On Saturday friends of Amira gathered at her home and packed up her artwork for a celebration of her life this Saturday, 11.12 in Portland, Oregon. Here are some examples of her work! Photos by Jef Murphy
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Thanks to everyone who volunteered for our fantastic Irvington tree planting last March. Between us and the other 3 nearby neighborhoods we planted 212 trees. I mention this because for anyone wanting to join us in our next planting, the time to order trees is now and the website to order from is: https://friendsoftrees.org/order-street-and-yard-trees
Our planting day is Saturday March 10, 2012 and we’ll again be hosted by the Holladay Park Church of God at Tillamook and 21st Ave. starting at 9am. We are looking for volunteers to plant trees and donations of delicious food for our work crews. If you’d like more information or would like to volunteer, please contact me at albertkaufman@gmail.com
For a variety of reasons I am encouraging people to plant fruit and nut trees in their yards. This will increase the amount of food we’re providing for ourselves and bring our community together as we harvest food with and for one another.
This year the City of Portland is offering a treebate to those who qualify. Find out more at http://pdx.be/treebate
Happy autumn,
Your canopy-loving Friends of Trees neigborhood coordinator for Irvington, Albert Kaufman
Our wonderful Amira (Sue-Lin) Simons passed away on October 12th at 11am from breast cancer. Amira was an amazing leader, mother, counselor, singer, artist, creator, mystic, poet and support for me and many in my community. Her reach into the world was huge – she walked in many worlds – NW Festival culture (Beloved, SSHR at Breitenbush, Oregon Country Faire (Spirit Booth in Community Village), Sacred Circle Dance, the WOW Hall in Eugene and her extensive connections in her work and family life.
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Amira was other-worldly. She had/has information about light bridges to other worlds and other beings that she would talk about often. She also spent time with everyone she met and often impacted peoples’ lives with one meeting. She was amazing at seeing the good in someone and encouraging them to come out more and show themselves – whether through art, music, or in relationship. Amira was real with all of us and I personally got to be real with her – sharing personal challenges back and forth, and trying to figure out how to help members of the community that needed our love and support.
I love Amira as do so many and it’s very hard to see her go. And, most of us agree that she is out there, up there, smiling and having some laughs and making new friends and dancing and singing and soaking in the warm waters of her journey.
Amira’s daughters are planning a celebration for Amira in Eugene during the week of October 24-29 and I’ll update this page when I know the exact details.
In addition, a group of us are putting on an art exhibit to show off and give away Amira’s art creations called: In Celebration of Amira’s Creative Spirit on Saturday November 12th from 4-7 at the Englewood Christian Church : 3515 NE Killingsworth Ave., Portland, Oregon. The event will feature live music from some of Amira’s favorite musicians, an art exhibit and giveaway of Amira’s art work (see slideshow above), finger food, and a chance to join together as Amira’s friends and share our love for her.
If you’d like to be a part of the celebration, please contact Albert @ albertkaufman@gmail.com – we are also looking for volunteers who might be available for a trip to Brownsville to clean and pack up Amira’s art work to bring it to Portland on November 5th or, possibly, November 11th.
If you knew/know Amira, I hope you’ll come and join us on 11.12.11! I’ll update this page as more information about the event is clarified. On 11.12.11 there will also be an after party at the CedarSanctum, right down the street on the corner of 35th and Simpson NE once we’re done cleaning up at the church.
For more information about Amira, please visit her Facebook page, or come to one of the upcoming events. Thanks, Albert
Music: Gate, Gate by Deva Premal
Gate, gate means gone, gone; paragate means gone over; parasamgate means gone beyond (the other shore of suffering or the bondage of samsara); bodhi
means the Awakened Mind; svaha is the Sanskrit word for homage or proclamation. So, the mantra means “Homage to the Awakened Mind which has crossed over to the other shore, freed from suffering.”
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10/18/11 – Great Article by Chris Hedges – A Movement Too Big To Fail http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_movement_too_big_to_fail_20111017/
“There’s something going on around here“, quotes Paul Krugman of the NYT. There’s some great writing about this movement and some great activism going on right now. I thought I’d share what I’m finding. In no particular order:
9/23 – Video of Occupy WallStreet – well done photographically…
A list/map of all Occupy Groups in the world. Livestream of the Occupy PDX happenings.
Blog post by Chris Hedges on the People’s Republic of Portland blog – a great read as is everything he writes, IMHO.
YES Magazine author Sarah Van Gelder’s Article: Where the 99% Get Their Power: “The protests are giving the unemployed, the uninsured, the evicted, indebted students, homeless veterans, and would-be retirees a place to break out of their isolation. OccupyWallStreet shows that millions share their hardships and are standing up. Transforming shame, self-doubt, and isolation into solidarity unleashes enormous power.”
Orion Magazine’s, Christopher Ketcham’s Reign of the 99 Percenters
A list of needs of the Occupy Portland folks. I’m sure this list is still pretty current. Food, Shelter, Clothing are generally always needed.
Popular saying: Dear 1%, We fell asleep for a while. We just woke up. Sincerely, the 99%
Great photos from NYC protests
The Nation – http://www.thenation.com/article/163844/occupy-wall-street-most-important-thing-world-now
Got me a new shirt thanks to the efforts of the Peoples Republic of Portlandia!
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Another fantastic year!
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“Think of yourself as a wing, a torch, a promise. Risk your significance, live, blossom, go forth and win. Let the world rejoice at your presence. Find those who have failed to flourish and whisper in their ear, “grow, grow.” Perhaps on this day, for the second time in the history of the world, you shall discover fire.” – Saleem Rana
“When someone tells you who they are, believe them” Maya Angelou
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Here we go again! Black Rock City, Republic of Burning Man. Countdown 1: two months to burn. Countdown 2: one month to get the Post Office funded – we need your help!
Kickstarter: http://pdx.be/brcpo
Have you ever mailed yourself or someone you love a post card from the playa? Well, The Black Rock City International Post Office Village @ 9:00 Plaza needs you. Your support enables us to transport, build & store our super funky & fun themecamp™ so you can send mail to people you love. Inside our artistically crafted walls, participants are in for radical participation and fun from the Black Rock City community*, with gifts like bureaucratic performance pieces, postcard making, stickers, stamps and hilarious international shenanagrins. All of those gifts, plus mail!, are spread over Black Rock City and the world each and every day through the PO.
The rewards for donating to this year’s amazing Post Office have all been generously donated. 100% of your donation goes directly to supporting our art. To see photographs of the beautiful rewards, please visit http://brcpo2oh.weebly.com/fundraising–donating.html. To see the PO camp, head over to http://brcpo2oh.weebly.com/camp.html.
And better yet, to donate, please visit the Post Office Village site at Kickstarter, at http://pdx.be/brcpo.
We hope you choose to support the PO ~ and send your love out from Burning Man, too.
See you at the burn!
*The Black Rock City International Post Office Village is home to:
- The BRC Post Office 2.Oh, Rites of Passage Post Cards,
- The Portrait Passage Post Card Making,
- The BRC Philately History Museum, and, of course,
- Ritual Delivery Services and Eu-ROP (Rites Of Passage.)
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