"If I make something clear to myself, hopefully it makes things clear for others, in an act of love."

If I can do anything in my power to be involved in Border Voices, maybe as the radio-voice for the project, I will from today onward. I feel it's that important and fun. I'd like to start by having some of the winners on The New Jazz Thing Live show this coming Thursday. I'm now off make that happen. And the above quote expresses the inspiration well.

Gloria Foster clearly and beautifully states something that relates directly to weblogging, IMHO. Weblogging is the act of making something clear to yourself (the weblogger) by writing about it. In a very spontaneous, immediate, and public way. Spontaneous in a discussion sort of way enabled by easy to use publishing tools. Immediate in the timeliness of frequent updates (and use of day / time stamps on posts), a hallmark of weblog publishing. Public in that it's available to the world you care about (either Internet world or your own workgroup / community world. And it's gotta be about Love because we all know we're not doing it because it pay's well (as Jill jokes in the article).

There is lots more to say about the importance of words, especially expressive words in poetry and other creative formats. Let's committ to saying more of those Things here at TNJT!

As for the real reason for the Saturday Morning post...

The SCLL Tee Ballers get back into the swing of things with their first game in 2 weeks and picnic festivities following. Then maybe off to the Navaho Springfest where our fine Canyon Rim Children Center (CRCC) has an activities booth (we'll be missing the fun parade this year). I now wish I had the day free to spend at the Border Voice Poetry Fair at SDSU today. I'd like to get to Asylum Theatres "The Tender Trap" this last weekend of their existence (good luck Lee), sitter depending. I'm sure there are Sunday events I'm not remembering, so it will be a full on. On-line wise, there's also plenty to do, including a bit of spiffing up at the Playboy Jazz Festival Weblog, posting the Press Conference Pictures there, fixing the look of each posting (like not double, headline bold, comment, permalink, etc,), more PBJF news, etc. A Bluetooth headset for listening and speaking to the computer wirelessly, hopefully for recording audio bits, like live interviews at the festival, and being able to playback, edit, and post...Live from the festival. Or any event.

I also need to write down some ideas about getting Jazz appreciation into the schools in the same way Border Voices does poetry, or Art Corps does visual arts. With a definite audio element. Or multi-media element. Maybe the 'fun' or the projects are putting together simple-to-complex multi-media expressions of Jazz. Or being Jazzy. Living the Improvised Life.
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Interesting and down right close to home,

" The team of Iraqi technocrats was selected by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz but is officially employed by a defense contractor, SAIC, the officials said. The team is headed by Emad Dhia, an engineer who left Iraq 21 years ago and who will become the top Iraqi adviser to General Garner. As head of the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, General Garner is functioning as Iraq's civil administrator."

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