The Lupus Foundation of Virginia Charlottesville chapter’s regular monthly meeting will be this Saturday, September 4 (the first Sat. of the month) at Cville Coffee at 12-noon. Spouses, friends, and family are welcome!

These are informal, open meetings where you can come for the creative ambiance of the only place in town with a climbable turtle and Galapagos Islands mural — and stay to discuss local/regional/larger rheumatology resources, problems, and solutions.

Autoimmunity affects more Americans than heart disease or cancer, and coordination of resources critical. That’s why these meetings are open to all people who suffer from or are otherwise affected by any autoimmune disorder. We are your community resource for information and support.

- Martin Luther King Jr., excerpt from “I Have a Dream - Address at March on Washington,” August 28, 1963, Washington, D.C., very worthwhile full text here.

Definitive proof that less sleep –> more miracles.

“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.” - Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience”

Updated for late summer. Please enjoy my refreshed exhibit at the marvelous Millmont Grille, locally owned and operated behind the Barracks Road Shopping Centre.

“The time has come to air the Voice of Reason,
In a world gone mad, adrift on banal seas,
For all who feel that lies have had their season,
And whose Hearts Cry Out, instead, for Honesty…”
- Bill Hicks, “Le Manifeste des Comtes”

The Christian Science Monitor kindly features a poem, “Where did I put the night?”

In the event the night is recovered, there will be a very high reward for information leading to its return.