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On Marriage - Kahlil Gibran
You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.
Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow
TV On The Radio - Nine Types of Light
I don't smoke don't drink don't do drugs but I get high on music, my body literally can shift release contract, I can lose myself find myself ... this band is one that inspires me to no end...I saw them last night with www.queenofthewildfrontier.com Enjoy this
Monday, May 9, 2011
Bon Iver & Sarah Siskind - Lovin's For Fools
My friend posted this a bit back on FB. I bought Sarah's version but I love Bon Iver and her here singing this...I can't lie though it stings a bit. If it didn't it would be crap though wouldn't it?
Monday, April 25, 2011
So you wanna be an Irish Citizen ...
First off let me just say if paperwork and government offices aren't your thing than neither will a Foreign Born Irish Citizenship. It's all about getting all your ducks in a row and by ducks I mean paperwork and by row I mean proving your lineage. Honestly, it's not that bad. Just grab a hold of some patience and your inner organized self. I will try to help with you what I learned when I did it.
(DISCLAIMER: I am only savvy when it comes to Foreign Born Citizenship. If you were adopted or married an Irish citizen some of these links I list below will be helpful but I'm not hip to the steps you need to take. More research for you my friends.)
Anyways you can register for your Foreign Birth Citizenship via your parents or your grandparents in Ireland. It is an application for Irish Citizenship through decent. Ireland allows dual-citizenship unlike the USA.
If you don't believe me look here at the Irish Consulate Website
Ready? Ok saweet lets get started. First you need to download the Guide and Application Forms This link will provide you with all you need to get started. I suggest going in steps and using their check list is quite helpful and I mimic below.
1. Obtain Grandparent Information.
A) Start with the birth certificate of the parent or grandparent who was born in Ireland. It must be a long form birth certificate. This means it is a full copy of the registered entry and can be used for most legal and administrative purposes. ALSO it must be authenticated. Both have a fee and those fees do not include the research fee and copies are extra. (A heads up, every certificate you will be getting is going to need to be a long form and authenticated or certified, which means a raised seal.)
The General Register's Office of Ireland make this an easy process. You download the birth certificate application in English , fill out the information requested, your credit card number and then faxed it back to them. As far as foreign fax machines and where to go, I went to Staples but I'm sure Office Depot or any office print shop has that ability.
(In going back through all my paperwork to write this blog I found that you can now order certificates online.)
In the event that you can't find your grandparent's or parent's birth certificate you will have to look for baptism records. GRO provides information on where to obtain it on page
B) Next obtain the State certified long form Marriage License of your Grandparents. This certificate must include the couple’s places of birth, ages at the time of the marriage and parents’ names.
C) Finally the Notarized copy of the Death Certificate of your IRISH Grandparent is needed.
2. Obtain Parent Information (which is basically the same as above but for the Parent who is the son/ daughter of your Irish Grandparent)
A) State certified long form civil birth certificate, This certificate must include the parents’ names, places of birth and ages at the time of the birth.
B) State certified long form civil marriage certificate, This certificate must include the couple’s places of birth, ages at the time of the marriage and parents’ names.
C) Notarized copy of current ID or Notarized death certificate Please do not submit an original driver’s license or passport
3) NOW get Your Information
A) State certified long form civil birth certificate, this certificate must include the parents’ names, places of birth and ages at the time of the birth.
B) State certified long form civil marriage certificate/court order name change
This is required if the applicant has changed name since birth. A long form civil marriage certificate should include the couple’s ages and places of birth and their parents’ names.
C) Notarized copy of current ID for example: US passport, driver’s license. In the case of minors, school ID or social security card are also acceptable.
D) Three proofs of current residence, for example: utility bills, bank statements etc addressed to you at your residence. In the case of minors, items addressed to the parents are acceptable.
(*Reminder: All certificates submitted must be ‘originals’ i.e. state issued, state certified copies
bearing the raised seal of the issuing authority. The work you are doing collecting these certificates is worthless without being authenticated by the issuing state)
The last bit of paperwork is the application. If you are over 18 you want the FB1A and it will cost $200 to file the application. (Under 18 parents must fill out FB1B Form and the cost is $80) You will need to get two passport photos to attach to the application and then have the application signed and verified that you are the person in the passport photos. There is a list on the application but I believe it is a lawyer, clergy or policemen. I had mine done at my local police station. I brought my US passport, driver's license and a bill to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt I was me, the girl in the passport photo.
Now once you have all this paperwork copied, stamped, and ready you will need to check which Irish Consulate Offices you will send it all to, and that you can do right here.
When you send in all your paperwork and application, you will also send in a photocopy of everything and I suggest keeping a photocopy of all your records for yourself too.
The process can take anywhere from 6-14 months. My brothers is still being processed and it has been 6 months. I had a lawyer handle mine so it went much quicker.
Once Ireland has processed your application you will get a certificate stating you are a Foreign Born Citizen, and an application for an Irish Passport. You will then apply for the Irish Passport by submitting both to the same Irish Consulate you have been dealing with already. The really cool thing about Ireland Passports is there is a serial number listed on the top of the application which you can use to check the status of your passport. I also just called the Irish Consulate in San Francisco and they were always really helpful.
Ok I think that is it. I'm not sure I could go back look at my paperwork and feel like I missed something. I will say this, outside of Ireland documents I chose to walk in to get birth, marriage, death certificates or always asked what is the quickest way to obtain what I needed to circumvent any possible hold up. I suggest you do the same when possible when dealing with state offices.
Any q's give me a shout and I will do my best to answer or help.
(DISCLAIMER: I am only savvy when it comes to Foreign Born Citizenship. If you were adopted or married an Irish citizen some of these links I list below will be helpful but I'm not hip to the steps you need to take. More research for you my friends.)
Anyways you can register for your Foreign Birth Citizenship via your parents or your grandparents in Ireland. It is an application for Irish Citizenship through decent. Ireland allows dual-citizenship unlike the USA.
If you don't believe me look here at the Irish Consulate Website
Ready? Ok saweet lets get started. First you need to download the Guide and Application Forms This link will provide you with all you need to get started. I suggest going in steps and using their check list is quite helpful and I mimic below.
1. Obtain Grandparent Information.
A) Start with the birth certificate of the parent or grandparent who was born in Ireland. It must be a long form birth certificate. This means it is a full copy of the registered entry and can be used for most legal and administrative purposes. ALSO it must be authenticated. Both have a fee and those fees do not include the research fee and copies are extra. (A heads up, every certificate you will be getting is going to need to be a long form and authenticated or certified, which means a raised seal.)
The General Register's Office of Ireland make this an easy process. You download the birth certificate application in English , fill out the information requested, your credit card number and then faxed it back to them. As far as foreign fax machines and where to go, I went to Staples but I'm sure Office Depot or any office print shop has that ability.
(In going back through all my paperwork to write this blog I found that you can now order certificates online.)
In the event that you can't find your grandparent's or parent's birth certificate you will have to look for baptism records. GRO provides information on where to obtain it on page
B) Next obtain the State certified long form Marriage License of your Grandparents. This certificate must include the couple’s places of birth, ages at the time of the marriage and parents’ names.
C) Finally the Notarized copy of the Death Certificate of your IRISH Grandparent is needed.
2. Obtain Parent Information (which is basically the same as above but for the Parent who is the son/ daughter of your Irish Grandparent)
A) State certified long form civil birth certificate, This certificate must include the parents’ names, places of birth and ages at the time of the birth.
B) State certified long form civil marriage certificate, This certificate must include the couple’s places of birth, ages at the time of the marriage and parents’ names.
C) Notarized copy of current ID or Notarized death certificate Please do not submit an original driver’s license or passport
3) NOW get Your Information
A) State certified long form civil birth certificate, this certificate must include the parents’ names, places of birth and ages at the time of the birth.
B) State certified long form civil marriage certificate/court order name change
This is required if the applicant has changed name since birth. A long form civil marriage certificate should include the couple’s ages and places of birth and their parents’ names.
C) Notarized copy of current ID for example: US passport, driver’s license. In the case of minors, school ID or social security card are also acceptable.
D) Three proofs of current residence, for example: utility bills, bank statements etc addressed to you at your residence. In the case of minors, items addressed to the parents are acceptable.
(*Reminder: All certificates submitted must be ‘originals’ i.e. state issued, state certified copies
bearing the raised seal of the issuing authority. The work you are doing collecting these certificates is worthless without being authenticated by the issuing state)
The last bit of paperwork is the application. If you are over 18 you want the FB1A and it will cost $200 to file the application. (Under 18 parents must fill out FB1B Form and the cost is $80) You will need to get two passport photos to attach to the application and then have the application signed and verified that you are the person in the passport photos. There is a list on the application but I believe it is a lawyer, clergy or policemen. I had mine done at my local police station. I brought my US passport, driver's license and a bill to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt I was me, the girl in the passport photo.
Now once you have all this paperwork copied, stamped, and ready you will need to check which Irish Consulate Offices you will send it all to, and that you can do right here.
When you send in all your paperwork and application, you will also send in a photocopy of everything and I suggest keeping a photocopy of all your records for yourself too.
The process can take anywhere from 6-14 months. My brothers is still being processed and it has been 6 months. I had a lawyer handle mine so it went much quicker.
Once Ireland has processed your application you will get a certificate stating you are a Foreign Born Citizen, and an application for an Irish Passport. You will then apply for the Irish Passport by submitting both to the same Irish Consulate you have been dealing with already. The really cool thing about Ireland Passports is there is a serial number listed on the top of the application which you can use to check the status of your passport. I also just called the Irish Consulate in San Francisco and they were always really helpful.
Ok I think that is it. I'm not sure I could go back look at my paperwork and feel like I missed something. I will say this, outside of Ireland documents I chose to walk in to get birth, marriage, death certificates or always asked what is the quickest way to obtain what I needed to circumvent any possible hold up. I suggest you do the same when possible when dealing with state offices.
Any q's give me a shout and I will do my best to answer or help.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
"the smell of the greasepaint, the roar of the crowd"
So as 2010 came to a close I found the portrait I had been painting of my life, assembling in my mind for the past year or so piece by piece, no longer applied. It fact it felt like someone kicked a big ass hole in the canvas.
Mr. G and I decided that we are no longer fighting the good fight together. Typing that makes my face flush and my stomach flip. I have been reading books, listening, and talking to spiritual, psychological, higher level thinking people and I came up with this today. Maybe just maybe this is the best thing that ever happened to me to us. I have no answers but I want to honor our relationship in order to this I'm trying to stay in the present moment at all times and not give way to my ego. In this present moment exercise, and it is an exercise meaning it's work, I decided to carry on with my tradition of a New Year's card. This is my third year in a row. It would be Clea and I, me and Clea...nothing screams pathetic like a single girl and her dog in a holiday card. Who cares, right?
Clea hurt her front left shoulder and it's been a few months of going back and forth from her feeling good to feeling bad. When she feels good she dances, I mean she has always danced but lately not as much. I decided one day when she was feeling up she was my dancing bear and that she deserved a tutu. Just that thought alone filled me with excitement for my card. I could be saved from the pathetic single girl/ dog card if I step it up a notch.
Problem #1 My dress. I wanted an over the top vintage preferably sequined dress with color. I couldn't find one. Oddly any other time if I was out and about at thrift stores I could find that stinking dress everywhere... boo nothing nothing anywhere and I went everywhere.
Next thing I needed a photog to take the picture, Kricker was gonna be out of town and I had never had my photo taken by Jacky. Perfect!
Problem #2 Rain, incessant rain, everyday, all day forever it felt like. Nothing spells Happy New Year like runny mascara and grey skies. I kept coming up with kooky ideas to try to convince Jacky and myself it would be fine. How funny would it be a rainy hot mess of a single girl soaking wet with her dog crying by her side to get out of the rain. It'll be great! hehe
Jacky and I kept talking about lighting and that there were two times of day that make a girl look amazing, that is sunrise and sunset. Sunset was old hat to me. I wanted sunrise. But where? The sun rises in the east so we need to be up high...Of course there is mother nature and Griffith Park but that screamed lame to me...Jacky said "I did a project on top of the Arclight parking structure before" YES!!! I loved the idea. I love the spot. I also love the Grove parking structure top lot. PERFECTION except problem #1 & #2..then
Problem #3 The one morning there was no rain, and the pretty much only day Jacky and I could swing it, I overslept. I didn't wake up in time to pretty myself for a photo shoot. :( Me lame=Jacky acceptably annoyed
So then it was Christmas and I was in Tucson, AZ where I grew up, maybe you've heard of it. (Yeah maybe pretend like you haven't.) My mom knew of my card and my need for a dress so she went into her closest. What she had was the most glorious Jordache white fake fur jacket ever!! There were also two dresses that I managed to take out of her closet with but I wasn't convinced they were the DRESS! So we went looking at some Goodwill's n such...nothing. Until my last minute there, I was driving back to LA and on the outskirts of Tucson and there was a Goodwill. I thought, "Well I just got started but what if it's in there?" screeching tires and I run inside ... 1st rack 2nd rack and then the 3rd rack there she, tags still on because she's never been worn floor length slightly minty white dress with silver sequins on the collar. AAHHHHHH but my total salvation came in the sale price of $7.99. Now it just needed to be shortened which is nothing for Susie at Susie's Creations on Vine. My "problems" with my new year card were coming to an end. I bought Clea her dancing bear tutu, Jamie agreed to take the fotos at sunrise on New Year's Day because I not only drove her to the airport but I was picking her up.
In the day or two of preparation right before this photo shoot as I'm picking up balloons and curlers I started to listen to Nina Simone singing "Feeling Good". It captures so perfectly that feeling of peace and harmony inside and outside of one's body. It inspired me completely. That morning the world was so quiet while we were up on that parking structure, the sun came up at a snails pace and it was like we were living a moment in that song. I know how cheesy that must seem to you but it's true. With that I leave you a Happy New Year or Feliz Año Nuevo!!!
"Feeling Good"
Birds flying high you know how I feel
Sun in the sky you know how I feel
Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good
Fish in the sea you know how I feel
River running free you know how I feel
Blossom on the tree you know how I feel
Dragonfly out in the sun you know what I mean, don't you know
Butterflies all havin' fun you know what I mean
Sleep in peace when day is done
That's what I mean
And this old world is a new world
And a bold world
For me
Stars when you shine you know how I feel
Scent of the pine you know how I feel
Oh freedom is mine
And I know how I feel
for more fotos from our lil shoot go to www.queenofthewildfrontier.com
Mr. G and I decided that we are no longer fighting the good fight together. Typing that makes my face flush and my stomach flip. I have been reading books, listening, and talking to spiritual, psychological, higher level thinking people and I came up with this today. Maybe just maybe this is the best thing that ever happened to me to us. I have no answers but I want to honor our relationship in order to this I'm trying to stay in the present moment at all times and not give way to my ego. In this present moment exercise, and it is an exercise meaning it's work, I decided to carry on with my tradition of a New Year's card. This is my third year in a row. It would be Clea and I, me and Clea...nothing screams pathetic like a single girl and her dog in a holiday card. Who cares, right?
Clea hurt her front left shoulder and it's been a few months of going back and forth from her feeling good to feeling bad. When she feels good she dances, I mean she has always danced but lately not as much. I decided one day when she was feeling up she was my dancing bear and that she deserved a tutu. Just that thought alone filled me with excitement for my card. I could be saved from the pathetic single girl/ dog card if I step it up a notch.
Problem #1 My dress. I wanted an over the top vintage preferably sequined dress with color. I couldn't find one. Oddly any other time if I was out and about at thrift stores I could find that stinking dress everywhere... boo nothing nothing anywhere and I went everywhere.
Next thing I needed a photog to take the picture, Kricker was gonna be out of town and I had never had my photo taken by Jacky. Perfect!
Problem #2 Rain, incessant rain, everyday, all day forever it felt like. Nothing spells Happy New Year like runny mascara and grey skies. I kept coming up with kooky ideas to try to convince Jacky and myself it would be fine. How funny would it be a rainy hot mess of a single girl soaking wet with her dog crying by her side to get out of the rain. It'll be great! hehe
Jacky and I kept talking about lighting and that there were two times of day that make a girl look amazing, that is sunrise and sunset. Sunset was old hat to me. I wanted sunrise. But where? The sun rises in the east so we need to be up high...Of course there is mother nature and Griffith Park but that screamed lame to me...Jacky said "I did a project on top of the Arclight parking structure before" YES!!! I loved the idea. I love the spot. I also love the Grove parking structure top lot. PERFECTION except problem #1 & #2..then
Problem #3 The one morning there was no rain, and the pretty much only day Jacky and I could swing it, I overslept. I didn't wake up in time to pretty myself for a photo shoot. :( Me lame=Jacky acceptably annoyed
So then it was Christmas and I was in Tucson, AZ where I grew up, maybe you've heard of it. (Yeah maybe pretend like you haven't.) My mom knew of my card and my need for a dress so she went into her closest. What she had was the most glorious Jordache white fake fur jacket ever!! There were also two dresses that I managed to take out of her closet with but I wasn't convinced they were the DRESS! So we went looking at some Goodwill's n such...nothing. Until my last minute there, I was driving back to LA and on the outskirts of Tucson and there was a Goodwill. I thought, "Well I just got started but what if it's in there?" screeching tires and I run inside ... 1st rack 2nd rack and then the 3rd rack there she, tags still on because she's never been worn floor length slightly minty white dress with silver sequins on the collar. AAHHHHHH but my total salvation came in the sale price of $7.99. Now it just needed to be shortened which is nothing for Susie at Susie's Creations on Vine. My "problems" with my new year card were coming to an end. I bought Clea her dancing bear tutu, Jamie agreed to take the fotos at sunrise on New Year's Day because I not only drove her to the airport but I was picking her up.
In the day or two of preparation right before this photo shoot as I'm picking up balloons and curlers I started to listen to Nina Simone singing "Feeling Good". It captures so perfectly that feeling of peace and harmony inside and outside of one's body. It inspired me completely. That morning the world was so quiet while we were up on that parking structure, the sun came up at a snails pace and it was like we were living a moment in that song. I know how cheesy that must seem to you but it's true. With that I leave you a Happy New Year or Feliz Año Nuevo!!!
"Feeling Good"
Birds flying high you know how I feelSun in the sky you know how I feel
Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good
Fish in the sea you know how I feel
River running free you know how I feel
Blossom on the tree you know how I feel
Dragonfly out in the sun you know what I mean, don't you know
Butterflies all havin' fun you know what I mean
Sleep in peace when day is done
That's what I mean
And this old world is a new world
And a bold world
For me
Stars when you shine you know how I feel
Scent of the pine you know how I feel
Oh freedom is mine
And I know how I feel
for more fotos from our lil shoot go to www.queenofthewildfrontier.com
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