http://peta-de-aztlan.blogspot.com/2007/08/dr-linda-friday-august-17-07-brother.html
Come Together and Create!
Peter S. Lopez ~aka Peta
Sacramento, California, Aztlan
Email: sacranative@yahoo.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Humane-Rights-Agenda/
Friday, August 17, 2007 ~ Hola Doctor Linda! 
I think I started communicating with you in that Christians In Recovery Online Group sometime in the summer of 2000. I got thrown out, then, you left the group and I felt a solidarity with you and knew you saw the bigger picture.
To my memory I was already at Mather Community Campus. Correct me if I am off about the season. I am such a HERE NOW being that linear timelines sometimes get blurry.
I believe my life and that of many others is dated and was transformed by the terrible Tuesday of September 1, 2001 in terms of pre-9/11 and post-9/11.
So more than a Sponsor you have been a patient distant true friend whom I will meet someday between here and death. As a Sponsor, believe it or not, your timely wisdom and calm patience ~transmitted via Emails~ helped me make it through those two-odd years. I was communicating with you more than anyone else in my life about what was going on inside of me when I was at MCC. Then after I had my relapse you continued to encourage me.
My relapse ended up being more of a gradual falling away from my recovery roots with CASA at the Salvation Army. No life is as it should be for me.
My job is a steady one and I grow daily in relation to my own compassion for others who suffer and my general understanding of the big picture. Now that I am on the Internet at home over Mark's casa I will get more done from here. Right now I am waiting for Comcast Cable guy to come by. Mark will be here, so I gotta get ready to venture to Sally's for another day there with all its drama and comedy. Sometimes it is like I am on a movie set there with a large cast of characters.
I am glad your work is going well, you have a great sense of fullfillment and all your hard work over the years is being recognized and rewarded. God is Good....
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Peter S. Lopez ~aka Peta
Sacramento, California, Aztlan
Email: sacranative@yahoo.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Humane-Rights-Agenda/
Cc: Sister Shelly ~ Australia
Bcc: Peta's Onliine Journal
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----- Original Message ----
From: Linda Whittaker <olsvig2000@yahoo.com>
To: Peter S. Lopez de-Aztlan <sacranative@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 11:32:58 PM
Subject: Re: Private> Re: A Manifesto? ~ Brother Peter
Trotsky was also favored over Stalin by ME. He was the classic idealistic, liberal Jew dreaming of Utopia; we've had quite a few of those. Some even did the world some good.
namaste,
"Peter S. Lopez de-Aztlan" <sacranative@yahoo.com> wrote:
Please help advise me quietly. I did not want to pursue building up a political party designed to function as an educational vehicle until I had more sane and sober time under my belt.
Just about my favorite manifesto!
I strive to be impeccable, including in my thoughts. I have acquired an infinite amount of patience, know stress is a killer for many and my work gives me a lot of experiencing in working on my compassion in the real world.
You know Trotsky was favored by Lenin over Stalin. More will be revealed....
I have more of a cultural movement overview than a tight party structure. I have seen that character defects, whether inherent or not, have been key handicaps in the failure of there being a strong nationwide progressive political party.
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Come Together and Create!
Peter S. Lopez ~aka Peta
Sacramento, California, Aztlan
Email: sacranative@yahoo.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Humane-Rights-Agenda/
A manifesto is a clear, brief statement of philosphy and policy which can serve as a platform and FAQ for other people.....Communists used it, but they were not the only ones.
"Peter S. Lopez de-Aztlan" <sacranative@yahoo.com> wrote:
----- Original Message ----
From: Linda Whittaker <olsvig2000@yahoo.com>
To: Peter S. Lopez de-Aztlan <sacranative@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 9:26:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Shabbat Shalom - Jerusalem] shabbat shalom 10.08.07
From: Linda Whittaker <olsvig2000@yahoo.com>
To: Peter S. Lopez de-Aztlan <sacranative@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 11:32:58 PM
Subject: Re: Private> Re: A Manifesto? ~ Brother Peter
The Russell-Einstein Manifesto is a good one, although addressed to a particular situation which is no longer relevant. I wonder what they would have thought of the conflict of the West with Islam....In some ways, the 1950's was a much simpler, more naive time than we live in now, but Bertrand Russell and Einstein were two of the geniuses of the 20th Century, whose opinions on humanity tended to be compassionate and liberal. That's not a bad place to start. Keep reading and thinking.
Trotsky was also favored over Stalin by ME. He was the classic idealistic, liberal Jew dreaming of Utopia; we've had quite a few of those. Some even did the world some good.
namaste,
Linda
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"Peter S. Lopez de-Aztlan" <sacranative@yahoo.com> wrote:
Please help advise me quietly. I did not want to pursue building up a political party designed to function as an educational vehicle until I had more sane and sober time under my belt.
Just about my favorite manifesto!
I strive to be impeccable, including in my thoughts. I have acquired an infinite amount of patience, know stress is a killer for many and my work gives me a lot of experiencing in working on my compassion in the real world.
You know Trotsky was favored by Lenin over Stalin. More will be revealed....
I have more of a cultural movement overview than a tight party structure. I have seen that character defects, whether inherent or not, have been key handicaps in the failure of there being a strong nationwide progressive political party.
<+><+><+><+><+><+><+>
Come Together and Create!
Peter S. Lopez ~aka Peta
Sacramento, California, Aztlan
Email: sacranative@yahoo.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Humane-Rights-Agenda/
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----- Original Message ----
From: Linda Whittaker <olsvig2000@yahoo.com>
To: Peter S. Lopez de-Aztlan <sacranative@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 9:52:00 AM
Subject: Re: A Manifesto? ~ Brother Peter
From: Linda Whittaker <olsvig2000@yahoo.com>
To: Peter S. Lopez de-Aztlan <sacranative@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 9:52:00 AM
Subject: Re: A Manifesto? ~ Brother Peter
A manifesto is a clear, brief statement of philosphy and policy which can serve as a platform and FAQ for other people.....Communists used it, but they were not the only ones.
Far as I can see, communism is a beautiful, idealistic philosophy which unfortunately didn't take human nature into account. Particularly it didn't take into account inherent human selfishness. Lenin and Trotsky thought that was curable by education; they didn't realize how deep it sits, hardwired in human nature. If they could have taken it into account, communism might have worked very well indeed--witness our kibbutz system here in Israel.
cheers,
Linda
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Linda
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"Peter S. Lopez de-Aztlan" <sacranative@yahoo.com> wrote:
Ummm... that is a good idea... I want to have a solid band of warriors around me dedicated for life to the same vision before I do something like a real manifesto.. ummm..sounds kind of communistic!
I relate to communism as an abstract concept, though it has not truly existed except in ancient communal times.Thus, socialism is the way I see for the future in terms of a viable economic alternative to corporate capitalism.
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Come Together and Create!
Peter S. Lopez ~aka Peta
Sacramento, California, Aztlan
Email: sacranative@yahoo.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Humane-Rights-Agenda/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Come Together and Create!
Peter S. Lopez ~aka Peta
Sacramento, California, Aztlan
Email: sacranative@yahoo.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Humane-Rights-Agenda/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
----- Original Message ----
From: Linda Whittaker <olsvig2000@yahoo.com>
To: Peter S. Lopez de-Aztlan <sacranative@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 9:26:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Shabbat Shalom - Jerusalem] shabbat shalom 10.08.07
Sounds like, when you have digested it, you should write a clear manifesto for HLP....
Linda
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"Peter S. Lopez de-Aztlan" <sacranative@yahoo.com> wrote:
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"Peter S. Lopez de-Aztlan" <sacranative@yahoo.com> wrote:
Yes, you have done well. It reminds me of what I want to do in terms of political party... I will keep the concept alive of the Humane Liberation Party and do not see any other one that I can truly totally identify with, though, this one is close it is still to classical Marxist stuff for my tastes:
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Come Together and Create!
Peter S. Lopez ~aka Peta
Sacramento, California, Aztlan
Email: sacranative@yahoo.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Humane-Rights-Agenda/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
----- Original Message ----
From: Linda Olsvig-Whittaker <olsvig2000@yahoo.com>
To: sacranative@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2007 8:28:34 PM
Subject: [Shabbat Shalom - Jerusalem] shabbat shalom 10.08.07
Hi everyone,
I'm back to my normal disgustingly healthy self now, thank God and a few brain cells. The illness which plagued me for about six weeks was apparantly iron (or maybe sulfate)poisoning from the iron supplement tablets prescribed by my hemotologist. When I changed myself from 100 mg ferrous sulfate to 30 mg ferrous gluconate, my symptoms of arthritic pain, stomach pain, dizziness, chills and fever, and all the rest went way completely. All those free radicals were apparantly playing hell on my systems. I saw my family doctor on Sunday and reviewed all this with him, and he confirmed my diagnosis. The hemotologist is a good one but he didn't warn me of side effects and it seems I'm more sensitive than most to ferrous sulfate, although there are lots of complaints about it in the literature. My family doctor also allayed my concerns about stomach cancer, which is quite rare with autoimmune gastritis, but needs preventative checks, hence my upcoming gastroscopy (ugh).
Only good thing I can say about this episode is that I'm no longer anemic and also I had a good taste of what it is like to be chronically ill. I've seldom known illness and that was quite a lesson. I felt like folding up camp and staying in bed for the rest of my life. How people cope with constantly feeling sick for years, I have no idea....scrambles the brains, for one thing. Depression and anxiety for another.
By Sunday I was fairly chipper, a good thing since the week was heavy. On Monday I had a visit from the system analyst who is working on our organizations "masterplan". He is an older man with a quick mind. I'm a data analyst myself, with similar skills, so we ping-ponged back about structure and function with respect to data management, like a couple of tennis players. My boss and the head of computer services couldn't keep up, just watched and listened, and the system analyst and I had a high old time and laughed a lot. I don't often get to match wits with someone like that, and I hope it was as much fun on his side as on mine. Sent him three of my relevant publications, at his request, too.
Wednesday, another triumph. After 11 years, 3 months of work on making our biological data publicly available worldwide, I'm done. Our georeferenced database is now available through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (gbif) located in Copenhagen. Putting the finishing touches on that was my basic reason to visit Copenhagen, and the new dataset was finally indexed and online from Wednesday. You can see it by visiting www.gbif.org and looking for Israel data. We are the INPA (Israel Nature and Parks Authority) data provider.
Whew, what a job that was. Two European Union grants (BioCISE and BioCASE) and a lot of pure dogged determination. In the early stages I got a lot of flak from my organization because few people understood what I was trying to do. Even big grants didn't really help raise the high management's opinion. After the grants finished, I did the rest on my own, including paying for the trip to Denmark out of my pocket. Now that it is online, our organization and the Ministry of Environment, and the universities all think it is just ducky. I think they are a little embarassed, although it is very hard to shame Israelis. As for me, I'm not seeking or expecting thanks (good, since I won't hear it). I did the task for the sake of the task itself, something that has to be done and I'm in the spot to do it. So I did it, and I am satisfied with my own work.
It takes about ten years in our organization to do a significant task start to finish, and one does not get encouragement. So most projects falter somewhere along the line and are not completed. But nothing really stops a person from doing the job except his own discouragement. Get stubborn, and it gets done. This is the biggest job I've done since I came to our organization and I have maybe one more like this before I retire. But at least I can put my finger on one or two things I have done that will stand after I leave. And, with people's grudging acknowledgement, I am the current master of biological data in Israel, as well as one of the few top data analysts.
That last bit brought me a professor from Bar Ilan University, down by Tel Aviv, to learn a few tricks with analysis o multivariate data. I was glad to teach him, especially when certain people were going past my door while the greyhaired prof was pegging away on his laptop under my supervision. Duly noted and recorded.
So you see, I needed my health this week. That was an easy fix. The harder one was establishing the reputation for integrity and generosity to help, which made the rest of it possible. That took decades, but I managed it despite a stumble with alchoholism. Today I have the respect of the scientific community as a scientist with both knowledge and professional integrity, which is something more precious than a high salary, company car, and all the rest one gets by "playing the game". The game players got what they wanted, I guess, but I got what I wanted and it is more precious than gold.
Final touch, and I treasure it as well. I'm communications office for the Society for Conservation Biology's Asia Section (www.conbio.org/asia) but after serving two terms, I have to step down from the Board of Directors. However, we have a global meeting coming up in Beijing in 2009, and communications will be critical in the coming year to prepare for it. I was asked, and agreed, to stay on as communications officer until after the Beijing meeting at least, and until someone else will be able to fill my task. (It hopefully means a free trip to Bangkok for a board meeting this winter.....) At least in SCB my contributions have been clearly and thankfully acknowledged, which is one reason why I give up a lot of tiime and effort to help them. Building up our society in Asia is another task I want to move forward before I retire, and we should really take a "Great Leap Forward" from what happens in Beijing. (Okay, Maoists will know where that one came from.)
Other news: beautiful cool weather for August, and I am enjoying being outdoors, I've appreciated our summer this year. Must be adapting to the heat, had only a few bad days. My congregation is planning a trip to the Negev, and I am involved in that. Haven't been down to the deep Negev for a couple years, which is a pity since I lived there for ten years and like the Negev Highlands very much. Desert life clears my head and reduces stress. Maybe I'll retire down there when my INPA days are done. Me and my 13 cats.
shabbat shalom,
Linda
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Posted By Linda Olsvig-Whittaker to Shabbat Shalom - Jerusalem at 8/10/2007 06:27:00 AM
Come Together and Create!
Peter S. Lopez ~aka Peta
Sacramento, California, Aztlan
Email: sacranative@yahoo.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Humane-Rights-Agenda/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
----- Original Message ----
From: Linda Olsvig-Whittaker <olsvig2000@yahoo.com>
To: sacranative@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2007 8:28:34 PM
Subject: [Shabbat Shalom - Jerusalem] shabbat shalom 10.08.07
Hi everyone,
I'm back to my normal disgustingly healthy self now, thank God and a few brain cells. The illness which plagued me for about six weeks was apparantly iron (or maybe sulfate)poisoning from the iron supplement tablets prescribed by my hemotologist. When I changed myself from 100 mg ferrous sulfate to 30 mg ferrous gluconate, my symptoms of arthritic pain, stomach pain, dizziness, chills and fever, and all the rest went way completely. All those free radicals were apparantly playing hell on my systems. I saw my family doctor on Sunday and reviewed all this with him, and he confirmed my diagnosis. The hemotologist is a good one but he didn't warn me of side effects and it seems I'm more sensitive than most to ferrous sulfate, although there are lots of complaints about it in the literature. My family doctor also allayed my concerns about stomach cancer, which is quite rare with autoimmune gastritis, but needs preventative checks, hence my upcoming gastroscopy (ugh).
Only good thing I can say about this episode is that I'm no longer anemic and also I had a good taste of what it is like to be chronically ill. I've seldom known illness and that was quite a lesson. I felt like folding up camp and staying in bed for the rest of my life. How people cope with constantly feeling sick for years, I have no idea....scrambles the brains, for one thing. Depression and anxiety for another.
By Sunday I was fairly chipper, a good thing since the week was heavy. On Monday I had a visit from the system analyst who is working on our organizations "masterplan". He is an older man with a quick mind. I'm a data analyst myself, with similar skills, so we ping-ponged back about structure and function with respect to data management, like a couple of tennis players. My boss and the head of computer services couldn't keep up, just watched and listened, and the system analyst and I had a high old time and laughed a lot. I don't often get to match wits with someone like that, and I hope it was as much fun on his side as on mine. Sent him three of my relevant publications, at his request, too.
Wednesday, another triumph. After 11 years, 3 months of work on making our biological data publicly available worldwide, I'm done. Our georeferenced database is now available through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (gbif) located in Copenhagen. Putting the finishing touches on that was my basic reason to visit Copenhagen, and the new dataset was finally indexed and online from Wednesday. You can see it by visiting www.gbif.org and looking for Israel data. We are the INPA (Israel Nature and Parks Authority) data provider.
Whew, what a job that was. Two European Union grants (BioCISE and BioCASE) and a lot of pure dogged determination. In the early stages I got a lot of flak from my organization because few people understood what I was trying to do. Even big grants didn't really help raise the high management's opinion. After the grants finished, I did the rest on my own, including paying for the trip to Denmark out of my pocket. Now that it is online, our organization and the Ministry of Environment, and the universities all think it is just ducky. I think they are a little embarassed, although it is very hard to shame Israelis. As for me, I'm not seeking or expecting thanks (good, since I won't hear it). I did the task for the sake of the task itself, something that has to be done and I'm in the spot to do it. So I did it, and I am satisfied with my own work.
It takes about ten years in our organization to do a significant task start to finish, and one does not get encouragement. So most projects falter somewhere along the line and are not completed. But nothing really stops a person from doing the job except his own discouragement. Get stubborn, and it gets done. This is the biggest job I've done since I came to our organization and I have maybe one more like this before I retire. But at least I can put my finger on one or two things I have done that will stand after I leave. And, with people's grudging acknowledgement, I am the current master of biological data in Israel, as well as one of the few top data analysts.
That last bit brought me a professor from Bar Ilan University, down by Tel Aviv, to learn a few tricks with analysis o multivariate data. I was glad to teach him, especially when certain people were going past my door while the greyhaired prof was pegging away on his laptop under my supervision. Duly noted and recorded.
So you see, I needed my health this week. That was an easy fix. The harder one was establishing the reputation for integrity and generosity to help, which made the rest of it possible. That took decades, but I managed it despite a stumble with alchoholism. Today I have the respect of the scientific community as a scientist with both knowledge and professional integrity, which is something more precious than a high salary, company car, and all the rest one gets by "playing the game". The game players got what they wanted, I guess, but I got what I wanted and it is more precious than gold.
Final touch, and I treasure it as well. I'm communications office for the Society for Conservation Biology's Asia Section (www.conbio.org/asia) but after serving two terms, I have to step down from the Board of Directors. However, we have a global meeting coming up in Beijing in 2009, and communications will be critical in the coming year to prepare for it. I was asked, and agreed, to stay on as communications officer until after the Beijing meeting at least, and until someone else will be able to fill my task. (It hopefully means a free trip to Bangkok for a board meeting this winter.....) At least in SCB my contributions have been clearly and thankfully acknowledged, which is one reason why I give up a lot of tiime and effort to help them. Building up our society in Asia is another task I want to move forward before I retire, and we should really take a "Great Leap Forward" from what happens in Beijing. (Okay, Maoists will know where that one came from.)
Other news: beautiful cool weather for August, and I am enjoying being outdoors, I've appreciated our summer this year. Must be adapting to the heat, had only a few bad days. My congregation is planning a trip to the Negev, and I am involved in that. Haven't been down to the deep Negev for a couple years, which is a pity since I lived there for ten years and like the Negev Highlands very much. Desert life clears my head and reduces stress. Maybe I'll retire down there when my INPA days are done. Me and my 13 cats.
shabbat shalom,
Linda
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Posted By Linda Olsvig-Whittaker to Shabbat Shalom - Jerusalem at 8/10/2007 06:27:00 AM
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