Not Listening

There are too many things that no one discusses with an intent to change or even accept on a level where change can occur to really even begin to feel like I can create a comprehensive list.

• class wars
• rugged individualism
• dependence on foreign oil
• isolationism
• tendency to invade other nations

Indeed, it is that culture it so prevelant and perpetuated without being acknowledged that makes it so sneaky...and the parts we do acknowledge, we still do not articulate the mechnanisms in which they work.

WHY is it, exactly, that...as G.W. Bush would put it, we are a nation of abundance and accustomed to abundance? He could probably say this with a back drop of the Dorthea Lange photos of the dustbowl mother in the background and people would still nod their heads and say, "Yes, abundance...it's who we are, we waste resources...damn right I drive an SUV and demand less taxes and don't get involved in politics."

So there it is...I am not listening.

Liberty, thats all

To change a life, one life, is all that any of us can ask for. To change a life, one life...our own...and to touch the lives of many, of all who we know by offering them support, love, faith, goodness. These are not easy things to share. We must give them to ourselves before we can give them away to others. There are people who want more than we can afford people who will drain us...but does that mean we should no longer give?

I am a daughter of the American Revolution, I keep thinking I should join DAR...but I am too transitory to participate in an organized group right now.....but I am a child of the victory of the United States. My families have been here since the before the beginning. Liberty is the grace of this nation, we believe in her and we used to believe in the right of each person to live free.

How can we be free when Congress meets to discuss how to take away the freedom of homosexuals?? How can we honestly sit by and do nothing as Congress is considering an amendment to the constitution that would formally institutionalize discrimination!

PLEASE GO NOW to Congress.org (see box in the right column) and write your representatives and ask them to oppose H.R 39 the Federal Marriage Amendment. Write your Senator and tell him or her to oppose S.J. Res. 1, the Federal Marriage Amendment.
Ask your congress to support the seperation of church and state, ask them to support LIBERTY!

And how can we be free when our lifestyle is at the expense of so many others?

When our identity rests on the disempowerment of others??

The world suffers so that American's can live in luxury. I am second generation off the farm, although my home was on the farm property. We had a burn barrel and compost. We lived in a different way than I have experienced in the city--way different.
I have watched this farm way of life all change as we now just throw it all away...no thought of how to minimize...how to waste not so that we will want not. Part of my change in my mind of how to do things came from living in the city and understanding that my time is valuable enough I can pay people to do things for me, at that by paying them I will help support people...gosh, am I selfish for not hiring a maid...yeah right, like I could afford that! But we have to change. We in America have to spend more on the little items as well as the big one if we want more jobs in the U.S.--although if we take jobs out of other countries what will sustain their economies...and what, btw sustains ours?

Americans are not free, they are enslaved by advertising. I was such a lucky kid to have barely watched T.V., not out of any mandate from my folks...its just that we live in a valley and got a poor signal and are also too far out for cable. We still are actually and only have programming because of the dish. To day T.V. is helping to inform, yes..and even to normalize...as more and more images of homosexuality cross the airwaves some people become more comfortable and at ease with the Other...but there are some people who cling to traditional gender roles and who are very, very disturbed and vocal...so vocal that the issue of a Federal Marriage Ammendment is again on the floor of both the Senate and the House!

Americans need to take back their lives. We are nuts because we are unhappy and maybe we are unhappy because we see too many adds telling us that something is missing, something we need to go out and buy...something we should blame other people for taking away. Those people in developing nations, homosexuals...Iraqi's and Iranians...are we supposed to keep scapegoating until we hate everyone...just like we hate ourselves or should??

Liberty, that’s all.
The Right to think and feel and live as you want but without infringing on the RIGHTS of others....that is the hard part, isn't it?

To change a life, one life...Your OWN. I am going to try to live differently...to think globally and to act locally...(how cliche) but its a good cliche... and one I think Lady Liberty would understand, with her sword at her side, a swagger in her step, her feathered tiara and her foxskin wrap...she was a frontier's woman and she knew that to be free we must free ourselves and abide others well to let them do the same, to work with them and together we could all rise above in a circle of friendship....