Thursday, March 28, 2013

Friday Peace Vigil, Casa Grande, AZ, and surrounding area:

PEACE VIGIL
CASA GRANDE, AZ
Friday, March 29, 2013
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
E. Cottonwood Ln. & N. Trekell Rd.

Peace Vigils are held every Friday from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. in Casa Grande from mid-December to mid-April. Come and stand for Peace! Bring a sign or a sign can be provided - and bring another peace activist. The more the merrier! Call Debbie Jordan (520-494-0437) or Tony Fasline (520-426-0070) for details.

 

THIS WEEK:
 

Now that I’ve maneuvered the annual gauntlet of tax calculations and forms, I’ve run smack dab into my annual string of medical appointments. No matter how carefully I try to plan for this time of year, it always seems to happen like this.

When you consider that in 2009, my spring medical marathon was bisected by a nearly three-day stay in the ICU, I won’t complain about what will eventually be a three-month string of office visits and outpatient treatments with four different medical professionals. The best thing I can say is, the worst should be over by mid-May. Then I can finally focus more seriously on that writing project I keep talking about. Truly, I will get to it. Just a few more weeks!

Join me in a vow to use our blessings, skills, and talents to build a society without poverty or war in which everyone is able to enjoy at least the basic benefits of prosperity and peace.

Meanwhile, send out your positive thoughts and, for those who are believers, prayers for all the suffering souls all around the world!

Friday Peace Vigil, Youngstown, OH, and surrounding area:

PEACE VIGIL
YOUNGSTOWN, OH
Friday, March 29, 2013
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Downtown on the Square (Federal Plaza E. & Wick Ave.)

Ray Nakley (330-506-1999) and Ron Dull (330-518-9881) will hold their weekly Peace Vigil this Friday, March 29, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., at the corner of Downtown on the Square (Federal Plaza E. & Wick Ave.), Youngstown, OH. They invite anyone who is interested in showing their support for ending conflict in the world to join them. Hold out positive thoughts for that!



PERSONAL:

Reports from Youngstown indicate these Friday afternoon vigils are well attended by people standing for peace and many other social causes, and there’s plenty of room for more. If you want to make a public statement to end war, poverty, and/or any other of numerous social ills, feel free to join this group, with or without your own sign to share your thoughts about social justice with the world.

Meanwhile, join me in a vow to use our blessings, skills, and talents to build a society without poverty or war in which everyone is able to enjoy at least the basic benefits of prosperity and peace.

Positive thoughts and, for those who are believers, prayers for all the suffering souls all around the world!

Friday, March 22, 2013

Friday Peace Vigil, Casa Grande, AZ, and surrounding area:

PEACE VIGIL
CASA GRANDE, AZ
Friday, March 22, 2013
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
E. Florence Blvd. & N. Trekell Rd.

Peace Vigils are held every Friday from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. in Casa Grande from mid-December to mid-April. Come and stand for Peace! Bring a sign or a sign can be provided - and bring another peace activist. The more the merrier! Call Debbie Jordan (520-494-0437) or Tony Fasline (520-426-0070) for details.

 

THIS WEEK:

 
Last week, I was finally able to join Tony for his Friday afternoon vigil, for the first time all winter, along with my ever-faithful chauffeur and partner, Jim. Even better, we were doubly blessed that Laura McCoy was able to join us as well.

Back in fall 2011, Laura and her identical twin sister, Leta Hughes, were the sole local ‘occupiers’ representing the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement in our fair city of Casa Grande. Despite the numbers of huge demonstrations around the country, the editors of USA Today considered the sisters’ determination so special that they reprinted an article Melissa St. Aude wrote about them for the Casa Grande Dispatch. Sadly, Leta has since passed on, but with my help, Tony recently connected with Laura. Now he brings her out to the vigils whenever she’s up to it.

Jim took advantage of the event to snap the following pictures, but the middle one is the only one in which all three of us were caught behaving at the same time. You can see we were definitely having a good time doing good work for the future of the planet and the hope for a life of prosperity and peace for all people around the globe.

 


Left to right: Debbie Jordan, Tony Fasline, Laura Hughes,
holding weekly vigil for peace,
Casa Grande, AZ, March 15, 2013.
(Photo by Jim Jordan)


 
 

Join me in a vow to use our blessings, skills, and talents to build a society without poverty or war in which everyone is able to enjoy at least the basic benefits of prosperity and peace.

Meanwhile, send out your positive thoughts and, for those who are believers, prayers for all the suffering souls all around the world!

Friday Peace Vigil, Youngstown, OH, and surrounding area:

PEACE VIGIL
YOUNGSTOWN, OH
Friday, March 22, 2013
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Downtown on the Square (Federal Plaza E. & Wick Ave.)

Ray Nakley (330-506-1999) and Ron Dull (330-518-9881) will hold their weekly Peace Vigil this Friday, March 22, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., at the corner of Downtown on the Square (Federal Plaza E. & Wick Ave.), Youngstown, OH. They invite anyone who is interested in showing their support for ending conflict in the world to join them. Hold out positive thoughts for that!



PERSONAL

Reports from Youngstown indicate these Friday afternoon vigils are well attended by people standing for peace and many other social causes, and there’s plenty of room for more. If you want to make a public statement to end war, poverty, and/or any other of numerous social ills, feel free to join this group, with or without your own sign to share your thoughts about social justice with the world.

Meanwhile, join me in a vow to use our blessings, skills, and talents to build a society without poverty or war in which everyone is able to enjoy at least the basic benefits of prosperity and peace.

Positive thoughts and, for those who are believers, prayers for all the suffering souls all around the world!

Monday, March 18, 2013

Death Penalty Alternatives Meeting, Casa Grande, AZ:

DEATH PENALTY ALTERNATIVES FOR ARIZONA
PINAL COUNTY CHAPTER
CASA GRANDE, AZ
Monday, March 18, 2013
7:00 p.m.
Val Vista RV Park Clubhouse
16680 W. Val Vista Blvd.

The Pinal County chapter of Death Penalty Alternatives for Arizona meets at 7:00 p.m. on the third Monday of each month. The next meeting will be held on Monday, March 18, at the clubhouse at Val Vista RV Park, 16680 W. Val Vista Blvd. For more information, call Joan Bundy at 480-721-3832, or email her at:
joan@joanbundylaw.com. Or call Tony Fasline at 520-426-0070, or email him at: tfasline@aol.com.

The DPAA Facebook page is at:

facebook.com/pages/Death-Penalty-Alternatives-for-Arizona/178240200928.

 

PERSONAL:
 

Join me in a vow to use our blessings, skills, and talents to build a society in which governments do not kill for revenge, a society without poverty or war, and one in which everyone is able to enjoy at least the basic benefits of prosperity and peace.

Meanwhile, send out your positive thoughts and, for those who are believers, prayers for all the suffering souls all around the world!

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Friday Peace Vigil, Casa Grande, AZ, and surrounding area:

PEACE VIGIL
CASA GRANDE, AZ
Friday, March 15, 2013
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
E. Florence Blvd. & N. Colorado St.

Peace Vigils are held every Friday from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. in Casa Grande from mid-December to mid-April. Come and stand for Peace! Bring a sign or a sign can be provided - and bring another peace activist. The more the merrier! Call Debbie Jordan (520-494-0437) or Tony Fasline (520-426-0070) for details.

 

This week:

TAXES ... DONE!

Yes, I’m happy to say I finally managed to focus my brain long enough to complete that onerous annual spring task. So from here on, I can turn my attention to far more pleasant activities. Until next year! Ah, well.

Fortunately, I’ve made many detailed notes that will enable me to dive back into my novel, which means by next week, I should report progress in that department, as well as other areas of my real life. Stay tuned!

Meanwhile, as many of you know, I wanted to include the photo below as part of last week’s vigil announcement, but I had to wait till I could learn how to make the picture upload in the file right-side up. That’s why I ended up posting it separately a couple of hours later that same day. But I did want to pin the image to the weekly vigil notice, because it was the tool that brought Tony and Glenn together from such disparate places in the country. So, as promised, here are two of the three peace lovers who reminded the residents of our fair city of the need to eradicate war and poverty from our society:


 
Glenn Gable, right, of the San Francisco Bay area
joins Tony Fasline for his regular Friday afternoon
vigil for peace in Casa Grande, AZ, March 1, 2013.
(photo by Krissy Gable)
 
Join me in a vow to use our blessings, skills, and talents to build a society without poverty or war in which everyone is able to enjoy at least the basic benefits of prosperity and peace.

Meanwhile, send out your positive thoughts and, for those who are believers, prayers for all the suffering souls all around the world!

Friday Peace Vigil, Youngstown, OH, and surrounding area:

PEACE VIGIL
YOUNGSTOWN, OH
Friday, March 15, 2013
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Downtown on the Square (Federal Plaza E. & Wick Ave.)

Ray Nakley (330-506-1999) and Ron Dull (330-518-9881) will hold their weekly Peace Vigil this Friday, March 15, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., at the corner of Downtown on the Square (Federal Plaza E. & Wick Ave.), Youngstown, OH. They invite anyone who is interested in showing their support for ending conflict in the world to join them. Hold out positive thoughts for that!



PERSONAL:

Reports from Youngstown indicate these Friday afternoon vigils are well attended by people standing for peace and many other social causes, and there’s plenty of room for more. If you want to make a public statement to end war, poverty, and/or any other of numerous social ills, feel free to join this group, with or without your own sign to share your thoughts about social justice with the world.

Meanwhile, join me in a vow to use our blessings, skills, and talents to build a society without poverty or war in which everyone is able to enjoy at least the basic benefits of prosperity and peace.

Positive thoughts and, for those who are believers, prayers for all the suffering souls all around the world!

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Success!

I fiddled around with the photo that the Gables sent of Tony Fasline and Glenn Gable, and discovered that Photoshop Elements allows me to turn the picture right-side up and post it here and on Facebook. So, now I'm going to rely on Photoshop and stop wasting time with PhotoImpact. Don't know why I didn't try it before, since I've had it on my computer for nearly two years. Just too timid about trying new stuff. Gotta be braver from now on!

 
Glenn Gable, right, of the San Francisco Bay area joins Tony Fasline
for his regular Friday afternoon vigil for peace in
Casa Grande, AZ, March 1, 2013.
(photo by Krissy Gable)
 
Krissy has promised to send photos and reports of the peace doings in their neck of the woods. I'm looking forward to it. When she does, I'll share the details with everyone here, so stay tuned!
 


Friday Peace Vigil, Casa Grande, AZ, and surrounding area:

PEACE VIGIL
CASA GRANDE, AZ
Friday, March 8, 2013
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
E. Florence Blvd. & N. Peart Rd.

Peace Vigils are held every Friday from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. in Casa Grande from mid-December to mid-April. Come and stand for Peace! Bring a sign or a sign can be provided - and bring another peace activist. The more the merrier! Call Debbie Jordan (520-494-0437) or Tony Fasline (520-426-0070) for details.

 

This week:

I’m now about halfway through my annual battle with the tax return. Not doing too badly, so far. Each year I learn a little more about using technology to simplify the process, while still holding some tasks out for me to do the old-fashioned way. Even so, I double-check a lot of things that the machine does first, just to make sure it’s all correct. In the end, any problem is my responsibility, so I shouldn’t just try to blame it on the computer. But I sure am happy to have 21st-century ‘toys’ to make things so much easier for me than they used to be!

At the same time, I’m teaching Jim about all these accounting tasks I’ve been taking care of for nearly half a century. Boy, does he owe me big! Just a personal note for anybody whose partner does that job so they don’t have to worry so much about it: Be sure to give them a big hug and Thank You at your earliest opportunity, ‘cause it sure ain’t easy!

Meanwhile, Krissy and Glenn Gable of San Francisco were able to join Tony for his vigil last Friday. Krissy took a great picture of Tony and Glenn for posterity, but it arrived on its side, and though I turned it right-side up in PhotoImpact, it keeps coming up sideways in this blog and on Facebook, and I can’t find any functions to turn it in those venues. I’ll try a few more tricks and see if I can get it to behave so I can post it here and on Facebook soon.

If anyone can tell me how to correct the problem directly on Google blog and/or Facebook, please pass the tip on to me at:
debbie@imaginetheworldatpeace.com. It’s always helpful to expand one’s knowledge and a real gift to be able to avoid frustration in the future!

Incidentally, we love it when people from other parts of the country find us here in our little corner of the southern desert and join us when they come for the fantastic winter weather and/or spring baseball games. There’s a lot to be enjoyed here, and we welcome anybody who wants to come out to stand for an end to conflict, poverty, injustice, or whatever your favorite cause is Welcome to all!

Join me in a vow to use our blessings, skills, and talents to build a society without poverty or war in which everyone is able to enjoy at least the basic benefits of prosperity and peace.

Meanwhile, send out your positive thoughts and, for those who are believers, prayers for all the suffering souls all around the world!


Friday Peace Vigil, Youngstown, OH, and surrounding area:

PEACE VIGIL
YOUNGSTOWN, OH
Friday, March 8, 2013
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Downtown on the Square (Federal Plaza E. & Wick Ave.)

Ray Nakley (330-506-1999) and Ron Dull (330-518-9881) will hold their weekly Peace Vigil this Friday, March 8, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., at the corner of Downtown on the Square (Federal Plaza E. & Wick Ave.), Youngstown, OH. They invite anyone who is interested in showing their support for ending conflict in the world to join them. Hold out positive thoughts for that!



PERSONAL:

Reports from Youngstown indicate these Friday afternoon vigils are well attended by people standing for peace and many other social causes, and there’s plenty of room for more. If you want to make a public statement to end war, poverty, and/or any other of numerous social ills, feel free to join this group, with or without your own sign to share your thoughts about social justice with the world.

Meanwhile, join me in a vow to use our blessings, skills, and talents to build a society without poverty or war in which everyone is able to enjoy at least the basic benefits of prosperity and peace.

Positive thoughts and, for those who are believers, prayers for all the suffering souls all around the world!