needs deeds desires

 

many years ago I realized their are no true

dichotomies/binary choices -- there are always

several paths, not merely one or two --

self-discovery is not about narrow definitions

but about broadly reaching, dancing, being

 

 

 

 

In true democracy

government has no power

The People have the power

Government is our tool

 

 

 

What directs the specific thots/behaviors

we manifest outside of our control?

 

 

 

We need places to go

whenever we need some place to go

to be with other people who need

some place to go to be seen, to be able

to say what we need people to hear.

But where is the profit in that?

 

 

 

For too many people life is too expensive

to have much time to trade without

monetary recompense.  For the few who

have no such compunctions, the ambient

ethos demands efficient profit

maximization.  Where does that

originate?  How has it spread?

 

 

 

Perhaps we are limited by framing

ourselves as identities rather than

experiencing beings?

 

 

 

 

you do understand that government

is a concept or a structure, but not a thing

that has a mind

minds are the people who work in government,

who form governments, who are the masters

and subjects and participants and critics.

Who is this "we" that has the power, ability,

and mindfulness to make the desired changes?

 

 

 

 

I recently ran into an old pro-planet t-shirt from

the early '80s -- over 40 years ago we knew,

we even yelled and screamed and signed petitions

and tried to get that difference made

 

What is wrong with people?

 

 

 

 

we need to deliver -- the information about exactly

what WE want (there are millions of us who want

different things differently); the support for the

people who show a genuine desire to serve US;

getting out the vote (not just mine, everyone's I can

influence); getting involved in local politics so we see

and know who is doing what and how it is being done;

work to get the better candidates -- find them, support

them, get their word out (but first learn who they are,

how to recognize who will do the job

 

 

 

 

The so-called inflation is not about the money;

it's about the goods that are not keeping up with

normally expectable demand because of Covid related

policies and manufacturing policies even before – and

kept exacerbated by Putin's invasion of Ukraine

and the consequences.

 

The solution is not about money, but about businesses

doing what business does, providing goods to the

consumers (if they would get beyond the manic profiteering).

 

 

 

7/24-27/22

Leo moves in

 

Chirona opera outline

 

 

Ill woman has beautiful day, amazing light goes through her, cures and gives her healing tpower.

She goes out and heals those who she finds in need, but it weakens her, comes with more and more pain.

People have discovered that she has healed others, come to her insisting she heal them or their loved ones.

A large, menacing man demands she heal his dying young beautiful wife.  He taunts that the healer is old, weak,

that his beautiful wife offers the world more.

He sends out accusations that this healer won’t allow his dying wife to be save, with pictures to evoke empathy.

An angry crowd forms which he leads against the healer, threatening her violently.  They hit, kick, throw bottles,

eventually destroying her and any possibility of her continued healing.

The sick wife wakes up to a beautiful day, amazing light cures and gives her gift of healing.

 

 

It’s just value branding

gabble gossip

 

 

 

So arrogantly ignorant

any minute you’ll forget

to breathe

and no one will care.

 

 

A litterist – I believe words have meanings

(or what’s the point?)

opposed to dumptyists, who believe words mean what they choose.

 

 

 

Look at me

giving everything I can

not being seen

 

 

 

7/12-20/22 

happy new day to you

Gifted


Years of my life I believed
why wouldn’t I?
how couldn’t I?
“Give more than I receive.”
Most importantly, give to humanity.
Take in humiliating pain, let it rain,
take the drenching.  Perfume the stench
imagining pretty happy plans,
idealizing mankind 
as they could be
brought to see glorious peace and bliss.
The word these days is Passion
a flying heart
the ache of Art
Find where my mind takes ease,
soars with eternity, smiles with fluidity.
Learn from those few I can respect;
let go the rest. 
Float, a ghost in repose, leaving regret
for scavengers to eat in my wake.
Every dawn could be inspiration,
undrained by beliefs in obligatory
gifting,
uplift 
energy gleefully received.

serious citizenry

 

We can’t count on superior weapons

We need superior strategies --

to develop and effectively use

knowledge as power.

 

 

 

There would be no advantage to money

in politics if citizens did our jobs of

self-educating, together educating,

so we know the backgrounds, positions,

experience and values of candidates, ideally

chose those candidates because we were

in the know, because we cared to develop

the knowledge and can’t be swayed by

slick ads, pricey propaganda.

 

 

 

People don’t like to take responsibility

We prefer to give our responsibilities

away, and complain

the people we gave it to are doing it wrong.

 

 

 

We do not have a real representative government

for the people who feel powerless because we do

not do the necessary organizing, education, adapting

and expansion, spending far too much of our time

and energy complaining without considering

what we can do, how we can gather and decide

and divide the work to find, promote, elect,

support and keep honest real representatives.

 

 

 

 

stop abdicating democracy in this relentless

blame/complain/skew/throw up your hands in defeat

the REASON these people rule against The People is

The People aren't doing our part to self-rule!

 

 

 

 

anger wants violent, quick solutions

 

better to turn to a slow burn and fuel long-term

thinking, organizing from where we are to how

to get to where we want to be

 

overwhelming emotion, seeming ubiquitous

attacks -- slow now, breathe deeply, seek calm

and that wise voice of reason, of flowing resolve,

of reaching to hold, to find and befriend 

our true home

 

 

 

 

if you abdicate your power of self-rule you will

be ruled by the power of the selfish -- lose the

wings and find the people who have the abilities

and values to take back our country

but we do need to be realistic in such trepidatious

days and vote in the best of who is immediately

available, and to play the long game better than those

who have been using our abdication against us

 

 

 

7/2-8/22

so far

 

 

 

After all my choices,

this is where I’ve landed,

so far.

 

 

 

Not voting for people we don’t want

is not what gets us bad government.

The problem is that too many of us

seem to think voting is our only voice

or obligation as citizens (when we do

even vote).

Self-governance does not mean letting

some private organization with their

own agenda give you someone to vote

for and then let them run things, while

we stew and complain.  It means, at a

minimum, we help discover and then

support people who have the background,

experience, skills, intentions and ability

to be the representatives who do the work

we want and need to create and maintain

the country we are proud to be part of.

 

 

 

 

Before the break to leave tradition

 

warriors of transition hold wise council,

 

create with care and deep respect of awe

 

a new platform, structure, stretched canvas,

 

laden with paints, brushware, glitter shapes,

 

cornucopia of artists' delight,

 

laid in wait of free fall into our world as we

 

create it.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who told you to hate “the News”?

Competing sources?

Politicians?

People trying to sell you their opinions

and fears or frauds?

Have you even seen those reports

you’ve been told are fake, to see

if they make sense regardless of whether

they agree with what everyone knows?

Maybe if we take in a greater range of

views, we would better understand and

get on with

a greater range of “you”s.

 

 

 

 

 

 

it is our duty (really, our fundamental

duty as citizens of a democratic republic)

to VOTE the bastards out, to VOTE

people who actually represent us in

 

 

 

 

 

 the REAL threat (as long ago noted

by Pogo: “We have met the enemy and

he is us”) is our penchant for dividing against

ourselves (which Lincoln noted long ago

results in a nation that can’t stand.)

 

 

 

It's not even about abortion, or life --

it's a ploy to take over either by co-opting

the Court to deny rights of personhood

to those designated by these now in power,

or by delegitimizing the Court and our

system of government so they can take over

in the resulting chaos.

 

 

 

 

Our human world is being destroyed by

desperate mass suicide,

trying to numb from the cruel outcome

of our madness.

 

 

 

the people who want this have been

working for decades while the people

who don't have been busy with their

lives and immediate issues, and dividing

over whatevers

and the point is not about abortions

or marriage or babies or life -- it's about

delegitimizing democratic institutions

and taking over our lives

 

 

 

So defeated we lose the fight

while they chortle.

The flaw is there is no such

thing as perfect people, perfect

government -- the point of democracy

(instead of just giving in to dictators)

is to keep trying, especially when it seems

overwhelming, learning to do better

and find the very real people who are

willing and able to do better

with and for us

 

 

 

 

oh, you are so smart.  You have it

sussed.  Every Dem. rep. or hopeful

is only out there to do you in.  It's

not that the GOP with all their organizing

and loyalty and propaganda don't

actually have the legitimate power they

got voted in to obstruct and lie and destroy

liberal democracy.  It's not that actually

organizing and finding and supporting and

voting in more progressive and experienced

and thoughtful Dems. would give them/us

the necessary power to do what you are

so good at complaining they haven't

while all you do is add to the obstruction

that keeps them from having that power. 

Feel so good, do you?

 

As a party, no, but there are very many

individuals who run as Dems because there

are only the two viable choices to win and

work for change -- the point is not to loyally

vote Dem, but to do the work to get the

good candidates, who would never be able to

get GOP votes.

Right Now, in these horribly divided,

horribly violent days, we need to find

ways to unite for our common values and find

the people who will do the work, and

give them the support to do it.

Or do you have a better plan?

  

 

 

 

Thomas, who is currently seen by many

as illegitimately opining due to his wife's

anti-American activities, doing his own

nation destroying -- why (how) do we

honor such decisions, such a Court?

 

 

 

I suspect part of the point of these

rulings is to erode confidence in the Court

on the way to overturning

democracy generally in a long game coup

 

 

 

do you think we can organize wrongful

death suits against the majority Supremes

and any Congress folk who vote against

codifying Roe for every woman who dies

in pregnancy/childbirth?

 

 

 

when I heard about the ruling an image came

into my mind of a large rally of sad-eyed little girls

following the Supremes everywhere they go,

carrying signs:  "I'm too young to be a mother. 

Protect the child who is me." and

"Not until you end rape"

 

 

 

 

Fraught images, feelings

smack behind my eyes, deeply

within me

triggered by random sights, smells, sounds,

bleeding freely as if no longer past.

Can I be her again, now?

 

 

 

6/28-30/22