Ray Villafane, http://villafanestudios.com/
so I have a little time for the blog. Let me introduce you to my pages:
Stuck with a Pinched Nerve…
Published January 8, 2017 by Nan MykelArchives
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From NPR, re Downs Syndrome
Published January 8, 2017 by Nan MykelMore than year ago, still true:
I have a son with Downs Syndrome. I know a lot of people with intellectual disabilities. Without exception, they love to work. Probably more so than the average person, because work can give them a sense of competence they can’t get elsewhere.
They all work in sheltered workshop settings. What I don’t understand is the dogma that this kind of work is unacceptable. This flies into the face of what I see nearly everyday. People who are very happy to work and proud of what they do.
I have seen the alternative, where the sheltered work programs are shut down. And people like my son are warehoused in programs that “include” people with intellectual disabilities by making them sit most of the day in a stuffy building playing with scraps pf paper and puzzles, and getting “included in the community” by a field trip to the Mall.
I wonder if the zealots who want to close down these kind of programs really work with the more disabled of the population ?
The Letter O: a perfect story
Published January 8, 2017 by Nan MykelGo to, and read:
The Petite Writer -Dec. 28, 2016Ph.D. Candidate in English Literature – Mythopoeia, Writer, Editor, Fandom fanatic
STOP: Our Government Wants to Create a National Database about Everyone, Including YOUR Children
Published January 8, 2017 by Nan MykelDevious; power-hungry and voraacious. I’ve re-blogged to nanmykel.com
The Missouri Education Watchdog blog has collected some frightening news: There is a bipartisan push, funded by the Gates Foundation, to create a national database for every citizen, violating the privacy of every one of us. Until now, this has been illegal. Gates and his allies want to lift the ban.
For anyone who has ever filled out a college application, or scholarship or grant application, you know the incredible amount of personal information these forms require. What if there was a massive database that combined and shared not only all of that personal information, but also answers from surveys you took over the years, social media posts you made, information normally kept protected and isolated in agencies like the Social Security Administration, Health and Human Services, HUD, IRS, and the US Census Bureau. This kind of database, linking (and sharing) data across agencies, with a profile on each individual…
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Reblog from DianeRavitch
Published January 6, 2017 by Nan MykelLeonie Haimson, leader of Class Size Matters and Student Privacy Matters, gathered the following links to an important story: China has developed a credit score game that rates its citizens by their behavior. She writes: “Check out this video and news articles about Sesame Credit, the big data social credit score and game […]
Hello!…and a quote
Published January 4, 2017 by Nan MykelSorry I’ve been away so long but it has to do with a trip to my family down south without my own computer, a pinched nerve, forgotten passwords, etc. My kind brother-in-law has aided me and at least I’m here now…today.
There are many great second had bookstores here in Atlanta, and since I have the opportunity now I’d like to share a quote from one of the books I found. It’s from An Unquiet Mind, by Kay Redfield Jamison:
“We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this–through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication–we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. One of the most difficult problems is to construct these barriers of such a height and strength that one has a true harbor, a sanctuary away from crippling turmoil and pain, but yet low enough, and permeable enough, to let in fresh seawater that will fend off the inevitable inclination toward brackishness.” (p 214).
A corny curl
Published January 2, 2017 by Nan MykelThere once was a little tot
who wore her hair up in a knot.
She was cute and she was pretty
but more was the pity
that little Joe preferred a girl
who wore her tresses in a curl.
Tot’s happy now, and gay.
(written for d’Verse):
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Dear Dorothy?
Published November 29, 2016 by Nan Mykel
Hi Dorothy! 
So glad I found you! Lost your address in this hoo hah of “cleaning out” years of hoarding. Hope you’re still doing Facebook. I am somewhat sporadically and also blogging at nanmykel.com
Poet’s Lament
Published November 28, 2016 by Nan MykelIt’s hard to write a funny verse,
‘specially when you’re glum and terse.
I think that I shall never see
a poem that’s sadder than my knee.
Ray Villafane, http://villafanestudios.com/
Oh I know it could be much worse–
I might have Trumpkin as my nurse,
pointing at me and saying he
would never make a pass at me.
1798 Newspaper Notice
Published November 27, 2016 by Nan MykelWhile going through the hoarded family tid-bits in my home “office,” I discovered the following which appeared in a 1798 issue of the Lynchburg paper, and subsequently got tossed after posting it here:
$50 Reward
To the person or persons who will teach me the convenient art of reconciling the spirit and practice of slavery, with that of the Gospel of Christ, I would then give land for slaves, and with the profits of their labor, pay my doctors, tutors, merchants, etc. They would stay at home and work for me while I would go in splendor to the house of worship and shout and praise God roundly. And should my successful preceptor be a minister of the Gospel I will give him a hundred dollars.
There were widespread differences of opinion on slavery. In 1830 the combined clergy of Richmond passed resolutions depreciating the unwarrantable and highly improper interference of the people of another state with the domestic relations of master and slave. They quoted the example of Christ and his apostles in not interfering with the question of slavery as one which should be followed by all ministers of he gospel. Sorry, it was separated from its sorce.
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