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2010-04-11 – Anthony Marr’s CARE-7 tour blog #4
2010-04-11
Anthony Marr’s CARE-7 tour blog #4
Northern California
It’s been only 10 days since the start of my 40-states-in-7-months Compassion for Animals Road Expedition #7 (CARE-7), and already, Vancouver seems lightyears away. The only difference between CARE-7 and the earlier CARE-tours is that my beloved mother, who passed away in November 2008 at age 89, is no longer trapped in her body in the care home, but is traveling with me and watching over me. Although she was constantly concerned for my safety, she has told me repeatedly that she is proud of me. And though every time I leave on a long journey she would miss me with all her being, she has always given me her blessing. Now, her pride in me and her blessing for me remain, and are here to stay until my own dying day. Excuse me while I go get some Kleenex.
Anyway, after a 13-hour drive from Portland, Oregon, on April 7, we arrived at my dear friend Nan Sea Love’s house in Santa Rosa, California, after midnight. This was well past Nan’s bedtime, but she welcomed us in, made us some food, and stayed up chatting with us till past 2 a.m.
Nan, whom I had the pleasure to meet in the 2007 Animal Rights Conference in Los Angeles, and who billeted me for several days in my CARE-4 tour, is highly respected in MySpace and FaceBook, and a prominent force in the AR movement in the internet realm. Her current passion is to crush “Crush Videos”, in cooperation with another great activist and dear friend of Anthony Damiano’s and mine – Marla Stormwolf-Patty, who is assisting us with organizing our tour.
The courage require to tackle such a problem is phenomenal. It is absolutely incredible that to distribute and post and indulge in such hideous products could be legal, and yet, it is. Only to make them is illegal, but then, most of them are made overseas. To be treated as a top friend by Nan is a great honor. She is also an exquisite artist, whose art is not only for art’s own sake, but for her passion in the cause.
As usual, I got up around 07:00, and began working by 07:30. I hooked up my router to Nan’s Mac computer, and did connect, but the connection was “limited”, and practically inoperative. So Nan allowed Anthony D and I to use her own two computers, at some inconvenience to herself.
In the mid-morning, Nan took me to the Slice of Life Cafe where some of her amazing art work was displayed – for a video interview. We did so for a few minutes, but the background noise was too loud and distracting, so we went back to her place and did the rest of the interview there. She will send me the DVD with the raw footage c/o my long time friend Coby Siegenthaler of Northridge, an L.A. suburb, where AD and I will be staying for about 10 days upon our arrival in southern California. I will edit the raw footage into youtube videos whenever I can find the time. Thank you, Nan!
Nan’s other sites:
FINE ART – www.SEElove.org
Face book fan page: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Art-of-Nan-Sea-Love/185812790874
ENVIRONMENTAL and NUTRITIONAL EDUCATION: www.myspace.com/seeloveverywhere
PET BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT – www.yourkindnessmatters.org
Online store www.cafepress.com/animalrightsart where 100% of her profits are donated to www.romaniaanimalrescue.com which sends veterinarians to Romania to help with spay and neutering strays.
Homeless animals – http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=193073436&blogId=519619673
Watch: www.suprememasterTV.com interview: “Nan Sea Love and the Art of Compassion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg4b089vsfQ
Activist tips: www.youtube.com/seeloveverywhere
Her husband Art is a very fit man who has taken transcontinental bicycle trips in years bygone. He rode across the USA at the age of 50 to raise awareness of animal abuse – 3,500 miles in 59 days (see www.Artiebock.com). Now, at age 65 (still younger than me), he is dreaming of another one. Just the next morning, he went for a 40 mile ride. He also has a Yamaha 650 cruiser-type motorcycle, and thought I could beat him with my Ninja “crotch rocket” in a drag race. We never did have the chance to determine the outcome.
The evening of Friday the 9th was a vegan potluck at my dear Friend Vivianne Nantel’s place in Marin County, in which I was the “guest of honor”, where the over 20 guests comprised a judge, a psycho-analyst, a professor, an RN, among others. Amidst all the activities, I managed to squeeze in a 20-minute phone interview hosted by Arnold Levine of KOWS radio based in Occidental, CA. My thanks extend to Vivianne’s husband Michael, an athletic restauranteur who runs up and down hill daily with his two white dogs Snow Flake and Spirit, and has taken up yoga of late.
