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Anne Markham Bailey
The Practice of Being, a guide to creative awareness practice.
Janice Barrett of Wild South’s Alabama office introduces the context of the Present Tense Media series, “The Fight For Alabama’s Last Wild Places”.
Janice Barrett of Wild South and Present Tense Executive Producer Anne Markham Bailey in the Bankhead National Forest.
This new series trailer features Lamar Marshall, Ruth Manasco, Butch Walker and Bob Crow.
Listen to the stories of the citizen eco-warriors who created a movement to save Alabama’s last wild place.
RITA FELDMAN
I was born in the beautiful very modern, though very ancient, 2000 years old city, named Tashkent. It is the capital of Uzbekistan, back then a part of the Soviet Union, now it is an independent country in the Middle Asia. In 1993 my family had to leave our homeland because of the etnic problems that not-native, not-Uzbek people started to face in Uzbekistan. We emigrated to America, and we were recognized as a political refugees. The organizations that helped us to move choose the city of Birmingham Al as a place where we were suppose to build our life almost from the sketch. It was hard,very hard, but eventually we did it, though we are still working on it. 🙂. I have many professions, starting with a chemical engineering, computer programming, tour guiding, but all my life I was attracted to working with the people, their outer, and inner conditions and states. That's why for my professional life in America I chose to work as a skin care specialist, massage therapist, and also I do energy healing - I am a Reiki Master, I do Past life regressions, and I facilitate Family Systemic Constellations - powerful therapy that is dealing with a history of people's families, and how it influence our current lives. I have my own business called "Rita’s Touch" since 1998, and this year we are going to celebrate 20 years of it's successful service to the people of Birmingham.
Rita and her mother Genia
Rita and her son Maksim.
The story of J. Everett Batterbury
Sometimes we meet a person and cannot possibly envision how our lives will be changed because of them. When I met J. Everett Batterbury on 12th Street, I was a young mother just divorced, struggling in relationship with a charismatic but irresponsible artist named Jesse. In the early 90’s I was expanding the family printing company client base, finishing an MFA in Book Arts and parenting my son Edward. Everett was an unforeseen spiritual teacher. I bonded swiftly and fully.
Learn more about "Not Too Bad" writer and Green Bucket Press founder, Anne Markham Bailey.