The SensuaList - Midori's Latest News
January 2, 2008

1. A NEW YEAR - LOOKING AHEAD

Happy New Year to all!

It's been a lovely quiet month for me - spent at home with the core family and catching up at the office. Soon it'll be time to get back on the road again. I'm not sure if it's the change of the calendar page with its seemingly obligatory reflection, the start of a new tour season or the illnesses of friends and family and aging parent - but I find myself contemplative as I craft this newsletter.

Where will each of our lives take us in the near future?
How will our paths cross?
In what imperceptible ways will we affect those whose paths and lives we intersect?
As we face the tide of vast and numbing world affairs, waves of global changes that seem obliteratingly enormous - will we, the individual, choose to fall to our knees in powerlessness and drown in the black water of fear? Or will we curse the heavens a few strong words, then grab a bucket and start bailing? Will we trust that each bucket full of misery and pain bailed away makes a difference, or will we mock the ones who bail as foolishness? When the bucket bailing fool is exhausted will we step up and comfort, take a turn at the bailing or walk away for higher ground of entitlement and apathy?

Each of us touches lives in ways we don't expect - even in the smallest of actions. Let's make each action and interaction count for some good.

(I promise not to write too often when it's so late at night - it makes me just a tad too, um, serious I suppose.)

Wishing you peace, pleasure and joy in the New Year!

Midori

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2. BANG 4 THE BUCK WOMEN'S PARTIES - EARLY WARNING!

It's back! That sexy, naughty and notorious party for women and transfolk. All for the great cause of AIDS LifeCycle

Seattle: Friday, February 29th
San Francisco: Friday, April 25th

Once again we have amazing sponsors so we can give away tons of prizes, raffles and more. (Pleasure Chest, Stockroom, Stormy Leather, Syren, Good Vibrations, Babeland, Twisted Monk, SocialKink, Desire and ID Lube)

Shake your booty or cheer on and wave the bucks during the no-holds-barred amateur strip contest, after learning the finest moves from Miss Indigo Blue. Lydia McLane will tally-mistress till the winners the lap-dance-off. Then there's Auntie Midori's Meat market and the debauched actions after that!

More info at www.Bang4TheBuck.org

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3. UPCOMING CLASSES / EVENTS (Detail always available at www.PlanetMidori.com)

PROVIDENCE, RI
• Thr 1/10 Class at Miko's"Aural Sex: Seduction by Voice" tel. 401-421-9787 268 Wickenden Street
• Weekend 1/11 - 1/13 Three classes at the Fetish Fair Fleamarket.
"Asian Rituals for Western Lovers"
"Bondage Outside of the Box"
"Hot & Bothered: Erotic Humiliation Play"

BOSTON/BROOKLINE
• Mon 1/14 Class at Good Vibrations "Wrapped for Pleasure: Fun Bondage for Sex" at Goodvibes

SAN FRANCISCO
• Thr 1/17 7pm Reading with Laura Antoniou and Carol Queen. "Cake & Kink Literary Event" at Femina Potens Gallery. 2199 Market Street at Sanchez.
• Fri 1/18 Class at Stormy Leather
"Military & Interrogation Fantasies" 158 Howard St., 800-486-9650 Ticket available on line
• Weekend 1/19 - 1/20 Rope Bondage Dojo^® (Sold out)

LOS ANGELES
• Sun 1/27 Classes at Love LA: Celebration of Sensuality. "JoyStick Secrets: How to Please Your Man", "Flirting With Fantasy: Erotic Role Play Games for Couples" at Goodvibes

SAN RAFAEL
• Wed 1/30 Class at Pleasures of the Heart. "JoyStick Secrets: How to Please Your Man", Tel: (415)482-9899

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4. FEBRUARY PREVIEW

LOS ANGELES
• Sun 2/10 Free class at Babeland "Love Letter Workshop" 7007 Melrose Avenue (east of La Brea) tel. (323) 634-9480

South Plains Leatherfest
• Fri 2/22 through Sat 2/23. Two classes at South Plains Leatherfest
"Asian Rituals for Western Lovers"
"Rope Dance: Dynamic Passion Movements"

SAN RAFAEL, CA
• Wed 1/30 Class at Pleasures of the Heart. "Aural Sex: Seduction by Voice", Tel: (415) 482-9899

SEATTLE, WA
• Bang 4 The Buck women's wild and wicked party! A good cause never felt so sexy!

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5. HANG OUT WITH ME!

Come and hang out with me at my various on-line haunts! I run two really good sexuality discussion groups, have some blogs at LiveJournal and MySpace as well. They're all listed www.PlanetMidori.com
Live Journal
KinkWire.com
Yahoo Diva Midori Group
My Space

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Midori