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State of the Onion IV

Art Link Coming Out Layers of Being Like the layers of an onion I peel away the layers of who I am boy student athlete man draft-dodging longhaired hippie freak Like the layers of an onion each new layer of myself reveals nuance taoist husband father soldier socialist  teacher commie pinko pacifist Like the layers of an onion peeling further uncovers a richer me woe-man poet tranny activist lesbian artist gay homo dyke queer Like the layers of an onion is the truth of the being of the human –Robyn Elaine Serven –November 4, 2005

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Muse in the Morning

State of the Onion III

Art Link Flower Flower It started as a piece of detail in another work a small barely opened bud. Then it bloomed. Or is that the story of my life? Sometimes I forget. –Robyn Elaine Serven –November 3. 2005

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Nine Comments

Yesterday was interesting.  There were so many comments I made which I could have expanded upon…whole chapters in their own right.  What generally happens at a time like that is that nothing happens.  The comments just drift away into nothingness.

So I grabbed an assortment and decided to comment on the comments.  And stuff happens.  If it weren’t for the fact that my computer is currently crashing, I might have selected an assortment of thoughts from those responses and turned them into a poem.  Sometimes, however, stuff doesn’t happen.

For those looking for an etymological moment, I give you

woman

From late O.E. wimman (pl. wimmen), lit. “woman-man,” alteration of wifman (pl. wifmen), a compound of wif “woman” (see wife) + man “human being” (in O.E. used in ref. to both sexes; see man).

You see, the thing is that originally man (or homo in Latin) meant human being.  Wer (or Vir in Latin) meant male man.  Wif  meant female man.  They were less knowledgeable about other possibilities at that time than we should be today…one would think.

In the late 1200s (after the signing of the Magna Carta, one might notice) wer stopped being and man became the word used to refer to a male human.  Those things we said before about human beings?  They now mean males only.

Cf. Du. vrouwmens “wife,” lit. “woman-man.” The formation is peculiar to Eng. and Du. Replaced older O.E. wif, quean as the word for “female human being.” The pronunciation of the singular altered in M.E. by the rounding influence of −w−; the plural retains the original vowel.  Women’s liberation is attested from 1966; women’s rights is from 1840, with an isolated example in 1632.

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State of the Onion II

Art Link Purple with Beading Thursday is Queersday Long away and far ago when I was young and naive wearing purple on Thursday meant one was most likely queer as it was called at the time Though I didn’t truly know couldn’t really comprehend what it entailed to be queer I still didn’t wear purple on Thursdays or any day For that I am yet ashamed The power of fear is great –Robyn Elaine Serven –March 16, 2006

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State of the Onion I

Art Link Pencil and Wax Words The words take control demand to be written I help guide them dress them up slim them down searching for clarity, brevity, emotion hopefully all three I’m not sure where they come from perhaps from the pains and joys of my life The words are the blood in the vessels of my mind just as feelings are the blood feeding my soul Is there any separation between me and the words? –Robyn Elaine Serven –January 10, 2006

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Surfaces Assume Control Make a choice of a future of a pattern of spacetime to imagine Make choices in the present to instigate that future to happen –Robyn Elaine Serven –June 3, 2008

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There will come a time when you have a chance to do the right thing.

I love those moments.  I like to wave at them as they pass by.

I want to talk with you today about Netroots Nation and applying for and funding Scholarships so that people who would otherwise not be able to do so can attend.

I can hardly be more eloquent than kid oakland in his original plea nearly a year ago.

This year Democracy For America (you know, that Dean place) is sponsoring 9 Scholarships which will include only registration and hotel.  Scholarship recipients will still have to come up with money for transportation, meals and everything else.

Right now there are 87 applicants and only 9 scholarships.

You can help.

There are many ways to contribute.  If you registered, but it turns out you can’t go, you can donate that registration.  These donations have raised the total number of scholarships to at least 16.  So far.

You can also donate frequent flyer miles (I repeat that transportation costs are explicitly not covered by the DFA Scholarships).  You can encourage those who’s participation at Netroots Nation will make a huge difference in their own communities to apply for a scholarship if they need one (deadline for submissions is June 9th).  Nominate them yourself if you have to (don’t nominate me, I have conflicting personal engagements and will not be attending).  Screen names are OK, Carnacki is among the applicants.

You can vote for the applicants at the DFA website, but since this is not American Idol community support is not the only factor that will be considered.  Affirmative action to achieve diversity is a core Democratic value and the quality and impact of an applicant’s body of work will be considered as well.

So it’s pretty much like applying for that Jaycee scholarship that your High School Guidance Counselor kept nagging you about.

But I’m not going to kid you, I’ve got the tin cup out today and I’ve even dropped in a couple of quarters myself so I can shake them around and be really obnoxious and noisy.  If your contribution is not the monetary kind you should get in touch with landenchantment at that gmail place.

Lando’ was kind enough to send me a list of future diaries in this effort which so far include-

• 6/2 Monday PM – Meteor Blades
• 6/3 Tuesday AM – pastordan
• 6/4 Wednesday PM – hekebolos (dmsilev, mention in FAQ Forum)
• 6/5 Thursday PM – noweasels
• 6/6 Friday PM – LoE, combined with Friday Night at the Movies “Come Fly With Me” (dmsilev, mention in Photoblog)
• 6/7 Saturday PM – mcjoan

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Becalmed Breathing A few people standing on the deck of this boat blowing at the sail will not move it Newton ensured that We’ll always have that equal and opposite reaction Moving this boat will require the collective breath of millions who are not on it –Robyn Elaine Serven –April 4, 2008

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Window Reflection and Refraction I see the past in the mirror of tarnished memories and often misaligned contemplation The future on the other hand is best seen through the window of imagination –Robyn Elaine Serven –June 1, 2008

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Tunnel Shiny Objects Words arrive at the edge of consciousness searching for meaning, rhythm and grace Visual emphasis focuses the mind and heart connecting to the words through what is seen and what is not Words are spilled one life’s blood hoping a gatherer happens to pass this way The thoughts are moderately decorated into a shiny object to attract attention –Robyn Elaine Serven –May 29, 2008

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Ribs Mixed Media A song and a dance words caressed by the music of memory Colored pixels dancing a future that never was Words   from an emotional place words of pain and sorrow of disappointment of heartache and also proclaiming what can be Graphics added to set the mood or perhaps illuminate those words –Robyn Elaine Serven –May 28, 2008

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Groove Thing Are we there yet? We can spend our time counting the days living metronomes beating out the hours minutes or seconds but in the end the important question is whether or not tomorrow will be a better day than today and perhaps we could wonder for whom that may be and for whom it will not –Robyn Elaine Serven –April 2, 2008

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