Another MindFreedom news release from lazy blogger

Hi,
This is for everyone in Oregon…
In case you missed any of these news items, here is a link to April
2008 alerts about changing Oregon’s mental health system:
http://www.intenex.net/pipermail/mindfreedom-oregon-news/2008-April/
date.html
If that link is too long for your browser, try clicking on this link:
http://tinyurl.com/4nlef3
The big picture for April 2008?
As you may know by now, Oregon’s mental health system has [...]

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Oregon Consumer/ Survivor Coalition

NEWS RELEASE – 23 April 2008 – PLEASE FORWARD!
http://www.mindfreedom.org/as/act/us/or/ocsc
New Oregon state-wide coalition of groups representing
mental health consumers & psychiatric survivors launches.
First board of directors and assembly of organization
representatives of “OCSC” officially begins.
Board unanimously elects Tracey Dumas, PhD first President.
Yesterday, 22 April 2008 was Earth Day. And there was some Earth-
shaking news for the future of [...]

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Erin’s Ghost

rick-erins_ghost
Re: poor recording quality, production values etc.
I am recording by myself with only a PC and Audacity and a cheap mike- cut me some slack. This also goes for my other songs. I’m getting better.
Re: Erin’s Ghost
This song was written as an open letter to god.
At the time it was written I was being asked [...]

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We sing this song as a dinner prayer at my house

rick-may_you_dwell_in_the_heart

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Froggy Girl

Please don’t swim away…
A song I wrote and sang for my daughter Erin when she was 2 years old:
rick-frogy_girl_ok

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Serial dreams anyone?

I’ve been looking for information about something I call “serial dreams (or nightmares)”. I usually experience this phenomenon in the form of a nightmare but the basic thing is this:
You are having a dream . You wake up. You go back to sleep and the dream continues just as if it hadn’t been interrupted.
Does anybody [...]

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Revolution in mental health services

Some stuff from Street Roots and the Oregon Consumer/ Survivor Coalition:
Published in _Street Roots_ newspaper, Portland, Oregon, USA:
4 April 4 2008 — News
New mental health coalition organizes survivors for reform
By Mara Grunbaum, Staff Writer
As far as David Oaks is concerned, it’s no coincidence that “One Flew
Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Ken Kesey’s novel about the dark [...]

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Scouting for frog habitat/ spawning grounds

Unintended findings-

(Typical local tree-frog that spawns around Powell Butte- they range in color from green, striped to mud-brown)
Today I went exploring the south side of Powell Butte- near the Springwater Corridor- to look for alternate access to the nature preserve. What I found was some excellent swamp/wetlands/ ponds already, in some cases, filled with frog-egg-scum. [...]

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My older son is home for his birthday-

Andrew sleeping on the couch this morning:

deb_talon-comfort

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Miscellaneous Nonsense

Drinky Crow (not my work)

Something I made- but I’m not proud of it

(it’s an argoyle sock)
My favorite Jaguar

Remember Hal?
take_a_stress_pill
A Goopy animation:

What I think about the stupid paperclip:

Some pictures (click for full size)

Oh- and this:
freddy-mercury-and-cliff-richard-its-in-everyone-of-us

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