http://www.hazelfaern.com Healthy Heathen Hedonism from the Heart Wed, 28 May 2008 05:19:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You Are Ginger Like ginger, you are a total shape shifter. You can be sweet, spicy, mellow, or overpowering. You are both soothing and unique. You are popular… yet you are often overlooked. What Spice Are You? http://www.hazelfaern.com/index.php/2008/05/28/what-spice-are-you/ I am aDaisy What Flower Are You? “You are just a sweet person. When a friend needs a shoulder to cry on, you are happy to offer yours with a box of tissues as well. Once in awhile, you wish you could be a little more dramatic but then sensibility sets ... http://www.hazelfaern.com/index.php/2008/05/24/i-am-a-daisy/ Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, And remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, Be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; And listen to others, Even to the dull and ignorant; They too have their ... http://www.hazelfaern.com/index.php/2008/05/13/71/ The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep. - Rumi So, so much love… http://www.hazelfaern.com/index.php/2008/02/10/wake-up/ My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Sweet Sister Taser of Serene Harmony. What’s yours? http://www.hazelfaern.com/index.php/2008/01/27/hello-my-name-is/ I am aCanna What Flower Are You? http://www.hazelfaern.com/index.php/2007/11/10/the-flower-quiz/ Go, now, and check out Luz: Girl of the Knowing! Then come back and tell me how it awesome it is From the creatrix, Claudia Davila: "LUZ was inspired by my first ever (self-published) comic book, SPOILED, a tale about the relationship between humankind ... http://www.hazelfaern.com/index.php/2007/09/23/luz-girl-of-the-knowing/ Admittedly, I read this book several months ago, yet it’s had such an impact on me I wanted to turn back time and review it here. Plenty is the story of James and Alisa Smith, a Toronto couple who spend a year eating nothing but local foods. Their joint decision is ... http://www.hazelfaern.com/index.php/2007/09/16/plenty-the-grace-of-owning-up-to-enough/ Herland, a nearly-lost feminist Utopian novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a hundred years later, is still an absolute romp. The nut-shell synopsis: The era is Victorian. Three gallavanting, adventurous men, one with a small fortune, a gadget collection and an ego that will remind future generations of James Bond minus ... http://www.hazelfaern.com/index.php/2007/09/15/back-to-the-future-victoria-with-a-vengeance/   Direct Action is the highly entertaining, narrative quasi-fictional history of the Livermore Action Group, or LAG, a highly prolific anti-nuclear political collective that gathered together in the early 80’s to protest Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab, specifically, and a laissez-faiere culture that could support a weapons technology with the capacity to ... http://www.hazelfaern.com/index.php/2007/09/15/pinko-commie-san-francisco-history/