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This being the first weekend of March, there will be a lot going on.
Below this weekend's events are the details of platforms for the whole
month.<br>
<br>
First, it's <b>MOVABLE TREATS</b> Sunday. So bring your desserts with
you and place them on the table in the corner of our meeting room. Use
sandwich bags or snack bags to wrap your desserts in serving-size
portions and label them to indicate generally what they are. Mark your
desserts if they contain nuts or peanuts and avoid heavy icings.
There's a box for canned and dry-storage items in the corner of our
entrance room as well. Suggested items include canned fruits,
vegetables, and soups, fruit cocktail, applesauce, dry cereals, rices,
juices, muffin and pancake mixes, etc.<br>
<b><br>
</b><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">The first
Sunday also means that Fritz will be speaking and telling one of his
children's stories. His topic is AN ISLAND OF GOODNESS--an exploration
of how goodness can shine surrounded by violence and hatred. More
details below.</span><br>
<b><br>
</b>The <b>POETRY GROUP </b>at meets at 9:30 before the Platform
(and again on Mar 16).<br>
<hr size="2" width="100%"><b>ADVERTISEMENT</b>: Gov. O'Malley needs
your help with the Maryland Legislature for his support of the Global
Warming Solutions Act <big><font size="2"><big>(<a
href="http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/billfile/SB0309.htm">SB-309,
HB-712</a>)</big></font></big>. Please email, write, call, or visit
your Delegate or Senator (even if you are sure they support the Act)
and if so moved come to Annapolis for a rally this Wed Mar 5 at 10 am.
For more information see:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.chesapeakeclimate.org/campaigns/campaign_detail.cfm?id=68">http://www.chesapeakeclimate.org/campaigns/campaign_detail.cfm?id=68</a><br>
<hr size="2" width="100%">The first Saturday means our <b>COFFEEHOUSE</b>
on March 1, 7:00 pm – Featuring Poet Gedalya Chinn. Gedalya spent his
formative years bouncing around New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana
and Maryland, and has the scars to prove it. He is a high school
drop-out but managed to graduate from the University of Maryland
Baltimore County with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre. Literary
influences include Walt Whitman, Reinaldo Arenas, Anne Sexton and
Samuel Beckett. When not writing poetry, he has spent the past few
years writing plays and has had productions of his work mounted here in
Baltimore. In June, he will marry the love of his life and is doing
cartwheels and somersaults about that. Open mic follows the featured
reader. Refreshments available. Donation requested.<br>
<hr size="2" width="100%"><br>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">March 2: “</span><b><span
style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">AN ISLAND OF GOODNESS</span></b><span
style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">” by </span>Fritz
Williams, Leader, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Baltimore</st1:place></st1:City>
Ethical Society<span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN"><span style=""><br>
</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN"><span style="">
</span></span>All of Fritz’s “Good Life” talks this year have been
rewritten extensively. But on March 3 he will make an exception. In
this talk, he will tell his own version of the story of
the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">village</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">LeChambon</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, and
he will tell it exactly
as he first told it on January 8, 2006. “It was a talk that almost
wrote
itself,” he recalls, “and the power of goodness in an era of violence
and
hatred shone right through it with a transparency that took me by
surprise.
I’ve told a lot of stories, but this may be the most moving, most
powerful
story of them all.”<br>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b> FRITZ WILLIAMS</b> is Leader of
the Baltimore Ethical Society and serves as primary
speaker, teacher, pastor, and organizational leader. Fritz also
performs
weddings and commitment ceremonies. He has worked as a parish priest in
the
Episcopal church, and as a writer and producer at public TV stations in
<st1:City w:st="on">Harrisburg</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">PA</st1:State>,
and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Detroit</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">MI</st1:State></st1:place>.<span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p>March
9: <b>“SILENCE AND MY ROLE AS A MARYLAND LEGISLATOR”</b></span><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN"> by Delegate Liz Bobo,
District 12B, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Howard</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><o:p></o:p><br>
Liz Bobo, local legislator, will discuss the week
long silent retreat led by an American Buddhist monk that she attended
in the last
two years. Liz writes, “My ability to draw on what I learned at those
retreats
at the height of activity of the legislative session has proven very
helpful. I
have gained deeper peacefulness and equanimity.” She will connect this
experience to what she learned by listening to Hans Peter Durr, head of
the Max
Planck Institute in Munich, generally agreed to be the foremost quantum
physics
institution on our planet.<o:p></o:p><br>
<b> LIZ BOBO</b> has served in
the Maryland House of Delegates for the last 13 years. She is currently
chair
of the land use & ethics subcommittee and a member of the natural
resources
and the environment subcommittees of the Environmental Matters
Committee. Liz
has been in public service 1976, including a term as Howard County
Executive.
(She is the first woman in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Maryland</st1:place></st1:State>
to be elected county executive.) She is currently on the Commission on
Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities and is Co-Chair,
Maryland
Clean Car and Energy Policy Task Force. She was born in <st1:City
w:st="on">Baltimore</st1:City>,
received a BA in literature and a JD, both from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">U.</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Md.</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>,
and is a member of the Md. Bar. Much more info about Liz is available
at the
House web site:
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/06hse/html/msa12188.html">http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/06hse/html/msa12188.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">March
16: </span> <b>“ETHICS AND MENTAL ILLNESS: PAST AND PRESENT"</b>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> by Denise Camp, Director,
MARTYLOG Peer Support Mental Health Wellness & Recovery Center<o:p></o:p></span><br>
Prior to a true medical understanding of mental illnesses,
people suffering with maladies of the mind were shunned, punished and
locked
away. With advances in medications and treatments, people with mental
illnesses
can live productive lives. However, they are still often shunned and
stigmatized. How can we apply the Commitments of Ethical Culture to
this oft
misunderstood class of fellow human beings?<br>
<b>DENISE CAMP</b> is the Director of the MARTYLOG Peer Support
Mental Health Wellness and <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Recovery</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType> in <st1:place w:st="on">Pikesville</st1:place>.
A graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Troy</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">NY</st1:State></st1:place>
with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Ms. Camp was working on her
Masters in
Electrical Engineering when she was diagnosed with Clinical Depression
(now
known as Major Depressive Disorder). Though she continued to work as an
engineer, Ms. Camp's illness eventually disabled her, keeping her out
of the
workforce for more than 10 years. With the right mix of medications,
caring
mental health professional and a psychiatric rehabilitation program
called
Prologue, Inc., Ms. Camp has become an outspoken advocate for the
public mental
health system by testifying in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Annapolis</st1:City></st1:place>
and now actually works for the psychiatric program she once attended.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p><span
style=""></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">March 23: </span><b>
“AMERICAN IDEALISM AT ITS BEST: THE LYCEUM MOVEMENT, 1830-1860"</b>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> by David O'Donaghue, Psy.D.<o:p></o:p><br>
The
Democratic system requires both an educated populace and public forums
in which
to grapple with issues. David O’Donaghue, the founder and director of
the
Baltimore Lyceum, will explore how the Lyceum Movement met these
objectives
through the establishment of local educational centers, sponsoring such
speakers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony,
and
Nathaniel Hawthorne on lecture circuits around the country. He will
also tell
us about his experience in continuing this tradition by re-establishing
lyceums
in the mountains of <st1:State w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:State>, <st1:City
w:st="on">New Orleans</st1:City> and now in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Baltimore</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p><br>
<b>DAVID O'DONAGHUE</b>, Psy.D. spent the first 15 years of his
working life as a
psychologist. He then chose to return to school to do doctoral work in
philosophy, concentrating on the influence of German philosophy on
transcendentalism and adult education. David is the founder and
director of the
Baltimore Lyceum.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p>March
30: <b>“SUSTAINABLE DESIGN: THE LEEDING EDGE”</b></span><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">by Kim Schaefer,
AIA, Principal – Terralogos Eco-Architecture<o:p></o:p><br>
Sustainable
living is becoming more and more common, but many people are still
unaware of
some of the ways they can incorporate sustainability into their lives.
Kim
Schaefer is one of the founders of Terralogos Eco-Architecture, a firm
that
specializes in applying sustainable design techniques to existing
structures.
Kim will share with us her experiences in working in this area, as well
as her
reasons for focusing her business on sustainable design.<o:p></o:p><br>
Ms.
<b>KIM SCHAEFER</b>, a LEED accredited professional, holds a Bachelor
in Environmental
Design from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Texas</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">A&M</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
and a Masters in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of
Design. Ms.
Schaefer has been involved in several international sustainable design
projects, including work in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mexico</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
She is
a Registered Architect in <st1:State w:st="on">Texas</st1:State>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Virginia</st1:State>, and <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Maryland</st1:place></st1:State>. Ms.
Schaefer is particularly concerned with bringing sustainable design
practices
to affordable housing and with the revitalization of urban communities;
to that
end she has worked with such associations as Habitat for Humanity, the
Sustainable Washington Alliance, the US Green Building Council, and A
Rocha, an
international Christian conservation group. In October 2006, she
received the
Innovator of the Year Award from The Daily Record for her sustainable
design
work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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