Earth Day Everyday: Get More GREEN

April 22 is officially Earth Day.
April 21- 27 Earth Week.

Pick something you love and do it green!

I heart Prospect Park.

You can support the park through the Prospect Park Alliance.
Any gift amount will help maintain the 585-acre lungs of Brooklyn.
Bigger gifts with dedications are available, as well.

In my new living will, I have requested supporting A Grove of Trees
which helps to restore an entire sector of the Park dedicated to my friends & family.

You can also do something for free.
Request a tree planting from the New York Parks Department.
Give them an address and request a tree. Couldn't be easier.

I am thinking more these days about what will survive me if I were to expire
before I get married or have kids. I want my art and ideas to survive me, but I also want
to do my part to create a more sustainable future. I want to give green.

Check out the Million Trees NYC project. There are many ways to give a little green.

Lets breath a little easier.

XO
SU

Booty

Dear Friends,

I will be cleaning out my house over the next couple weeks.



So far I am looking for a new home for my 6 ft. Werner ladder.
He holds up to 225 lbs, so even the big boys can use my faithful ladder. As I live under a 8 ft. ceiling,
I no longer need my go-go gadget ladder to make me all of 11'1 feet tall.

And a brand new Airport Extreme Card!

Want it? Need it?
Email me.


Back to cleaning.


Travel Update:

I have set my dates, so I will be leaving town May 7th, driving South. Leaving the country May 16 for the gleaming shores of Hong Kong. Then I will be traveling by train to Beijing.
My departure is just as exciting! I leave from Shanghai, so look forward to some fun photos.

Parting is such sweet sorrow.

XO
SU

This week in New York
at Cinema Village:

Young and Restless in China

2008 - USA - English/Mandarin (with English subtitles) - 104 minutes -
International Film Circuit

Directed by: Sue Williams

YOUNG & RESTLESS IN CHINA is a groundbreaking documentary that follows the lives of nine young people over four years as they struggle to find their way in a country changing faster than any in history. Raised under communism, they are now making their way in China's blazing capitalist economy. Their stories of ambition, exuberance, crime and corruption are interwoven with moments of love, heartbreak and passion. Together they capture the changing values, hopes and dreams of a pivotal generation.
- http://www.cinemavillage.com/chc/cv/show_movie.asp?movieid=1284

Job Hunt Beijing

I am looking for work opportunities in Beijing,
starting sometime in the fall.
Ideally, I would want to work for a New York-based travel magazine.

If you know any editors or photo editors at travel magazines or
people in the documentary film world interested in Beijing,
please pass along my info.

Plan is to focus on art work, but traveling around sounds fun.
It is certainly the best way to learn.



Taking the Temperature/Back in the Dirty South

Don't know how hot Beijing will be post Olympics and what will happen in Tibet and Taiwan between now and then. Its just a very interesting and semi-volatile time. With the economy in the US such that it is and presidential elections, there is no telling what will happen at home either. I have seen so many homes on the market or foreclosed by the bank. The stock market is suffering. We are fighting moral and hopeless battles on fronts I'm not sure we can "win." How have we come to this? Why is Bush sending out incentive checks to people who need longer term solutions not a token that deepens our debt and doesn't offer any real solutions to the problems that got us here in the first place. I'm surrounded by Republicans. I am desperate for a liberal leaning leader who can really tackle our economic crisis and regain our good name in the world. But one who can deal with and acknowledge that they will not see the results of much of their hard work until past their season in office. If they are ok with that and can still forge ahead through the murky waters, then I can stand behind them. Any Democrat will do. The Republican candidate, will take us further down the path that had lead us here.

Please...do your part and vote. And encourage all your friends and family to vote. We can't take for granted that by law, we can elect our leaders, even if history has shown that it is not always by popular vote.

Missing the Slope

Brooklyn Based's

10 Reasons to Love Park Slope

I am still looking to find lovely subletters to stay in and care for my apt,
books, art, & collections of things.
If you don't know how great life is in PS, follow the link above.
It highlights some of the reasons why I made my home there in the first place.

Why I Love the Slope?

1) Lots of yummy places to eat.

2) Dogs have free roam of Prospect Park weekdays 6 - 9 am & the Nethermeade 6 - 9 pm.

3) Union Market.

4) Relaxed places to drink.

5) It is full of other people working in non-traditional work situations,
so the streets are always a buzz with locals, even on weekdays.

6) Lots of cute locally owned boutique shops.

7) Semi easy street parking.

8) Its bike-friendly.

9) Home to my first apartment.

10) Where Henry & I first met.

Birthday in the LES

The lucky number is

33


Please join me for drinks
in the lobby bar
of the
Hotel on Rivington
Thursday
March 27th
at
9 pm on.


Boys/Dogs welcome.


For directions,
www.hotelonrivington.com

Hope to see you!


XXX
SJL