Month: September 2008
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Daily affirmation
September 30, 2008 Today I am opening to the possibility that all is perfect. My life is perfect, and I am perfect. I welcome every event as divinely ordained, looking for the greater truth.
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The silver lining
I was thinking about the current situation in the United States – at war with a phantom enemy, a crumbling financial market, health care substandard, impoverished educational system, not to mention a whole host of other diseases such as dire poverty (as witnessed during Katrina). A friend pings me from Chicago and asks how I am doing in the midst of market tumult and I say, remarkably calm. I ping a colleague and ask he…
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Trying to hold time in the palm of your hands
Last night, I gardened way until after dark. As I was planting the flowers in the front yard, I was babysitting my neighbor’s son, who wasn’t feeling well, and she wanted a run. He goes to a school where they only speak French and he said in the next grade they will begin learning Spanish. I thought HOW COOL. He said his sister didn’t think so, as a matter of fact, she walked down the…
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Sometimes you plant your garden no matter what
My mother was always going to plant a garden. I heard this statement every place we lived and we lived a lot of place – countries, cities, states, neighborhoods – we were always moving and mom was always going to plant a garden. I bought pentas and some snowwhite euphorbia and red flames to plant in the garden this week. There is not much growing season left. Most plants won’t have time to mature before…
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Why we need a woman in the white house
Say no more: “They [Bush, McCain, Republican incumbents] claim to be free market advocates when it’s really an anything-goes mentality: No regulation, no supervision, no discipline. And if you fail, you will have a golden parachute and the taxpayer will bail you out. Those days are over. The party is over,” Pelosi said.
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In the year 69, 69 – ain’t gonna be no party, won’t be no wine
Everything you think do and say is in the pill you took today…… Remember the song In The Year 2525 that starts off with if man is still alive and goes on to describe a bleak view of technological progress? Well it’s the year 5769 by the Jewish calendar starting tonight and I wonder what our world view is – yes, these are some interesting times – the fall of the US Empire, cataclysmic weather…
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Katrina books piling up on the remainder table
The other night I was speaking to a writer at a party and he said, “Katrina books came out in droves around September ’06, and none of them sold.” Old news.
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Trouble the City
Last night, we went to go see Trouble the Water, which I highly recommend. Footage by amateur filmmaker, cum rap artist, Kimberly Rivers Roberts is haunting and raw, but there is nothing like the disbelief that hits you when you see George Bush drop the ball on the single largest event in the modern history of the United States. My favorite line from the movie is when brother Larry, after rescuing people with a gym…
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Mad as hell
My mom returned from seeing my sister and I asked her for her assessment – she said your sister is angry that this has happened to her and she’s depressed. I said, I can see that. I ran into my friend whose daughter is dying and I asked her how she is holding up, she said she’s mad as hell that this is happening and she’s so incredibly sad she has started crying all over…