-Ponty explains in the preface, “is the study of essences” (p. xx)
“Phenomenology involves describing, and not explaining or analyzing” (p. xxi).
Weird words aside, I actually picked up this hefty tome last winter because it looked fascinating, Dr Casey had mentioned Merleau-Ponty several times in…
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I hope this inspires you to check out more of Jayne Cortez’s performances on YouTube!
“Find your own voice & use it, use your own voice, and find it
The sounds of drizzle on dry leaves are not like sounds of insults between pedestrians
Those women laughing in the window do not sound like air conditioners on the brink”
Born and raised in Los Angeles, performance poetJayne Cortez died at the close of 2012 in NYC, having found her own voice and using it throughout her long life, writing, publishing, and performing poetry that addressed racial and sexual oppression. The 2010 video above features her performing with Denardo Coleman, her son with Ornette Coleman.
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RIP Aaron Swartz 1986-2013, Internet Activist
English: Aaron Swartz at a Creative Commons event. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
If you are moved to act, please call
the President’s Office:
202-456-1111
the Attorney General’s Office:
202-353-1555
U.S. Attorney Massachusetts:
617-748-3100;
508-368-0100;
413-785-0235.
THE CASE OF AARON SWARTZ:
HE COULD BE ANY ONE OF US
TO FALL VICTIM
TO THE U.S.S. JUSTICE SYSTEM
by guest blogger Grant Marcus 1/14/13
shown us that bank fraud is too big to fail, while vulnerable activists like Aaron Swartz can, through bullying and intimidation, be made too small to succeed, or even survive.
documents from JSTOR, an online aggregator of scientific journals.
The U.S. Attorney, Carmen Ortiz from Massachusetts charged him
with computer fraud to which he plead not guilty. JSTOR refused to
press charges, but the U.S. Attorney’s office mercilessly pursued
the case regardless.The Justice Department kept watch on Swartz 24/7, and in
Gastapoish fashion, harassed him frequently to accept deals that
would include up to 35 years in prison. Many believe that because
of Swartz’ demands for Internet freedom, he was made a political
domestic example by the Obama administration–much like Man-
ning has been made example of by the Military Industrial Com-
plex, under Obama–with both threatening the exclusionary right
of government, and the wealth and power it represents. Read more…
What are your intentions for 2013? Did you make any New Year’s Resolutions? These are mine: watch my mind, watch my mouth, watch my health by going for a walk everyday.
When you are alone,
watch your mind.
When you are with others,
watch your mouth.
–Tibetan saying from Lambre: Dawn of Enlightenment by Lama Choedak Yuthok
As a doctoral student in Community Psychology, Liberation Psychology and Ecopsychology at Pacific Graduate Institute, I am spending my winter break from teaching writing at Ventura College writing three papers of my own, all due the first Saturday in January.
And I am really struggling with these papers, my mind racing all over the place and getting no where fast, so this reminder to watch my mind is very timely.
This advice makes for a good new year’s resolution as well. In 2013, I am going to mind my mind and my mouth.
In 2013, I am also going to make time for a 30 minute or more walk or walking meditation each day. Yesterday, January 1, it was a snow shoe hike…
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This quote from Krishnamurti is helping me; you might find it useful too.
Today, Sunday December 16, 2012 at 4pm, the An Lac Buddhist Mission, 901 South Saticoy Avenue, Ventura, California 93004 will host a memorial service for the departed and a Blessing Service for those who survived the shooting that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
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You must understand it,
go into it,
examine it,
give your heart and your mind,
with everything that you have,
to find out a way
of living differently.
That depends on you,
and not on someone else,
because in this there is no teacher, no pupil;
there is not leader;
there is no guru;
here is no Master, no Saviour.
You yourself are the teacher and the pupil;
you are the Master;
you are the guru;
you are the leader;
you are everything.
—J. Krishnamurti (US, 1966)
Today, Sunday December 16, 2012 at 4pm, the An Lac Buddhist Mission, 901 South Saticoy Avenue, Ventura, California 93004 will host a memorial service for the departed and a Blessing Service for those who survived the shooting that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Please join this offering of flowers, incense, and candles; a chanting of blessing discourse…
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