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Serene Dawn - Healing Earth - A woman's journey with the Kogi Indians of Colombia
by Sarena Webb
“Save our Mother Earth!” That is the plea of the remaining descendants of an ancient South American tribe, Colombia’s Kogi Indians from their dying mountain range – the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Serene Dawn is the true story of a solo woman traveller in one of the most dangerous travel destinations in the world- the coastal mountains of Caribbean Colombia. Her search is for answers and understanding a chaotic world. Her path takes her through the treacherous and beautiful mountains that is the home of the Kogi Indians. After being robbed by her guide a Kogi Shaman adopts her and teaches her another way of life. Along the way she experiences drug territories and war zones to the other extreme of indigenous knowledge and prophecy of the current times. Sometimes sad, funny and exciting - but always profound - it is a moving account of a searching soul fulfilling dreams despite the odds. It is a must read for those who question human-kind’s existence and the deterioration of the planet.


I think the web 2.0 site has some great ideas of sites to add to your favourites.
www.lulu.com has ideas for new books in particular interest areas, eg. in travel there are 3002 items that can be viewed in detail

staff at our library

I set up a spread sheet of the staff at our library branch at google online, now I just have to think of something (nice) to say about them all- think I`ll go for the one-liners, how it is different to excel, I`m not sure.......

staff:

sally janita mary anne fiona gail robyn rhonda erin judy

flowers grandsons drama marriage dogs walking china travelling prams welcome back


published via Google Docs 05/11/07
on the web page it just looks like a normal spreadsheet.
http:/spreadsheets.google.com

a few of my favourite things

my favourite activity has to be travelling, this wins hands down, I am always researching my next adventure. I have travelled with my kids, my good friends, my husband when I had one, my partner, my mum, and I have enjoyed every trip. The best year of my life was travelling around Aust. for 12 months in a camper trailer with 2 little kids, I`d love to do it again in retirement (without the kids)

One of my entries into PBwiki

wiki stuff

I checked out the Library Outreach Wiki and Wikis in the workplace, with examples and information from the Library Success page, a shame everything is American, can`t we have some Australian examples from all the competent people here (like my colleague Zofia)!



The book lovers site appeared to be a good idea but the information is slightly out of date! (events advertised for August and book of the day was from September)

the things you learn!

Once again I try to watch the Lib 2.0 video "the machine is us" but this time on a work p/c, but the library p/c doesn`t have the facility to watch it here either. This seems to be a big problem- I can`t do the program at work (public library) as we don`t have adequate facilities and my home p/c doesn`t have all the programs required installed, and I am loathe to install any extra programs as I am on limited downloads and to go over my limit costs heaps! Technology is only as good as the hardware we have access to!
I did read about lib 2.0 in Wikipedia and learnt about Radical Trust, the underlying assumption of Lib 2.0.
I also checked out "site of the week" www.howstuffworks.com, I didn`t realize iPods could catch fire (self combustion from batteries!)

not so technical

exploring technorati- I wanted to watch the learning 2.0 video but apparently I haven`t got the latest flash player required for you tube!