Sunday Mornings @ The Travel Bug A Sunday morning gathering of progressing thinkers who explore, through presentations, issues that influence our daily lives and the lives of future generations. We hope these gatherings, through understanding and knowledge of the world around us, will ignite change for the common good and provide a sense of community.
The host of KSFR's 101.1 Living on the Edge radio program will discuss threats and challenges facing our water rights and security and our right to democracy and quality of life in the bio region. August 14, 2011, 11 am The discussion will focus on how to construct an ordinance that
protects the rights of nature. Bacon will look at language that empowers nature.
August 21, 2011, 11 am Robin and David will look at food as the root both of a stronger more sustainable economy and a more ecologically balanced planet. Robin Seydel is a consumer, health and environment community organizer. For 25 years she has worked on building the alternative economic system at La Montanita Coop as newspaper editor and membership, community development and education coordinator. La Montanita Coop is a consumer cooperative owned by 16,000 New Mexican households, with stores in Santa Fe, Gallup and two stores in Albuquerque. Her writings have appeared in numerous periodicals, newspapers and books. She speaks regularly on a variety of food and cooperative issues at regional and national meetings and facilitates for communities that seek to design their own coops. She is the director of the new La Montanita Fund, a grassroots investment and micro loan initiative created to grow the regional food system and strengthen the New Mexican economy.
Reading this memoir feels a little like standing on shifting ground. On the one hand, a bare litany of facts — heck, the title alone — presents a story at the absolute apex of human drama, the sort that only happens to “someone else.” Despotically genocidal regimes like Pol Pot’s are blessedly rare, and survivors are unfortunately much rarer; it’s estimated that the Khmer Rouge’s bloodbath between 1975 and 1979 killed between a quarter and a third of Cambodia’s 7.3 million people. To spend a year on the run, cross an ocean, arrive at the home of strangers with $2 in your pocket and steadily work your way from apple picking in Massachusetts onto the staff of two American presidents is stretching the boundaries of belief a bit. “Cambodians are Buddhists — they tend to forgive and forget. They are back to normal lives; they send their kids to
schools and have festivals. So there is peace in Cambodia. You can tell by the number of tourists at the great Buddhist
temple..." Read Full Article » August 28, 2011, 11 am
For the JOURNEY's picnic event, we will offer English peasant songs celebrating summer and harvest, courtly madrigals in English and French about lads and lasses frolicking in the woods, maybe a couple of playful English catches and a few Renaissance Spanish songs. Melismata dresses in full costume for the period they represent musically, and will have an open exchange with the audience about the music they perform. This will be a fun program for families and childen since all the singers will be in costumes. Bring your own picnic lunch or order a box lunch from the Travel Bug a week beforehand to be picked up on the day of the program! Everyone willstroll down to the park with Melismata for a picnic after the event. This event is sponsored by JourneySantaFe.
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Melismata, with Paige Grant and whose sub-title "Musicall Phancies " comes from the title of a collection of music printed in 1700, the center of the five-century period that most of the group's music comes from. There are six to ten singers (depending on who can make it to a particular gig.) Much of the music is a cappella, but they also incorporate the occasional cittern, flute, cello, harp, and guitar.