1 of 8 – Snippetts of Eros – What’s Erotic about Learning?

Dear Earthlings:
The year of wonders is what 2012 is supposed to be.  Yours truly offers snippets of her favorite books.  All on yesterday’s forbidden themes.  Let’s see if their mysteries are revealed.
Eros is a story that staved the loneliness of her first years in the Caribbean, when she was missing her former Matrias,  California and Italy.
Is learning erotic?  That’s one of the main themes.  Students and teachers have fallen in love with each other since time immemorial.  Yet the very question has become a taboo.  Why?  Love produces desire to know.  Knowledge produces desire to love.  Isn’t that a win-win?  A world where knowledge is loved is a world that knows love and reveres it.
Here are yours truly’s reflections back in 2007.  Eros: A Journey of Multiple Loves, has the full story.
Eros Cover“As a teacher and student of many years, I know that, no matter what sexual-harassment policies say, learning is erotic since it activates the pleasure of discovery by putting brain cells in motion, and stimulates the body-mind by opening up vistas and possibilities to the imagination.  The erotic energy emanating from this process is what keeps people in schools–it is what keeps us engaged in the learning process, be it as students and teachers. . . .  I was not fully aware of this when  . . . I was going to become my student’s teacher of language as well as love” (4).
The narrative continues as Stephane and Gaia fall in love.  Oh blessed be!

Dear Earthlings:

Education is the heart of democracy.  And that includes education to love.  It comes in many forms.  Including learning about Eros and journeys of multiple loves.

Eros: A Journey of Multiple Loves was a Lambda Finalist in 2007.  It is now being considered for translation in to Spanish by a press in Madrid.  Access to this memoir would be a great gift to Spanish speakers across the globe.  If you agree, leave a comment and we will let the publisher know.  Gracias! 
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Lynn Margulis: A Life In Science – U Mass Amherst, March 23-25

Dear Earthlings:
a symposium about Lynn Margulis is coming up this spring.  Yours truly has a special appreciation for this scientist extraordinaire with a special enchantment for the symbiosis that animates nature with love.  She suggests you mark your calendar and stay tuned for the program-in-the-making.  
Science is where what appeared absurd yesterday may have the ring of truth tomorrow.  Margulis was a scientist true to her voice–not the fashions of the day.  If paradigmatic shifts are your province, be part of this opportunity to learn about her legacy.  What is love?  What is sex?  What is symbiosis on planet Earth?  Yours truly anticipates these to be some of the questions on the table.  She invites you to make this project your gift to the Earth for the Holidays.
Listen to the announcement by those in charge of the Margulis legacy:
Please Save the Dates

Lynn Margulis Symposium—A Life in Science: in Memory and Celebration

Friday March 23 to Sunday March 25, 2012


The University of Massachusetts, in collaboration with the family and friends of Lynn Margulis (1938-2011), cordially invites you to a Symposium, March 23-25, 2012, celebrating her life and work. Although the Symposium is still in its early planning stages, we wanted to alert you and other interested parties you may know in order to provide the lead-time needed to save these dates and arrange for travel to and from Amherst, Massachusetts.
We are very excited about this opportunity to gather in memory of Professor Margulis, and to explore the history, importance, and future of her intellectual accomplishments.
As plans take shape, they will be posted to <www.geo.umass.edu/margulis_symposium.html>.


Preliminary Schedule of Events

Friday March 23, 2012
Welcome and Lynn Margulis Film Festival

Saturday March 24, 2012
Welcome followed by seminars on Gaia, astrobiology, symbiosis, and a tribute dinner with Peter Westbroek, William Irwin Thompson, and a new essay by James Lovelock

Sunday March 25, 2012
Community and colleague comments and an afternoon field trip in memory and celebration to Lynn’s favorite swimming hole (and last research site), Puffers Pond

Every scientific idea passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed or claimed to be of only minor importance. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
-William Whewell , History of the Induction Sciences (1840)

Dear Earthlings:

Yours truly would like to share a sense of the mutual admiration she developed for Lynn Margulis’ work and vice versa. 


Here’s Margulis on the back cover of my latest:
“In her clear, intelligent voice, Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio demonstrates that no law of love conservation exists.  The more we love, the safer we are and the more love we receive. . . . Gaia and the New Politics of Love [is]  . . . an antidote to the lovelessness that makes us miserable on this liveliest of planets.”


And here’s yours truly about Margulis in between the pages:
“One can imagine . . . [Margulis] spending untiring hours behind a microscope, enchanted by the multifarious forms microbial life can take.  She has not lost the pleasure of contemplating life [and believes that]   . . . observing the behavior of microbes provides understanding on the origins of life itself” (Gaia, 68).



Education is the heart of democracy.  And that includes education to love. It comes in many forms.  Including learning about Lynn Margulis and her challenge to run-of-the-mill-science at this symposium. 



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May Gaia Science Live in the Lynn Margulis Memorial Fund

Dear Earthlings:

a great scientist of Gaia has passed, leaving a wonderful legacy that needs tending.  Lynn Margulis was the most biocentric of the Gaia scientists, and a major inspiration for yours truly’s Gaia and the New Politics of Love.  Her books of science read like novels because she was in love with the Earth, enchanted with its animated creatures large and small, passionate about their symbiosis. For the full collection, check her Author’s Page.
For the Holiday Season, consider making a donation to the Lynn Margulis Memorial Fund.  It will be a good contribution to the future of life on our hostess/lover/mother planet Earth.  

This is the announcement from James MacAllister, a friend of science who is taking taking the legacy on.  


Dear all,

It is with great sadness to pass along the news that a great American scientist has died. Lynn Margulis died on at 5:15 PM (17:15 EST) on November, 22, 2011; she was 73 years old. She suffered a massive hemorrhagic stroke last Thursday. She will be dearly missed by her devoted family, students, her many friends and colleagues around the world.
In lieu of flowers, contributions should be made to the Lynn Margulis Memorial Fund*. This fund will be used to support students that will continue her scientific research.

*Checks may be sent directly to “Lynn Margulis Memorial Fund” at Northampton Cooperative Bank, PO Box 550, Amherst, MA 01004

The Lynn Margulis Laboratory
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Department of Geosciences
611 North Pleasant Street
233 Morrill Science Center
Amherst MA 01003-9297

Dear Earthlings:

The ecology of life is always love.  And love comes in many many different forms, including symbiosis.  Did you know that in Gaia science, symbiosis is recognized as what makes evolution possible?  Symbiosis, a form of collaboration among species and individuals thereof, is what makes a species like our come along.  Shouldn’t we be grateful?  Read Lynn Margulis for more.  Donate to her fund.  And stay tuned for more posts about her on this blog.

Education is the heart of democracy.  And that includes education to love.

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5 of 5 – The Amrita Tales – Ode alla Fonte Pura – by Greeneyes & Penelope

Dear Earthlings:
 

we come to the most liquid and final part of the tale.  In their love embrace, Greeneyes and Penelope remind yours truly of the nymph Cyane in Ovid’s Metamorphosis.  She watches Persephone kidnapped by Pluto to the underworld and imagines the grief her mother must endure to lose her.  Cyane’s tears flow so abundantly that she becomes water.  The thought of a woman loosing herself at the loss of another woman melts her into the maternal liquidity we all come from.  Is one’s mother one’s true lover?  Amrita takes new meaning and form. 

 

Ode alla fonte pura, cont’d
 

…….

Il tempo è sincopato dai picchi di piacere, ti assaporo, gusto per la prima volta il sapore del tuo sesso di donna, la mia lingua percorre ogni piega tra le tue gambe calde e prendo tra le labbra le tue labbra frementi; le mie dita penetrano dolcemente dentro di te e ti accarezzano, ti percorrono, imprigionano e liberano il mio piacere ed il tuo.
Poi desiderio di acqua, di rivoli d’acqua calda che scorrano lungo il tuo corpo ed il mio, per condividere insieme il flusso liquido, che ci scorre fuori e ci percorre dentro. Siamo sotto la doccia, ed accarezzarti, assaggiarti, leccarti, sentirti vibrare nel profondo del tuo godimento è eccitante e sacro al tempo stesso.
Vivo l’acqua come simbolo di vita, è rito ancestrale e propiziatorio, indica purificazione e rinascita. Il sedile della doccia è mosaico colorato e cangiante, con l’acqua che scroscia e riluce, “sembra un trono”, penso. E’ il momento più intenso del desiderio di te, ti accarezzo dappertutto, le mie dita a suonare il tuo piacere, la mia bocca tra le tue cosce, con l’acqua che mi batte sul volto e si mischia al gusto della tua femminilità. Il tuo corpo che si scuote, la tua voce che racconta in gemiti il mondo lontano e vicino del godimento senza confini, mi trasmette una sensazione di felicità profonda e sprigiona energia e piacere, anche per me.
La cascata d’acqua su di noi è interrotta, le tue braccia mi avvolgono in un candido asciugamano e sento il tuo abbraccio, le carezze che dissolvono le gocce d’acqua sul mio corpo, ma lasciano traccia della libidine e della passione. L’acqua non è più visibile, ma è dentro di noi, energia pulsante, fiume carsico che ci unisce fin nel profondo, fonte pura che suggella il nostro legame.

 
Fine/The End
 

Greeneyes and Penelope

 
Dear Earthlings:
 
The ecology of life is always love.  But love comes in many many different ways.  Things in nature evolve out of joy and pleasure.  And if we only acknowledged the sacredness of that, we’d have nothing to interpret as scarcity or pain.  Let’s stay tuned for that day! 
 
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4 of 5 – The Amrita Tales – Ode alla Fonte Pura – by Greeneyes & Penelope

Dear Earthlings:

 

Penelope and Greeneyes continue their dance.  The Ode is present.  Their bodies are becoming one in the ecstasy.  The liquid nature of the source of love becomes more evident.

I wish I could translate at least this part of the novella which is a poem.  Time is amiss for me, but suggestions for a good translator are welcome.  Meanwhile, the music of Italian is in the liquidity of its vowels, something for everyone to enjoy.  Imagine the “girls” at play.

Ode alla fonte pura, cont’d

E’ la vita. La danza della vita.

Più ci scivolo dentro più mi sentirò viva.

E allora esperienza. Mangiata, succhiata, leccata.

Perché è vita e tu sei come me.

Tuo il fascino della prima volta. Mia la meraviglia dello scoprire.

La tua tensione eccitante ed elettrica.

E la mia attenzione alta.

Non ferire, l’equilibrio portato oltre un limite già dimenticato .

I capelli tra le mani, la voglia trattenuta di stringere forte. Sentire che pulsi sotto di me .

Il collo. Da accarezzare e mordere.

Le parole sono diverse con una donna. Non meno sensuali o meno volgari.

Diverse.

Le labbra morbide. Tutte morbide, bagnate e scivolose .

La pelle che si struscia, le dita che scivolano, entrano.

Cercare quel punto. Trovare la forza primitiva che è in te e in me.

Anzi no. E’ te e me assieme.

Le azioni sono diverse con una donna. Non meno penetranti o meno profonde.

Diverse.

Un uomo non sa cosa sente quel corpo mentre entra con un gesto sacro.

Io sì.

Amplificato. So di te e sento di me.

Non c’è confine ora tra il tuo piacere e il mio.

Tra la tua anima e la mia.

Facciamo l’amore dell’anima mi scriverai in seguito.

Facciamo l’amore nell’anima la mia risposta.

Forza dirompente e calda.

Scoppia l’energia in quel gemito.

Vorrei che urlassi e io vorrei urlare assieme a te.

Quanto c’è di antico atavico primordiale.

Il mio animale e il tuo usciti ora.

Senza più gabbia attorno sono fiere irrispettose e prendono.

La lussuria che hai quando mi dici che stai godendo.

La lupa se la mangia.

L’impudicizia quando mi sento venire.

La pantera se la lecca.

Gattine appena abbandonate sul materasso a miagolare di estasi.

Guardo il tuo respiro.

Splende il tuo corpo ai miei occhi.

Ne voglio ancora.

Sete e sete.. la gola asciutta alla vista di una fonte che non si esaurisce.

Continua

Greeneyes and Penelope

 

Dear Earthlings:

The ecology of life is always love.  But love comes in many many different ways.  Things in nature evolve out of joy and pleasure.  And if we only acknowledged the sacredness of that, we’d have nothing to interpret as scarcity or pain.  Let’s stay tuned for that day!

Education is the heart of democracy.  And that includes education to love.  More posts on this topic.  Next is an Italian novella, Ode alla Fonte Pura, Ode to the Pure Source.  Stay tuned.  We will post every Thursday at noon.

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3 of 5 – The Amrita Tales – Ode alla Fonte Pura – by Greeneyes & Penelope

Dear Earthlings:

the process of getting to know the other as one gets to know love and as that other is one like oneself continues in this part of the tale.  The liquidity becomes more intense as the bodies dissolve in the erotic embrace and as the room of love offers itself as a witness of their ecstasy.

Ode alla fonte pura, cont’d

Lascio che la tua voce mi racconti di te e mi concentro sulle parole, ma assorbo anche il tono, il modulato accento che mi riporta alle tue radici.
Di nuovo un viaggio, fuori e dentro di me, movimento verso i luoghi e le persone: l’immobilità del pensiero non mi è congeniale, sono magma emotivo e calore carnale.
La tua sensualità mi ha colpita immediatamente e ho capito subito che stavamo parlando lo stesso linguaggio, universale, dei sensi, un indagare nell’eros curioso e goloso, ed intenso.
Siamo finalmente sole, in albergo; la nostra allegria è naturale e l’attrazione fa il resto: ci togliamo gli stivali e ci tuffiamo sul letto, vicine, e continuiamo a parlarci mentre ci accarezziamo, teneramente, ma con una sottile voglia che cresce progressivamente e che presto diventerà audacia.
Quasi automaticamente prendo ad accarezzare i tuoi seni che si offrono dalla scollatura dell’abito e scendo a baciarli, lì dove la densità della tua femminilità è più prorompente e per la prima volta assaporo la bruna aureola dei seni giù turgidi.
Le mie mani li stringono e la bocca li percorre, la lingua ad alimentare la progressione del tuo piacere, lungo il tuo corpo; c’è un silenzio carico di tensione erotica che cresce in modo ondeggiante, come mare che avvolge i nostri corpi, abbracciati a danzare nel letto.


Dear Earthlings:
The ecology of life is always love.  But love comes in many many different ways.  Things in nature evolve out of joy and pleasure.  And if we only acknowledged the sacredness of that, we’d have nothing to interpret as scarcity or pain.  Let’s stay tuned for that day!

Education is the heart of democracy.  And that includes education to love.  More posts on this topic.  Next is an Italian novella, Ode alla Fonte Pura, Ode to the Pure Source.  Stay tuned.  We will post every Thursday at noon.

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2 of 5 – The Amrita Tales – Ode alla Fonte Pura – by Greeneyes & Penelope

Dear Earthlings,

the tale of Greeneyes and Penelope continues. 

This time they’re getting closer, traveling on the train of desire their auras are already brushing against one another from a distance.  Then they connect and immediately the search for a personal space to witness their love.

Ode alla fonte pura, cont’d

 

Qualche messaggio sul telefonino, colorati dettagli per riconoscerci alla stazione “ho un trench nero e stivali neri…sarà divertente ed anche eccitante cercarci tra la folla” mi scrivi.
Ho una sottile euforia, un po’ di incoscienza forse, ma ancora un volta sono pronta a tuffarmi ed a vivere intensamente un’esperienza nuova ed eccitante, sicuramente arricchente.
Eccomi in stazione, tutti hanno una direzione precisa, traiettorie razionali ed io invece mi muovo casualmente, con gli occhi che cercano la meta, per ora solo “trench e stivali neri”.
Finalmente ci individuiamo tra la gente, un reciproco sorriso, un caldo abbraccio ed un bacio sulla bocca, lì in mezzo alla gente; due marocchini ci guardano con gli occhi spalancati, ma noi due abbiamo già incominciato a chiudere il mondo fuori, indecentemente ed allegramente.
Per prima cosa mi colpiscono i tuoi occhi, il tuo sguardo dai riflessi iridescenti e liquidi mi sovrasta leggermente e sento subito il calore del tuo corpo che mi avvolge, senza timore alcuno, e la tua testa che accenna un tenero movimento fa ondeggiare i capelli scuri ad accarezzare le spalle.
Sul taxi le nostre mani si intrecciano e ci parliamo, come se ci conoscessimo da sempre; le mie dita accarezzano il dorso della tua mano e già desidero scorrere la tua pelle ambrata ed assaporarne il gusto.

Continua
 

Greenyes and Penelope

 

Dear Earthlings:
The ecology of life is always love.  But love comes in many many different ways.  Things in nature evolve out of joy and pleasure.  And if we only acknowledged the sacredness of that, we’d have nothing to interpret as scarcity or pain.  Let’s stay tuned for that day!

Education is the heart of democracy.  And that includes education to love.  More posts on this topic.  Next is an Italian novella, Ode alla Fonte Pura, Ode to the Pure Source.  Stay tuned.  We will post every Thursday at noon.

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Namaste,

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University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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12 of 12 | Monday is for Religion: “Seize the Moment,” by Alice E. Van Pelt

Hi lovely Earthlings!

One more poem from Alice Van Pelt.  This one is a bit sad.  She seems to have a hard time staying well.  Her sleep, her days are a bit tormented.  She holds on to her source and feels its presence at every step.  When she has a “moment” free of torment, she dedicates it to that source.  This reminds me of a beloved friend, Eros.  I often tease him that “atheism” is just another religion as I used to do with my dad.  And yet what I like about him, what makes him unique among beloveds, is the “religious” way he’ll do what’s on the plate, including love.  Love to Eros is like a prayer.  It’s like a religious ritual and a trance.  I am sure this mother would be in awe of that.  It is a joy to be part of the narratives of the amazing human family!

Seize the Moment

I thank you Lord because you’re there
Alice E. Van Pelt
When I’m disturbed I know you care
You wake me up to start my day
Carry me through all the way
Hold my hand when the going gets rough
Brighten my spirit when things are tough
When evening fails and night returns
You lay me down with soft concerns
You watch me as I start to pray
And keep me calm in every way
I must seize the moment
To honor you always
Give you the glory and give you the praise.
No date
From the poetry collection of Alice E. Van Pelt, published here with permission from her descendants, gratefully acknowledged.

Dear Earthlings: 
Did you notice the beauty of this poem?  Again that soft touch of rhymes kissing each other, of rhythms and tones in a dance.  We say goodbye to Alice for the moment.  Perhaps more poems will be released from her collections and we will open another series for her.  We thank her for her gifts of poetry to this blog.  And for the gift of jarring yours truly with a belief system she had rejected.  The gift of thinking of monotheism in the context of amorous and religious inclusiveness again.
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1 of 5 – The Amrita Tales – Ode alla Fonte Pura – by Greeneyes & Penelope

Dear Earthlings,

yours truly is blessed with some tales from Italy.  She wants to share them.  With antiquity in the background, the legacy of initiation into the arts of loving is still present.  The arts are a way to know, and the art of love is very effective.  The most important thing is knowing oneself.  And what’s a better way to accomplish that than to love someone who is like oneself?

Ode alla fonte pura, or Ode to the Pure Source is precisely that, an ode to the source of self-knowledge.  This source is met when one encounters another like onself for love.  The two women in this tale choose to experience one another as lovers as they seek that deeper enounter with the self that comes from the resemblance.

Some might call this tale bisexual.  That would be ok.  In the wider horizon of love as the art of knowledge of the world, bisexuality is the healthiest possible sexual orientation as long as the arts of love are not revered yet.  When that reverence happens, the need for bisexuality disappears, and love becomes the path to knowledge and its method.

Here’s the tale.

Ode alla fonte pura

Mi lascio cullare dal dondolio del treno, lancio avanti nel tempo i miei occhi chiusi, ad immaginare il tuo sguardo; la fantasia è libera di spaziare, ho pochi elementi di te, una piccolissima foto icona di Messenger, parole sullo schermo, tracce allusive per mille possibili esiti, unica certezza il desiderio profondo di conoscerci e di legare le nostre esistenze, anche solo per un fugace incontro.

Sono serena, un po’ trepidante, è la prima volta, è la prima volta, ripeto dentro di me, che finalmente il fascino misterioso dell’essere femminile potrà svelarsi alla mia inesauribile voglia di vita e di conoscenza.
So già che ciò che desidero non è solo un corpo speculare al mio, ma è altro, è la scoperta reciproca della pelle, del respiro interiore, del movimento lento e sinuoso, dolce ed accattivante, un’altra me che parla con me.

Continua . . . . 

Greeneyes and Penelope

 

 

Dear Earthlings:
There is no liquiity yet.  But the fluidity of the story fits the theme we are embracing.   The ecology of life is always love.  But love comes in many many different ways.  Things in nature evolve out of joy and pleasure.  And if we only acknowledged the sacredness of that, we’d have nothing to interpret as scarcity or pain.  Let’s stay tuned for that day!

Education is the heart of democracy.  And that includes education to love.  More posts on this topic.  Next is an Italian novella, Ode alla Fonte Pura, Ode to the Pure Source.  Stay tuned.  We will post every Thursday at noon.

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Namaste,

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD
Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire
Author of Gaia and the New Politics of Love and many other books
Professor of Humanities

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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11 of 12 | Monday is for Religion: “Troubled Waters,” by Alice E. Van Pelt

Hi lovely Earthlings!

This is one of the most beautiful of Alice’s poems I’ve read.  It is so simple and chiseled to perfection.  How do we overcome a rough patch?  Where does it register within that one has arrived?  And what source do we tap into to get past the storm?  Her religion helps.  Another way Alice shares her experience with posterity.

TROUBLED WATERS

Alice E. Van Pelt

Heavy clouds above my head

Storms approaching, fears I dread
Times are changing, so it’s said
Tears of sadness in my head.
Like the Phoenix from the ashes
As the waves of torment passes
God declares a new beginning
New life in Jesus I am winning.
April 26, 1998
From the poetry collection of Alice E. Van Pelt, published here with permission from her descendants, gratefully acknowledged.

Dear Earthlings: 
Did you notice the beauty of this poem?  The words dance in the short verses and the rhymes kiss each other at the end.  The tone and theme are in lockstep. When you feel you want to react to the monotheism, remember it’s an instance of polytheism, only with just one deity.  People invent the belief systems they need.  And this one seems to work for Alice E. Van Pelt. 
More poems from Alice coming.  Stay tuned for next.  We will post every Monday at noon.

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Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire
Author of Gaia and the New Politics of Love and many other books
Professor of Humanities

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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