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Re: Best Protective Cases for iPhone 7 & 7 Plus: Rugged, Waterproof, and Tough

alligator_kate — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 11:17:33 -0000

Is there a dog & bone see-through/clear back case?
Also looking at the I Blason reviews on Amazon, there is a consistent complaint that the sound is considerably muffled by the case. Was this true for you?

Re: Children's Magical Garden on StartSomeGood, a crowdfunding platform for non-profits, social entrepreneurs and changemakers

alligator_kate — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 11:30:23 -0000

We're almost at our tipping point goal! Can we hit it out of the park for Children's Magical today and exceed that? 8.5 hours left! Thanks Emily Wiechers for putting in the money we made at the bake sale yesterday at our Summer Solstice Party and for organizing that wonderful event! And for Christine Currence putting in the funds from our Mother's Day kick-off & yardsales at CMG! Thanks for local community support! We raised a total of $1,550 towards our goal through that amazing effort. Lots of folks passed by and contributed money without even tasting our delicious goods.... though those were mightily appreciated too! Thanks to member Eve Berkson, Tiny's Giant Sandwich Shop, Union Market, and our youth leaders Feng and Amina and their wonderful friends Cynthia and Diana as well as sister Rothna for making it all happen yesterday. Thanks to Emily Winchers' wonderful friends for baking for our Mother's Day kick-off (please tell me everyone's names!) Thanks to Andrea Ami for her face-painting and art-making. Big thank you to artist Vivia for our new gorgeous community mural. Big thank you to member Carmen for getting the garden in beautiful shape before the party! Big thank you to member Lily and her partner Will for their support, for Lily and Aresh's trips to Materials for the Arts for supplies, for the wonderful art-making! Thank you to member Lauraine for her support! Big thank you for new members! Big than you for supportive local families! Enormous thank yous to all of our wonderful backers. You inspire everyone at Children's Magical Garden! Fingers and toes crossed.... 8.5 hours left!

Re: NYC Youth Growing Their Own Food and Dreams on StartSomeGood, a crowdfunding platform for non-profits, social entrepreneurs and changemakers

alligator_kate — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 23:43:51 -0000

Ha! Wish we could fly you back here just for that Indra! Much love from everyone at Children's Magical Garden!

Re: Children's Magical Garden on StartSomeGood, a crowdfunding platform for non-profits, social entrepreneurs and changemakers

alligator_kate — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 01:52:16 -0000

Big big thank you's to all of our backers! You are amazing.

Re: Children's Magical Garden on StartSomeGood, a crowdfunding platform for non-profits, social entrepreneurs and changemakers

alligator_kate — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 01:51:37 -0000

We're getting there! We raised over 1,500 today, and added the 1,100 from our yard and bakesales this month too!

Re: Children's Magical Garden on StartSomeGood, a crowdfunding platform for non-profits, social entrepreneurs and changemakers

alligator_kate — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:15:18 -0000

http://www.thelodownny.com/... yes

Re: Children's Magical Garden on StartSomeGood, a crowdfunding platform for non-profits, social entrepreneurs and changemakers

alligator_kate — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:14:30 -0000

Funds are ticking up up up! our treasurer will be adding the funds raised from our many yard and bake sales this past month... we're within spitting distance of our tipping-point goal. We can do it! Please spread the word far and wide! (This is Kate Temple-West ;-))

Re: self portrait

alligator_kate — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:47:07 -0000

Wonderful to come back into this forest and find this. Amen.

Re: da capo: from the beginning

alligator_kate — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:52:25 -0000

This makes me growl... but I have my own One with very different ideas about how to do things, so I understand...

Those are beautiful pictures. Truly an amazing sight.

Re: overture

alligator_kate — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:44:44 -0000

I love these kind of impulses. The questions are the best part. Looking forward to reading more about this one!

Re: step away from the karma. choosing not to get involved.

alligator_kate — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:54:51 -0000

I've been thinking on this very topic as I'm involved in a huge volunteer project at the moment. I'm constantly checking in with myself-- trying to have the right energy around it-- not a martyr and not a savior-- simply doing something I love. The ego wants to jump in all the time, and not just mine.

Thanks for this thought provoking piece.

Re: the suck factor of life balance, + passion as a cure to stress

alligator_kate — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:56:45 -0000

We are coming up to the spring equinox, which is exactly one out of two times a year when day and night are equal. Everything is always expanding or contracting. Reading about equilibrioception-- the complex actions in the body that keep people and animals from falling over-- is fascinating. Itss dynamic, not static, but I do think that in popular culture balance is understood to mean stasis-- a little of this, and a little of that-- not too much of anything.

Its so refreshing to read this. Hurray.

Re: gretel never had it so good

alligator_kate — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:00:19 -0000

Wow. The two casts. So brilliant/ so much heart. I can imagine what an enormous difference it is making in the lives of those girls. The wheels are spinning in my head now with ideas for the kids I teach... Thanks to you and your moxie for the fantastic inspiration. Today, I thought about how I used to take such pleasure in reading the Sunday Times, and how now I'm relaxing on a Sunday reading the words of a forest (I'm definitely a forest dweller too-- which is probably why I hadn't found Ronna yet) full of amazing writers. I read the Times still too, but reading your posts, and the ones of other wise women writers, are what I most look forward to because they feed my spirit. I'm so much better fed now. Thanks for this delicious writing.

Re: The Mindfulist

alligator_kate — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:01:11 -0000

Beautifully stated. I am bookmarking this post, as it makes me want to jump in the tub right now... I want it as a reminder to do so, as I adore baths and want to make time to take more of them. This is great inspiration. Thank you.

Re: Eight Tips to Know If You're Being Boring.

alligator_kate — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:56:01 -0000

Ah. Yes. My least favorite question to ask, or be asked, 'so, what do you do?' But knowing who wants to be asked about themselves and who does not more definitively would be wonderful.

Re: Eight Tips to Know If You're Being Boring.

alligator_kate — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:52:32 -0000

Thanks Mary. I'm never sure what to do when I ask people questions about themselves and I get one word answers... that's a title I will certainly check out :-)

Re: Eight Tips to Know If You're Being Boring.

alligator_kate — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:27:49 -0000

This post is a great reminder for me. I am trying to find alternative ways to stay interested when I am talking to people who are much more reserved than I am-- that is, I'm having a difficult time getting them to talk about much of anything... instead of dominating the conversation, which makes it more fun for me but probably not for them, I'm trying to listen as closely as possible to unspoken stories-- clothing choices, body posture, breath patterns-- my own as well as those I'm speaking with. When I do this, it seems that shyer types often speak up more, as they feel they are really being listened to... something of a challenge for me, as I could easily wax poetic on any number of things, but worthwhile.

Re: Is A Life Partner Essential To Your Happiness?

alligator_kate — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:41:38 -0000

I'm incredibly grateful to my life partner. I adore him, and thank the Divine for his existence. I believe that we create our own happiness, so it would be possible to be blissfully happy alone, or very unhappy and still have the best life partner ever. Being with my partner is not something I take for granted, and it is a major facet of my happiness, but this is a choice, a state that I actively cultivate within myself. I believe that it would be equally valuable to cultivate happiness alone.

Re: Does It All Happen For A Reason?

alligator_kate — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:31:37 -0000

I believe that we co-create our world, and my favorite quotes are from Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet:
'We must love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, or letters written in a very foreign tongue.'
And: Something terrible is, in its deepest being, something helpless that wants help from us. So you must not be frightened when a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen, when a restiveness, like light and cloud-shadows passes over your hands, and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you. It holds you in its hands. It will not let you fall.'

Something is happening with you, not to you. Lots of power in that.

Re: Positivity; How Do You Keep It Alive?

alligator_kate — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:12:56 -0000

Sometimes I think positivity is overrated. Recently I had some friends who said I wasn't "positive" enough because I was deeply upset by the events in Gaza. Sometimes we need to feel our grief. For me it always comes back to the earth. I imagine that grief being compost that renews the earth. When I really need to, I literally just find a spot to lie on the ground and feel connected again. Singing birds, the promise of spring, mentally planning the garden... these things fill my heart with joy in the most difficult times, reminding me that we are all connected in joy as well as in sorrow.

Re: How Will You Make Your Weekend Sensual?

alligator_kate — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:51:24 -0000

I'll be taking a bath with sea salt, linden, and rose infusion. Healing for my whole body, sinuses, and soul.

Re: Your Dream Home; Where Is It and Why?

alligator_kate — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:46:02 -0000

An old farmhouse ecologically retro fitted to utilize things like passive solar, with a south facing front yard to grow herbs and climbing roses, on a hill to utilize grey water efficiently, compost toilets (yes I really do fantasize about compost toilets), an old barn for animals-- a cow, a horse, barn cats, and a greasil-powered old Bently, next to National Forest, and not more than 2 hours via train to NYC. A wide, child safe stream/rivulet with drinkable water on the property, and neighbors who share our desire to help the earth renew, as well as a little writer's shack for me, a ways out in the woods, and an apothecary/greenhouse. Fertile fields for vegetables and orchards, and lots of wild flowers. Small town in bike or horse distance for needs and socializing.

Re: What Is Your Favorite Meal of the Day, and How Will You Enjoy It Today?

alligator_kate — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:40:57 -0000

Depends on the day, but I always look forward to breakfast, which is without fail very delicious and involving blueberries and cinnamon, as I use them to balance my blood sugar. Then it just depends on scheduling... but I love having dinner with my husband. We don't talk about much while we eat, just about the food, savoring it, and then have a leisurely conversation afterward. This is my favorite way to enjoy a meal, and I am lucky he shares my passion for good food, even if our tastes often differ.

Re: Taking Risks When It Comes To Love; Is It Always Worth It?

alligator_kate — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:49:32 -0000

As long as you love yourself unconditionally first, then yes.

Re: What Will Be Your Indulgence Today?

alligator_kate — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:04:09 -0000

Long leisurely morning enjoying a pot of tea and contemplating my dreams
tonight soaking in a linden/rose bath, which is medicine and indulgence put together.