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Thursday, August 4, 2005 |
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The World Can't Wait (for 2008)
Our government is openly torturing people, and justifying it. Our government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night Our government is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule. Our government suppresses the science that doesn't fit its religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future generations to pay a terrible price. Our government is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and abortion. Our government enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance. On November 2, the first anniversary of Bush's "re-election", we are organizing a truly massive day of resistance all over this country. People everywhere will walk out of school, they will take off work, they will come to the downtowns and town squares and set out from there, going through the streets and calling on many more to JOIN US. They will repudiate this criminal regime, making a powerful statement: "NO! THIS REGIME DOES NOT REPRESENT US! AND WE WILL DRIVE IT OUT!"
Reprinted from a mailing list post. I may have to hunt around some to find a town square, but I'll do it. |
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The Key to Everything by May Swenson Is there anything I can do or has everything been done or do you prefer somebody else to do it or don't you trust me to do it right or is it hopeless and no one can do a thing or do you suppose I don't really want to do it and am just saying that or don't you hear me at all or what? You're waiting for the right person the doctor or the nurse the father or the mother or the person with the name you keep mumbling in your sleep that no one ever heard of there's no one named that really except yourself maybe If I knew what the name was I'd prove it's your own name twisted in some way the one you keep mumbling but you won't tell me your name or don't you know it yourself that's it of course you've forgotten or never quite knew it or weren't willing to believe it Then there is something I can do I can find your name for you that's the key to everything once you'd repeat it clearly you'd come awake you'd get up and walk knowing where you're going where you came from And you'd love me after that or would you hate me? no once you'd get there you'd remember and love me of course I'd be gone by then I'd be far away 8:57:35 PM  comment []
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Highly recommended Beat the heat by taking a virtual walk along the fog-shrouded ridgeline at Laughing~Knees blog. This series of photos is outstanding, but the files haven't been reduced for Web-page posting, so be patient; it's worth the wait, in my opinion. I'm inspired now to build up to my own ridge walk on Bald Mountain, nearby. (It's the snowy peak you saw in my old mountainscape header, and the source, I believe, of the creekwater here). The climb is very gradual along gentle slopes, and is easily accomplished by anyone not incapacitated by mysterious circulatory anomalies, and I've done it once before, a few years back, with the ex-housemate. The mountain was very windy, very bare. You can see for a hundred miles on all sides. Crevices in a rocky outcropping at the tip-top were packed with millions of dead ladybugs, I remember.
Maybe later in the fall, on a cloudless day. Meanwhile, though, I suggest you check out the alpine excursion at the foregoing link. |
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Tips from from today's Utne: Type your zipcode into the Delocator (http://delocator.net/index_full.php) to find a coffee house near you that isn't Starbucks. Help the independendly owned business.  Recoil in horror from the U.S. Christian Flag--or buy one, if that's your persuasion (http://www.uschristianflag.com/yes.htm). Then read Will Braun's article about it in the SoMA Review (http://www.somareview.com/superpoweredjesus.cfm). 5:59:20 AM comment []
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