List of traveling equipment in order of importance

Passport
Wallet, cash, credit card , ID, eye glasses, book, note pad, pens, water colors,
Cell phone. iPod x2, iPad,kindle, mini speakers
Laptop, assorted chargers, vest, skirt x2 , pant x2, shirts x4, sandals , sneakers,, socks x2, bathing suit, snorkel equipment, 2 shawls, 2 scarves, 2 bras,
3 small tote bags , one back pack, one large tote. Tea , soap, toothbrush etc.

I did not mean to have a lap top but my son gave me my old one back and because it has a ton of music on it I am reluctant to discard it before downloading all that music.
to remember next time, incense, how can I forget how musty cheap hotels can be.

Acquired two candela , three small towels,
Fresh posts made daily.

I see young couple the story of their romantic adventures written in hieroglyphs on her bronzed legs by one hundred hungry mosquitoes . They are passionately kissing goodbye at the bus station. She looks near tears as she boards. He holds both hands to his face before inhaling deeply and sweeping his fingers upward through his long uncombed hair.

Is that love.

Fresh posts made daily.

Location:What is love

New Project

There is a phenomenon happening where the American trained midwife CPM is bring exported either by invitation or as part of an NGO mission (some religious some not) to: bring her/our low tech , sustainable, gentle, life preserving techniques and knowledge to people around the world. I want to visit these projects and write a book/ documentary about this.

In this day and age it is hard to know if digital writing and photo/ video is best or flat out video. This is a Unique time in the world as far as this unique bird 'The North American Midwife' is concerned. I am excited about the prospect of seeing all the different environments she flourishes in. I can also imagine another project of reporting/photographing all the various birth and DEATH rituals around the world. How cool would that be!

San Fran

There are so many interesting images to see while traveling. While not working I can meditate on the state of the world.

San Fran

New post

Trying to keep up or even go back ... Old technology once easily applied quickly seem as complex and as unknown as the new technology. Aside of not remembering my pass word I don't remember how to blog!


Blogged out

Trust in timing

Homebirth midwives take pride in trusting the timing of the baby. Yesterdays birth confirmed this and takes the cake as far as fantastic 'heard around the world' birth stories go.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1375412/Tenor-Juan-Diego-Fl-rez-delivers-baby-30-minutes-taking-stage-Met.html

Tenor helps deliver his own baby... just half an hour before taking to the stage at the Met

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 2:25 PM on 10th April 2011

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Most opera singers practise scales just before a major live performance.

But international tenor Juan Diego Flórez joined two mid-wives to assist his wife as she gave birth to their son, Leandro, just 35 minutes before the curtain went up on a performance being screened live around the world.

The 38-year-old Peruvian had stayed up all night with his wife, Julia, after she went into labour at their rented apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

Warm up: Juan Diego Flórez assisted in the birth of his first child, Leandro, 35 minutes before the curtain went up on his performance of Rossini's Le Comte Ory

While the couple awaited the birth of their first child, the world waited for the renowned performer to sing the tenor lead in Rossini’s comic opera Le Comte Ory at the nearby Metropolitan Opera.

The baby came into the world at 12:25pm on Saturday, just in time for his father to hold him for a minute before rushing to the Met for his 1pm performance.

But despite the rush, Mr Flórez described the birth as ‘calm’.

‘It was beautiful,’ he said. ‘It was a home birth with a pool, in the water. It was very nice and very calm.’

‘I gave the baby to Julia,’ said Mr Flórez in an interview after the performance. ‘I was so sad to leave.’

Renowned tenor: Mr Flórez's performance at the Met in New York was screened live around the world. He described the birth as 'calm'

‘I didn’t sleep all night, but I’m so happy.’

Mrs Flórez and Leandro are said to be doing well and are getting follow up care at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital.

Mr Flórez married his German-born Australian wife Julia in a private civil ceremony in Vienna in 2007.

The couple then had a religious ceremony a year later at the Basilica Cathedral in Lima, which was attended by some of Peru’s biggest celebrities, including President Alan García.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1375412/Tenor-Juan-Diego-Fl-rez-delivers-baby-30-minutes-taking-stage-Met.html#ixzz1J9CAexnp

pubmed!!

holy cow I am a published author!!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22Prendergast%20K%22%5BAuthor%5D