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Martine Joelle

"It is the telling that moves."

About Me

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer." -Zora Neale Hurston

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My Interests

Poetry as bread, comedy, clowns, pie, film, cheese, reading, bubble blowing, watercoloring, ideas being employed to serve the disenfranchised, community organizing, conscious film production, media literacy, writing, popcorn, democratic pedagogy, Freierian thought, talking to babies, learning to do a cartwheel, childhood, PeaceJam and the like, mixed identity, Wes Anderson's film world, love strategies, question posing, Howard Zinn and hugs.

I'd like to meet:

Life. Head on.

Books:

"Reading should be a loving event." -Paulo Freire

I'm passionate about reading. Ask me.

Heroes:

"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” - Bob Dylan

Ms.Ella Baker, Audre Lorde,Angela Davis, Fred Rogers, Harvey Milk, Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith, Dr. Martin Luther King, Yolanda King, Mattie Stepanek. Children in their young wisdom. Lovers. Leapers. Magic bean buyers. Poets of truth. People who raise their voice. Folks who pay it forward.

People who stand up.

My Blog

fyi

In case you missed it, I announced my next project/bit of path on my blog.http://artsywings.blogspot.com/I've been reading the following poem for the past few months to myself and it hit my ears/tongu...
Posted by Martine Joelle on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:48:00 PST

something like it...

i am thinking that you can be healthfully moved on from being in love with someone but at a complete loss for how you will ever feel such an intensely splended thing again without being contrived. you...
Posted by Martine Joelle on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:06:00 PST

Come on over...

Visit me at  http://artsywings.blogspot.com/Yup. Violetish and fruitish and loopy. (Fruitish refers to loops and artificial cultural flavoring..)...
Posted by Martine Joelle on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:25:00 PST