Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Shaman's Hand for December 21, 2008

Shaman's Hand Blog Talk Radio show will have special guest Buck Bannister to talk about the highly acclaimed movie "Milk" which stars Sen Penn.

After moving to San Francisco, the middle-aged New Yorker, Harvey Milk, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977, making him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the USA. The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, were shot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White, who blamed his former colleagues for denying White's attempt to rescind his resignation from the board.

Mr. Milk had been the subject of several books and the Academy Award-winning documentary feature, The Times of Harvey Milk (1984); but Milk (2008) is the first fictional feature to explore private aspects of the man's personal life and career.

Milk was filmed on location in San Francisco. Many of Mr Milk's real-life surviving friends and former associates participated in the making of this film, several appearing on camera.



The show airs at 8pm MST this Sunday night, December 21, 2008. You can call in or join us on the chat board during the broadcast. You can also visit the Shaman's hand Blog Talk Radio site anytime to listen to the archives.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Right Brain Left Brain Test (?)

Brain Lateralization Test Results
Right Brain (56%) The right hemisphere is the visual, figurative, artistic, and intuitive side of the brain.
Left Brain (52%) The left hemisphere is the logical, articulate, assertive, and practical side of the brain
Are You Right or Left Brained?
personality tests by similarminds.com



Often times when I take tests like this I find questions posed in a way that are not in the way I think. SO doing the best I can to accommodate the questions those were my results.


Left brain dominant individuals are more orderly, literal, articulate, and to the point. They are good at understanding directions and anything that is explicit and logical. They can have trouble comprehending emotions and abstract concepts, they can feel lost when things are not clear, doubting anything that is not stated and proven.

Right brain dominant individuals are more visual and intuitive. They are better at summarizing multiple points, picking up on what's not said, visualizing things, and making things up. They can lack attention to detail, directness, organization, and the ability to explain their ideas verbally, leaving them unable to communicate effectively.

Overall you appear to have fairly Equal Hemispheres

In the evening sky

Last night I noticed what at first seemed to be a plane in the eastern sky. It was after dusk but early in the evening. I watched it for a while the realized it was not moving. The lights where a bit unusual as far as planes or helicopters, we have a lot of military aircraft around where we live.

After some time I noticed that it kept pace with the stars around it and I could also see smaller red lights and blue filaments around these two or more pulsating lights.

Later I went back outside and saw Orion rising in the eastern sky. It's belt pointed to the spectacle above and I then realized it was in the Constellation Taurus. The Pleiades. I had never seen it before. Where it was in the sky that night made for an amazing display for the unaided eye. I can't wait for tonight where I get home I'll be out back again to see more of this wonderful sight.

"Many a might I saw the Pleiads rising thro' the mellow shade,
Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid."