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Thursday, May 4th, 2006
11:50 pm	Lover & Warrior Goddess Workshop: This month-- The Morrigan Hi all, I wanted to post the flier text for the May women's goddess workshop  that I am co-teaching with Joan Aderman (this Saturday from 10am-1pm).  This month we will be focusing on the Morrigan and the element of fire. Please pass the info on to anyone who might be interested. Cheers! Chris ______________________________________ It’s time to EMBRACE YOUR FIRE.  Learn how to use the power of your inner fire. Don't stifle your emotions, intensity and imaginations - they are your greatest sources of power! If passionate women can learn how to channel these assets rather than trying to suppress them they will be shocked at how powerful they can become. Let the stories about Morrigan, Celtic Goddess of Love and War, teach you how harness your fire strategically to achieve your dreams and live more fully. In this workshop you will learn to: -Harness the power of your emotions  - Attract the right people and opportunities into your life  - Keep your inner fire burning brightly WHEN: Saturday, May 6th, 10 am-1 pm WHERE: The Phoenix and Dragon Bookstore COST: $35        (3 Comments |Comment on this)
12:20 am	For Laurie & Crissy B.: Love you!                                            (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 29th, 2006
12:25 pm	You may have already seen this e-video, but it is so special that I wanted to pass it along.   Love, CM http://www.ernestcline.com/dmd/ (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
11:17 pm	Mythic Journeys Volunteer Info Session (this Thursday night!) Hi all, There will be a Mythic Journeys volunteer info session and meet-up at the Phoenix & Dragon bookstore on April 13th at 8:00 pm. We'll be discussing volunteer opportunities, answering questions and discussing the mission of our organization, the Mythic Imagination Institute. It will be a great opportunity to have some fun, enjoy great conversation and meet other volunteers from the metro Atlanta area! Come play with us! Check out the Phoenix & Dragon bookstore website for directions or call for information: www.phoenixanddragon.com If you cannot make it to Thursday's meeting, but are interested in getting involved post back or reply to me via the MJ volunteer mailbox: mythicvolunteers@gmail.com Hope to see you Thursday! Chris (Comment on this)
Friday, April 7th, 2006
9:25 am	Cultural weirdness strikes again Did anyone see this ridiculous news story about the 5-year-old girl who was harshly discipined for HUGGING A CLASSMATE? The punishment allocated by the school reeks of latent homophobia: "At issue is a hug Savannah said she got on the playground from a friend named Sophie. Savannah hugged Sophie back. The hugs resulted in Savannah having to write a letter, complete with teacher corrections, that read, "I touch Sophie because she touch me and I didn't like it because she was hugging me. I didn't like when she hugged me." "She said, 'I'm really sad that I got in trouble for hugging,'" Brier said." http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/8491575/detail.html ----- To fight the spirit of stupidness, I proclaim this day "National Hug Day." Hugme, are you interested in a mascot job? Please hug freely and frequently today. All my love, Chris (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
8:56 am	March Goddess Workshop this Saturday (please pass it on)! The March Goddess Empowerment Workshop Joan O'Connor Aderman and I  will be leading the second in a series of Goddess Empowerment Workshops for Women this coming Saturday, March 4. This workshop will focus on Isis and on perserving personal power in relationships. Do You Lose Power in Relationships? (Goddess Empowerment Workshop Series for Women) Isis, the Egyptian goddess, represents the power that comes from believing in yourself and refusing to be limited by the criticism and expectations of others. Isis is bold, audacious, dynamic, and exudes self confidence. She glows with the kind of radiant energy that lights up a room! How can you develop Isis attitude? You can only access this great power by learning how to harness the unique gifts of your spirit and connecting to the radiance of your greatest source of power— your inner spirit. Becoming attuned to your brilliance will make you feel and come across to others as stronger and more self assured. You will be better able to manage negative people and attract the right people and opportunities into your life. Let your true self shine through, embrace your temperament, learn about your unique spirit, and live out of your true essence! This workshop, led by psychotherapist Joan O'Connor Aderman and Chris Miner incorporates growth work, goddess mythology, creative visualization, dance and ritual. If you join our celebration of the feminine spirit you will leave feeling energized, empowered and inspired to achieve your dreams and live more joyfully and abundantly! Learn practical strategies to increase your power in relationships, work and life Learn about your personality type and how to harness its strengths Learn about your unique spirit and how to awaken its’ power Join a support network of empowering women Design a personal power symbol WHERE: The Phoenix and Dragon Bookstore (Call 404-255-5207 for information or to preregister) WHEN: Saturday, March 4 from 10:00 am -1:00 pm COST: $35 ---------------------------- Thanks & have a lovely day! Chris (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
9:06 am	Hooray for boobies (and, moreso, for their owners)! Hi all, The breast cancer foundation still hasn't met its quota for to provide free mammograms to underprivileged women. Please click on this link and then on the pink box labeled "fund free mammograms." You can do it once a day for the next few weeks. Please help. http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites Love, CM (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, January 27th, 2006
11:04 am	Hi all, My friend Joan Aderman and I will be co-leading a year-long workshop series using cross-cultural goddess myths to empower and inspire women as they begin their heroine's journeys. The workshops will be held at the Phoenix and Dragon Bookstore, with the first workshop on February 4th from 10-1pm and we will also be holding a free introductory discussion group and meet-up on February 2nd from 7-9 pm.  Each month will focus on a a different aspect of women's lives, and the workshop series will (across the 12 months) guide its' members through he the steps of their own heroine's journeys, using epic stories of powerful goddesses and strong women as guideposts to help us follow our own lives' paths. The workshops will combine storytelling, discussion, dance, guided meditation, personality assessment (Myer's Briggs, etc.), theraputic processing and ritual. I  would love it if and of you would be interested in attending or if you would help spread the word. Here's the link to the bookstore newsletter if you need more details. http://www.phoenixanddragon.com/cms/Phoenix_and_Dragon/janfeb06.pdf Thanks so much! Hope to hear from you soon. -Chris Current Mood: working (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 21st, 2005
3:17 pm	Something beautiful for you (courtesy of Mr. O.W.Holmes) When I was digging through some old poetry anthologies, I came across this poem. I hadn't read it in a few years, but it really touched me deeply. Since then, I've been thinking about the beautiful people in the world, and about how it is the challenges and hardships that we each face that creates this beauty.  You are all precious and I am thankful for you all. Nostalgically yours, CM ------------------------------------------------------------- The Chambered Nautilus   THIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,   Sails the unshadowed main,—   The venturous bark that flings   On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings   In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,           And coral reefs lie bare,   Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.      Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;   Wrecked is the ship of pearl!   And every chambered cell,    Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,   As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell,   Before thee lies revealed,—   Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed!      Year after year beheld the silent toil, That spread his lustrous coil;   Still, as the spiral grew,   He left the past year's dwelling for the new,   Stole with soft step its shining archway through,   Built up its idle door,   Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.      Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,   Child of the wandering sea,   Cast from her lap, forlorn!   From thy dead lips a clearer note is born   Than ever Triton blew from wreathèd horn!   While on mine ear it rings,   Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:—      Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,   As the swift seasons roll!   Leave thy low-vaulted past!   Let each new temple, nobler than the last,   Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,   till thou at length art free,   Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
9:58 am	Whole Foods today... If you're planning on grocery shopping sometime soon anyway, please go to Whole Foods today. They're doing a promo, in which they will donate 5% of their total daily sales to charity in the form of microloans to women who are running home businesses in developing countries. Help give these women a chance to make a better life and get some treats for yourself. You both deserve it.  With love, Chris (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
10:53 am	Utterly delightful... Please direct your attention to the AJC's front page for a good laugh at El Presidente. "Bush taps Texan who's never been judge" [Apparently Pre-Approved By Democrats] Oct. 3, 2005 The fact that he looks so lascivious in the photo only makes it juicier. Sometimes the media ain't so bad. Love, CM (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 26th, 2005
10:42 am	Pro-choice fundraiser (Moto-litas headlining) I'm going to this and thought that some of you might be interested. --Chris   Choice Celebration Date: 9/29/2005 Time: 8pm-12am Event Type: Concert Description: On Thursday, September 29th, the Feminist Women’s Health Center presents the 9th annual Choice Celebration to benefit the Center’s Young Women’s Leadership Project at Eyedrum Art Gallery in downtown Atlanta, GA from 8:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m.. This year’s fabulous entertainment includes the Moto-Litas, The Athens Boys Choir, Sitara Indian Dance Group, Nazeem Alsabah belly dance troupe, guest speakers and entertainers, and more. There will also be a silent auction and door prizes, along with a chance to win a week-end get-away vacation package including a stay at Under the Rainbow Bed & Breakfast in Savannah. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Contact the Center at (404) 248-5445 or nextwave@feministcenter.org for tickets or purchase them at Charis Books in Little 5 Points. Location: Eyedrum Art Gallery, 290 MLK Jr. Drive, Atlanta, GA (4 Comments |Comment on this)
10:15 am	Help with music recording Hi all, A friend of mine needs to make a tape of a few of their songs for a closed audition. The set-up doesn't need to be huge or at all high quality-- in fact, something easy would be better. I'd like to surprise them by setting this up to help fulfill a dream for a very cool person. If any of you have any ideas or access to some equipment that I could rent for cheap for a few days, please let me know. It would mean a lot. Thanks, Chris (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
10:43 pm	A shout out to my metaphysically-minded friends... This is absolutely hilarious (and even funnier if you are a divination geek, such as myself )! No offense to any tauruses in LJ land--You are both loved and appreciated. Smooch, Chris http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40777 *************************************************** Article at link: I'm Not Surprised Hitler Was A Taurus By Trish Arnquist September 21, 2005 | Issue 41•38 (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 19th, 2005
10:52 am	Hillman & Chopra tomorrow night! This is going to be amazing! If you have tomorrow night free, please take the chance to see two of the world's greatest minds in philosophical debate over the innate dual drives of the human spirit: the drive to annihilate and the drive to love. (Plus, Jean Houston rocks!) Hope to see you there, Chris ************************************************************************ Clipped from kittymel's livejournal: War, Peace, and the American Imagination: A Conversation with James Hillman and Deepak Chopra Presented by the Mythic Imagination Institute and Alliance for a New Humanity and Emory University September 20, 2005, 8pm Glenn Memorial Auditorium, Emory University Campus Deepak Chopra, author of Peace Is The Way, believes it is possible for individuals to transform their consciousness to such an extent as to bring war to an end. James Hillman, author of A Terrible Love of War, believes that we are ceaselessly driven to war by psychological realities that reveal themselves in a multitude of ways. Perhaps we can tame this drive, but can it ever be transformed? These great minds will discuss and debate the causes of war, examine the possibilities of peace, and explore the role of the imagination during an evening's conversation moderated by renowned philosopher and mythologist Jean Houston. Tickets: $5 for students and faculty, $20 for the general public. Tickets are available through the Arts at Emory Box Office atwww.arts.emory.edu or by phone at 404-727-5050. Emory students may also purchase tickets at the Dobbs University Center (DUC). For more information please call 404-832-4127 or visit www.mythicimagination.org. (12 Comments |Comment on this)
10:08 am	Yup, I'm a "Red." Suspicions confirmed. You are a Social Liberal (66% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (21% permissive) You are best described as a: Democrat Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 13th, 2005
10:17 am	A philosophical rambling inspired by sharks (thanks to hugme for the indulgence) Hugme posted: "The human race has been fascinated by sharks for as long as I can remember. Just like the bluebird feeding its young, or the spider struggling to weave its perfect web, or the buttercup blooming in spring, the shark reveals to us yet another of the infinite and wonderful facets of nature, namely the facet that it can bite your head off. This causes us humans to feel a certain degree of awe. -- Dave Barry, "The Wonders of Sharks on TV" I am in absolute agreement with Dave Berry on this. I have always had a particular fascination with sharks, the raw power, the awe-inspiring fear that they can inspire. Equally amazing is that they are one of the few species that has remained relatively unchanged for millions of years, in their environmental niches, feeding strategies, reproductive strategies and general morphology. The major changing factor in their evolutionary morphing has been only to physically adapt to their changing environment, expanding their existance to deeper water, more toxic pollutants, broader expanses and new predators over time-- but this they have done elegantly, taking on forms unimaginable. So, to get to the point, we must indeed appreciate and honor the forceful power of nature, it's rawness and mercilessness. This is one part of the human existence--thanatos, a drive towards death and ending. However, it is equally important to celebrate and honor nature's drive to continue to exist, to perpetuate--the life-drive. Our duality is our human destiny. Have a lovely day, Chris (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 15th, 2005
11:02 am	Petition to improve life for Dekalb Animals This is really important and only takes a minute to do!  Dekalb Animal Services (DAS) is an antiquated, unsanitary facility that addresses the county’s companion animal overpopulation problem by euthanizing animals. They have the highest kill rate out of 20 shelters in the metro Atlanta area, killing almost 80% of the 11,000 animals they admit each year. They have a host of other problems as well. Please read and sign this petition (see link below) to let DeKalb County Commissioners know that citizens want a new, progressive and humane management to run the Dekalb Animal Services. It takes less than 2 minutes. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/238834237 Also, please pass this petition on to all of your friends! Thank you so much for any support! Chris (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
1:43 pm	Update on my odd existence Just wanted to let you know what's going on. I called my Emory advisor today and let her know that I am leaving Emory. I finally had to admit that I don't love it and I need to find my path. I'm freaking out a little but I think I'm ok. Ack. I did get offered a fun job that I am pretty sure I'm going to take and am currently looking for a roommate situation with someone cool and nice. If you know of anyone who's looking also, please let me know. I miss you all. Love, Chris (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 22nd, 2005
11:35 am	North Georgia Celtic Fest this weekend! Hi all, Just in case you haven't heard about it: The North Georgia    Celtic Festival is being held this weekend up at the N. Georgia Mountains Center in Gainesville! Saturday, 11-7pm Sunday, 12-6pm Lots of great bands, guinness, beautiful art and good folks! For details, go to www.emeraldrose.com/ngcf/ Hope you're all doing beautifully! Love, Chris   P.S.-If you come, drop by and see me at the Mythic Journeys info table and hear about what's new with MJ! Hope to see you there.   (1 Comment |Comment on this)