Here's a card I actually got during my last visit to West Linn from Tony and Anne Marie Bracco. It was their holiday card. It features a very loving group of Fisher-Price figures 'holding' signs with various slogans.

One that didn't make the cut was honestly my favorite. Their daughter, Luna, came up with "No gas for bananas!"

Each week, if not every day, brings in its train another illustration of the fact that those who scrutinize us cannot abide reciprocal scrutiny. Witness the apparent demise of the "Rate My Cop" website.

Adrien Niyongabo, a survivor of the terrible violence in Rwanda and Burundi in 1993 will speak at The Evergreen State College Longhouse.

TESC Chaplain Fred LaMotte will host tea and snacks at 6:30 for Common Bread, the campus interfaith group. Adrien will speak beginning around 7:00 pm on Healing and Rebuilding Communities. The talk is expected to be filmed by TCTV.

Adrien is a Quaker, a member of the Religious Society of Friends and is traveling raising funds for peace and reconciliation work, trauma healing, alternatives to violence. Adrien has spoken on two previous occasions in Olympia and has made many friends.

Adrien is also scheduled to be a member of the panel that will speak on Sunday, March 16th at the Remembering Rachel Corrie event.

Hope to see you there. For more information, click here and God bless.

A gathering is planned at the Lecture Hall Rotunda at the Evergreen campus beginning at noon to share in a reading from the new collection of Rachel Corrie's journals "Let Me Stand Alone." Everyone is welcome to reflect on her prose, poems and courage.

For additional information about the noon event contact Anna Murano ammurano@gmail.com

Interesting stuff, anybody else listening?

2 cups sweet potatoes, pumpkin, or butternut squash, mashed
1 cup soymilk or almond milk
1/2 cup agave syrup
1 Tablespoon blackstrap molasses