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23 random things about me...

nobody@ipernity.com (Sherry ~ Rebujito) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:05:39 +0000

Tagged by the beautiful MacKey :-)

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 23 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 6 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.

1. I cuss a lot, but not in front of kids cept my own :-D

2. I'm a chocoholic

3. I love to dance.

4. my daughter says I'm conceited, but I prefer to say I'm confident

5. I abhore censorship in any way, shape, or form

6. Most people think I'm Jewish, which is okay by me, but I'm not :-D

7. I'm a gifted actress (see right there my daughter would say I'm conceited ;-) )

8. Being a mom is more important to me than anything else in my life

9. I've had a gun shoved in my face and told " Don't fuckin move,I'll fuckin blow your head off, I don't fuckin care"

10. and yet I still believe most people are good and loving

11. Disneyland is the happiest place on Earth for me :-)

12. I'm fanatically loyal

13. I LOVE giving gifts to the people I love...it truly is more fun than receiving

14. most of the clothes I own are second hand and/or things my daughter doesn't wear anymore.

15. I love lighthouses

16. I would give *almost* anything to be able to retain german/deutsch

17. I wish I had a transporter

18. My biggest dream come true would/will be when all my children and myself (and ina and the babies) are ALL together in the same place!!! I don't care where...just ALL TOGETHER

19. I believe in miracles

20. I work 7 days a week

21. I hate apathy

22. I miss my mom and dad

23. I'm really annoyed at the writing of the current book I'm reading, but it's interesting at times.

with better shoes ;-)

nobody@ipernity.com (Sherry ~ Rebujito) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:09:22 +0000

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Off to San Francisco again...I'll keep in touch here when I can, but prolly after I get back...Tanya, Darwin and Mandi GET READY :-***

He Called Me Snickers...

nobody@ipernity.com (Sherry ~ Rebujito) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:44:55 +0000

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... and I and most of his friends called him Grumpy. He was known as Old Pro here on Ipernity...

his name was Roger Benson... I just learned today that Grumpy passed away Sunday...I am sad beyond words right now... Roger and I became very dear friends through Ipernity...so this is why right now...as I try to type through my tears...I wanted to let everyone here know, because I'm almost sure we had the same contacts, or very close to the same...

I will post a portion of the email I received because I know this part would be so important to Grumpy:

In lieu of flowers the family wishes donations in his memory be sent to:

Estero Music Dept. (checks make out that way as well)

Estero High School

21900 River Ranch Road

Estero, FL 33928

Attn: James Samz

(very important to put the attention on the envelope)

we shared a common love and respect for the kids in the school bands across the country...his kids and mine were/are very involved, so as parents we got involved as well. And we were both always so proud of all the kids in all the bands, because we knew, they work their butts off. Like I said I include this information because I feel this would be something he'd want to share with you all... So please keep his beautiful family in your thoughts and prayers...

And Grumpy...I love you my dear dear friend...I'll miss you...heaven with a grumpy angel???...I can just see and hear you right now!

I love you

your

Snickers XOXOXO

VOTE FOR IPERNITY!!!

nobody@ipernity.com (Sherry ~ Rebujito) — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:11:33 +0000

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HELLO ALL

This is information from Ratty's (Dany's) blog

that he gathered from Sascha's (assbach's) blog and doc

"What is your favorite photo sharing site"

but it is WONDERFUL information to share with everyone here on

Ipernity!!!

VOTE!!! And show how much we all love and appreciate Ipernity!!!

mashable.com/2008/11/07/best-photo-sharing-site

Thanks everyone!!! SMOOCHIE!!!

Seth was so right

nobody@ipernity.com (Sherry ~ Rebujito) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:08:19 +0000

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....hmmm Okay bear with me and my ramblings right now but it's just something I feel the need to write out.. Well first of all there is not much that I can with all honesty say I am an expert in...or well, that I know a lot about...I don't know jack about photography (like I needed to tell ya'll that ;-) ) and I don't know jack about the computer (STOP laughing Sascha! ;-P ) BUT acting...this subject I know do know jack about...a lot of jack :-)

Well tonight my son Seth and I went to see The Dark Knight...the latest batman movie...Seth of course had seen it already, the day it was released...and since that time...kept urging me to see it (well I wanted to anyway) but he was so so SO impressed with Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker...he just kept telling me "mom he just really does something here...beyond a normal good performance." And I of course had every reason to believe my son. Okay little background info: Seth and Sarah as well also know a lot of jack about acting and the theatre etc. Not only from me (being an actress/director)...but their late grandfather(a wonderful actor/director) founded a drama theatre here 30+ years ago...and their father is also an excellent actor and director...so they literally are that old theatre cliche born in a theatre trunk :-) they were exposed to it from birth :-D

SO finally tonight we went together to see it a little extended birthday celebrating with Seth was to go see this movie...

AND as my title says above...Seth was so right! My oh my...Heath Ledger's performance...is well what I would refer to as perfect gestalt...I know that is a german word for "form" or "shape" but here well at least in the artistic world(dancers, actors, writers, musicians) we use it as a term for a perfect wholeness...when each element or facet of something falls into perfect place at the perfect time...and weaves together to create a gestalt...this was his performance as the Joker...there are TONS and TONS of brilliant actors in the world...wonderful performances...it's so inspiring...to witness and be a part of...BUT then there are times when an actor does something (like Seth so accurately said) beyond a great performance...it doesn't happen everytime you see, with every character you play...and even with the best of actors it may not happen at all...I've been fortunate...I believe I've experienced this more than once...And honestly I don't know all of Heath Ledger's work...but what I have seen, he's always been very good...but this time he experienced that elusive gestalt with his performance...all the elements...himself as a person...his growth in his art...his deeper understanding of his art...his method...the writing...his intelligence...everything separate may not seem connected...but when placed together created the perfect whole.

So of course my verdict is yes despite all the hype surrounding the movie and his portrayal of the Joker and his tragic death...he most definitely deserves the oscar for this performance...because always...and I mean ALways I've thought an oscar winning performance should be one that NO other actor could possibly do(unfortunately this doesn't always occur)...that you the actor uniquely and soley possessed everything needed to flesh out this particular character...not meaning that other actors could not do the character well and even do a great job...but not do it the way it was "meant" to be...and it doesn't mean "best" actor...one better than the other...it's just sometimes as I've tried to say above...there are just times you reach a different level...maybe even beyond description...and he certainly did.

so of course I cried watching the Dark Knight...not for the usual reasons...but in sheer appreciation of Heath Ledger's brilliance...and sheer despair that he is no longer with us to perhaps share more wonders with us in the future...

Curtain

ONE

nobody@ipernity.com (Sherry ~ Rebujito) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:07:23 +0000

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HEY SASCHA...

ONE!!! one day and I'll be there!!! This will be my last post from "here" ;-) I'm on my way at 6:45 pm my time today!!!

So all my ipernity friends I'll keep in touch here when I can...

and Sascha remember what I've told you about home??? Home is not always a "physical" place for me...home is where you feel and give love, protection, security, warmth, happiness...

so although yes I'm leaving home today...I am also on my way....home...

Ich liebe dich...

XOXOXOXO

For Grumpy!!! What kind of Candy are you?

nobody@ipernity.com (Sherry ~ Rebujito) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:13:47 +0000

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hee hee you knew all along didn't you??? :-DDDDD

Snickers

Nutty and gooey - you always satisfy.

What Kind of Candy Are You?

omG it's starting to sink in :-D

nobody@ipernity.com (Sherry ~ Rebujito) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:52:51 +0000

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Okay it's starting to really hit me now...the *reality* of it all:

Jul 25, 2008	London Heathrow Airport, (LHR) to Cologne/Bonn K.A.Airport, (CGN)
Depart: 03:05 PM Arrive: 05:25 PM	London, Great Britain (LHR) to Cologne/Bonn, Germany (CGN)	British Midland Flight 3547 operated by Lufthansa (on Boeing 737-500)

that is part of my confirmation itinerary the part I LOVE the most!!!!

None of it had seemed really *real* until I booked my ticket Sunday As usual I started jumping with excitment but then something kinda *unexpected* happened and I wasn't able to share it with everyone I wanted to at that moment...sooooooo anyway I'm still jumping!!!

I started planning this trip a year ago and now it's about to happen OMGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!

soon this lil Indiana girl will be in Germany Sascha your Ma will prolly be wearing sunglasses most of the time cuz my eyes are gonna be swollen shut from all them honey tears

What Art Movement Are YOU?

nobody@ipernity.com (Sherry ~ Rebujito) — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:10:39 +0000

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take another lil test Who'da guessed I'm this huh???

You Are Romanticism

You are likely to see the world as it should be, not as it is.

You prefer to celebrate the great things people do... not the horrors they're capable of.

For you, there is nothing more inspiring than a great hero.

You believe that great art reflects the artist's imagination and true ideals.

What Art Movement Are You?

Remembering Martin Today

nobody@ipernity.com (Sherry ~ Rebujito) — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:53:22 +0000

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None of my words needed...it's the anniversary of a very dark day in history...

Martin you are missed...but your spirit is here...

I'm a Horse :-D

nobody@ipernity.com (Sherry ~ Rebujito) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:40:09 +0000

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What is YOUR animal personality?

I'm a Horse

www.quizilla.com/users/EmrysWolf/quizzes/What%20Is%20Your%20Animal%20Personality%3F

Today I will be remembering watching planes take off and land :-)

nobody@ipernity.com (Sherry ~ Rebujito) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:21:43 +0000

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a memory...riding to the airport with my dad...parking the car...and sitting for hours...watching planes take off and land...

we both loved it...everything about it...especially the time spent together as we shared this...talking...laughing...telling jokes...and even silence as we would watch...

my dad was a very brilliant man...uneducated...but brilliant all the same...he should have been an astronaut...he loved everything about the space program...

he had THE BEST sense of humor!!! I'm laughing, smiling, and crying just a lil as I write this...thinking of him and how funny he was! Dunno if you remember me telling you this Kees...but you and my dad would have SO been the best of friends!!!

So Daddy...I'm thinking of you today...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! I love you and miss you sooooooo!!!!!

A Perspective Worth Giving A Read

nobody@ipernity.com (Sherry ~ Rebujito) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:46:39 +0000

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OKay despite where you stand politically this is certainly worth a read. For me honestly I'm probably leaning more toward Obama...BUT this perspective certainly gives me pause, because it's so true...if the tables were turned and pundits and the press were spewing this shit about him...the whole world would be in an uproar...but because it is Hillary...a woman...it's all in good fun...just a joke...just a joke???? really??? I know this is long but just have a glance or two...thanks!

GOODBYE TO ALL THAT (#2) Feb.2, 2008

By Robin Morgan

"Goodbye To All That" was my (in)famous 1970 essay breaking free from a politics of accommodation especially affecting women (for an online version, see

http://blog.fair-use.org/category/chicago/).

During my decades in civil-rights, anti-war, and contemporary women's movements, I've avoided writing another specific "Goodbye . . .". But not since the suffrage struggle have two communities--joint conscience-keepers of this country--been so set in competition, as the contest between Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) and Barack Obama (BO) unfurls. So.

Goodbye to the double standard . . .

--Hillary is too ballsy but too womanly, a Snow Maiden who's emotional, and so much a politician as to be unfit for politics.

--She's "ambitious" but he shows "fire in the belly." (Ever had labor pains? )

--When a sexist idiot screamed "Iron my shirt!" at HRC, it was considered amusing; if a racist idiot shouted "Shine my shoes!" at BO, it would've inspired hours of airtime and pages of newsprint analyzing our national

dishonor.

--Young political Kennedys--Kathleen, Kerry, and Bobby Jr.--all endorsed Hillary. Sen Ted, age 76, endorsed Obama. If the situation were reversed, pundits would snort "See? Ted and establishment types back her, but the forward-looking generation backs him." (Personally, I'm unimpressed with Caroline's longing for the Return of the Fathers. Unlike the rest of the world, Americans have short memories. Me, I still recall Marilyn Monroe's suicide, and a dead girl named Mary Jo Kopechne in Chappaquiddick.)

Goodbye to the toxic viciousness . . .

Carl Bernstein's disgust at Hillary's "thick ankles." Nixon-trickster Roger Stone's new Hillary-hating 527 group, "Citizens United Not Timid" (check the capital letters). John McCain answering "How do we beat the bitch?" with "Excellent question!" Would he have dared reply similarly to "How do we beat the black bastard?" For shame.

Goodbye to the HRC nutcracker with metal spikes between splayed thighs. If it was a tap-dancing blackface doll, we would be righteously outraged-and they would not be selling it in airports. Shame.

Goodbye to the most intimately violent T-shirts in election history, including one with the murderous slogan "If Only Hillary had married O.J. Instead!" Shame.

Goodbye to Comedy Central's "Southpark" featuring a storyline in which

terrorists secrete a bomb in HRC's vagina. I refuse to wrench my brain down

into the gutter far enough to find a race-based comparison. For shame.

Goodbye to the sick, malicious idea that this is funny. This is not"Clinton hating," not "Hillary hating." This is sociopathic woman-hating. If it were about Jews, we would recognize it instantly as anti-Semitic propaganda; if about race, as KKK poison. Hell, PETA would go ballistic if such vomitous spew were directed at animals. Where is our sense of outrage-as citizens, voters, Americans?

Goodbye to the news-coverage target-practice . . .

The women's movement and Media Matters wrung an apology from MSNBC's Chris Matthews for relentless misogynistic comments (

www.womensmediacenter.com). But what about NBC's Tim Russert's continual sexist asides and his all-white-male panels pontificating on race and gender? Or CNN's Tony Harris chuckling at "the chromosome thing" while interviewing a woman from The White House Project? And that's not even mentioning Fox News.

Goodbye to pretending the black community is entirely male and all women are white . . .Surprise! Women exist in all opinions, pigmentations, ethnicities, abilities, sexual preferences, and ages--not only African American and European American but Latina and Native American, Asian American and Pacific Islanders, Arab American and-hey, every group, because a group wouldn't exist if we hadn't given birth to it. A few non-racist countries may exist--but sexism is everywhere. No matter how many ways a woman breaks free from other discriminations, she remains a female human being in a world still so patriarchal that it's the "norm."

So why should all women not be as justly proud of our womanhood and the centuries, even millennia, of struggle that got us this far, as black Americans, women and men, are justly proud of their struggles?

Goodbye to a campaign where he has to pass as white (which whites-especially wealthy ones--adore), while she has to pass as male (which both men and women demanded of her, and then found unforgivable). If she

were black or he were female we wouldn't be having such problems, and I for one would be in heaven. But at present such a candidate wouldn't stand a chance-even if she shared Condi Rice's Bush-defending politics.

I was celebrating the pivotal power at last focused on African American women deciding on which of two candidates to bestow their vote--until a number of Hillary-supporting black feminists told me they're being called "race traitors."

So goodbye to conversations about this nation's deepest scar-slavery-which fail to acknowledge that labor- and sexual-slavery exist today in the US and elsewhere on this planet, and the majority of those enslaved are women.

Women have endured sex/race/ethnic/religious hatred, rape and battery, invasion of spirit and flesh, forced pregnancy; being the majority of the poor, the illiterate, the disabled, of refugees, caregivers, the HIV/AIDS

afflicted, the powerless. We have survived invisibility, ridicule, religious fundamentalisms, polygamy, teargas, forced feedings, jails, asylums, sati, purdah, female genital mutilation, witch burnings, stonings, and attempted gynocides. We have tried reason, persuasion, reassurances, and being extra-qualified, only to learn it never was about qualifications after all. We know that at this historical moment women experience the world differently from men--though not all the same as one another--and can govern differently, from Elizabeth Tudor to Michele Bachelet and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

We remember when Shirley Chisholm and Patricia Schroeder ran for this high office and barely got past the gate-they showed too much passion, raised too little cash, were joke fodder. Goodbye to all that. (And goodbye to some feminists so famished for a female president they were even willing to abandon women's rights in backing Elizabeth Dole.)

Goodbye, goodbye to . . .

--blaming anything Bill Clinton does on Hillary (even including his womanizing like the Kennedy guys--though unlike them, he got reported on).

Let's get real. If he hadn't campaigned strongly for her everyone would cluck over what that meant. Enough of Bill and Teddy Kennedy locking their alpha male horns while Hillary pays for it.

--an era when parts of the populace feel so disaffected by politics that a comparative lack of knowledge, experience, and skill is actually seen as attractive, when celebrity-culture mania now infects our elections so that it's "cooler" to glow with marquee charisma than to understand the vast global complexities of power on a nuclear, wounded planet.

--the notion that it's fun to elect a handsome, cocky president who feels he can learn on the job, goodbye to George W. Bush and the destruction brought by his inexperience, ignorance, and arrogance.

Goodbye to the accusation that HRC acts "entitled" when she's worked intensely at everything she's done-including being a nose-to-the-grindstone, first-rate senator from my state.

Goodbye to her being exploited as a Rorschach test by women who reduce her to a blank screen on which they project their own fears, failures, fantasies.

Goodbye to the phrase "polarizing figure" to describe someone who embodies the transitions women have made in the last century and are poised to make in this one. It was the women's movement that quipped, "We are becoming the men we wanted to marry." She heard us, and she has.

Goodbye to some women letting history pass by while wringing their hands, because Hillary isn't as "likeable" as they've been warned they must be, or because she didn't leave him, couldn't "control" him, kept her family

together and raised a smart, sane daughter. (Think of the blame if Chelsea had ever acted in the alcoholic, neurotic manner of the Bush twins!) Goodbye to some women pouting because she didn't bake cookies or she did, sniping because she learned the rules and then bent or broke them. Grow the hell up. She is not running for Ms.-perfect-pure-queen-icon of the feminist movement. She's running to be President of the United States.

Goodbye to the shocking American ignorance of our own and other countries' history. Margaret Thatcher and Golda Meir rose through party ranks and war, positioning themselves as proto-male leaders. Almost all other female heads of government so far have been related to men of power-granddaughters, daughters, sisters, wives, widows: Gandhi, Bandaranike, Bhutto, Aquino, Chamorro, Wazed, Macapagal-Arroyo, Johnson Sirleaf, Bachelet, Kirchner, and more. Even in our "land of opportunity," it's mostly the first pathway "in"

permitted to women: Reps. Doris Matsui and Mary Bono and Sala Burton; Sen. Jean Carnahan . . . far too many to list here.

Goodbye to a misrepresented generational divide . . .Goodbye to the so-called spontaneous "Obama Girl" flaunting her bikin-clad ass online-then confessing Oh yeah it wasn't her idea after all, some guys got her to do it and dictated the clothes, which she said "made me feel like a dork."

Goodbye to some young women eager to win male approval by showing they're not feminists (at least not the kind who actually threaten the status quo), who can't identify with a woman candidate because she actually is unafraid of eeueweeeu yucky power, who fear their boyfriends might look at them funny if they say something good about her. Goodbye to women of any age again feeling unworthy, sulking "what if she's not electable?" or "maybe it's post-feminism and whoooosh we're already free." Let a statement by the magnificent Harriet Tubman stand as reply. When asked how she managed to save hundreds of enslaved African Americans via the Underground Railroad during the Civil War, she replied bitterly, "I could have saved thousands-if only I'd been able to convince them they were slaves."

I'd rather say a joyful Hello to all the glorious young women who do identify with Hillary, and all the brave, smart men-of all ethnicities and any age--who get that it's in their self-interest, too. She's better qualified. (D'uh.) She's a high-profile candidate with an enormous grasp of foreign- and domestic-policy nuance, dedication to detail, ability to absorb staggering insult and personal pain while retaining dignity, resolve, even

humor, and keep on keeping on. (Also, yes, dammit, let's hear it for her connections and funding and party-building background, too. Obama was awfully glad about those when she raised dough and campaigned for him to get to the Senate in the first place.)

I'd rather look forward to what a good president he might make in eight years, when his vision and spirit are seasoned by practical know-how—and he'll be all of 54. Meanwhile, goodbye to turning him into a shining knight when actually he's an astute, smooth pol with speechwriters who've worked with the Kennedys' own speechwriter-courtier Ted Sorenson. If it's only about ringing rhetoric, let speechwriters run. But isn't it about getting the policies we want enacted?

And goodbye to the ageism . .How dare anyone unilaterally decide when to turn the page on history,

papering over real inequities and suffering constituencies in the promise of a feel-good campaign. How dare anyone claim to unify while dividing, or think that to rouse US youth from torpor it's useful to triage the single largest demographic in this country's history: the boomer generation—the majority of which is female?

Old women are the one group that doesn't grow more conservative with age-and we are the generation of radicals who said "Well-behaved women seldom make history." Goodbye to going gently into any goodnight any man prescribes for us. We are the women who changed the reality of the United States. And though we never went away, brace yourselves: we're back!

We are the women who brought this country equal credit, better pay, affirmative action, the concept of a family-focused workplace; the women who established rape-crisis centers and battery shelters, marital-rape and date-rape laws; the women who defended lesbian custody rights, who fought for prison reform, founded the peace and environmental movements; who insisted that medical research include female anatomy, who inspired men to become more nurturing parents, who created women's studies and Title IX so we all could cheer the WNBA stars and Mia Hamm. We are the women who reclaimed sexuality from violent pornography, who put child care on the national agenda, who transformed demographics, artistic expression, language itself. We are the women who forged a worldwide movement. We are the proud successors of women who, though it took more than 50 years, won us the vote.

We are the women who now comprise the majority of US voters.

Hillary said she found her own voice in New Hampshire. There's not a woman alive who, if she's honest, doesn't recognize what she means. Then HRC got drowned out by campaign experts, Bill, and media's obsession with everything Bill.

So listen to her voice:

"For too long, the history of women has been a history of silence. Even today, there are those who are trying to silence our words.

"It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls. It is a violation of human rights when woman and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution. It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small. It is a violation of human rights when individual women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war. It is a violation of human rights when a leading cause of death worldwide along women ages 14 to 44 is the violence they are subjected to in their own homes. It is a violation of human rights when women are denied the right to plan their own families, and that includes being forced to have abortions or being sterilized against their will.

"Women's rights are human rights. Among those rights are the right to speak freely--and the right to be heard."

That was Hillary Rodham Clinton defying the US State Department and the Chinese Government at the 1995 UN World Conference on Women in Beijing (the full, stunning speech:

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/hillaryclintonbeijingspeech.htm).

And this voice, age 22, in "Commencement Remarks of Hillary D. Rodham, President of Wellesley College Government Association, Class of 1969" (full speech: http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Commencement/1969/053169hillary.html

"We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands. . . .searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living. .. . [for the] integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences. . . . Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it."

She ended with the commitment "to practice, with all the skill of our being: the art of making possible."

And for decades, she's been learning how.

So goodbye to Hillary's second-guessing herself. The real question is deeper than her re-finding her voice. Can we women find ours? Can we do this for ourselves?

"Our President, Ourselves!"

Time is short and the contest tightening. We need to rise in furious energy--as we did when Anita Hill was so vilely treated in the US Senate, as we did when Rosie Jiminez was butchered by an illegal abortion, as we did

and do for women globally who are condemned for trying to break through. We need to win, this time. Goodbye to supporting HRC tepidly, with ambivalent caveats and apologetic smiles. Time to volunteer, make phone calls, send emails, donate money, argue, rally, march, shout, vote.

Me? I support Hillary Rodham because she's the best qualified of all candidates running in both parties. I support her because she's refreshingly thoughtful, and I'm bloodied from eight years of a jolly "uniter" with

ejaculatory politics. I needn't agree with her on every point. I agree with the 97 percent of her positions that are identical with Obama's-and the few where hers are both more practical and to the left of his (like health

care). I support her because she's already smashed the first-lady stereotype and made history as a fine senator, because I believe she will continue to make history not only as the first US woman president, but as a great US president.

As for the "woman thing"?

Me, I'm voting for Hillary not because she's a woman--but because I am.

www.robinmorgan.us

Friends...Keep Smiling Keep Shining

nobody@ipernity.com (Sherry ~ Rebujito) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:31:02 +0000

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NIGEL can you see this????

nobody@ipernity.com (Sherry ~ Rebujito) — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:22:39 +0000

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ATTENTION!!!! NIGEL!!!!

Nigel...hmmmm where are you??? What happened???? Okay you don't have to answer that! Just let me know if you read this okay?

I'm VERY worried!!!

Are you okay??? Is your wife okay??? Are the kids okay??? Does your abrupt leaving have anything to do with that freak of a boss???

DAMN!!!

if so I'm SO kicking his ass even more now!!!

sorry I'm just upset. and concerned. Kees is concerned as well...

I thought I had your email I do not...or shit I can't find it!

SOOOOOOOOOOO PLEASE if you can see this and have read it please contact me okay????

sherrysjss@gmail.com

Hoping you are reading this...look this is my face right now

your crazy ass American friend just wants to hear from you...

Love,

Sherry

10,000 visits on Christmas Morning!

nobody@ipernity.com (Sherry ~ Rebujito) — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:27:13 +0000

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WOW!!!!

THANK YOU SO much everyone!!! I woke up this beautiful Christmas morning to find another wonderful present!!!

EXACTLY 10,000 visits! Right on the nose!!!

and by the looks of it.... NIGEL... YOU are my exact 10,000th visitor! So thank you dear friend!!! AND a HUGE HUG and a warm thank you to all of my dear Ipernity friends and contacts here...you mean so much to me and are an incredibly wonderful addtion to my life!!!

And by the way MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! And thanks for the lovely gift!!!

Love,

Sherry

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Bitch

nobody@ipernity.com (Sherry ~ Rebujito) — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:49:53 +0000

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Reflections of the day...giving thanks.

nobody@ipernity.com (Sherry ~ Rebujito) — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:33:41 +0000

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Today was Thanksgiving here in America. Traditionally the fourth Thursday in November, a day of giving thanks after the harvest season. So we reflect on this day, and remember hopefully all that we have to be grateful for. Now this particular time of year for me *could* have been one of tremendous sadness and pain. You see both my parents (different years) died around Thanksgiving. My mother passed away the day before Thanksgiving the year she died, and we buried my father the day before the year he died. Also the year my father died I had also just lost a brother 2 months earlier. So the holiday season could have been one of sadness and not joy. Now there are two very profound reasons this did not occur. For one my parents would never have wanted this. They both would want me to live my life to the fullest and not get lost in my grief. They were too loving for this, and it would dishonor their memory(s). But I think the reason that truly kept me uplifted and wanting the season to remain joyous is... my children. The love I have for them out weighs all else. How could I forever darken their holidays with my sadness? Well it was not even a choice. It was automatic. The joy and love my children bring to my life have kept this season, and all of it's magic, alive in my heart.

So first and foremost I give thanks for my children. ALL my children Sascha.

I give thanks for my family and friends.

I give thanks that my children and I have good health.

I give thanks that we have the necessities of life. (food, shelter, clothing)

I give thanks that we are blessed with some little extras in life.

And this is a little repetitive but I give thanks for all of you here! Because you ARE all my FRIENDS, and are very precious to me. Every single one of you fill my heart with love and FUN! Friends I may never have otherwise known if it were not for Ipernity!

So last but not least I give thanks for Ipernity!

Regardless if you celebrate Thanksgiving where ever you are... You are part of my holiday today! And I am truly grateful for you! Happy Thanksgiving!

HUGS AND KISSES and PUMPKIN PIE!!!

Love,

Sherry

ATTENTION ALL HOPELESS ROMANTICS!!!!

nobody@ipernity.com (Sherry ~ Rebujito) — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:35:38 +0000

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OMG!!! Okay I am a TOTAL self proclaimed hopeless romantic!!! Well tonight I received a GIANT dose of romantic!!! Thanks to my sweet babydoll Brandi (my son Seth's girlfriend). She called me late this afternoon and asked if she could come over to decorate Seth's room...hmmm???? okay I thought????? (Seth was at a practice with his band As Forever Fades) ANYway Brandi explained that she wanted to decorate his room...and leave an invitation for him to Santa Switch... Santa Switch is a formal winter dance...where the girl asks the guy to the dance. OMG...I SCREAM OF COURSE you can come over sweetheart are you KIDDING?!?!?!?!? ;-DDDD So Brandi arrives a little later...here she is decorating :-DDD

The room was draped in ribbons, balloons everywhere, paper hearts, etc. and hung around the room was the question on poster board :-D

OMG I can barely type all of this *grinning through tears* :' DDD Brandi left knowing Seth would of course call her when he returned home...now the hard part WAITING for Seth to GET his little ass HOME!!!!

FINALLY after what seemed to be an ETERNITY Seth walked in the door...I KNEW I had to remain calm and get my camera...and sneak upstairs behind him...I could barely contain myself LOL LOL LOL

He of course prolongs my agony...instead of going upstairs FIRST...he's gotta pee!!! DAMN he goes into the bathroom taking forEVER!!! How long can it take for a boy to PEE?!?!?!? again FINALLY he comes out...and AGAIN instead of going upstairs he heads for the phone...getting ready to call BRANDI to tell her he's home...DAMN IT!!! He hasn't gone upstairs yet...he can't call her YET!!! SOOOOO as non chalantly as I can...I say something lame like..." uhhhh go ahead up to your room...I'll bring you the phone"....WHAT????? He's probably thinking hmmm MOM...you are WEIRDER than usual...but he just says "nah I got it"....SHIT the phone is in his hand...but he's not calling yet...hmmmm I think at this point I'm just muttering non sense words to him to occupy his walk upstairs...hell I don't even know what I was saying...it works...he's still just holding the phone...I sneakily walk up the stairs behind him...with camera in hand... and this is what he looked like when he turned the light on in his room :-DDDD

HEE HEE HEE my heart is BUSTING WIDE OPEN NOW!!! OMG...he keeps saying what IS this...I tell him to read the posters in order... :-DDDDDD....then I tell him to open the gift box (there is a hand written invitation inside asking him to the Santa Switch) here he is opening the box :-DDDDDD

AND reading his invitation :-DDDDDDDD

have I mentioned my heart is exploding????? OMG OMG OMG :-DDDD

Now of course the call to Brandi ( I can hardly bear all this sweetness and romance) I LOVE IT!!!

and finally the beautiful response to Brandi's question...

telling her YES YES YES of course I will go to the Santa Switch with you!!!!! :-DDDDD and Seth was SOOOOOO appreciative...and sweet and telling her it was the most wonderfully surprising thing etc. Telling her over and over how much he loved it!!!! AND he DID!!! Just look at my beautiful baby boy's beaming face!!!! :-DDDDDD

I'm just siiting here beaming myself...romance...gotta love it!!! and I do :-DDDDDDDD HOPELESSLY I DO!!!

and MO and T...you two better be reading this...can just see you ya'll beaming too!!!! :-DDDDDDD

BTW: there are no links to the individual pics...cuz I thought they only make sense to be in this order in the blog :-DDDD

WARNING WARNING MEAN BITCH POST :-D

nobody@ipernity.com (Sherry ~ Rebujito) — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:38:53 +0000

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HEE HEE okay since most people I know here at home...I've already shared this with or they actually witnessed it...just had to share it with you guys...cuz it felt SOOOOOOOO good!!!!

Okay Friday night well actually early Saturday morning 1:30 AM to be exact...my daughter Sarah comes running into my bedroom very upset telling me "MOM there is someone banging on the front door"...okay see our *literal* front door...we don't use as our *front* door. Actually the front room of my house is Sarah's bedroom. Our side door is our *front* door LOL okay enough confusing information....ANYway I get up still kinda in a daze and open the *side/front* door because by then who ever this was...was now banging on it. And there stands some dude...drunk as hell..telling me some bullshit story about "...Miss you have the most beautiful roses and my mom is in the hospital...I was wondering if I could take one for her..." WHAT?!?!?!? So I look at him with my half shut eyes....roll them at him...and say whatEVER...and slam the door. Now if I had been more awake...or alarmed or something...I'm sure I would have said MUCH more :-DDDDDD. Well I was fine about it but my daughter still seemed very shook up (understandibly so) so then I'm thinking "SHIT" I guess I should have been more forceful with the guy or something so she would have felt more protected etc. I tried telling her not to be worried he was just a stupid drunk and he is long gone and I wasn't scared so she shouldn't be. But I could tell she was...damn! But in the back of my mind...hee hee I was pretty sure I'd see him again cuz he comes into the store where I work :-D!!! So Saturday...as luck would have it....:-DDDD in the door he came...HA HA HA!!! I was ready to confront him...but a couple of obstacles...he was with a friend and they had a couple of little kids with them AND I don't want to start a big scene *in* the store...AND even though ya'll know I cuss...LOL I would NEVER in front of children or even let them hear me using a hostile voice with this guy...So I asked his friend if he knew this guy very well...he said sorta...so I told him the story briefly...he said "really well yeah he is weird I guess and drinks way too much".... YA THINK?!?!?!? So I wait till I think he's about to leave...then I walk out of the store to wait for him outside...and SHIT one of my workers is standing out there...Eddie (who btw is like one of those muscle body/builder kinda guys)...I knew if he saw/heard what I was about to say...he'd just want to deck the guy with no explanations...So I tell him what I'm about to do/say...and not to worry...let me handle it...he doesn't want to... but agrees :-DDDD So here comes the dude...and unfortunately the little kids are there....SOOOO I ask him to come to me...I step into him as close as I possibly could...so close our faces are almost touching... like we're about to kiss...LOL...then I say in the lowest tone of voice I could use...but loud/stearn enough that he could still hear me perfectly clear..."Don't you EVER bang on my door at 1:30 in the morning again...or at ANYtime...because if you do...if I see you on my porch EVER again...I won't call the police...I'll just knock your ass off of it!!!!!" He just stood there stunned...his mouth quivering not knowing what to say...so I smiled... and walked away... :-DDDDDDDD THAT FELT SOOOOOO GOOD!!!!

And later when I could tell my daughter Sarah about it...she laughed and asked "what did he say" I smiled the same smile as earlier and said "not a thing honey...he was *speechless* " ;-)))) But most importantly I could tell Sarah wasn't worried about this incident anymore...ya know felt safe. And that was the whole purpose of my confronting him in the first place. So AGAIN AHHHHHHHH it felt GREAT!!!