A Polyamory Pioneer

Wren on October 22nd, 2011

Part of the Occupy meme is its holistic nature. C.T. has been living this by being on the cutting edge of many cultural changes, including redefining family and love in the modern era. Identifying as polyamorous before the word existed, C.T. did a thoughtful, informative podcast interview with writer/journalist Eric Francis about polyamory.

In the interview, you’ll hear C.T. talk about the challenges of long term partnerships with lovers who were not poly when he met them, and contrasting that dynamic with his current live-in relationship with a woman who identified and lived as poly before they met—That’s me, of course!

In a previous blog article on C.T., Francis called him “the man I consider one of the most valuable, innovative lobes in the brain trust of doing things not just differently but better.” Here’s the podcast:

http://planetwaves.net/pagetwo/planet-waves-fm/planet-waves-fm-a-conversation-with-c-t-butler-about-relationships-the-universe-and-everything/

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The Boston Phoenix feature on C.T. Butler is live here:

http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/128671-ct-butler-is-back-on-the-fro…
and hitting newsstands Thursday. I’ve copied it below and added some pics. I’m just thrilled at how the writer captured C.T.’s exuberance toward the movement. It’s a beautiful thing! Please share the above link with friends in other occupys so they can know that C.T. is [...]

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Here’s a link to an article,
Occupy protesters eye diversity as movement grows
On Saturday, C.T. Lawrence Butler was interviewed by an Associated Press reporter collecting background on the Occupy Movement. C.T., co-founder of the worldwide movement Food Not Bombs, has been writing about and teaching values-based consensus decisionmaking for thirty years. For a little over a [...]

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Repost: The Memory of Snow

Wren on October 12th, 2011

The souls of women float just above the ground
as if walking on the memory of snow.
Ready to be air if struck, water if kicked,
stone if belittled, fire if ignored.
The souls of women laugh lightly in most moments,
beaming pinpoints through the skin. It makes you
want to touch. Priestesses and party dresses.
And so you touch. Shocked to [...]

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Repost: While Jean Doesn’t Write

Wren on October 12th, 2011

Here’s a fun ditty nudging my poetry pal Jean. She works 80 hours a week at saving the world and seems to forget that writing is a lifeboat with room for all. I volleyed this to her years ago and challenged her to answer me. Here’s a reminder, you [...]

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Posted on August 23, 2011 by Lisa
Our seed farm and office are located just outside the town of Mineral, Virginia, the epicenter of today’s earthquake! One map we’ve seen places the epicenter just 1.5 miles away from us.
No one’s hurt and all our buildings appear to be fine, except for some possible minor damage to [...]

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Published on Wednesday, July 27, 2011 by CommonDreams.org

by Tim DeChristopher

Tim DeChristopher, who was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison and a $10,000 fine for ‘disrupting’ a Bureau of Land Management auction in 2008, had an opportunity to address the court and the judge immediately before his sentence was announced. [...]

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Silo

Wren on July 5th, 2011

Grain,  seeds,
which the crop,
which the weeds?
Keep it all ,  y’  never  know.
There  at my  labor stands the silo.
Height, weight,
my spine against
the skyline.
Four stomachs, y’ never  know.
Dare not let  it go, it’s in the  silo.
A  word  bears no  mass.
A glare worn  once, it won’t fit twice.
But in my receipt
They take on shape,
A stone in muscle
Massage therapy [...]

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Shimmer

Wren on July 1st, 2011

Shimmer Sharon Shimmer.
Such sunsmile  on the water.
I, the shore,
I go  to cup her in my hands
and Shimmer She,
she ripples away…
—WT
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Cardamom Apparitions

Wren on June 28th, 2011

Here are a pair of poems to celebrate New York becoming the seventh state to recognize same-sex marriage.—Wren
Cardamom Apparitions
Now Blindness asks, What’s in a photograph?
That bending scent–your garden, ripe with dew…
Your softball scar! My gawky dyke giraffe!
Some laughter echoes, tracing down our youth.
The card’mom ghosts that clung to kitchen air…
House renovations–rainbow gingerbread…
The peachy rinse that [...]

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