Kirsten Gillibrand's Letter Concerning "Your Boss is Not Your Doctor"

Update 4/16/12:  New Letter from Kirsten regarding Equal Pay for Women.  Go to my other blog "One American Mind."


The following is an email I received today from New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand:

Dear Gayle,

Thank you so much for joining our One Million Strong for Women campaign. My colleagues and I started this campaign to mobilize a grassroots movement to push back against the right wing's unprecedented assault on women's health – we're so glad you've made your voice heard and stepped up to join the fight.

It's becoming clearer every day that this is the most important election ever for women's rights. As the attacks on women's access to basic health care continue, both nationally and at the local level, we must come together to fight back against these egregious overreaches. 

No boss should be able tell his employee whether she can take birth control or not.

As you can see from this infographic we've put together documenting the laws the right wing has passed, their assault on women's health shows no signs of letting up.

I hope you'll take a look and share it with your friends and family.

Again, thank you for joining this fight for women's health. As long as the right seeks to reduce women's access to basic health care, my colleagues and I will be standing strong against them.


It's good to know you're fighting right along with us.


Kirsten

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Hiking in Staten Island's Greenbelt--My Photos

I haven't written on this blog for a long time because I've been writing mostly on one of my other blogs, Old Woman on a Bicycle.  The reason I've been writing mostly on that blog is that I've been spending all my time painting, going to art shows,  and doing photography, rather than reading.  Since, this blog, Gayle's Stream of Consciousness,  is mostly devoted to what I've been reading, it's been terribly neglected recently. However, I have started reading--mostly when I'm on some mode of public transportation--Summa Theologiae by Thomas Aquinas.  Undoubtedly, I will write a post on that great work eventually.  I'm also very interested in the current political scene which I write about on my other blog called "One American Mind."

I did take a lot of photos today when I went to my gym at the Greenbelt Recreation Center in Staten Island, to workout, which I try to do 3 times a week.  The Greenbelt in Staten Island refers to preserved land in Staten Island that is in its pristine state and that has never been developed and hopefully will not be.  The Greenbelt is home to many wild birds, small animals like various rodents, turtles, opossum, and also purportedly some deer, but I've never seen any except for deer-crossing signs.

Following are some of my photos from today.  Take in consideration that it isn't quite spring yet here.  What I love about Staten Island is that it has lots of rural places and beautiful old houses.


An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day....Henry David Thoreau

In wildness is the preservation of the world
....Henry David Thoreau 

Going to the woods is going home...John Muir

Spring Pond, Blue Heron Park, Staten Island, NY

In every walk with nature one receives 
for more than he seeks...John Muir

Check out my post "Staten Island's Great Nature Trails" on my other blog "Old Woman on a Bicycle."  Also, my other post "Staten Island's Blue Heron Park," about more great nature trails in Staten Island.

P.S.  I started a new blog called Staten Island: The Wild Side, which, from now on, will be the venue for my nature photography and any nature writing I may do.