Celebrate Bisexuality Day

Yet another holiday I was unaware of...though according to Wikipedia, it is actually September 23rd that is the holiday.
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Celebrate Bisexuality Day: Celebrating Successes & Considering Challenges
Christopher's Restaurant and Bar (upstairs), 1920 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA


Wednesday, September 20, 6:30 10:30 p.m.

Join the Bisexual Resource Center and Fenway Community Health to celebrate recent successes of the bisexual community! We'll hear the stories firsthand from Robyn Ochs and other bisexual community leaders about recent achievements they've spearheaded that have made bisexuality better understood, more visible and less marginalized. While we celebrate we'll also consider some of the challenges that lie ahead.

The evening will also feature free food and soft drinks; socializing and celebrating; music; cash bar; fabulous door prizes; fun bi merchandise for sale; and nformation and resources on bisexuality.

Admission is FREE and open to all. For info., directions, RSVPs (appreciated but not necessary), or to be added to our mailing list, contact Julie at 617-927-6369 or jebin@fenwayhealth.org.

NOTE: Event is upstairs at Christopher's and is not wheelchair accessible.

Co-sponsored by Fenway Community Health's Boundless and Living Well programs and by the Bisexual Resource Center.

Celebrate Bisexuality Day is an annual, international day that calls for people to recognize and celebrate bisexuality, bi history, culture and community, and the bisexual people in our lives. For more info, go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrate_Bisexuality_Day.

Date: Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Time: 6:30 PM - 10:30 PM

Purple Ribbon Day-Practitioners of Alternate Religions~Please pass on

Oh the things you find at MySpace...This one is worth passing on though.



All practitioners of Earth religions, Wicca, Shamanism, Druidry etc,
are being encouraged to wear a purple ribbon as a way of promoting religious tolerance and to potentially raise awareness.

From September 21-22 all practitioners of Earth religions, Wicca, Shamanism, Druidry,Witches etc. are going to wear little purple ribbons so everyone will know Who Else is...
a witch...wiccan...pagan...etc.

But....

No one can do this if they don't know about it, so pass the word along! This message goes to all Witches, Wiccans, Pagans from all sorts of traditions. We can make a day for Ourselves!! Actually, two days!!! You can buy a purple ribbon anywhere-at the dollar store, wal-mart, shoppers drug mart, anywhere...

Wear it in your Hair, or pin it up to your shirt. Make it public!!!


Spread the word.

Quotes from Michael Korda

I found this at Google's "Brainy Quote":

• What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.


• Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

• The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

• The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

• The more you can dream, the more you can do.

• Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

• Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

• Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

I looked up Michael Korda on Wikipedia. I remembered him as the author of "Queenie," whose story was a clearly a thinly disgused version of his aunt Merle Oberon's story (His uncle was her ex-husband Sir Alexander Korda). I saw the miniseries that was based on the book twice (about 10 years apart). I had also heard that he was not crazy about Auntie Merle, which does not surprise me if you read the book. I also vaguely remembered that he could be droll at times and some of the quotes not included have bits of that.

What I found more interesting about his entry than his career and his connection with the later Merle Oberon (she herself an interesting study in the fine art of passing) was that he is the father of Chris Korda, a child whose path clearly makes one say, "Wow and I thought I had it bad because my child won't clean up his room when I ask..." Chris' Church of Euthanasia is... ah... interesting-particularly its "Four Pillars" of suicide, abortion, cannibalism and sodomy.