new home

I signed a five year lease on an apartment which is unfurnished.

This is to be my first home in nine years.

And, my first home ever in which I will not have to store any of the family's stuff.

My mother, Betty Waldo Parish

had a fine collection of art both her own and other from other artists which my nephew and now.. welll. me again because i confess that after i had given away every bit that she left in my care to the Asheville Art Museum ten years ago.... I missed having her art around.

So I bought a piece.

anyway.. my nephew, also cursed with the child of an artist custodian curse.. will never be free of his fathers work since it is of metal and for sale with a lot of zeros.. but the man seems to like the biz

My brother;s son Matthew did a great job with his fathers work.

Now if all of you bought a piece as well.

It would make my mother's ghost happy.

Happy Women's Day

Escape from the Coast

This is from a letter that I wrote to my dearest French Friends in Las terreanas.. after I had to be evacuated in an ambulance with an upright seat.. since I had a blood clot in the leg which was moving.

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 have tried to call you a couple of times but no answer on either phone. I hope that you are well.. And that you have forgiven me for my outbursts.

It just broke my heart.. to see the fire coral from the reef in Haiti where I used to swim three hours a day.. the reef that drew me back here.. cut up and for sale in Las Terrenas.  It was right off the coast at Amani y les Bains near St Marc. Hait's beaches are so much more beautiful as the sea is flat and Carribbean Blue. 

The store in the paseo, which i love, told me the coral was from Haiti. I said that the red coral has been internationally protected for years.. it is on the endangered species list. Alan Baskin helped the government of Haiti declare the entire reef protected. Spear fishing was banned there in 1979 

The manager, who is charming,  sighed.. and said.. the people want it.

The little hotel where I stayed was completely full. They have upgraded.. the lights in the garden .. so that I can no longer see the stars at night.  Then they keep taking the seaweed away from the base of the palm trees on Punto Poppy and the trees keep falling in. I keep waiting for the internation residents to speak out but it has been happening more and more over the last five years. I think that maybe it is just like lobsters.. that you are in the water and it is getting hotter but you do not notice. Anyway.. my heart was broken.

And then the medicine that I have been taking makes me allergic to the sun.. I just walked around the corner for cigs without sunscreen on and was burning up already inside. I was in the hospital once with this already.... aarrgh.. Anyway.. it takes a long time to land from a manic episode.. which was back in June.. the first one of this series,.. when I had to run from my apartment. Clearly.. LT is a dangerous place for me.

The work with the Haitians continues. We managed to extracate four Haitians from prison in Dajabon and let them return to the Capiral. My friend Edward Paraiston, who is the former minister of the Diaspora, is going to set up a meeting with the haitian embassy here to see how we can bring down the cost of the paper work. IT is about the cost of a month;s living expenses.. which is clearly too much for the Hjaitian ex pat community here to pay.

I hope Iko will not completely forget me. I know it was the best thing for her but I do miss her terribly. It is for the best since if one cannot take care of oneself one cannot take care of a dog. Also I am having to look for a new apartment.. the landlady says she wants to sell. I have found a place in the same builiddng on the ground floor and Maria is helping me with the lease papers. They want a fiador which is absurb since I simply do not know a Dominican who could gurantee five years of rent. It is a bigger apartment and is the first one on the ground floor.. it has a little door to the outside in case I want to set up being a Tarot Card reader...

anyway.. just wanted to write

i will come back and viisit when I can find an escort. Do not think that I should come back alone

thank you from the bottem of my heart for all the care you have taken of me over the years

god will reward you.//

because there is not enough tea in china with which to drink to your health

hugs and love 

lizi

how am i related to the roebling?

i was married in Emily's wedding mantilla out of the house of the widow of her son

she.. Emilty.. was my maternal great aunt Helens mother in law

i took the name legally in north carolina a number of years ago

since Auntie Helen told me to carry on the Roebling name

and I thought that Emily and Washington and great uncle john would be proud of me

Great uncle john raised his three sons in Asheville, NC.. where i ended up living for 20 years

i did not even know that they had been there til i was packing the books to leave and found that one of them said that they are in asheville.. where there is a roebling road

i am pretty sure that they never made it to


san domingue

legalize hemp production..

 have used marijuan as a medicine since i was twenty ... which is now a great deal longer than i care to remember. The diagnosis, made when i wa thirty,, after spending fotty days in the British Prison System. .. for shooting my mouth off about the war in ireland. Damn, there she goes .. shooting her mouth off again. Is bipolar. To which a psychiatrist once commented when i met him at a party.. was "congratulations"// When I told my mother that it ran in the top ten percent of the population in brains and creativity.. she said  |well, maybe it does come from our side of the family after all.

the psychiatric establishment here in the Domican Repulic has already stated that they wish marijuana to be included in their repetore. It was growing here during the Spanish Royal Realm.. as well.. you can see the gold leave medicine cabinet in the museao de casa reales.. the drawer that says cannibis satvia./ 

Now we have grass arriving through haiti supposedly but is suspect rather it is from Cali. Our grass in Grenada in 197? aarrived in rolled up newspaper on the federal boat from Jamaica. twice here i have smoked ganga that must have been laced with some psychodylic.. the bales are packed by machine.. this is not coming from either haiti or jamaica....... look to cali

haitians of course know it and smoke it and have no problem with it whatsoever. with my team, i can smoke in front of them .. as i do tobacco. which i also do but which is an addiction, which marijuana does not produce

another advantage is the pot smokers and cocaine users simply do not HANG.. we are the rastafarians and they are stilletto disco dancing..

so how about we just legalize it here on the island of hispaniola?

i mean.. hemp.. now/.

there was some good robe

almost as good as roebling cable
no wait

better.. no mining in volved

i am almost in borneo

i am herehttp://plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com/2011/04/incredible-hulk-schefflera-actinophylla.html

the scheffleera outside my third floor office window just went out of bloon

the birds ate most of the seeds

i do not feed them when it is in bloom

new years resolution

be more like Woolmanhttp://www.qis.net/~daruma/woolman1.html

and less
like
a
bitchin babe

My bragging wall

look.. i earned my own permanent press pass as a stringer to the United Nations office  for interpressservice

Banned for your music

i do not know where i heard the story of when Mercedes Sosa performed in Buenas Aires

she was under a government ban to not siing

solo lo pide a dios

the plaza of the cinco de mayo was full

government snipers were on the roof tops

and sosa

turned to her band

and signaled
and they played

and she stood in front of the microphone
completely silent

as the crowd sang her
signature songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIrot1Flczg

when i told this story
to my friend
peggy seeger

she
said

imagine
being
banned
for
your
music

Moving South in Winter

I just read that the cost for student lving expenses at the University level for a Master;s Student, which is what I am and have been for the last forty years.. is seven hundred US per month

so no wonder i am feeling like a grande dona here in Santo Domingo with my

two thousand six hundred dollar retirement

no, please,

call me Dona... that is with the gngng letter n thing that i cannot find on my keyboard...

Full Disclosure

I need to now identify myslef for the sake of full disclosure

My legal name is

Elizabeth Parish Eames Roebling

Born New York City, April 15 1947
US Passport Number 71167776

Parents, Betty Waldo Parish, Society of Mayflower Descendants etcher and engraver, Richard Comyn Eames, New York Yacht Club

Educated Friends Seminary, Middlebury College, Hunter College, BA< Ecole du Montcel (Jouy-en/ Josas France) Escuela Francisco Marroquin, Antiqua Guatemala

Employed. InterPress Service

I adopted the name of Roebling in honor of my paternal great aunt Emily Roebling, wife of the engineer  builder of the Brooklyn Bridge whose wedding veil I wore at my marriage. The Roeblings one of the founding families of the State of New Jersey. John Augustus emigrated from German at the beginning of the 18th Century.. settled in PA.. and started engineeering bridges. He had been trained in engineering in Germany but knew that the future of bridges was suspension and that the establishment in Germany would not let him build them thers.

I am a serving member of the Asheville Quaker Meeting, here on peace witness.

I was diagonosed with bipoler disorder after having served 40 days in a British prison for shooting my mouth off over the war in Ireland when it was under marshall law. I stayed in the same private mental hospital as Johan Nash for six weeks and was placed under lithium carbonate for 30 years.

With the help of my Quaker Meeting, I came off of lithium and went on to the new psychiatric medicinces.

I have smoked marijuana off and on since I was twenty years old. I have never found it to be addictive in that I could always stop. I have been somking tobacco since I was 14 and am completely addicted. But I have found that both marijuana and tobacco are medicinal medicines. The marijuana is the best psychiatric medicine that I know.

This war on drugs is merly a war between the north and the south the patent medicines pharma and hte
gnaga

look

we

can

work

this
out

really

we

can

build a bridge
we
do
we
not

something
in
lace
curtain
irish