Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Composing Love by Audra North TundraLove! About Us. In 2014,after attending a Therapeutic and Medicinal Herb class sponsored by Bristol Bay Native Association, Lynn Van Vactor and Denise Lisac were both inspired and amazed with the therapeutic properties of Alaska's local plants . Since then, along with much research, they have worked together to create wild harvested, hand crafted personal care products that are beneficial to their families and local communities. Initially starting out small, selling organic handcrafted soaps and salves at a Christmas Bazaar, production has increased and now TundraLove! hosts a full line of products including Lip Balms, Organic Face Creams, Body Butters and Beard Oils. Each product that TundraLove! makes contains wild harvested local Bristol Bay Alaskan plants. Organic Olive Oil and Organic Sunflower Oils which are solar infused with Alaska's wild rose hips, wormwood, plantain, labrador from the tundra, willow, birch, chaga and many other therapeutic plants. These oils are then incorporated into our soaps, salve and other personal care products. Each product sharing with the user, love from Alaska's tundra. It's TundraLove! As community members began to send TundraLove! products to family and friends as gifts, TundraLove! began to receive additional requests for soaps, face creams, oils and salves from all over the country. We are humbled by the support and excited that our products are now loved by many! And yes, the picture above is real! the view from Lynn's home, Tundra to the Wood River, in Dillingham, Alaska. In May of 2019, Mark and Toni Herrmann purchased TundraLove! from our friends, Lynn and Denise. We are neighbors (relatively speaking) sharing the same community of Dillingham, in the Bristol Bay of Alaska. Lynn and Denise continue to support us with their experience and counsel as we continue creating wild-harvested, hand-crafted personal care products with much TundraLove! Toni grew up in rural Alaska, coming here as a small child with her parents and siblings in the early 70's. She graduated from Northwest University in the Seattle area, with an emphasis in business and education. Mark grew up in rural Nebraska with a dream-a calling, to Alaska. So, as a young man, he loaded his belongings in his old land cruiser and headed north to Alaska (with his parent's blessing!). We soon met and married, and within a year moved to Dillingham. We lived in town one year-that was enough! We were ready to homestead! Mark and Toni homesteaded close to the Wood Tikchik Mountains of Bristol Bay near Dillingham over 33 years ago. We cleared a patch of alders and spruce, and began building our home, family, and farm with the tundra of the Manokotak Flats and Warehouse Mountain in view. We and our children have explored and harvested from the tundra, hillsides, and forests since day one. Our children have now grown and left home, as they should; but from time to time they visit, bringing our grandchildren with them! Now the cycle begins again, taking the opportunities to teach our grandchildren how to explore and harvest from the tundra, hillsides, and forests we call home. We continue our entrepreneurial lives through TundraLove!, our small farm, and Toni's watercolor paintings that depict the beauty of Bristol Bay, Alaska. We hope that our TundraLove! products are a help to you and your family! Who Is Audra Mari? 5 Things to Know About Josh Duhamel’s New Pageant Queen Girlfriend. Moving on! After his divorce from Fergie , Josh Duhamel has been linked to a new woman: Audra Mari . Celebrity Splits of 2019. The couple were first spotted together in May during a date in Malibu. More recently, they were seen kissing at a Toronto airport on Wednesday, December 4, in photos published by Page Six . They later reunited at a holiday party in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles on Saturday, December 7, per the Daily Mail . The news of the budding romance comes weeks after Duhamel, 47, and Fergie, 44, finalized their divorce. They reached an agreement on November 22, nearly six months after the singer filed divorce paperwork. The former couple, who share 6-year-old son Axl, started dating in 2004 and tied the knot in Malibu in January 2009. They announced their separation in September 2017 in a joint statement to Us Weekly that read, “With absolute love and respect, we decided to separate as a couple earlier this year. To give our family the best opportunity to adjust, we wanted to keep this a private matter before sharing it with the public. We are and will always be united in our support of each other and our family.” Hot Rebound Romances. Below, Us rounds up five things to know about the actor’s new girlfriend. 1. She Is Much Younger Mari is 25 years old. She and Duhamel have a 21-year age difference. She turns 26 on January 8, 2020. 2. She Is a Beauty Pageant Queen The model was the first runner-up in the 2011 Miss Teen USA competition, in which she represented her home state of . She was later crowned USA 2014 and America 2016. Celebrity Couples With Surprisingly Big Age Differences. 3. She Overcame Bullying in High School Mari said in a 2011 interview with Seventeen that her high school classmates made fun of her for being tall and thin, with some calling her Sasquatch. “Finally, I told my mom, I told her everything that was happening. She talked to the administration, and they brought the girls in and talked to them about it,” she told the magazine. “You just have to bring it to the attention of people in a position of authority.” 4. She Has Modeled for Big Companies In between pageant competitions, Mari has posed for H&M and Ocean Drive magazine’s swimsuit issue. She has more than 32,000 Instagram followers, including Duhamel. 5. She Is Filipino The North Dakota State University graduate’s grandfather is from the Philippines. “He moved to the United States to create a better life for his family,” she said in her Miss World 2016 video package. “He raised four beautiful children, and he’s a shining example that anything is possible here.” For access to all our exclusive celebrity videos and interviews – Subscribe on YouTube! Composing Love by Audra North. The Scarlets are a dance team that produces show stopping, star quality, and professional performances. The Scarlets perform at such functions like all Varsity Football games for the North Shore Mustangs, Varsity Basketball games, school pep rallies, events throughout the community, and contest in various locations. They also produce a Spring Show in April that showcases all their hard work and dedication throughout the year with a culmination of dances and styles from the entire year. The Scarlets are composed of students from the 10th, 11th, and 12 grades of North Shore Senior High, with a junior varsity team called the Reserves, which is composed of the 9th graders. They all work together to produce the best show possible at every performance, as well as have high standards of etiquette and behavior in order to uphold the image of a Scarlet. We hope you will support us as we continue to make improvements to our program for the betterment of the team. We do have numerous fundraising events if you would like to get involved. Please contact any Scarlet for information on the current fundraiser, or contact the Director, Mrs. Audra Taylor at [email protected] or the Assistant Director, Ms. Angela Upshaw at [email protected] . If you are an 8th grader and are interested in our Scarlets Reserve program at NS9 grade center, please contact our Reserve Director, Mrs. An-Janet Smith at [email protected] . ​Audra E. Taylor Scarlets Director Dverse Artistic Director North Shore Senior High 832-386-4151. Composing Love by Audra North. Today on Wonkomance, we are joined by the fabulous Audra North, a frequent twitterer and wonko commenter when she isn’t working on her own wonky writing. Here she waxes thoughtful about Macklemore, and flattering about Wonkomance. And y’all, she even has footnotes. Footnotes. Guh. Without further ado, take it away, Audra! I wanted to see a post on Wonkomance about “Same Love” by Macklemore because this song is exactly the kind of “ Hey hey. Let’s stop for a minute and think about the kind of messages we really want to send” kind of work that makes this blog exceptional. And now I am actually writing the post, and that makes me feel fluttery with nerves and joy both, so if I end up vomiting all over this virtual stage…I’m sorry. I’ll pay the dry cleaning bill. Usually, I have music on only because it is necessary background noise, tunes and lyrics that have been demanded in strident voices by my children, impatient to sing along with to chirpy happy rhyming words that they understand at a visceral level, which is really why they love those songs. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. I’m three years old and I wonder about you. But my adult mind, so full already of appointments and to-dos and everything else that goes along with managing so many lives, usually tunes it all out. Until one morning, almost by accident, I found myself alone in the car, driving somewhere in a silence so unfamiliar that I didn’t know what to do with it, so I turned on the radio and tuned out the music so I could hear myself think. And then “Same Love” came on. And then, I really listened. And I found myself thinking, in the words of another Macklemore song, “This is fucking awesome.” [1] As soon as it ended, I wanted to immediately hear it again, not just because the beat is easy on my soul and the dulcet sound of Mary Lambert’s voice singing the melody stuck in my mind. It was because, after only a couple of verses, this song made me sit up and pay attention to its message. One part rap, one part melody, all parts message. We are all human. Gay men and women are human. Love is love. Gripping the steering wheel hard so that I wouldn’t veer off the road as I blinked away tears, I already knew that this song had become my own twinkling star, the one with a message that I can understand at a visceral level. In a Studio360 interview about “Same Love,” Macklemore says, “[Misogyny and homophobia] are the two acceptable means of oppression in hip-hop culture. It’s 2012. There needs to be some accountability.”[2] And in “Same Love,” Macklemore challenges that oppression in a way that impressed and awed me and won me over so hard: he uses a hero story. Wonkomance is, after all, primarily a blog for romance work, which is exactly why I thought of it when I heard “Same Love.” There is love, there is a hero, and there is an arc (two, in fact! – or so I’ll argue). The song begins with an extended organ chord that might be a prelude to a hymn. In a way, that’s exactly what this song is. It is an anthem that calls us all to pay homage to something so simple that, all too often, we have tuned it out like so many nursery rhymes. Of course, that something is love. And then Macklemore starts rapping, explaining how, as a child, he had once gone crying to his mother, upset at the thought that he might be gay because “’I could draw, my uncle was, and I kept my room straight.” In the next verse, his mother assures him that he isn’t gay. Assures, reassures. Either way, it paints a picture of homosexuality as something we need to be comforted against. But within a couple more lines, it is clear that his view has changed. Macklemore the narrator, the songwriter. He speaks out against the condemnation of homosexuals. He speaks out for gay marriage. He is the first hero of this story. But it is the other hero in this song that makes the message so poignant. Throughout, Macklemore presents scenes of fear, of isolation, of hatred that gay men and women face. He reminds us that this is the kind of wrongful discrimination that we, as individuals and as a nation, have enacted on other groups, as well. And in the blending of the personal with the historical, the emotions with the facts, Macklemore turns us, the listeners, into the heroes of the struggle for equality. Soon, we are living his words. He hands us our flaws. He hands us our battle. And by song’s end, he has imbued us with the love we need to overcome our prejudices and change things for the better – the arc we must carry forward to its rightful completion. “Strip away the fear. Underneath it’s all the same love.” Cast away our unfounded, hate-fueling fear and we’ll get to our Happily Ever After. We can be the heroes of this story. If we just listen. Rock ‘n’ Roll High School 80: You Had Me at Violent Femmes. International superstar Audra North (that’s what I’m calling her…haven’t had a chance to run the nickname by her yet) has taken over RNRHS today, in celebration of her brand new release Composing Love , which is out now from Entangled Lovestruck. Be sure to check it out! Like all of my author pals, Audra has a fun spin on her high school memories and the ways they are linked to music. She brought up the Violent Femmes, a band that was a huge part of my high school existence. I remember very well the day my BFF Jane bought the Hallowed Ground vinyl. We took it home to her house and immediately slapped it onto the turntable. Her mother came in the room, innocently picked up the lyrics insert, and immediately broke out in tears. You know I wanted to say, “Aww, Jane’s Mom! It’s okay. We’re teenagers! We’re supposed to like weird, creepy stuff.” But I didn’t. Audra North. Class of ’96!, Currently the author of contemporary romance and the occasional cyberpunk erotica. Band and/or song that reminds you the most of high school: Oh, gosh. There were so many songs that made my high school experience. But I’d have to say Jodeci’s “Lately”. There was so much angst over boys and friends and parents and pretty much everything in high school, and Lately captured those feelings. I listened to a lot of R&B, hip hop, and country music! I guess that was what my friends were into…plus, I grew up in Texas, so country is a requirement. I had the “Lately” single tape, which came in a green cardboard sleeve. The single tapes were a lot more popular back then. It was just before CDs really took over. Favorite piece of music memorabilia (poster, t-shirt, etc.) in high school: I had the most awesome Violent Femmes T-shirt that I got at a B-52s concert. The Violent Femmes were opening for the B-52s that night, and it was the first time I’d heard them, but I loved “Blister in the Sun”, so I bought their T-shirt. I wore a black and white zipper-front dress with combat boots and rainbow-striped socks. Band that you hated that everyone else at school seemed to love: My sister is three years older than I am, so her taste in music tended more to Morrissey and the Cocteau Twins. But I really couldn’t stand the Cocteau Twins’ music. We always fought over music in the car, but since she was usually the driver, she would win. I couldn’t wait to be old enough to drive. Best show or concert you saw in high school: Definitely that B-52s concert. Fred Schneider danced under a strobe light and it was the first time I’d seen something like that. It looked so wild! Really fun, though. I never saw them in concert, but I also loved Depeche Mode. I would go clubbing on Sixth Street in Austin with friends and I’d use a fake ID—I hope twenty years is long enough that I won’t get in trouble for admitting that!—and the clubs loved to play Tainted Love. Best high school make-out song: Anything by Aaliyah! I don’t know why, but she was often singing in the background when I was with my boyfriend.