 | Last login: 29 hours agoLee is a 37 year old married woman from Tennessee, USA. Wife. Mother. Health Nut. Small town girl trying to escape small town mentality. A square peg who finally knows the importance of NOT fitting in the round hole.
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
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Henry David Thoreau
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 Share This- The Avett Brothers: Tiny Desk Concert : NPR Music
 Jun 22, 6:08pm  (1 review) music, the-avett-brothers http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...- From the page:
With all due respect to its terrific albums and kinetic, frenetic live shows, if The Avett Brothers could put on a three-song acoustic concert at every workplace in America, the band would be a world-beating colossus. For proof, take six minutes to don some headphones and listen to "Laundry Room," which opens this set at the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen.
"Laundry Room" is a highlight of the rootsy, harmony-drenched rock group's forthcoming album I and Love and You, scheduled for release in September. But if that song isn't peeking far enough into the future, the band - Seth Avett on guitar and vocals, Scott Avett on banjo and vocals, Bob Crawford on bass and Joe Kwon on cello - jumps even farther ahead with the as-yet-unrecorded "Down With the Shine." To close the set, the group finally looks backward with a lovely rendering of the ballad "Bella Donna," from last year's The Gleam II EP.
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These guys continue to blow me away and I love them more with each passing day. They never fail to make me dance and smile while listening to them. I can't wait for the new album release in September.
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- Patrick Pfeiffer: Greening Bonnaroo: The Rule Not the Exception
- Jun 17, 6:05am
 (1 review) environment, music, sustainability, festivals, bonnaroo http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patrick-pf...
photo by me | Bonnaroo 2009
From the page:
The greenest success of Bonnarro 2009 did not come in the form of a composted cup or a biodiesel bus, but rather in the new status quo. In the past, greening was the exception not the rule. This year it felt as if we were no longer striving towards a sustainable society, but rather we were living in one. The culture of green is now commonplace in this community.
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- An interview with cellist Ben Sollee, who will bike to Bonnaroo | Grist...
- Jun 6, 8:38pm (1 review) activism, music, bonnaroo, environment, cycling http://www.grist.org/article/cellist-ben...
From the page:
Nestled into a lush farm in Manchester, Tennessee, the blockbuster Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival will roll out an impressive set of sustainability green goals as a backdrop for its amazing slate of shows next weekend, June 11-14. The great lineup notwithstanding - from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band to Wilco - acclaimed cellist and crooner Ben Sollee may stand out as a singular act in reducing the festival's carbon footprint.
Selected as an NPR Top Ten new artist to watch, Sollee's unique work has been hailed as a blend of Al Green's soulful pipes with Yo Yo Ma's original string compositions. He will forego the jet arrival and zig-zag his way over 300 miles through the Kentucky hills and Tennessee Cumberlands on an Xtracycle (extended-frame bicycle). Sollee will be pulling his 1930 Kay cello, along with 60 pounds of equipment, for the weeklong tour, as part of a benefit of Oxfam America's development programs. Sollee has also been a vocal participant in numerous anti-mountaintop removal benefits in the region.
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Rock on! Yet just another reason to support Bonnaroo and all that it is and trying to be. I love to hear of artists/musicians not just talking about making changes, but actually out there leading by example.
I can't wait. The countdown has begun: FIVE DAYS until Bonnaroo!
Want to hear some of his stuff? Check out his videos on YouTube: Ben Sollee.
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- Baba Ganoush | A Dash of Sass
- Jun 4, 3:15pm (8 reviews) vegetarian, recipes, food http://adashofsass.com/2009/02/17/baba-g...
This leaves me hoping that our eggplants do really well this year.
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- May 28, 6:44pm (1 review) painting, willow, arts, tree http://www.seascapegallery.co.uk/images/...
This is almost exactly the tattoo that I want. Beautiful.
Artist: Annie B.
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- May 27, 3:55pm (1 review) photography, flowers, garden http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3633/img7...
Spring Flowers and Inspiration
Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy. ~Astrid Alauda
I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error. ~Sara Stein, My Weeds, 1988
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. ~Walt Whitman
all photos taken by me
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- Green (1/8th) Acres sprout in the city - The Denver Post
- May 27, 5:11am (14 reviews) environment http://www.denverpost.com/lifestyles/ci_...
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People in cities and towns across the Front Range, and the nation, are embracing aspects of a lifestyle familiar to people who raise livestock and harvest crops in rural America. But the urban homesteaders are tending their goats, pruning their Nanking cherry shrubs, and
growing their alfalfa on one-eighth- acre standard city lots, using chain-link fences for grape trellises and replacing front yards of sod with tomato plants.
I think it's amazing to see the transition from people caring nothing about growing food (or how their food is grown) to people, like this, taking what little space they have and producing plenty. I do believe it's a new age of farmers, homesteaders, conscious caretakers of the Earth.
While what we are doing in Small Town, Tennessee isn't quite as drastic, we are a work in progress. We are slowly transforming our own front yard into a garden paradise, despite what the neighbors may or may not think about it. You can check out what we've done so far by following this link.
I, for one, look forward to an explosion of like minded people doing the same thing in the next few years. I can't wait to see it and be part of it.
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- The big gay shrug / Sorry, enemies of gay marriage. Prop 8 or no, youve...
- May 27, 4:24am (2 reviews) liberal-politics, gay-culture, politics http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...
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Gay marriage is a foregone conclusion. It's a done deal. It's just a matter of time. For the next generation in particular, equal rights for gays is not even a question or a serious issue, much less a sinful hysterical conundrum that can only be answered by terrified Mormons and confused old people and inane referendums funded by same. It's just obvious, inevitable, a given.
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- Steampunk Star Wars
- May 24, 7:10am (70 reviews) science-fiction, arts, steampunk http://www.whereismyeyeball.com/2d/starw...
I'm fairly new to the whole steampunk thing and claim to be no expert whatsoever when it comes to things like this. But I do have to say that I simply love these renditions of Star Wars, my favorite being Han and Chewie. Darth Vader looks a little wonky to me but all the rest are amazing. I love seeing a different viewpoint and the steampunk is growing on me.
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- What Was I Fighting For?
- May 23, 6:08am (9 reviews) military http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090601/re...
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I witnessed firsthand the ineffectiveness of US military strategy in Afghanistan and Iraq. However, I didn't fully grasp the extent of these failed foreign policies or our government's deception until I returned home from war. Realizing there never were weapons of mass destruction, and that we would have difficulty tracking terrorists even if we had committed all the troops in our military, I felt as though my patriotism had been exploited for political gain. A select few were profiting from these wars, while the majority of Americans shouldered the enormous tax burden.
To me, the lesson learned in Afghanistan and Iraq was that the US flexed way too much muscle. We have ships, planes, helicopters, tanks, hovercrafts, trucks, Humvees--everything imaginable. But how effective is such military might against extremists who blend in with innocent civilians and fight guerrilla warfare? Moreover, how effective can it be when we leave civilians little alternative but to support extremists?
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I can't help but wonder how many more, just like this one, are out there and how long it will take them to come out and speak up.
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