3/8/12 - Welcome to Spring!

Good afternoon and welcome to spring in Seattle!  What a wonderful time of the year.  We're coming up to that patriarcial holiday, Easter, which is really a Christianization of the pagan matriarcial fertility festival of spring.  Hence, the imagery of rabbits, chicks, eggs and flowers.  Also, happy International Women's day:

THINGS TO DO:
1. I have copied and pasted the following email because laughter as a therapy can be so healing:

Teresa Verde teresalaughs@gmail.com

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Come laugh unconditionally, learn more about the healing power of laughter and laughter yoga! 

I will be teaching a 5 –week class at Bastyr University in Kenmore, WA, Wed April 4th – Wed May 2^nd, 6:30 – 7:30 pm/ $45 for the series.  The format will be lecture and interactive discussion for the first ½ hour and laughter yoga for the 2nd ½ hour.  (Please know that this course does not certify you to become a laughter leader.  It is only informational and experiential.)

See the link below:

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LAUGHTER YOGA Class @Bastyr University
http://www.bastyr.edu/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=57

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2. Rebecca Brown - reading tonight at Eliot Bay Books 
One of our local lesbian writers is speaking tonight at 6.00 PM on Capitol Hill.  This is a great opportunity.

3. Jeanette Winterson - reading on 4/17/12 at Seattle Public Library - Downtown Seattle
One of the earlier feminist lesbian authors from Britain is speaking tonight for free at the library.

4.   Here is another fun event - 

Come laugh for no reason!

Phinney Laughter club meets next Tues, March 13 (and every month on the 2^nd Tues) in The Blue Room, downstairs at Phinney Neighborhood Center (upper bldg).   We start at 7:00 p.m.  and go for about one hour.  The cost is $5.   Bring water – this is a laughter workout! 

  The address is:  6532 Phinney Ave N, Seattle, 98103. 

Directions are below and on their website:  www.phinneycenter.org/directions.html.

 I look forward to laughing with you soon!

 Teresa Verde

Certified Laughter Leader

206-784-9776

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5. LGBT LEGAL CLINIC:

I encourage people to consider exploring this clinic as a resource for all kinds of things, including partnership and estate questions:

 The QLaw Foundation GLBT Legal Clinic has appointments available *Thursday**, March 15*.  The clinic offers a *free* 30-minute consultation with an attorney.  Although our attorneys are specially trained to discuss legal issues commonly faced by members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender community, we welcome all clients regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

We can help with *any legal* *issue* (except criminal) including:
  -Creating and dissolving domestic partnerships
 -  Ensuring that same-sex parents both have parental rights (including adoption options)
 - Debt problems
 - Changing legal name and gender
 -  Discrimination (employment, housing, schools, etc.)
-  Wills and estate planning

The clinic is held on the 3rd Thursday of each month from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM.  You can make an appointment by calling 206-235-7325.  If you reach our voicemail, please leave a short message with your contact information and we will get back to you.
The QLaw Foundation GLBT Legal Clinic is sponsored by the GLBT Bar Association of Washington Foundation (QLaw Foundation) and is one of the King County Bar Association’s Neighborhood Legal Clinics.
Please forward this email widely and consider helping us advertise the clinic by "liking" our page on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/GLBT-Legal-Clinic/243224955160).
 You can also visit us online at http://www.q-law.org/LegalClinic

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