Right this Rrom - a year long psycho sociology experiment ends.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE AND SUPPORT!!!
Below,
how the 5 page website looks upon closing,
(;find all archived editions of Right this Rrom on this blog, apples-apples, look for rolling box pic :)
COVER page
The word Rrom means human in
Sanskrit-based Rromano (Gypsy language).
Still in the 21st century human beings are left behind across the world,
so Right this Rrom
was a 2014-105 column that built tolerance for
human life, liberty, and happiness
by Friday Features ( the art/story of one human being for a month of Fridays )
...or longer depending on clearness of coast....
AS FOR FRIDAYS missed, or any other mess ups, thank you for practicing tolerance with us, recognizing and accepting that, at times, as long as life to us is granted, obstructions appear and we human must abide graciously for the sake of Love.
I wasn't adopted so I could take a pill, I was meant to live outright with my own will.
When I act out, I'm heartbroken, not mentally ill.
Shameless musings from Confessions of an International Adoptee by me, Tina B (Tinari Stevens) born Finnish and Gypsy/Rroma in 1970 Finland, a place where being born Gypsy was outlawed* for a spell.
*Hancock, Ian F. "The Buxljaripe: Out into Europe." We Are the Romani People = Ame Sam E Romane Džene. 2002. p32. Print.
FRIDAY FEATURE page
OCTOBER 2015, column wrap up
No body is perfect.
Mind the Gap, Love!
"Right this Rrom",
experimental column to raise tolerant individual and group identity,
ends this month
due to
1) my own financial, personal, professional shortcomings
and
2) continued global lack of safe sound support for
the adoptee (like refugee, divorce, abused) AND the Rromani / Gypsy.
Despite the slow and lonely progress,
I have high hopes that joy and peace will rule
as the USA, China and Russia adopt the majority of the worlds orphans,
demonstrating massive *enthusiasm and *will
to do better each day for the fallen young through old.
Yes, for goodness sakes, life is for learning to love!
You can change your *mind kind too like when you feel it in your spine.
Rise up, Human!
Opre Rrom!
www.GypsySnakeSalon.com
*asterixed words above note
qualities that help direct healing in cooperation with your *brain,
reminds Self-Realization Fellowship's Paramahansa Yogananda.
....consult your own doctors and village people, of course...
WHY RIGHT THIS RROM page
Why Right this Rrom ???
>to answer this 2010 call from CEU students,
"10 Million Roma = 10 Million Different Stories. Let's Fight the Prejudice";
>to apply recommendations of No Child Left Behind, Education Nation,
The Decade of Rromani Inclusion*U.S. is observer**;
>to build capacity for tolerance inside out;
>to include all Gypsy individuals/tribes for The Decade of Rromani Inclusion;
>to provide cutting edge education/wellness resources for the success of global youth under 25 and their family.
Still globally youth under 25 are left behind so
during Adoption Awareness Month, near Romano Language Day,
last year November 2015,
I, Tinari Stevens,
teacher-gone-rogue on special folk art assignment,
instigated Right this Rrom.
Thank you for your support!
Now this 21st-century collaborative graphic column experiment
is coming to a close at the end of October.
Don't Worry, visit WAIK
(Google "World Artists' Initiative Khetanes")
for information & entertainment by Rromani / Gypsy
~ E pluribus unum ~ out of many, one ~ Right this Rrom puts power in the people's hands,
~ in god we trust ~
*Decade of Rromani Inclusion (2005-2015) is like U.S. No Child Left Behind but for all ages of Rroma/Gypsy and only in the European countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Spain.
**In February 2012, U.S. became an observer to the Decade of Rromani Inclusion.
***Child Adoption: Trends and Policies. New York: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs/ Population Division, 2009, 463. Print.
My Rroma Wheel, ~by Tina B (Tinari) 2012, acrylics, guitar strings, ModgePodge, gold mylar tape, tissue paper
DEDICATION / THANK YOU page
is dedicated to the human, the adopted, the ancestor, the other, but most especially to each niece, nephew, cousin, and student of mine.
"For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." Romans 8:15
Don't worry. Be happy. It's good practice to adopt your best self daily as you grow through life no matter who you are or from where you hail.
(: THANK YOU...A-Z~but not in that order~ :)
BIG LOVE; Brad Burbank, best friend and super spouse; all my families across the world (adoptive, birth, matrimonial) for loving me through thick and thin~individually amazing and collectively you could win a Peace Prize; change~agent~lady~friends for giving diverse communities creative, soulful lift: Artist/Master Chef Aleina Roscha, Artist/Teacher/Counselor Anahita Mosallai, Activist/Dancer Anette Åkerlund, Master Artist Barbara Mendes, Master Storyteller Brenda Bolinger, M.F.T. Debra Shwartz, M.O.M. Deirdre Chandler, Activist/Master Teacher Gena McGill, Master Tattoo Artist/Storyteller Jakob Shivengri, Education Artist Janette Grönfors, Actor/Producer Jewel Greenberg, The Successful Truth Author Jeanne Rogers Danks, Healthy Paws owner Jillian Meyers (came up with name Right this Rrom!), Artist Rayna Holt, Master Teacher Mentor/Chef Julia Pecak, Musician/Naturalist and Master Storyteller Kelly Koogler, Cash Machine Loral Langmeier, Activist/Master Musician Malou Zagala Toler, Master Teamster Marlene Cress, Second Samuel Playwright Pamela Parker, Activist/Singer Ruzsa Nicolic Lakatos, Master Teacher Mentor/Yogi Terri Thillet, Activist/Master Craftswoman Xylena; Master Musician/Teacher of Amala School Dušan Ristic for telling me when I was bussing tables that everything I do is right; Arizona Master Teacher Mentor and Fulbright-Hays friends for expanding peaceful, joyful understandings; Gypsy Lore Society Pete Watson for challenging us to be a New Generation Gypsy Lorists; Photographer/Storyteller Jaime Rauch Walter for being tickled by my writing; Actor/Storyteller Steven Allerick Chen for supportive sharing process, Artist/Musician Jaimie Daniel Black for contemplating a tattoo of my heart art (My Rroma Wheel) and for playing the blues with Artist/Musician Benny Blítz; eldest bro Kai Tanner, for agreeing to be next in line for Right this Rrom; Master Artist Larry Levine for reminding me how artists connect people; Petaluma Historical Museum Liaison Mark Tomlinson for talking me through 2012 Roma Crossing the Borders; Master Artist Nancy Blanchard for liking my "I AM" series and me; Mentor/Culver City Observer Publisher Steve Hadlan; Activist/Master Musician Jeff Baker for Advancing Mental Health; Voice of Roma president Šani Rifati for feeling my art; Voice of Roma family; The Whole 9 family; World Artists' Initiative~"Khetanes" family; Self~Realization Fellowship Choir family for helping me harmonize; a team of natural and sound healers: service industry friends for the inspiration when you share your arts on top of food and drink, adoption counselors Carolyn Garret/Sonia de Lurgio, Bolinger and Dank and Rainie and Toler families for believing in me and my magic, the nurturers that shared safe shelter with my family and I, D.D.S. for Homeless Dr. J and LCSW Briar Grossman and fam for sharing healing arts, Dr. Jane Pain Control Clinic, Farmers' Markets friends (Culver City~Peachtree City@McDuff), Imperial Massage, Joanne at Tucson Speedway/Swan Weight Watchers, Hataithip/Tranquility Spa, computer genius R. Lucas Stewart, Fuzzy and company, Musical/Naturalist/Solar Expert Todd Watschke, Musical/Naturalist Dane Moe and company, Sherry and company, Tris and company, counselor Tom, G.P. Dr. Watson, even friends that moved on for we learned to be gentler. THANK YOU, friendly experts that taught me with heart how to read/write/move/learn/lead: students and staff of public and private schools (Desert Hills Center for Youth and Family, CEDU Middle-High School, Perris High School, Nuview Elementary School, Harris Newmark High School, K-12 schools throughout the Amphitheater School District), US Census 2010 for time to meet folk from all walks of life and practice my block lettering, Amateur Athletic Association, Arizona Aqua Aerobics Instructor Training, Arizona Council for Social Studies, Arizona Master Teacher Mentor Program, Arizona Youth Soccer Association, AZ K-12 Center, Bureau of Education and Research, California Council for Social Studies, California County Superintendents Educational Services Association Bilingual Teacher Training Program, California Youth Soccer Association, Cal State San Bernardino, Crisis Prevention and Intervention, English School in Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean University, Foley School in Limassol, Fulbright Center in Cyprus, Fulbright-Hays, Gypsy Lore Society, Intercollege in Cyprus, Irvine Valley College, Loyola-Marymount, National Council for Social Studies, National Soccer Coaches Association of America, Outdoor Adventure Training Program, Self-Realization Fellowship Lessons, Syrian-Arab Friendship Club of Cyprus, UCLA, UC Riverside, UC San Bernardino, UC San Marcos, UC Santa Monica,UC Santa Cruz New Teacher Center,Consulate General of Finland for leading me to 6 weeks of brilliant, free Finnish language lessons, University of Arizona (Colleges of Dance, Education, Fine Arts, Middle Eastern Studies, Social and Behavioral Sciences~"The People's College", Science~Mind, Brain, and Behavior, Spanish and Portuguese, Women's Club Soccer), Tucson Community Parks and Rec, Claremont Community Parks and Rec, University of Nicosia, Washington & Lee University (Colleges of Art and Art History, English, Sociology and Anthropology, Romance Languages~Spanish, Collegiate Swim), Fairfax High School (Departments of Art~Photography, Career/Technical Ed~Drafting, English, Social Studies, World Languages~Spanish, Varsity Swim/Soccer), CPR/First Aid, Lifesaving, Cairo American College (Departments of Performing Arts~summer Drama/Strings-guitar, Social Studies, Visual Arts~Batik/Calligraphy/Industrial Arts, World Languages~Arabic, Varsity Swim, Club Soccer/Baseball), Ski School, Virginia Youth Soccer Association, Westmore Elementary (student crossing guard, trombone, not together hehe), Villa Aquatic Swim Team, Girl Scouts.
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