tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18428158481471506492024-03-15T18:12:19.636-07:00lunar ramblingslibramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.comBlogger663125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-51376224566368053022024-03-15T13:40:00.000-07:002024-03-15T13:40:33.422-07:00Irish Ides<p> </p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>George Washington, the First POTUS,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>strongly warned against political parties.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>Yet, the US government has become</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>based on a two party system, which forces</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>that kind of ugly adversary politics that</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>divides We the People.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b> There's got to be a better way</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>between viciously anti</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>and fawningly for</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>Let's just get over ourselves and</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>admit we all such sometimes.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>And yet, we each have our moments</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>of transcendance when we rise</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>above our limitations to do what is</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>right, or kind.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>There ought to be (is there?) easily</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>accessed, well advertised, sites where</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>data is clearly posted about bad doctors,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>bad police, bad businesses engaged in</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>fraudulant practice, where we can all</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>be warned.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>If they want you to do evil,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>they are not in the service of good.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>We've always suffered the slings and</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>arrows of bullies and assholes.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>And now they are merrily destroying</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>the world where we need to live our</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>simple lives, because that's what they</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>do, so confident in their self-perceived</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>normalcy.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Pacifico; font-size: medium;"><b>3/9-14/24</b></span></p>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-78575717134329993642024-03-08T12:49:00.000-08:002024-03-08T12:57:34.787-08:00post-reality world<p> </p><p><span style="color: #18c7a7; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #18c7a7; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>We want to save the world</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>but we don't know what to do</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>No world saving rules appear when</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>Googled.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>How do we sooth the savagery</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>we see everyday</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>So many wheres</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>conflicts building layers beyond</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>simple repair abound</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>Go to ground? Hide, or fly to</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>go higher until we've found</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>usable clues, enough people who</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>choose to create better plans, learn</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>to understand what we can do,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>rouse the will and means,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>remake our world se we may be</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>sane and free and able.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>I understand</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>why these so-called Christians</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>insist "Jews will not replace us"</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>because they've already replaced</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>the Jews as worshippers of that</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>angry and sadistic Old Testament</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>God -- whom they have replaced</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>for Jesus.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>The point is that</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>we hate our lives,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>so welcome Armageddon</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>Even if you have decided you won't</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>vote for Biden, or Trump, that</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>doesn't mean don't show up.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>Leave the POTUS slot blank, or</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>write-in a person of your choice, but</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>be there to vote down ballot</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>Especially if you disagree with he</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>who does become President, it is</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>vastly important to elect Congressional</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>representatives that will more likely</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>vote as you would prefer. And then</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>there are the initiatives and such, and</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>participating in your democracy.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>What is gained by identifying ourselves</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>and each other within the restrictions</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>of gender norms? Why try to find what</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>is "masculine", "feminine", how do I</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>measure up, become that ideal?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>We are each an individual with our</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>own idiosyncracities, talents, diabilities,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>attractions, desires, ways of being.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>Isn't our best life goal to learn, to be</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>the person we are most happy being?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>Creating panic, fear </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>tactics for political gain</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>has caused vast unnecessary pain,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>horrible policies, hate crimes, chaos</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>where once was calm and peaceful</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>community.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>How dislodge such harmful practices,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>make political tacts meet some</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>critieria of sanity?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script;">hey, how about a dual currency/accounting system where they get all the wealth money they want (redeemable in special wealth establishments or not if you just want to hoard); we get the full faith and credit, redeemable everywhere that people buy and sell goods and services </span></b></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>certainly we should use our power as citizens to protest bad policies, acts by our government officials we want to make sure they know we loathe -- that ought to be business as usual in a democracy</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>but business as usual also needs to be clearly seeing who we are voting for and against in terms of the world/nation we want to be a part of, and clearly understand that under the rule of a narcissistic authoritarian those citizen acts would no longer be business at all because we would no longer be living in a democracy</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>get over your isms -- a well working economy is one in which the needs of the populace are met or exceeded, which would generally tend to be a public-private hybrid</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>We're heading for a post-reality</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>world</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>Enjoy the ride ...</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2fa4af; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;"><b>2/23-3/6/24</b></span></p>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-29313117153365887842024-02-17T14:11:00.000-08:002024-02-17T14:11:35.452-08:00breathing into the sea<p> </p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>The tragedy --</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>too many wasted lives</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>on the pyre of ignorant hatred</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>Do as you feel drawn to</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>If it feels good, continue</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>If uncomfortable, explore the reasons</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>All the escalating trauma</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>trying to live on an ever more</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>hostile home world</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>LBJ famouslyy helped his</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>country leap forwarddd socially,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>yet brought down by an unfortunate</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>allegiance to a horribly unpopular war.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>The Democrats couldn't be</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>bothered to nominate a candidate</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>the people wanted.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>Such a time of unrest -- Old School</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>America fell prey to a media</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>manufactured yearning for law and order.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>For the focused and effective,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>time gives us perspective,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>long term relationships with</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>those we come to know well,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>regrettable experiences we learn from,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>and experiences that force us to</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>confront and better understand ourselves.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>Given a strong genetic constitution,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>excellent medical care and advice,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>strongly supportive family and friends,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>well educated, trained, skilled, effective</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>staff, abundant resources, expert, experienced</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>advisers, in an age when so much of memory</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>generally has been relegated to technology,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>still the long grown experience which creates</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>amazing intuition and reflexive wisdom</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>is certainly an asset.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>Not even our savior AI (with no human context)</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>can encompass the benefits of such experience.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>We all make mistakes, take chances that don't </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>pan out as we had hoped.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>Real leaders accept their humanity,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>do what they can to lift us all, with the</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>humility and reflection that comes from</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>their connection to our common cause.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><b>2/10-15/24 </b></span></p>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-3555051204939817522024-02-11T15:22:00.000-08:002024-02-11T15:22:10.595-08:00a you thing? a we thing?<p> </p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>Americans generally seem to be</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>ignorant of what our government</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>actually does or can do. We seem </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>to expect our POTUS to be a god</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>who commands the laws and policies</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>we must live by. We seem to believe</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>our government is an all powerful</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>creature that we have no power over,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>yet expect our tantrums to persuade,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>rather than merely a human made</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>institution meant to organize our</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>societies in the ways we, over time,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>choose.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>I know, this we is not merely you and</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>me, who may discuss and decide.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>This we is much larger and broader,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>in needs, beliefs, experiences, world</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>views. Thus, this government concept</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>gets more complex. Then, I guess,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>most of us don't want to bother to</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>understand -- so we just get mad.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>What we need are real communities --</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>people committed to their common good.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>A successful democracy requires extensive</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>civic education, such that all citizens</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>understand our rights, responsibilities,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>duties and methods to have impact,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>make changes.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b> A national leader of the nature to do</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>their best for their nation generally</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>has a wide variety of people with</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>different needs, desires, hot button</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>issues, and so forth. Remember, the</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>leader is trying to do what will serve</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>all of these, along with all the emergent</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>events that must be addressed. Thus,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>even your best-meaning national leader</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>will not necessarily do what is best for</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>you and yours.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Twentieth Century; font-size: medium;"><b>2/5-9/24</b></span></p>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-68826042068988824662024-02-03T14:16:00.000-08:002024-02-03T14:16:43.760-08:00This is not a metaphor<p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b> We do what we do</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>to fill and nourish our time</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>until it's replete</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>Trust is not an appropriate term</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>for what we feel for strangers, </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>public figures we know only as</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>the character they project.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>Trust is an intimate relationship</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>between people who have immediate</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>evident of who we each are.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>Is the real Trump appeal</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>the misogyny?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>We worry about threats to</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>democracy, to our fought for</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>and expected rights.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>Who is talking about the real </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>and underlying threat -- rule by</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>violent intimidation?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>When I was young, I was</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>suicidal, but I manifested that</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>desire to die as bravery, standing</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>up for what I believed.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>Perhaps part of the disconnect</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>between the US coasts and the</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>intervening states, is that coasts</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>are where ever new waves of </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>immigrants from everywhere enter,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>and often settle.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>A world on fire</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>Under fire</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>Engulfed in molten flame</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>Burning hot, getting hotter</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>Is this a place we all desire</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>to extinguish?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>to self-immolate?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>This is not a metaphor</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>People suck-- which is why it</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>is so easy to manipulate us -- just</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>give us permission to go wild, be brutal</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><b>1/27-2/3/24</b></span></p>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-52616349896533985442024-01-26T13:13:00.000-08:002024-01-26T13:13:35.746-08:00si se puede<p> </p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>It's not about those lauded</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>policies</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>It's about entertainment and</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>revenge</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>How about devising systems</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>for people adversely affected</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>by businesses or government</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>groups, to easily report their</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>issues with verifiable assurance</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>that these reports are consideredd</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>an important service of information</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>for the employees of that system</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>to figure out appropriate and</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>effective responses that do</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>clearly improve these situations.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>The trend to concentrate Wealth</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>and Power leaving very little for</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>the great bulk of us --</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>We are so very many, if we could</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>but find our way to get together,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>we could, if we would, make that</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>real change that trends toward</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>everyone having our fair share</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>I can't do it.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>People more likely dismiss me</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>as weird than respect me for</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>my outsider observations.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>I can't convince or persuade </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>people to accept citizen</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>responsibilities, do the work</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>-- yes, on top of all the brutal</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>work of daily living --</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>even knowing it takes so long,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>and is never all you wanted,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>hoped for.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>I can't convince you to give that</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>monumental effort, to learn and</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>discover ever more that can be</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>done, and how. After all, my failing,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>aging mind and muscles are ever</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>less able to continue what I once</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>could do --</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>I am no role model.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>I offer this confession of inability</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>as a plea.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>I can't.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>Please, do what you can to</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>give us all a better change.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>We love them</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>because they are them</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>or it doesn't count</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>What characteristics do you want</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>to see in a political candidate you</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>would be glad to vote for?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>These nonconforming people you</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>fear, treat as enemy, merely see our</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>world differently. They are not</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>seeking violence against you.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>Because they see differently they</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>can sometimes solve problems you</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>can't, do work you don't understand.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>Not competitors, but complementary.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>Instead of wasting all that energy and</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>treasure in hating, defending against those</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>who offer no harm, use those resources</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>effectively that we all have more and</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>better.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>I see Biden as a basically decent man,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>who wants to do what is best for the US.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>Yet, there are so many countervailing</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>powers, needs and desires, making it</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>quite difficult to know what will be the</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>best poliies that can be implemented.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>For Trump, it's so much easier.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>Without moral compunctions or any</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>interest in others' benefits, he can merely</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>impose his own best interests on all of us.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><b>1/23-26/24</b></span></p>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-85257718289756028082024-01-20T12:20:00.000-08:002024-01-20T12:20:57.354-08:00when everything changes<p> </p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>As the ever increasing devastation</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>from Climate Change overwhelms</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>regular issues due to its greater</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>impact on social norms, the danger</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>of allowing a raging megalomaniac</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>like Trump to take over the </i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>American Way far outweighs</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>problems with Democrats -- any</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>benefit you hope to gain from a</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Trump Presidency will crumble</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>under the oppression of his actual</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>reign.</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The concept of differing human races</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>was created so people who made their</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>wealth by oppressing groups of others</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>could explain that they had a right to</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>do so because those people were less</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>than human due to being of an inferior</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>-- what do we call it -- race.</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>You can tell, they look different from</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>us, when we concentrate our gaze</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>on seeing them that way.</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>It is self-defeating to take slurs</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>personally -- they're not about you.</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>They are about those so threatened</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>by you that they feel a need to put</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>you down.</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Those commercials to send money</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>to aid poor tortured children in</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>foreign places, do they act as</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>reminder to pay attention to those</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>in your own community who are</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>hungry, homeless, being beaten or</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>otherwise abused? What can you</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>do for them?</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>All this hype about Trump's</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>inevitability to regain the</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Presidency after confirming the polls</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>to win the caucus in an (some might</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>say pathologically) evangelical state</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>on a super cold night when MAGA</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>cult pressure brought the most loyal</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>out to show their neighbors. And yet,</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>a healthy percentage of Iowa Republican</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Caucus goers on that cold winter work</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>night, got themselves out to vote</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>against the designated fuhrer.</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><i>1/14-20/24</i></b></span></p>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-43960377946179776622024-01-13T13:06:00.000-08:002024-01-13T13:06:49.530-08:00just thinking<p> </p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>An issue with our government is that </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>there are a strong percentage of voters </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>who are not interested in leaders with </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>good work ethics who do their best for </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>us, but rather demand entertainment </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>from those who fill their media screens, </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>to be made to feel good about being the </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>shitty folks they know themselves to be.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>Just because bad people</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>cynically impose themselves</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>into public leadership for their</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>own private benefit, does not</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>negate the possibility of public</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>benefits from common rule.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>It's not governance that</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>mistreats us, but those who</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>misuse it. Use that revolutionary</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>zeal to replace those who do</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>ill with truly public spirited,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>perhaps younger so not as attached</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>to the status quo.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>Whatever I needed to do to</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>get me through what I was</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>then going through, I obviously</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>did.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>Cocaine fueled '80s</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>The perfect drug for that </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>high-blown lifestyle</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>Clearly, insisting pregnant women</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>die rather than get normal medical</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>care to save their lives, cannot be</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>about a right to life, cannot be pro-life.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>It seems more likely to be a long,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>malicious campaign to make women</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>terrified of pregnancy, to ultimately</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>prevent not abortion, but continuation</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>of life. Is this evangelical fervor stemming</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>from Malthusian philosophy? or just</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>a deep-seated hatred of life?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>If about population pressure, you</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>silly people, it's been shown the best</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>way to lower population is to educate</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>women, annd give them opportunities.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>Oh, right, what was I thinking --</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>it's not just Malthus, but even more,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>misogyny.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>The thing is (though strangely, I hardly</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>hear it said), that Presidential Immunity</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>is not a thing in the US. It is not a law,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>a rule, in the Constitution. In fact, the</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>Founders were fearful of too powerful</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>an Executive.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>There is merely a Justice Department</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>policy of not indicting a sitting POTUS</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>due to the perceived chaos that could cause.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>Even so, the SCOTUS found that Bill</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>Clinton, while a sitting President, was</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>required to participate in the Paula Jones</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>sexual harassment suit against him.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>1/8-13/24</b></span></p>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-81507319071381916692024-01-08T14:05:00.000-08:002024-01-08T14:05:36.661-08:00this VAST anthology<p> </p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">An epic tale may be imagined</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">Gods and Sorcerors</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">Demonic evil, Heroic deeds</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">Saintly dedication</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">Marching, firing, binding with </span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">Loving Kindness to righteously</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">heal</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">Millennia embroidered in dark</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">and light, eternal tapestry</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">upon a field of stars</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">Is this who we truly are?</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">Working through our stories</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">that collectively create this vast</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">anthology, dramatic history</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">to amaze and entertain, perhaps</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">to learn in service more vibrancy,</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">more joy, exuberant connecting.</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">Government by politicians who</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">represent angry minorities</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">What are the regular people</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">to do?</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">All this loneliness</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">Each in our bubble</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">screaming silently of blame</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">So sad -- isolate seas of tears</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">Less love, less sensory input,</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">Less ease into bonding</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">human touch, affirming hugs,</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">reasons for hanging on.</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">Do you have an answer</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">to the bleeding out?</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">Is it about creating a world</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">of meaning we can join?</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">Most of us just want</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">to live our lives</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">though sometimes we may abhor</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">what we are going through</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">We realize it's the cost of living.</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">Most of us have no desire to</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">endure disruptions of war.</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">12/31/23-1/8/24</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">"Regulations allow citizens to inject</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">their values into the business world."</span></p><p><span style="color: #8224aa; font-family: Lobster; font-size: medium;">Mitchell Baker, Mozilla</span></p>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-65102970577665709142023-12-29T12:39:00.000-08:002023-12-29T12:39:12.658-08:00to feel meaningful<p> </p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>There are people so meaningful,</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>we need to feel meaningful to</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>them.</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>And that is more important</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>than anything --</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>if we are so privileged.</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>Those aghast at efforts to keep</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>candidate Trump off their</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>state's ballots -- have you asked</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>or otherwise sought to find out</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>why?</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>We who see Trump as a serious</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>dangerous threat to our rights and</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>rule of law are alwaybs being told</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>to work to understand the pro-Trump</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>advocates. You, too, have the</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>responsibility as Americans to work</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>to understand others' views.</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>If you tend to identify iconoclastic,</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>bristle against restrictions, like to</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>find uncommon solutions, defy</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>authority, you will not do well</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>in a "great leader" nation.</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>Authoritarianism may well prove</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>fatal.</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>People claim to be pro-life?</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>Ask them: do you eat meat?</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>If you work because it is work you</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>believe needs doing, you want others</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>to take up the work, maybe do it</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>better. If you work for money, you</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>want to corner the market, drive</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i>out any competent competition.</i></span></p>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-10203537319430115882023-12-16T13:07:00.000-08:002023-12-16T13:07:29.552-08:00dreaming a season of Peace<p> </p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>we need to create and promote a national project to educate and inspire the People to demand democratic rule for our common benefit -- it takes work and commitment, which seem to be out of favor</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>we need to fully fund so many projects to improve our lives, health, interactions, ability to thrive</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>we need to reassess our attitudes toward money and use it as it is meant to be, to account for the use of resources so we may more easily trade our skills to do what we best could for all </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>the truth is we are not Republicans or Democrats</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>We are people with hugely varying experience, ideas, values and cohorts</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>We are a species that needs to gather with others of our kind, and so create these labels to pretend those who we attach to them are the same.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>remember democracy? where we get to debate our positions, look for the people who would best represent us, the whole competition aspect through which we find and refine our best options? This is well before the big day (days with early voting), when we ought to be searching far and near for the very best -- not cementing ourselves in a "safe" place which is anything but</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>dreaming a season of peace</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>I understand you are concerned</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>about those who threaten, who</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>hate your group, because they are</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>threatening you. Understand,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>your real group is humankind.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>The threat is people who enjoy</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>violent bullying, who feed on hate.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>We don't just need a Not Trump</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>for our future US leader. We</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>need ab experienced, intelligent,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>calm, resourceful, compassionate,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>charismatic representative of our</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>best values to bring us forward</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>through vastly complex troubled</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>times.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>Who do you see?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>Can the underlying rationale to</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>criminalize abortion be for some</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>Christian Nationalists a means of</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>depleting the Black American</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>population? So many Black women</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>die in childbirth, both removing</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>them and their reproductive future.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>There is no better world to aspire</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>to or find</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>We can devise our Earthly</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>lives to be kind.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>Christian Nationalists are </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>pro-Zionist while viciously</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>antisemitic.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>Develop, create, spread inspiring</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>excitement -- let a thousand</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>progressive projects bloom!</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>Understand, results may be</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>incremental, at times imperceptible,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>until a tipping point brings another</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>leap forward.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>Protest outside the offices of the</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>people who have the power to </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>make the desired difference.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>Call them by name, and demand</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>they meet with the group's</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>representatives, live streamed.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>Make sure to have knowledgeable,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>persuasive representatives.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>This in the US is not inflation.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>Dollars are not worth less.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>Rather, prices are "inflated"</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>regardless of the actual costs to</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>manufacture and distribute</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>products.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>Maybe the problem is that what</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>the People want is not democracy,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>but the pomp and glitter of</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>aristocracy. The Hunger Games</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>type society, where the poor are</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>made useful as brutal entertainment,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>the wealthy privileged are entitled</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>as the ruling class.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Courgette; font-size: medium;"><b>12/3-16/23</b></span></p>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-20863473191566607972023-12-01T13:05:00.000-08:002023-12-01T13:05:14.280-08:00expand the conversation<p> </p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">Even if it is not the love you seek, you think</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">would save you or that you deserve,</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">it means someone was touched enough</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">by you to create love</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">we have a two-party system not </span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">because there are two parties, but </span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">because the electoral system has </span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">been set up to promote that</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">Ranked choice would allow people </span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">to break out of the party trap and </span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">see the benefits of other kinds of </span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">candidates.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">Campaign finance reform can best </span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">be handled by making money in politics </span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">less relevant -- having other models to </span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">create and promote candidates</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">all it would take is a great deal of work </span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">and dedication</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">How about promoting Ranked</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">Choice (or STAR) voting so</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">we can see what candidates the</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">people really want, not just who</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">they are voting against.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">Our planet is falling apart</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">Don't you see?</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">How can you keep any</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">confidence in "business as</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">usual"?</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">Hate Trump? Do what you</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">can to help those he attacks.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">Fight back and win. Make</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">him look weak, not worthy of</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">fear or following.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">Why express our overwhelmed</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">emotions and the solutions</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">we may contemplate within</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">the public page?</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">In all this chaos and confusion,</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">how will it even be heard (seen)?</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">Or, if barely heard, cared about</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">enough to share, how could</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">it make a difference?</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">This is an added voice to the vast</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">conversation, another breeze</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">to sway evolving trends, another</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">resonance among the rest that</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">creates our collective song.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">Maybe not enough to make</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">clear and present change for</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">better. But at least that strand is</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">there to be seen, heard, advanced</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">-- which its absence would</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">disallow.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">Woman - defined by what is done</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">to us, unwarranted limitations.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">Understand, your bad-mouthing,</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">extreme agitation, will not compel</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">people to change their decided votes.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">You may instead help to convince</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">them to participate less in this</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">unsatisfactory political system.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">To promote democracy, encourage</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">freer exercise, civil debate, idea</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">proliferation, more diverse candidates</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">to provide an ever wider possibility</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">of excellent representation and</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">leadership.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">If you are so concerned that your</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">guy needs to win, make your case,</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">show how your guy is best not</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">just for you, but for us all,, and</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">especially for the people you are</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">speaking with.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">And, much more importantly,</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">LISTEN</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">Learn what those people want,</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">think, feel about the potential</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">candidates and issues. Respect</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">them as fellows with whom to work</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">togetherr on our common project</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">of self-rule, democracy. Not a place</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">where the loudest, most outraged,</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">wins to rule us all.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Shadows Into Light; font-size: medium;">11/25-30/23</span></p>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-75710171100475303522023-11-25T12:08:00.000-08:002023-11-25T12:08:17.696-08:00surrounding sky<p> </p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">Early sunset mauve pink circle</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">outward purple, dark spreading clouds</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">night overtakes</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">proudly becomes</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">surrounding sky</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">it seems like gov't just allocates </span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">funds as they see fit -- obviously </span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">a recipe for corruption</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">I am wondering if governing might </span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">be divorced from money -- they set </span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">parameters, outline and fill in policies, </span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">make and enforce rules, create the </span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">structures for others to bring the </span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">resources to</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">?</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">why are so many people glued </span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">to bad tv instead of enjoying actual lives?</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">Our Capitalism experiment has</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">failed.</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">Unfortunately, those who have</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">decided they are benefiting </span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">exceptionally, and therefore have</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">too much power, would rather</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">destroy our experiment with</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">Democracy.</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">If your plan demands the</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">destruction of the truly</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">humane, that's a good clue</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">that it is wrong, evil.</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">Perhaps a large amount of the</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">problem is the extraverts who</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">are so dependent on the approval</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">of those around them it has</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">become their one true value.</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">It's all rather apocalyptic --</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">people not believing in a livable</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">future squeezing, distracting</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">to get the most out of now.</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">The people with the character</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">to amass great fortune and</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">thereby affording undue public</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">influence are unlikely to be the</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">people we would want to be</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">influenced by.</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Gloria Hallelujah; font-size: medium;">11/17-24/23</span></p>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-87495679536659280942023-11-16T12:39:00.000-08:002023-11-16T12:39:52.906-08:00As the world seems to be running out<p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> What do people want in a leader,</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">a political representative?</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Who do people see in a positive</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">position to succeed?</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">How ought we best proceed to</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">discover the people best suited to</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">provide what we need?</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">If we concede the right of</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">politicians to decide our right</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">to a medical procedure based</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">not on biology or best practices,</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">but on political considerations,</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">we have conceded their right</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">to command or deny any medical</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">procedure based not on biology</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">or best practices, but on political</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">considerations, regardless of our</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">desire, need or choice.</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I started reading very early and</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">voraciously. I learned of other</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">cultures as I was figuring out</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">my own. I am fascinated by</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">social histories, how people become.</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Nattering news analysts insist</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">this is how we have decided</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">will be. Yet, look back and see.</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">So often deluded by common bias</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">denying facts. Perhaps forecast is</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">folly. What we ought demand from</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">news reporting is what is actually</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">known to have happened, to be</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">happening.</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">All the hopeless suffering,</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">hellish lives,</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">and why?</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">To help provide profitable</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">influence </span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">above, outside</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">the need or desire</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">to care, to be aware</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">of others, of their pain.</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Don't expect to convince me to</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">acquiesce to what you believe.</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">As the world seems to be running</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">out, this is not the time for me</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">to become compliant.</span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">11/12-15/23</span></p>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-48630030283239431642023-11-10T13:04:00.003-08:002023-11-10T13:04:37.683-08:00what can we afford?<p> </p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">Rather than appropriately deal</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">with the ravages our activities</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">have made, it seems the </span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">reaction is to escalate dangerous</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">hostilities -- go out in a species</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">suicidal blaze instead of </span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">hopelessly waiting for Earth</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">changes to destroy us.</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">I don't believe in the myth of</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">human races.</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">But, I see clear evidence of</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">racism.</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">I conclude: Hate is not reality</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">based.</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">I get it. The money you hoard</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">lets you stay safe from the dangers</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">of human relationships.</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">I keep seeing articles about </span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">employers not being able to find </span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">people with the skills they need. </span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">Every time I shout at them </span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">(though they can't hear me) </span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">TRAIN them -- they you will </span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">have loyal employees trained </span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">specifically to fulfill your needs.</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">It may be that we have to</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">expect and adapt to a future</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">devoid of reliable facts.</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">Islamophobia, AntiSemitism --</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">these are their own issues over</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">places and times. This violence in</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">the Middle East is not religion-based</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">hatred. It's about land, territory,</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">as war so often is.</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">It tears my heart out</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">people, people suffering, torn</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">to pieces, lost to life of more than</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">pain. And why? For the pleasure</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">of influential comfortable Men</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">of Reason who profitably command</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">what national values must be.</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">What a wonderful excuse for</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">refusing to do what needs doing --</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">we can't afford it! What can we afford?</span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Yellowtail; font-size: medium;">11/5-10/23</span></p>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-29399529730137169012023-11-05T13:37:00.003-08:002023-11-05T13:37:38.559-08:00social societies<p> </p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">isn't that what the whole MAGA </span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">White Nationalist thing is about -- </span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">the changing demographics that </span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">make White Christians the minority</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">I see various complaints about</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">social media as detrimental to</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">mental health. To me it seems</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">the most salient issue is not what</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">happens on social media, but the</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">opportunity costs of time and</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">attention more healthfully spent</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">irl.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">Netanyahu, Putin, Trump, </span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">Ayatollah Ali Khamenei -- these</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">are autocrats, happy to sacrifice</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">The People any way to enhance</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">their own power.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">Got migrants and their issues?</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">Grow Up! That is the case in better</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">off nations -- those the migrants</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">aren't migrating from.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">If we are truly living in a</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">simulation, this AI movement toward</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">alternative realities won't matter</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">when reality is so subject to</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">subjectivity, to our own</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">creativity.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">I don't know how to do people.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">Wh</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">In all this time of trying, to divine,</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">to find that key, to understand, that</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">has been beyond me.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">I know so many times I was </span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">enough, my constrant friend.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">Yet still I feel that demeaning demand</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">for companionship, mutuality of</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">compassion, true kinship of soul.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">Why would such meeting so matter?</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">It's only life, after all.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">Here and gone.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">Another log on the pyre.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">I get it. Your creed insists on us</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">each being our own responsibility.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">No handouts -- work or starve.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">Harsh. A poor defining of kind,</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">spitting on the idea of empathy.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">And so clearly you are aware of</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">your need to stave off guilt with</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">elevation of cruelty -- not only denying</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">aid or comfort, denying human dignity.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">We complain that social media</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">has overwhelmed actual social</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">interplay. We blame internet</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">addiction for mental distress,</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">epidemic loneliness. If we were</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">getting the social benefits we need</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">in our real life relationships, we</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">would not have become so dependent</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">on the approbation of strangers.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">#memorytrain #annaslicker</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">She told me her life, beautiful</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">tragicomedy</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">over the brief days we played,</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">laughed, made memories.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">See! I carry her image, her essence</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">all these years.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Wallpoet; font-size: medium;">11/3-5/23</span></p>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-25513582382703249412023-11-03T13:26:00.001-07:002023-11-03T13:26:27.807-07:00respect those fierce Mama<p> </p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">Young people getting together</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">to figure out how to solve our</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">world's tragedies -- how does</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">that happen? What needs to be</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">done to move there?</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">Racism, Sexism, Ageism, Ableism</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">Classic Classism</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">divide to rule</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">If lower income workers pay an</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">ever larger share of their resources</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">in taxes than the privileged in so</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">many ways higher paid, for the</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">economic well-being of the nation,</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">lower wages need to be raised.</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">Who do you like as a</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">political upcomer you are</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">noticing?</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">What do you like as a</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">social change project</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">you are noticing?</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">Great achievement comes from</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">complicated people</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">Enjoy the good they provide</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">Condemn their dangerous side</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">Are "Right" and "Conservative"</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">now code for cruel?</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">Apparently, as certain people can</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">not handle alcohol, let it turn them</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">into assholes or worse, some people</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">can't handle power, become mad</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">and dangerous.</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">Such people do not need to be </span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">applauded, elevated for their</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">manipulative persona. They need</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">to be compelled to treatment</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">for their disease.</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">Those fierce Mamas</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">who get everything done</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">in their families,</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">neighborhoods,</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">communities,</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">in the world,</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">get far too little respect</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">far too much obstruction</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">The pain, the fear</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">the agony, the smothering terror</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">escalating beyond any ability</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">to go on -- bled out, gone</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">Because he needed to be King</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">only understanding power as</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">the power to destroy</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Oswald; font-size: medium;">10/23-11/3/23</span></p>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-3461428191620293602023-10-22T13:51:00.000-07:002023-10-22T13:51:57.769-07:00as our lives explode<p> </p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>When the world is on fire</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>you had best be aware<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>that you love the person<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>you know you are.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>These so-called leaders,<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>destroying the people's world<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>for their greater self-adulation<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>Look at their happy faces<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>as our lives explode. <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>Persistence<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>Accretization<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>Expansion of Inspiration<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>To make a difference<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>We call can better live with<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>This inflation the US Fed is<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>so concerned to control, can<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>that be more about slowing<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>small business success, raising<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>unemployment, pulling back the<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>growing power of labor?<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>Wouldn't the tried and true way<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>to bring down prices be real<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>competition?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A thousand
businesses<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>blooming?<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>Everything will be fine in<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>this Universe unfolding as it must.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>Humans destroying our world,<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>each other, in fatal frenzy<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>Attacked viciously?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Show
stalwart<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>strength in overwrought,<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>overwhelming response.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>Escalate to nuclear all out <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>holocaust -- end of mankind<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>Yes!<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>for now the planet heals.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>All is fine.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>When I say "I love you"<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>I hope you don't see:<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>"Please notice me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Give my life<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>focus, purpose; be what I need."<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>What I am saying is:<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>"Your being is importantly<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>meaningful to me."<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><b>10/14-22/23</b></span><span style="color: #37194e; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p></p>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-23674150584981213782023-10-13T13:52:00.003-07:002023-10-13T13:52:59.795-07:00the folly and the possibilities<p> </p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>Instead of means tested public services </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>or money,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>how about full service community </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>support,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>paid for with government grants and </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>donations</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>and volunteers?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>Thank indigenous people for </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>the use of their land.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>Businesses, you don't want to pay</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>higher wages to get your work done?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>Do whatever you can to lower prices</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>for housing, food, energy, transportation,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>medical care, childcare, education ...</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>Those Religious wars</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>Christian against Christian</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>Where is the Christ?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>Do what you can</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>with what you've got</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>Adapt to what is happening</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>Politicians! Public Relations!</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>People paid to lie </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>"for the public good"</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>Business, by its nature,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>needs a working social structure</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>within which to be created,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>to grow, to exist.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>Thus, it behooves those who</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>have these businesses to be</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>responsible citizens.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>You used my need to f me over.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>You used my trauma to extract</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>whatever I had.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>How are you any better than</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>whatever disgusts you?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>They are happy to ignore</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>inconsistencies, obvious</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>fallacies, crazy idiocy from</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>their designated leaders</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>because they need the even</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>false safety, security, of</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>unquestioning.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>Reality has no bias.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>It is simply what is.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>Still, it is interpreted</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>differently by every</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>subjective mind.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>... It's complicated</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>Why consider the poor,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>noxious maggots infecting</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>our city streets;</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>ugly, depressing.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>Let them rot, or, better, made</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>useful targets for our sport</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>and ire.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>Let them starve, for our</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>bouyant entertainment, or,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>better, strike out violently</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>against their own in competition</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>for whatever they can scrape</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>together.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>Perhaps a few may amuse, be</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>risen as pets -- thus we exhibit</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>benevolence.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>Or perhaps fate may provide</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>conditions to allow bombardment.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>Irradicate, that we reclaim for our</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>investment in those places they</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>infest.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>the thing with big media is that it is </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>big business</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>the aim of big business is profit</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>whatever gets that profit becomes </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>the business model</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>look to small media for actual information – </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>find the reporters you can trust</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>if we expanded our social consciousness </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>beyond our daily survival games, perhaps </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>we would see the folly and the possibilities,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b> and a better path from here to there</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kaushan Script; font-size: medium;"><b>10/7-13/23</b></span></p><div><br /></div>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-17407563485027423602023-10-07T13:52:00.004-07:002023-10-07T13:54:04.692-07:00ways to proceed<p> </p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>What makes these anti-government,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>anti-people shenanigans "Right"?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>(They certainly aren't conservative,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>but rather wildly radical.)</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>It seems ironic that the people</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>most able to gain public attention</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>are so often those we least</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>ought attend.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>War is outrageously expensive</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>We can't let tyrants take over</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>We intelligent people,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>can we find practical, effective</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>ways to proceed?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>If you can't stand, you can </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>still dance with every part</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>of you that can move to the</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>music.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>people with money ought to be out there </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>having a wonderful time, maybe </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>throwing cash about to see the throngs </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>applaud, partying and laughing, a happy</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>inspiration to us all</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>why the hell are they wasting their time </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>on bad politics? </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>we would all be so much better off if people </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>would stop wasting time/energy attacking </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>other people and use those resources to </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>attack our common problems</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>All these signs, synchronicities</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>shouting out to me</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>existential Truth</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>What is so meaningful we need</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>to live for?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>Most of us seem to hate our lives</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>most of the time.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>Isn't that what the cruelty is</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>about? Needing to feel something,</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>to distract, to have a way to</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>relate, when all we have to give</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>is pain.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: Great Vibes; font-size: large;"><b>9/30-10/7/23</b></span></p><div><br /></div>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-47622309095982817262023-09-29T12:19:00.004-07:002023-09-29T12:19:48.773-07:00changing social constructs<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Zero Evil!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">That's how much evil you can<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">do in the service of good.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Being good is no guarantee of<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">safety<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Being good keeps us feeling <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">good while we are.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Do we consider the relative merits<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">of assuming enmity over making<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">friends?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">The cost we are leaving for<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">our descendants for our disrespect<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">for our planet is their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">All these petty people so invested<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">in showing off their ignorance<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">based resentments.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Money is not objectively real<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">-- It is a social construct.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">And a social construct can be<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">changed, when enough people<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">agree.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">There are no perfect people.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">There can be no perfect<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">political leader.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Look for those who clearly<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">respect your most important<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">values and have track records<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">for getting good things done.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Who do you see?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Since a major reason for<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">protest demonstrations is to get<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">media attention, how about<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">demonstrating outside major<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">media offices?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Oh, my Humanity,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">enmeshed, overwhelmed by<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">insanity,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">refusing to do what we know<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">beyond dispute needs to be done.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Compounding problems,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">layering tragedies, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">delay creating more dire,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">complex disarray, downward<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">spiral.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">And what is the kink in the work<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">that keeps us from best practices?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Why, we haven't the funds for that!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">(Yet, just where do we find our<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">society's funds have gone?)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b></p><p>
<b><span style="color: #9f006e; font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">9/16-29/23</span></b></p>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-67482911987887817702023-09-15T14:02:00.001-07:002023-09-15T14:02:33.715-07:00problems and issues<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>What is your issue?</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>What is the context and background</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>of your issue?</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>What is your ideal outcome?</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Turn your problems into issues.</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Problems need solutions.</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Issues need understanding.</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>When you base your thinking</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>on the numbers, the theories,</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>instead of the people,</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>your solutions will be wrong.</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Fear is antagonistic to creativity.</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Reward works so much better</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>to encourage better work.</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>We may have concerns about</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>political leaders who are overly</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>experienced in politics, paradigms</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>of the past.</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Who, then, are the young upcomers</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>capturing the public imagination,</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>offering well thought out ideas</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>for a future we would prefer?</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>it is the unwanted children, those </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>who then live without the material, </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>familial, spiritual necessities that every </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>child ought to thrive within, who suffer </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>the most when women are forced to be </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>brood mares against their desires or </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>their very real needs. Or do you have </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>some very good reason to enjoy the </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>prospect of children suffering?</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>you do understand children need - </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>food, shelter, security, pretty </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>constant care, people who show </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>love and concern, education even </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>in the very micro sense of learning </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>the basic ways to take care of themselves, </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>and so much more</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Can you understand that many, many </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>people are not in a position to take care </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>of those needs, that they may be at the </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>very edge of what they can manage, </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>that they don’t see this “gift” as anything </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>but a terrible burden</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>and can you understand that pregnancy </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>is far from a gift, that there are so very </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>many things that can go horribly wrong, </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>that some pregnancies disallow for the </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>pregnant person to do the things they need </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>to for their lives and the lives of others </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>already dependent on them</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>If you are so concerned about these </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>theoretical children with whom you have </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>no responsibility or knowledge perhaps </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>you could address THEIR real needs – </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>not your phony morality</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>And consider the very real pain of birth </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>when you speak of ripping infants from </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>the womb – you have no idea, do you, </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>of what you speak</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>there is a vast difference between a </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>forming unborn without actual </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>connections or realization of life and </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>a person who can speak and act in their </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>own interests. So, yes, I support assisted </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>suicide, but certainly not encouraged or </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>forced or murder. And it’s not that I am </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>speaking of doing away with ongoing </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>pregnancies from an outside interference </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>(like some people insist on outside interference </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>to prevent ending pregnancies). I am </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>speaking of allowing potential mothers to </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>make the best choice for themselves and </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>their potential children, because they are the </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>ones who know their circumstances and </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>have to deal with the consequences. </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>As for being free to choose – have you heard </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>of rape or other forms of coercive sex. And, </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>of course, there are all those pregnancies that </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>become problematic even if reproduction </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>was the goal when she engaged in those activities.</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>And, whether you can grasp this or not, </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>due to lack of appropriate sex education, </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>there are young women who honestly </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>don’t understand the potential consequences </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>of these actions they were convinced by </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>young men they really ought to engage in.</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Because of being the means of reproduction </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>as it were, women suffer in cruelly unnecessary ways.</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>I often wonder why it seems that we </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>over-value the "conservative" view, act as </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>if our arguments and defaults have to cater </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>to those specious values.</b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Kalam; font-size: medium;"><i><b>9/9-15/23</b></i></span></p><div><br /></div>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-50595403748619989272023-09-08T13:17:00.000-07:002023-09-08T13:17:16.024-07:0013 minutes to midnight<p> </p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">seems like many of us are doing <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">this government thing wrong -- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">expecting it to save us or betray <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">us instead of using it as a part of
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">our overall social structure to <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">implement our shared values, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">provide for our overall needs, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">be us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">it seems like a great many voters <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">consider voting their only civic
duty <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">and don't really know much about <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">how their government works <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">(or doesn't work)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">We decry our plunge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">toward isolation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">but really<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">we don't like other people<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">We understand the need<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">to have them in our lives,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">but would so much rather<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">not have to deal with all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">that arrogance, judgment,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">strife<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Like the drugs, the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">hunger for money, the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">hunger for what little is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">left to prize, to distract<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">from the panic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Our world, our nations,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">our lives are falling away,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">fire and floods and pandemics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">and famine, seas occluded<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">with plastic waste, air, soil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">and blood infected with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">poison, decay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, we can't<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">take in, believe, react with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">sane activity, policies,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">adaptation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why bother,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">we say, we scream, when<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">what we want can't matter,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">nothing left to matter but,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">the drugs, the wealth, the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">competition, to override our<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">very real existential fear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">We are so controlled by<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">what we can't control<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">not because it matters to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">who we are, but because<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">it matters to others'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">mythology.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">I say it and say it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">and nobody cares<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">because everyone says it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">and nobody cares<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">because we all know it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">and nobody cares<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">because we can't hold it,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">so overwhelmed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">beyond caring<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">beyond breath<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">My life has been my work<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">other parts have been <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">subordinate, fodder for that work<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">The sum of who I am I splash<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">on real and digital pages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">to give to any you who will<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">take me on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #456f24; font-family: "Bahnschrift SemiBold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">9/3-8/23<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-40658120673980552112023-09-03T14:46:00.007-07:002023-09-03T14:50:56.680-07:00let Kindness shine<p> </p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b>it is costing so much more, </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b>every day in every way, to continue </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b>this anti-Earth stance -- makes NO SENSE or cents</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b>It's not journalism that sucks -- it's capitalism</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b>We are not loved because we deserve it.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b>We are loved because love is what</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b>those who love us feel.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b>Love/Hate so often is not about the target</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b>is internal to the Lover/Hater</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b>Just be kind</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b>Why not?</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b>Maybe some of the kindness</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b>you bequeathe</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b>will seep back into you</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b>and grow that glowing feeling</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b>so delightful! and free!'</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b>Even without trust, just be kind.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b>Allow that delicious feeling</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b>to thrive and pervade</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Faustina; font-size: medium;"><b>our world.</b></span></p><div><br /></div>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842815848147150649.post-65063167151457915822023-08-29T15:33:00.001-07:002023-08-29T15:33:14.452-07:00resurrecting an old idea<p><span style="font-family: Chakra Petch; font-size: medium;">links posted here may no longer work </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Chakra Petch; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Chakra Petch; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">Posted on Saturday 03 of June, 2006 [04:58:18 UTC]</span></span></p><span style="font-family: Chakra Petch; font-size: medium;"><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">Flash Utopian Fiction Project Update</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">Laurie Corzett in libramoon's Observatory</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">Friday 07 of April, 2006</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">NEWSFLASH: NEW UTOPIAN FLASH FICTION GOOGLE GROUP:</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">* Group name: utopian flash fiction</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">Group home page: http://groups.google.com/group/utopian-flash-fiction</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">Group email address utopian-flash-fiction@googlegroups.com ??</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">As you may know, I have been working on creating a project to write a series of flash utopian fiction — flash fiction=ultrashort stories — pieces around an imaginary federation of diverse villages each working out their methods of community life. I am visualizing little dramatic impacts that also impart information about how the people of the community involved solve their social problems — dramatic storytelling with a purpose: speculative fiction with which to fashion visions from which to expand our collective view of how collective life can be more happily structured. I have had some interest expressed by other writers, and a few stories have been sent to me. I have posted the stories that I have been sent to a delphi forums site I set up to manage this project. I would love eventually to publish, if I get enough stories for a book. I envision a whole world of ideas created through these short bursts of fiction, little vignettes or as one person suggested, peeks into open doors. There is no set format to fit. What you write, if you choose to participate, would help to create the structure itself.</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">I am totally open to collaboration and inspiration. If you have or or feel inspired to create such stories, or know of others who might be interested, please let me know. If you are interested in participating in this project or have other ideas to add, please respond </span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">If this project actually works out, it will result in a book in need of publication. If you have affiliation with or knowledge of any small press that would be interested in working with such a project, please let me know.</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br />I may start a new group on LinkedIn or MeWe<br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">Description: This group is part of a project to write a series of flash utopian fiction pieces around an imaginary federation of diverse villages each working out their methods of community life. I am visualizing little dramatic impacts that also impart information about how the people of the community involved solve their social problems.</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">A fictional project allows for social activist imaginings outside of the currently "possible" to promote ideas in an easily digestible and enjoyable form, each person involved adding their bits to the overall project. It would be wonderful eventually to publish these stories into an inspirational book, but I am mostly interested to see what kinds of ideas for possible social structures result. I am hoping eventually to see a whole world of ideas created through these short bursts of fiction, little vignettes or as one person suggested, peeks into open doors. There is no set format to fit. What each participant writes would be helping to create the structure itself.</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">A possible jumping off point would be to write stories based on the scenario:</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">We are a group of colonizers sent to a new planet, with a variety of skills and knowledge. The core group has been given the job of a sort of council of elders, to develop the new constitution, by-laws, societal structure within which the colony is to operate.</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">This is only a suggestion. The whole point is: there are no limits</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">The original stories are still posted on the delphiforums group:</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">http://forums.delphiforums.com/opendoorways</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">I intend to continue to post updates here.</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">If you would like to help promote the project, here is a blurb you can leave where you go:</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">Laurie Corzett is seeking collaboration for her Flash Utopian Fiction Project: series of flash fiction pieces around a federation of diverse villages each working out their methods of community life — little dramatic impacts illustrating creative solutions to social problems. Got ideas?</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">http://people.lulu.com/blogs/view.php?user_id=38353 libramoon’s observatory (blog)</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">Peace,</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">Laurie</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">Here is the second story I have written for this project, to give you an idea of what kind of thing I am thinking of (the first story, Sanctuary, is posted further down on this blog, under the heading "Flash Utopian Fiction Project"):</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">University</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">We are told that our project was named University because our purpose is to facilitate a universe of possibilities. University started as one of those possibilities, a project conceived and carried out by for and of a conscious community of artists, engineers, scientists and philosophers. I grew up in that community, and wouldn't have it any other way.</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">We learn in the histories, and know that in many places still today, education has been separated from general life, often made compulsory and relegated to specific times, places and procedures. Corporations took on the tasks of research and product development for a profit, while politicians were responsible to craft projects of benefit to the community. At University projects are constantly being started, executed, sent out to find those who can now benefit from what has been accomplished. Someone or ones snag onto an idea and start to figure out the steps from here to there. A call is given out to anyone who is interested or has relevant skills to join in. We learn what we need to know each step of the way and bring in others as the project progresses. We have the background structure of University to draw upon, where learning of all kinds is constantly in session.</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">From the time I was very young, from my first moments of remembered consciousness, I knew any of my questions would find serious response at University. There are the libraries, record chips of any subject imaginable, everything explained from the simplest child's vantage point up through the most learned of scholars in the field, fully illustrated in animation and live action recording, as appropriate. More importantly, there are the people, the scholars, engineers, scientists, artists, each with their passions that they are so very happy to share.</span><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;">University is the busiest, bubblingist, energized and enthusiastic environment to grow in. No one says: "it can't be done." It's always: "well, what's the next step we have to take to get there?"</span></span>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0