[SanDPAN] Re: [NSPsanDiego] Re: Dr. Dorothy Height--Extraordinary Leader, Lantern, and Role Model
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John Falchi
Apr 20, 2010, 10:22:32 PM4/20/10
to Carroll Boone
Dear Carroll-
It was good to hear from you again. Thanks for inquiring about how I am doing. You are providing me with the opportunity to write down the things I have been up to, lately. I hope you don't mind.
I have just returned from three days away from all of the machines by traveling in a van with 6 other guys up to de Benneville Pines in the mountains NE of San Diego . It was a welcome time away from the phones, the computer, the VCR, etc. I was with the Southern CA UU Men's Group, and made friends from as far away as Bakersfield, Ventura and Fullerton. We were 7,200 ft. up and there was snow on the ground. I dressed warmly enough, so that was not a concern.
I did forget to get my medicines out in time to take them with the meal my first night, left my water bottle in the car that I came up with, and took the pills all at once late at night--a mistake. I was up most of the first night, reading & writing, but in stomach pain. Nevertheless, a nap saved me on Saturday and I was fine for the balance of the Men's Renewal Weekend.
We had a wonderful ceremony on Saturday night that included each of the 75 men passing through the belly of a whale, a la Jonah, into the arms of a lineup of hugging friends. It was different , to say the least. it was good relaxed fun, mixed with deep meaningful conversations when we broke into small kinship groups of 6 people, half of whom I did not know before the trip. Three of the fellows I met for the first time have already started email contact with me since the weekend.
You would be proud of the fact that in the early part of this year I spent 40 days going back and forth to the UCSD John Moores Cancer Center for Intensive Modulated Raiation Therapy treatments. I don't know when I have b een that regular in my whole life. This $102,000 treatment, combined with the three strong medicines I have returned to taking daily, reduced my growing cancer from 6.2 on the Prostate Specific Androgen Scale to .013. Nevertheless, it did not get it all, so I will be continuing my daily ADT treatments to maintain my health. They gave me a certificate of completion and allowed me to ring the gong on my final day of treatment. Now I have to figure out how to pay the $1,400 I owe them for the use of their machines.
Last weekend I was comped in to the International Conference on Hosteling at SDSU, because I joined two others in a Multi-Generational Initiative panel presentation before the youth at the conference. i, also, participated in two different versions of the World Cafe there, which were interesting. You know that I have enjoyed that interactive stuff for many years. I believe a lot of the power of a conference is among the people in the audience. It was facilitatied by a woman from the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network.
Lately, I have been working with Jeanne Brown of Common Cause/LWV and Emily Serafy-Cox of Empower San Diego on several May events having to do with local politics, and with Linda Poniktera of Psephos on bringing Steven Freeman back out here at the end of June for a major gathering on Electoral Finance/Election Integrity in light of the recent Supreme Court decision, erroneously based on Corporations being treated as persons. You should see the wonderful satire that my friend Steve Hayes did on this in the April edition of The Light Connection.
I bet you'd enjoy Steve Freeman. I have used his stuff on how exit polls and voter statistics need to be looked at more seriously than we have. He wrote the book on the 2004 Stolen Election. I used a 20 page paper he wrote that winter to help evidence the need for the Judiciary Committee hearings held in Ohio in late 2004. You may recall that we got 30,000 signatures to get Barbara Boxer to join House Reps. to challenge the 2004 Electoral College Vote, particularly in Ohio. She did.
I helped Activist San Diego with the Business Plan for a Dept. of Commerce Grant for $214,000 of equipment for an FM Radio Station for which they have gotten FCC approval and they paid me by a letter to the judge for community service that saved me from paying $433 for a traffic ticket. More recently, I helped Estela De Los Rios apply for an Alston-Bannerman $25,000 Sabbatical Fellowship, which was not being handled correctly. She has a really good chance at getting it now, based on her remarkable background of helping people to help themselves, something that I truly believe in, as well. Should she win it, she agreed to pay me for my time, too.
Normally, I do these things pro bono, but I have to pay for some hefty medical bills these days. I hope all has been going well with you, Carroll, and that our paths will cross soon. Take care.
Your friend, John
_____________________
John P. Falchi
San Diego, CA 92107
619-222-6036
It was good to hear from you again. Thanks for inquiring about how I am doing. You are providing me with the opportunity to write down the things I have been up to, lately. I hope you don't mind.
I have just returned from three days away from all of the machines by traveling in a van with 6 other guys up to de Benneville Pines in the mountains NE of San Diego . It was a welcome time away from the phones, the computer, the VCR, etc. I was with the Southern CA UU Men's Group, and made friends from as far away as Bakersfield, Ventura and Fullerton. We were 7,200 ft. up and there was snow on the ground. I dressed warmly enough, so that was not a concern.
I did forget to get my medicines out in time to take them with the meal my first night, left my water bottle in the car that I came up with, and took the pills all at once late at night--a mistake. I was up most of the first night, reading & writing, but in stomach pain. Nevertheless, a nap saved me on Saturday and I was fine for the balance of the Men's Renewal Weekend.
We had a wonderful ceremony on Saturday night that included each of the 75 men passing through the belly of a whale, a la Jonah, into the arms of a lineup of hugging friends. It was different , to say the least. it was good relaxed fun, mixed with deep meaningful conversations when we broke into small kinship groups of 6 people, half of whom I did not know before the trip. Three of the fellows I met for the first time have already started email contact with me since the weekend.
You would be proud of the fact that in the early part of this year I spent 40 days going back and forth to the UCSD John Moores Cancer Center for Intensive Modulated Raiation Therapy treatments. I don't know when I have b een that regular in my whole life. This $102,000 treatment, combined with the three strong medicines I have returned to taking daily, reduced my growing cancer from 6.2 on the Prostate Specific Androgen Scale to .013. Nevertheless, it did not get it all, so I will be continuing my daily ADT treatments to maintain my health. They gave me a certificate of completion and allowed me to ring the gong on my final day of treatment. Now I have to figure out how to pay the $1,400 I owe them for the use of their machines.
Last weekend I was comped in to the International Conference on Hosteling at SDSU, because I joined two others in a Multi-Generational Initiative panel presentation before the youth at the conference. i, also, participated in two different versions of the World Cafe there, which were interesting. You know that I have enjoyed that interactive stuff for many years. I believe a lot of the power of a conference is among the people in the audience. It was facilitatied by a woman from the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network.
Lately, I have been working with Jeanne Brown of Common Cause/LWV and Emily Serafy-Cox of Empower San Diego on several May events having to do with local politics, and with Linda Poniktera of Psephos on bringing Steven Freeman back out here at the end of June for a major gathering on Electoral Finance/Election Integrity in light of the recent Supreme Court decision, erroneously based on Corporations being treated as persons. You should see the wonderful satire that my friend Steve Hayes did on this in the April edition of The Light Connection.
I bet you'd enjoy Steve Freeman. I have used his stuff on how exit polls and voter statistics need to be looked at more seriously than we have. He wrote the book on the 2004 Stolen Election. I used a 20 page paper he wrote that winter to help evidence the need for the Judiciary Committee hearings held in Ohio in late 2004. You may recall that we got 30,000 signatures to get Barbara Boxer to join House Reps. to challenge the 2004 Electoral College Vote, particularly in Ohio. She did.
I helped Activist San Diego with the Business Plan for a Dept. of Commerce Grant for $214,000 of equipment for an FM Radio Station for which they have gotten FCC approval and they paid me by a letter to the judge for community service that saved me from paying $433 for a traffic ticket. More recently, I helped Estela De Los Rios apply for an Alston-Bannerman $25,000 Sabbatical Fellowship, which was not being handled correctly. She has a really good chance at getting it now, based on her remarkable background of helping people to help themselves, something that I truly believe in, as well. Should she win it, she agreed to pay me for my time, too.
Normally, I do these things pro bono, but I have to pay for some hefty medical bills these days. I hope all has been going well with you, Carroll, and that our paths will cross soon. Take care.
Your friend, John
_____________________
John P. Falchi
San Diego, CA 92107
619-222-6036
From: Carroll Boone <carrol...@gmail.com>
To: John Falchi <pace...@sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Tue, April 20, 2010 6:12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [NSPsanDiego] Re: Dr. Dorothy Height--Extraordinary Leader, Lantern, and Role Model
thanks, John. How are you doing?
Carroll Boone, J.D., M.S.W.
Organizing Committee, CCP Facilitator Training San Diego Coming Soon
Facilitator, CCP(Creating a Culture of Peace) and Nonviolent Peaceforce
Respect Based Communication (RBC)
RBC (Respect Based Communication) Classes and Coaching
619-697-3223
carrol...@gmail.com
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:09 PM, John Falchi <pace...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Dear Friends -
Today, I received this remarkable tribute to Dr. Dorothy Height from Marion Wright Edelman, and I wanted to pass it on to you. John
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John P. Falchi Coordinator
Plan of Action in a Changing Era
San Diego, CA 92107
619-222-6036
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