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A Mother's Day Message "Always Be Good To Yourself Baby"

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By Heru Ammen I had a hard day last Friday. On August 17th, 2000 my mother transitioned to the spiritual realm. I consider myself truly blessed to have had her in my life for so long. I've had the ultimate blessing of having two wonderful mothers in my life. My birth mom, who loved me dearly transitioned when I was three (closer to 4 years old). I remember her as well. The last time I saw my birth mother my father was taking her to the hospital for a "simple" operation. I was looking out of the screen door as they drove off and I turned to my sister and told her that mama wasn't coming back home. She died two days later from complications arising from a thyroid-ectomy (removal of the thyroid gland). - which was a pretty radical procedure in 1961. My father remarried about a year later to the woman that would love and raise me as one would their own flesh and blood child; and who I called mama for most of my life. Last Friday I had a few moments of downtime from my usu

IF A TREE FALLS… WILL WE MAKE A SOUND?

By Robyn Anuakan, Ph.D.  A San Diego Sunday is best enjoyed in historic Balboa Park.    There’s a dog run on the West side, long rolling sidewalks up and down the hills adjacent to Sixth Avenue.    Drummers form a circle in a pine grove and meditate for hours on rhythms that only the sky seems familiar with, contesting for an audience with those on their way to museums.    Lovers hover around the base of grand Eucalyptus as the scent of spring oozes forth in March.  We were all taking a day away from politics. And then a tree falls; not the whole thing, but enough limbs collide to strip it of branches larger than a pick up truck.    We saw it descend on top of the couple sitting quietly, enjoying the calmest of days, where no rain and little wind caused any ruckus to warn the park.  There was no reason as far as we could tell.     Just a hill with arbors laboring to give us all shade in late afternoon.    And it told us we need to hurry up, to support the President’s plan of getting ev