Beautiful Words

Imagine, if he wins the presidency we will have not one but three black women in the White House; one tall, two somewhat shorter; none of them carrying the washing in and out of the back door. The bottom line for most of us is: With whom do we have a better chance of surviving the madness and fear we are presently enduring, and with whom do we wish to set off on a journey of new possibility? In other words, as the Hopi elders would say: Who do we want in the boat with us as we head for the rapids? Who is likely to know how best to share the meager garden produce and water? We are advised by the Hopi elders to celebrate this time, whatever its adversities.

We have come a long way, Sisters, and we are up to the challenges of our time. One of which is to build alliances based not on race, ethnicity, color, nationality, sexual preference or gender, but on Truth. Celebrate our journey. Enjoy the miracle we are witnessing. Do not stress over its outcome. Even if Obama becomes president, our country is in such ruin it may well be beyond his power to lead us toward rehabilitation. If he is elected however, we must, individually and collectively, as citizens of the planet, insist on helping him do the best job that can be done; more, we must insist that he demand this of us. It is a blessing that our mothers taught us not to fear hard work. Know, as the Hopi elders declare: The river has its destination. And remember, as poet June Jordan and Sweet Honey in the Rock never tired of telling us: We are the ones we have been waiting for.

Written by Alice Walker, the author of "The Color Purple"

Meh

I was born during the beginning of a huge economic boom in our country, that may have hit hard(ish) times since then, but has bounced back to produce prosperity (for the majority) and ease of economic freedom. The dollar grew to be the strongest form of currency in the world by a long shot, and even middle-class america lived very conspicuously consumptive lives.

I remember the even greater boom of the 1990's. America was on top of the world.

And then along came W. Bush. We have spent 7.5 years going downhill because this stupid son of a rich man thinks he can run the country. I'm so tired of the old families, the rich elite, being in charge of America. But, it will always be that way because it's always been that way.

I've read a couple of articles on CNN and from The Economist that project a HUGE depression, not just a slight recession like our government would have you believe. A huge depression that might even be worse that what we call the "Great Depression" may be on the horizon for us, all because a stupid cowboy thought that we ought to go to war (stupid) with a people that didn't want "saving" (stupid) and then keep our people there, spending $3 billion a week (stupid) for a cause that we shouldn't have been fighting for in the first place.

So, I'm a little bit scared for our economy and our country. I'm scared for the next few years. I'm a little bit pissed that as I begin my life as an adult, trying to have a "piece of the pie" so to speak, it may never happen because we all too complacent to have stood up against it years ago.

No one reads this anyway, right?

Tell me, tiny bird,
What do you breathe when the
Sky is covered with clouds?

Do you breathe easily and lightly,
Or does the bleakness cause your
Lungs to tighten and your throat to close?
Do you dream sweetly through the night, of fat
And juicy worms
Or do you dream of your nest falling to the ground
With your eggs
And your dreams?

When thunder claps, do you
Panic
And take flight
Or are you driven by the clouds
To stay the course?

The explosion of a world

I've just been so blah lately.

That is all.

iran-Contra

The Iran-Contra affair during the Reagan Administration is such a huge disappointment to me. I learned about it a little in my American Government class, I was interested, but I heard something today that I wanted to look into a little more.

So, the Reagan Administration decided that it wanted to supply arms to Iran during the Iraq-Iran War in the early 80's. But, it was against current U.S. foreign policy to supply arms to other countries. The Administration also decided that it wanted to support the Nicaraguan counterrevolutionary movement to overthrow the Sandanista regime. So, it traded weapons for Iranian money to send to the Contras so they could buy weapons in South America to overthrow the Nicaraguan government.

So, most of the men indicted in the Iran-Contra affair after the news broke are now in high-ranking offices in the Security administration of George W. Bush.
Can you believe that the men involved in a highly illegal covert affair to supply two highly controversial groups of people with weapons and funding are now back in high ranking offices in our government?

What is going to surface in the next few years? Yeesh.

Here's the article on wikipedia

How to save a country

Yeah, I know. You’d never vote for Obama because he’s basically a socialist. His views are “completely opposite” from Ron Paul’s, etc, etc. Right? Wrong.

High on Mt Sinai?

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The biblical Israelites may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant when Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai, according to a new study by an Israeli psychology professor.

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Bloggariffic

In line with my new bloglove, here's a new one(s)

simply stated from realsimple magazine!

It has 8 different blogs about all different subjects, like technology and fashion and organizing and cooking...
Very helpful.

Also, I wanted to add that over the weekend I bought some new makeup. I bought some products from Stila.

After years and years of reading Cosmos and Allures and Glamours and seeing Stilaall over it's pages with rave reviews, I decided to try some products. I bought some tinted moisturizer, some of their trademark convertible color, and a convertible eye color
. So far, I'm pretty impressed with all of my products. I do like the tint that the cheek color gives, but I'm not sold on it's lip color abilities. But other than that, I believe I'm a Stila fangirl! Too bad it's so expensive!


And now I leave you with some beautiful words from Barack Obama.


Hope. Hope is what led me here today, with a father from Kenya, a mother from Kansas, and a story that can only happen in the United States of America. Hope is the bedrock of this nation, the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be. That is what we started here in Iowa and that is the message that we can now carry to New Hampshire and beyond: the same message we had when we were up and when we were down, the one that can change this country brick by brick, block by block, callous hand by callous hand. That together, ordinary people can do extraordinary things. Because we are not a collection of red states and blue states, we are the United States of America. And in this moment, in this election, we are ready to believe again.
-Barack Obama

a quarter of a century

25 seems old(er). I mean, I know it's not old. but 25 just sounds like I should wear suits and sit behind a desk or something. I don't know. I just think that number is ominous.

I'm nowhere I thought I would be at 25, but that's ok. In the words of John Lennon, "Life is what happens when you're making other plans."