I am a hippie that likes to bathe. I am a gamer girl with geeky glasses that prefers a book or RPG over television. I am working on making me a better person.
I love music, I think that a didgeridoo on the beach can call spirits, and that faeries are possibly real.
I think that the world could be a beautiful place, if you can stop and look. Sunsets and sunrises are the Great Unknowns way of showing us that everything can be perfect if only for a moment, and nothing is stagnant. I love dancing around in circles until the earth calls me, and bouncing up and down until the tears dry. Nothing makes me happier than to lose myself in controlled chaos.
The sea whispers my name every morning, and sings me to sleep at night. One day I will find my song again and rejoin my siren sisters. I want to read the stars with someone and dance in the rain. These are the things that make me feel alive! I feel like the people that can affect positive change into the world are the people around me.
My hero's are people that change human perception. How we view normalcy, and what is acceptable behavior. I like to have a voice in the things that go on around me. I love Star Trek and the small of a woman's back. I love the sweat that glistens off your forehead as you run through the woods chasing the Oak King with me... The only question now is who are you?
I am tall, geeky, and red headed.
I love dancing around in circles until the earth calls me, and bouncing up and down until the tears dry. Nothing makes me happier than to lose myself in controlled chaos. The sea whispers my name every morning, and sings me to sleep at night. One day I will find my song again and rejoin my siren sisters. I want to read the stars with someone and dance in the rain. These are the things that make me feel alive! I feel like the people that can affect positive change into the world are the people around me. My hero's are people that change human perception. How we view normalcy, and what is acceptable behavior. I like to have a voice in the things that go on around me. I love Star Trek and the small of a woman's back. I love the sweat that glistens off your forehead as you run through the woods chasing the Oak King with me... The only question now is who are you?
I am trying to get my artwork/craft work out there. In such a small town I am finding it hard to find my niche, where I belong. It's an age old journey, full of people telling you what you should or shouldn't do. So I try a bit of everything to see what works and what doesn't. I am in the process of going back to school. I am also trying to get my artwork/craft work out there. In such a small town I am finding it hard to find my niche, where I belong. It's an age old journey, full of people telling you what you should or shouldn't do. So I try a bit of everything to see what works and what doesn't.
I’m really good at art, in stranger forms. I love henna and body painting. I also am a huge fan of knots. (like macramé and crochet) I look at the English language almost as an instrument I can make magic with. I love photography, and find myself passable with what I produce.
I am defiantly not a wallflower for long in any crowd. I feel passionately about feet. Maybe it's my Pisces coming out, but I really like them.
I spend a lot of time thinking about the future. Spacemen. Conspiracy theories, and where they really go. I also spend a lot of time contemplating orbital trajectories and my fascination with polyhedral dice.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Deepwater Horizon Incident
Joint Information Center
Phone: (985) 902-5231
(985) 902-5240
* Report oiled shoreline or request volunteer information: (866) 448-5816
* Submit alternative response technology, services or products: (281) 366-5511
* Submit your vessel for the Vessel of Opportunity Program: (281) 366-5511
* Submit a claim for damages: (800) 440-0858
* Report oiled wildlife: (866) 557-1401
* Medical support hotline: (888) 623-0287
I live on Mobile Bay, in Alabama. As you all should know, we are getting hit with the oil eruption. Here are the numbers to call if you need/find anything.
Please feel free to contact me with any other info you have pertaining to the oil eruption, and I will share it with everyone I can.
Right along side of this is this weekends protest. It will be in Bienville square. Please be responsible and do not bring any alcohol. It will be from 6 am until dusk. Bring signs and your need to show where you stand. Bring your soapboxes, I will bring mine.
Joint Information Center
Phone: (985) 902-5231
(985) 902-5240
* Report oiled shoreline or request volunteer information: (866) 448-5816
* Submit alternative response technology, services or products: (281) 366-5511
* Submit your vessel for the Vessel of Opportunity Program: (281) 366-5511
* Submit a claim for damages: (800) 440-0858
* Report oiled wildlife: (866) 557-1401
* Medical support hotline: (888) 623-0287
I live on Mobile Bay, in Alabama. As you all should know, we are getting hit with the oil eruption. Here are the numbers to call if you need/find anything.
Please feel free to contact me with any other info you have pertaining to the oil eruption, and I will share it with everyone I can.
Right along side of this is this weekends protest. It will be in Bienville square. Please be responsible and do not bring any alcohol. It will be from 6 am until dusk. Bring signs and your need to show where you stand. Bring your soapboxes, I will bring mine.
A Cry For Help
This letter was written by a friend, in response to the fear she had about her husband's saftey. He, like many of us, went to work helping to do everything he could for the oil clean-up. He worked for BP. This was also the letter sent to Erin Brockovich before she came down to the coast. She has been censored many times now online, so here's one more venue to get the word out there.
(The Letter)
I am the wife of an offshore captain working the ground zero site of The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He is being exposed to Methane gasses, Toluene, Benzene and Hydrogen sulfide. As are all the other workers at the spill sites. These are Cancer causing agents and there are many, many heath risks. BP only yesterday started "fitting" my husband with an air quality suit. He has yet to recieve it. He has been exposed for a month to these gasses and can not say anything for fear of losing his job and tells me men are sick daily. I beg of you......
As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, the headlines paint a picture of executive greed, scientific studies ignored, and government regulations disregarded. We are reminded of the words of presidential candidate Obama, “Workers are the eyes and ears of enforcement.” I am writing you today to urge you to immediately pass meaningful whistleblower protections for employees of the offshore drilling industry.
On the day of the terrible disaster on the Deepwater Horizon rig, and on the days that led up to it, not a single employee in the offshore drilling industry was entitled to meaningful whistleblower protection. The key laws that govern offshore drilling: the Outer Continental Shelf Act, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, and the Endangered Species Act, contain no whistleblower protections whatsoever.
Critical studies have confirmed that encouraging employees to blow the whistle is essential to prevent catastrophes, like the one we see unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, before they happen. Any successful reform effort must include protections for employees who dare to come forward and report the deplorable disregard for our environment and safety that has become the norm in the profit-obsessed offshore drilling industry.
Any new law must be retroactive, to ensure that workers who have the courage to testify against BP, Halliburton and Transocean and the corrupt regulators at the Minerals Management Service are encouraged to speak out and are fully protected.
You need only to look at the whistleblower provisions included in the recent Wall Street Reform bill, the Health Care bill, and the Stimulus bill as models for the type of legislation we need now.
I urge you to immediately enact broad, effective whistleblower protections that cover the entire offshore drilling industry and its regulators.
Please contact the attorneys at the National Whistleblowers Center at 202-342-1903 or whistle@whistleblowers.org for additional guidance on what is needed in this important law
(The Letter)
I am the wife of an offshore captain working the ground zero site of The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He is being exposed to Methane gasses, Toluene, Benzene and Hydrogen sulfide. As are all the other workers at the spill sites. These are Cancer causing agents and there are many, many heath risks. BP only yesterday started "fitting" my husband with an air quality suit. He has yet to recieve it. He has been exposed for a month to these gasses and can not say anything for fear of losing his job and tells me men are sick daily. I beg of you......
As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, the headlines paint a picture of executive greed, scientific studies ignored, and government regulations disregarded. We are reminded of the words of presidential candidate Obama, “Workers are the eyes and ears of enforcement.” I am writing you today to urge you to immediately pass meaningful whistleblower protections for employees of the offshore drilling industry.
On the day of the terrible disaster on the Deepwater Horizon rig, and on the days that led up to it, not a single employee in the offshore drilling industry was entitled to meaningful whistleblower protection. The key laws that govern offshore drilling: the Outer Continental Shelf Act, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, and the Endangered Species Act, contain no whistleblower protections whatsoever.
Critical studies have confirmed that encouraging employees to blow the whistle is essential to prevent catastrophes, like the one we see unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, before they happen. Any successful reform effort must include protections for employees who dare to come forward and report the deplorable disregard for our environment and safety that has become the norm in the profit-obsessed offshore drilling industry.
Any new law must be retroactive, to ensure that workers who have the courage to testify against BP, Halliburton and Transocean and the corrupt regulators at the Minerals Management Service are encouraged to speak out and are fully protected.
You need only to look at the whistleblower provisions included in the recent Wall Street Reform bill, the Health Care bill, and the Stimulus bill as models for the type of legislation we need now.
I urge you to immediately enact broad, effective whistleblower protections that cover the entire offshore drilling industry and its regulators.
Please contact the attorneys at the National Whistleblowers Center at 202-342-1903 or whistle@whistleblowers.org for additional guidance on what is needed in this important law
Mickey Dearmon and the media.
As we all know, the news can get to be one sided. Especially when you have become a social pariah.
A lot of times the media twists around events in your life to better suit the sales for their paper, or to elicit a certain response from the public masses. So here's a story for you.
I was in a fire that devastated my family. My toddler did not survive this experience, and my husband would have perished as well, but the fire department was swift and thorough.
I remember scattered thoughts and images, with people trying to save what I desperately needed help with. I know of at least two of the Dearman’s that were there, and was told by other fire fighters that he (Mickey Dearman) tried to revive my son long after what he “had to.” These men sat with me at his funeral, and were present multiple times while my husband was in a coma, and had pneumonia in his lungs. After my husband was released from the hospital, they further helped me. Yes, these men that tried to save my family did not stop helping me until I could put the pieces back in my life.
I can never thank the Dearman’s for all that they have done for Semmes. They were part of a team of people who touched my heart with the fire department. They regularly go
to a variety of fires, pull teenagers out of burning cars, and scrape people I know off of Moffatt Rd, and the hairpin curves of Firetower Rd. I could not contain the sadness in my heart for what they do. These are the kind of Dearman’s that I know. These men have shown on more than one occasion in my life their level of compassion.
One of the things that I grew up with was that family was what you made of it. And when you have family, you talk to them. Family isn’t always the people that you are born with, but that you love and care for. When there is a shortage of people that care, you understand quickly just how far you will go for someone you call a friend.
Sometimes that means bailing someone out of jail. If this guy would rush into a burning building for strangers, what do you think he would do for a friend? Remember that loyalty is a good thing. Friendship is a cherished thing. This is what it means to be charitable, and to not cast stones.
A lot of times the media twists around events in your life to better suit the sales for their paper, or to elicit a certain response from the public masses. So here's a story for you.
I was in a fire that devastated my family. My toddler did not survive this experience, and my husband would have perished as well, but the fire department was swift and thorough.
I remember scattered thoughts and images, with people trying to save what I desperately needed help with. I know of at least two of the Dearman’s that were there, and was told by other fire fighters that he (Mickey Dearman) tried to revive my son long after what he “had to.” These men sat with me at his funeral, and were present multiple times while my husband was in a coma, and had pneumonia in his lungs. After my husband was released from the hospital, they further helped me. Yes, these men that tried to save my family did not stop helping me until I could put the pieces back in my life.
I can never thank the Dearman’s for all that they have done for Semmes. They were part of a team of people who touched my heart with the fire department. They regularly go
to a variety of fires, pull teenagers out of burning cars, and scrape people I know off of Moffatt Rd, and the hairpin curves of Firetower Rd. I could not contain the sadness in my heart for what they do. These are the kind of Dearman’s that I know. These men have shown on more than one occasion in my life their level of compassion.
One of the things that I grew up with was that family was what you made of it. And when you have family, you talk to them. Family isn’t always the people that you are born with, but that you love and care for. When there is a shortage of people that care, you understand quickly just how far you will go for someone you call a friend.
Sometimes that means bailing someone out of jail. If this guy would rush into a burning building for strangers, what do you think he would do for a friend? Remember that loyalty is a good thing. Friendship is a cherished thing. This is what it means to be charitable, and to not cast stones.
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