Tin Shed, Alberta St., Portland, OR

What did i have? A shroom burger.. with sauteed onions.. no chez.. no house sauce (ok... no dairy for this girl).. but added some spicelicious aiole sauce. The sauce made all the difference. Not just your typical burger, but a no added hormones in this burger.. that helped its ranking. Though it tasted a little flat without that sauce..that didn't help its ranking. When i can eat something grown with at least some consciousness .. it affects my eating experience. These factors will always affect the platelicking rating. I just don't enjoy foods as much when they are conventional.. boring!

So.. overall, the burger experience at Tin Shed.. 3.5 LICKS.
View the video for a more personal experience.
Love,
Platelicker Extraordinaire

Our voting party made the front page of the Oregonian on Sunday! http://ping.fm/BZvW4

Have a Merkley Halloween!
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sending out a special election edition of my e-mail, The Eleven, send e-mail to albertkaufman@gmail.com for a copy, peace!

A big thank you to this community

hi everyone,

We had a second art opening reception last night @ the Urban Grind for
our Ecstatic Images show (attached photo by Raku Loren). It was really sweet, and I'm feeling a lot
of gratitude for everyone who came to see the show and for the artists
and their supporters who helped put this together.

It feels important for me to say something about support right now.
There's lots going on in the world that is having us focus on lack,
scarcity and problems - and there is good reason to keep track of all
that - but I think it ends up forming a wedge between us which is not
good or healthy. My sense is that in this time of economic recession
(or whatever word you want to put on what is happening economically/
ecologically on this planet right now, and I have a lot of words for
that) supporting each other even more strongly is the way to go.

By this I mean supporting each others' efforts, businesses,
leadership, and efforts along the way. How this relates to the art
show is that I hope that people will come see this art work and give
feedback to the artists - perhaps even buy a piece (you can ask the
barista for a price list) for yourself, a friend, an upcoming wedding
or bat mitzvah - but mainly show your support by showing up - here and
at other places where people in this community are making an effort to
show themselves and put their best efforts forward.

Along these lines I wish we as a community had a couple things in
place, and I may create these or work with others to.

I'd love to see us have a directory that features all of the various
healthcare practitioners and accountants and photographers and really,
anyone who wants to be listed, so that when I'm needing someone to
help me in a certain way, I can reach out to a dancing friend (or they
can connect me to the right person).

I'd love to see us have some sort of community fund so that when
someone wants to take a workshop or pay a gas bill and can't afford
it, they can reach towards that fund.

I'd love to see us figure out some good ways to support the elders in
our community - both when they (and eventually I :) need it and just
along the way.

So, a final word of encouragement - when you see one of your friends
posting something on this list - think about attending, think about
helping to promote their efforts. If you see someone stepping out,
encourage them - send them words of encouragement or recommend them to
someone else - we can stretch ourselves in our dance (we do all the
time) and we can stretch ourselves in our caring and support of each
other.

The info about the art show is below, come see the work if you can
before it comes down next Thursday, hours are below. And, I hear that
both Lloyd and Roxanne will have art work up during 1st Thurs. in the
Pearl - more on that will follow, I'm sure.

see you on the dance floor,

Albert

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Urban Art @Urban Grind Presents

ECSTATIC IMAGES

artists from: The Ecstatic Dance Art(ists) Collective:

Ansula Press, Sacred Mandalas
Danielle Levario, Photographer
Lloyd Lemmerman, Painter
Raku Loren, Photographer
Roxanne Patruznick, painter
and a co-created video dance piece!
Beth, alter-creator!

http://www.scn.org/neighbors/beacon/pdx/ei.htm

@ The Urban Grind @ urbangrindcoffee.com and 2214 NE Oregon St.,
Portland, OR 97232
Regular Hrs: M-F 7-5, Sat. 9-5 (wi-fi)
12 Bus from downtown or directions @ http://tinyurl.com/4x2bnk

Back in Portland, Post Oregon Country Fair

I'm enjoying the view out the backyard and some sweet music from India.

a sweet quote by Ralph Estes

Life is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably, And never regret anything that made you smile!