Wednesday, April 25, 2007

I need another Lily bird picture!!!

Today Jupiter discovered a green frisbee on the beach that said Glen Lake Animal Clinic. I was convinced that it was from Michigan....but I just checked...the Michigan one is Sleeping Bear Animal Clinic.

I'm having that "it's time to go to michigan" quivers every time the breeze is just right or the sky is just that color blue or the clouds are just he perfect puffiness.

Speaking of pictures....I like Buzz the Bee's rear view (this is where jupiter hangs out when I'm gone. but i totally failed him and didn't dress him for halloween)

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Cree's Travels - Updated

In case Dan or anyone else is in the air....here are my crazy travel plans (and to help Deb keep this straight). I'll try to update as it changes:

April 19-20: Chicago
April 23: San Fran
April 30 - May 3rd: NYC
May 5th Denver
May 6th - 8th: Houston
May 8- 11: DC
May 16: Seattle

July Last week -- Joe and Sonya here for Circus Camp!

Aug 5-15 (tentative): Crystal Lake

Thanksgiving at Coronado listening to ocean waves for days and days at a time

February 2008 - Patagonia

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Baby Bonnets

Styling in my new Easter cap...



Monday, April 9, 2007

Easter Bonnet Party 2008


I was so inspired by David and his beau that we decided to have an easter bonnet party next spring. put it on your calendar.

Sunday, April 8, 2007

Hey Lily -- You better get hopping!

If you want to star on YouTube....

Is this even possible?????? Check out the Amazing Break-Dancing Toddler

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Memorylines Coming Soon






Hi everyone,
Please come join us. May 11 and 12 at 7pm and May 13 at 3pm.

Presented by The Santa Fe Opera and The Lensic Performing Arts Center
A Littleglobe Production:

Memorylines
Voces de Nuestras Jornadas
Directed by Molly Sturges

A contemporary opera

Memorylines brings together individuals, ages 8-87 across cultural, economic and generational lines in Santa Fe to create an original new work directed by Molly Sturges. Together with an artist team including Valerie Martinez, David Dunn, Chris Jonas, Rulan Tangen, David Gallegos, Chrissie Orr, Penny Rae and Jaime Becerril, the participants will perform the new work based upon personal maps of their lives and the collective intersections that emerged from a three month intensive creative process involving video, acoustic ecology, movement, music, visual arts, and writing.

Protecting the Criminal

This is from ACORN head organizer - I thought it was a good piece. Write your congress rep!!!
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New Orleans Not surprisingly, New Century, once almost the king of the subprime lenders, filed for bankruptcy while trying to sell what was not bolted down and laid off about 3000 people or half of their staff. The CEO, Brad Morrice, who Jordan Ash, several ACORN leaders, and I had met along with members of their board and top staff last year in our first formal meeting with New Century in the first week of his job, announced that he was sorry it had come to this.

We did a press release demanding that the lessons of the failure be understood and the right thing be done for the mortgage holders caught in this mess.

Mike Shea, from our housing operation, added a good point in talking to Kevin Whelan, our communications director, that there should be a moratorium on foreclosures for mortgage holders of a subprime going under. In fairness, why should the subprime be protected while the little guy still ends up taking a fall? This is a solid demand.

Jordan has told me as recently as last week that we have more than 100 New Century cases in our office that we are not able to get the company to resolve simply because they no longer have the staff to solve the problem or the money to buy back the problems. In one case they had rewritten one of the mortgages correctly after the buyback, and we were stuck because they would no longer sign the papers and execute the agreement. Out of money! Out of time!

The analogy would be equivalent to protecting the criminal, while walking away from the victim.

There needs to be a stop to all foreclosures from these failing subprimes until we can put these pieces back together again. And, it needs to be done now!