“HOT ENOUGH TO BLISTER THE skin, the Santa Ana Winds ravaged Los Angeles. Sirens raced down Manchester to the hospital on the other side of the cul-de-sac. They were loud and frequent, stopping us from opening the windows to let even the hot breeze blow through. From the ranch house picture window we could see black clouds from fires burning eight miles south. Newscasters called it a riot. Later, the people who lived in that part of the city, and history, would call it The Watts Uprisings.
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September Williams author of Chasing Mercury in Good Company with the Audacity of Love
So today Sarah Kornfeld wrote a beautiful review of Chasing Mercury on Amazon. It was all beautiful but what mad me so happy was that the chick put me and bell hooks in the same paragraphs - whether it's appropriate or not -- it sure made me smile! She is so very dramatic! Go to Amazon and read the whole thing -- and write one yourself -- or at least see if any of the others help you wanna read Chasing Mercury -- I'm amazed ant the time and thought people put into reviews -- It's really a kind thing to do - to honor someones hard work. At $2.99 a copy I don't expect to get rich but the idea that someone think I can make people think, love and resist evil and indifference -- that makes me very happy.
September Williams' Characters of my novel Chasing Mercury are ready to meet You! They Celebrates Human & Environmental Rights! They wanted to say HAPPY July 4th!!
CHANGE IS SLOW But it happens. The Minamata World Convention goes into force April 16, 2017. 40 years the need was recognized. Something to Celebrate!!! Chasing Mercury by September Williams awaits you. The novel is a soaring cross cultural romantic suspense saga. CHASING MERCURY by September Williams E-book is at these outlets: AMAZON, APPLE IBOOKS, BARNES & NOBLE, GOOGLE PLAY, KOBO, also soon at libraries using OVERDRIVE and BIBLIOTECH IF Chasing Mercury consider reviewing it. ( Especially on Amazon or Good Reads.) It turns out what you think encourages others to read the book.
September Williams Author of Chasing Mercury and The Canary in the Tunnel Who Refused to Die - Maria Pallante
In the the throws of of helping the publication of Sarah Kornfeld’s “What Stella Sees” I saw the original certificate of copyright for that book. It was signed by the same person as who signed that of Chasing Mercury. I realized that it was just over a year ago when one of the finest public servants the nation has known resisted collaboration with —well— what we have in our government today— Are is the piece form last year. piece — the “Canary in the Tunnel.” I’ve republished it for you here today.
“I had a very strange experience today. I went to the drawer where I keep my copyright certificates for film and written works. I couldn’t remember the date I received the copyright for Chasing Mercury. I needed it for the front matter of the book as we prepare to publish. I opened the drawer, in the space which we laughingly refer to as my desk. The copyrights are there so my kids can find them when I die. I fished out and unfolded the certificate. Then I saw it—”
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I'm excited to do my first twitter chat with the AMAJournal of Ethics. TodaySeptember Williams Author of "Chasing Mercury" TODAY AT 12 NOON PT -1:45 On Twitter Chat talking About Bioethics, Film and Chasing Mercury! On twitter go to #EthicsChat at noon. ( Photo by Unique Real see on FB)
September Williams Author of "Chasing Mercury" TODAY AT 12 NOON PT -1:45 #EthicsChat
The Minamata Convention on Mercury has been ratified!
This is sunset over Minamata Bay. It may take a long time for the Minamata Convention to be enacted despite being international law as of August 16, 2017 but something is better than nothing!!! and 148 countries made this happen in all. The last 54 signed to ratify ( only 50 were needed.) Next steps are the negotiating to implement - beginning the outlining of the same in September 2017 in Geneva.
Read MoreSeptember Williams' Chasing Mercury and the Nun with the Diamond twinkle eyes...
This weekend I had the honor of attending a young friends First Communion at the San Rafael Mission in Marin County. People do not generally think of me as Catholic for good reason. The character Sicily Marshall in Chasing Mercury reflects a bit of mine in an excerpt from Chasing Mercury, Chapter 15, Santa Monica Bay 1960-1962...
Read MoreQuotes in September Williams' novel 'Chasing Mercury' inspired by Asya Abdrahman's mixed media art 'I am Human'
"The ballerina envies this couple’s courageous passion, which spits in human desperation’s face."
"His sinew and muscle defy the command that human beings should not fly."
"Secure in the knowledge that citizenship alone did not confer civil or human rights in the land of their birth, the American Japanese couple had not considered themselves crossing the color line, instead acknowledging where on it they stood..."
"Apparently, he was an expert in this human phenomenon..."
"...at risk for losing this human potential."
"...at risk for losing this human potential"
“How can human beings be living here?”
"...accumulated human blood levels have not been calculated yet...”
Sicily reads the title aloud, “Declaration of Helsinki-Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects..."
See more about I am Human at :http://www.asyaabdrahman.com/i-am-human
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Chasing Mercury, Chapter 5, 'Bohemian Forest Water Shed, July 1973'
As the sun rises, the bus crosses the River Spree, pulling through the gates of Berlin’s Humboldt University. Hundreds of young adults perch in the stone courtyard, some hanging from the balcony, guarded by marble pillars and neoclassical Roman roof sculptures. Guitars in hand, a chorus of ‘C’s serenade them—Cape Verdeans, Cambodians, Cameroonians, Czechs, Chileans, Colombians, Costa Ricans and Cubans. They greet the tardy Canadians, voices filling the sweltering damp dawn with Cat Stevens’s song Baby, Baby It’s a Wild World--
Read MoreSeptember Williams Chasing Mercury in the 41 st Open Water Rowing Regatta in Sausalito, CA
So there I am, Chasing Mercury in the Open Water Rowing Regatta #41, and my tenth. That barge in the background was awfully annoying blocking my view to Cone Rock as I aimed for it. It was a gorgeous day. The water was perfect. My adjusted time was 58 minutes on a 5.3 NM course so a little under 10 minutes per English mile. Yep--I was 5 minutes behind the first place rower--but she was 20 years younger than me--and I was proud to be anywhere on the same water with her. When you do things out in the environment it really pushes you to protect it. Everyday I cry for the children who have never known this kind of peace.
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