NO REST FOR THE AWAKE - MINAGAHET CHAMORRO

Dandan i pandaretas! Na'fanpalangpang!

Pagat, a play written by Victoria Leon Guerrero and myself, directed by Michelle Blas, with dances by Vince Reyes has completed its run at UOG. I estimate close to 1000 people watched it and due to seating limitations hundreds were turned away for the last three shows. It was an amazing experience, ya gi minagahet ti ha na'malululok yu' i palabras-hu siha pa'go. Este na sinienten minalulok yan minagof sin palabras pa'go. Lao hu gogosa gui' sinembatgo. I will be posting more about the Pagat writing, watching and discussing experience I'm sure. Si Yu'us Ma'ase nu todu nu' muna'posible este na dinana'. Guaha gi i actors yan i crew ma fa'na'an este i bidan-mami ni' "kinalamten." Ya-hu ayu para este i che'cho'-mami. Sa' ti mismo unu na sahnge na chine'gue este, este uma'ayao ginnen meggai ni' manma'pos yan ha kekechalani mo'na meggai ni' manggaige pa'go.

Gaige yu' giya Luta gi este na weekend. Dumeskakansa ham yan i nobia-hu guini. Meggai dinimalas yan na'triste gi i finakpo' i sakkan para Guahu. Giya Luta hu kekehagong huyong todu ayu na piniti yan sahuma halom nuebu na fuetsa. Este na ma'pos na sakkan na'yafai para Guahu, lao mas meggai na makkat na cho'cho' hu fafana' gi i mamaila na sakkan Para bai hu honora este na sen gatbo na tano', malago' yu' na bei hu "post" guini magi i palabras para i ofisiat na kanta-na i isla. I na'an-na i anthem Luta "I Tano'-Mami." Estague i palabras:  *********** I Tano’-mami I Tano’-mami I Tano’-mami ti dangkolu na isla, Lao sumen gatbo todu i uriya I manaina yan todu i familia Hu diseseha nah u li’e’. Todu nu hu gofli’e’ Guini gi islan Luta KORU Dikike’ na isla, bensiyon yan bunitum, I ladera-na kahulo’, kulan gua’ot para’isu, Ha fa’t

My brother Jeremy held his Senior recital over the weekend. This month he'll graduate from UOG. Here are some pictures from his recital that he will no doubt cringe at. I've included below his play list for the performance. ******************** Golliwog’s Cake-walk from “Children’s Corner” By Claude Debussy (1862- 1918) Arr. A. Christopherson Bist Du Bei Mir, Aria from the Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook, 1725 By Gottfried Heinirch Stolzel (1690-1749) Previously attributed to J.S. Bach (1685- 1750) Andante et Allegro By Guy Ropartz (1864-1955) Introduction and Dance By Dmitri Shostakovich (1906- 1975) Concert Rondo By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756- 1791) Arr. J. Ernst Short Intermission St. Thomas By Sonny Rollins (1930-) In a Sentimental Mood By Duke Ellington (1899- 1974) Blue Bossa By Kenny Dorham (1924- 1972) Blue Train By John Coltrane (1926- 1967) Chameleon By Herbie Hancock (19

I made a silent resolution at some point this year that I would post 200 times on this blog over the course of 2011. My blogging has its ups and downs, as I chronicled earlier this fall in my post " 300,000 ." I don't find as much time to post because of teaching, parenting, activism and writing for other things. I was determined though to reach the 200 post plateau this year, and with this post I have done it. It's a great way to end one year and welcome in a new one. Adios 2011! Hafa Adai 2012!

Published on Sunday, September 11, 2011 by the Independent/UK Coral Reefs 'Will Be Gone by End of the Century' They will be the first entire ecosystem to be destroyed by human activity, says top UN scientist by Andrew Marszal Coral reefs are on course to become the first ecosystem that human activity will eliminate entirely from the Earth, a leading United Nations scientist claims. He says this event will occur before the end of the present century, which means that there are children already born who will live to see a world without coral. The claim is made in a book published tomorrow, which says coral reef ecosystems are very likely to disappear this century in what would be "a new first for mankind – the 'extinction' of an entire ecosystem". Its author, Professor Peter Sale, studied the Great Barrier Reef for 20 years at the University of Sydney. He currently leads a team at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Healt

I’ve been back in Guam now for more than a week since my South Korea trip. I’ll still be back-posting for the new few weeks as there is still so much more to say and blog about. Remember that you can easily access the posts for certain days of my trip by clicking on the appropriate tag. Day 1: Seoul Day 2: Pyeongtaek Day 3: Gangjeong Day 4: Seoul Day 5: Mugeon-ri As I think back on my trip I met so many fantastic people and heard so many tragic and inspiring stories. But when I was thinking back on what part of the trip stayed with me the most, or what is sort of that haunting excess, that sticks out and determines far more meaning now than it probably did then, one exchange constantly pops into my mind. It could be so many things: the beauty of Jeju, and the tinaiprisu of the fight of the villagers of Gangjeong, the tragic marks on the soul and skin of political prisoners, the way a people struggle with the division of their nation and its past history of colonization (and curre

The gof na'chalek lao gof na'triste lokkue' book Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut ends with the following paragraph. If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who. For those of you who don't know the book, you should read it, it is a tragic commentary on everything from religion, to colonialism, to the fallacy of objective science. At this point the whole world has been radically altered by a substance called ice-nine, which when is touched to water changes its composition so that it can be solid ice even at room temperature. The protagonist is stuck on the island of San Lorenzo, surrounded by the once ocean, which is now a world of tornadoes. He ha