Hey.  Couch-potato activist.

Yeah, you.  The one who's never been to a Meetup or worked a phonebank, the one who donates money on line.

We need you.  And how.

And NOW.

I'm completely freaked out, I could really use your support if you were in my locale. I've been asked several times in the last month if I want to run for office.

Whaaaa??

I'm going to have to develop a better answer than that, but in the mean time, it'd be great if you were here because they might be asking you instead of me.

Not up for that?

Okay, here's another place I could use your help.  What if you knew right now that the fate of a state candidate was in the palm of your hands?  What if the fate of all the other candidates in the same party running for the same slot were also in your hands?  Wouldn't you rather share the burden, have somebody to bounce this stuff off?  Even if there were a couple of you, a handful of you with this enormous power, don't you think you'd feel better if you had a larger team to kick strategy around with before exercising these fledgling political muscles?

Yeah.  I need you, badly.  WE need you.  Right now would be very nice, before this gets any messier.

Besides, you really don't want me to have all this power to myself, do you?  Don't you think you'd feel better if you at least got some say in the democratic process?

I sure hope so.

I'm waiting for you to show up at the next meeting.

11:02:42 PM    comment []

The last couple of weeks unleashed forces compelling a revisit of spiritual values.  I've opened the following books from my library at least once a piece, looking for guidance:

Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra

Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership by Joseph Jaworski

Dancing Wu Li Masters and The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav

Mindfulness and Meaningful Work: Explorations in Right Livelihood, edited by Claude Whitmyer

Marianne Williamson's Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness and Making Miracles

Women who run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership, and Change by Don Beck and Chris Cowan

A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber

I've also consulted the books I mentioned in my last post.  I've found each of these books to be invaluable over the handful of years, as I've unwound from my past and reformulated a new personal direction.

I suspect I will be leafing through these books more frequently in the days and weeks ahead.  I don't know about you, but I feel a presence, like a dark cloud at the horizon.  Will it blow this way?  Would having a spiritual forecast be as efficacious as merely being prepared for whatever it is that may come?

I lean towards preparation; one can always shed the extra coat, but failing to carry one could be disastrous in the event of a sudden storm.

11:37:32 AM    comment []