Whole
No longer searching
For the parts
I have found them
The little boy
Lost and found
Part of me
That had to stop
Crying
Had to make
A new self
New life
Has finally gotten
What he needed
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Blog @ UR Part Of It
I am part of It, You are part of It, We are part of It, that’s ItLife
Our DNA flows
In the river of time
Branching new streams
Off older ones
Each individual
Part of two others
Who were themselves
A combination
Of many
Stretching back
Up the river of time
Following fertile soils
Across the world
Back to Africa
When a small tribe
Of humans
Chance and choice
Foot and hand
Imagination
and invention
Lead to our great
Collective journey
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Hope
I hope writing
Survives
Reading too
I hope children
Find a place
To grow
Plants too
I hope water
Survives
For the living
Ebb and Flow
Through
Cell walls
I hope we
Stop
Eating time
Faster
Than it lives us
Barack Obama and Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”
Like many others Barack Obama’s historic speech, A More Perfect Union, touched me deeply. Why? Shirley Jackson’s story “The Lottery” helps me answer that question.
Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. The pile of stones the boys had made earlier was ready; there were stones on the ground with the blowing scraps of paper that had come out of the box Delacroix selected a stone so large she had to pick it up with both hands and turned to Mrs. Dunbar. “Come on,” she said. “Hurry up.”
Mr. Dunbar had small stones in both hands, and she said. gasping for breath. “I can’t run at all. You’ll have to go ahead and I’ll catch up with you.”
The children had stones already. And someone gave little Davy Hutchinson few pebbles.
Of Plants and People
In my mid to late 20’s I experimented with a relatively strict vegetarian diet and I felt great. Later I abandoned my vegetarian experiment and started to eat more like I had when I was living at home with my parents except that I continued to eat more rice and beans and much less meat than I had before my vegetarian days, big mistake.
Dr Fhurman, in his book “Eat to Live” recommends a diet consisting plant foods in the following percentages of total calorie intake,
- Vegetables 30 - 70%
- Fruits 20 – 50%
- Beans/legumes 10 – 30%
- Whole grains, raw nuts and seeds 5 – 20%
- Fish, fat free dairy twice per week or less
- Poultry, eggs, oils once weekly or less,
- Beef, sweets, cheese/milk, processed food, hydrogenated oil, rarely.
He claims that this diet will eliminate the risks of developing chronic diseases, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, that plague people living in the developed world. Read the rest of this entry »
Obama, Edwards, Clintion, and Change
Why is the change message resonating outside the orbit of motivated progressive political activists? I think people have an innate sense that everything is degrading under their feet and they have been lied to and abused by the elites who are represented by the Republican party and PR machine. All Republican marketing/propaganda tactics sound like they are coming out of the same place, and people know that is the place that is degrading their lives and lying to them about it. When Democrats try to use the same methods and styles, (I’m strong, I know what you need, trust me because I am powerful and know a bunch of crap that you can’t even begin to comprehend), they are not trustworthy and representing something new. Read the rest of this entry »
Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein
