Weblog 139
October 5, 2008~ 1:15pm
October is here! Pretty leaves, cooler temperatures, lifted spirits. That's what it means to me. Maybe for some it may signal the beginning of melancholy, but even that has a golden ring to it for me. I think I'm hard-wired to do best in cooler, slower times with less crowding and more space. I look forward to a one-day outing set for this coming Friday with my sweetie. A nice drive up into the mountains to stomp around in the fresh air, see the pumpkin colors all around us, have a country breakfast somewhere, and fill the lungs with fall.
Everyone needs a mental health 'escape day'- and that'll be ours. I hope you get a chance this autumn to take in the golds and orange splendor on a relaxing day of your choosing, because let's face it-- these times have been harsh. The flagging economy-- the feeling of unrest and anxiety, it's everywhere nowadays. I read that cosmetic surgery is hurting BIG TIME-- down 40% from past years. It looks like folks have more urgent uses for their money and really, isn't that a good thing? How ridiculous to try and stave off the inevitable, pulling and snipping skin like it's a bed with hospital corners. The sag is part of it.....so what?
Faces are meant to tell a story, for heaven sake- so let them. Enjoy the youth around you. Rejoice in the beauty, the energy, but never, ever denigrate the dignity and character you see in your own mirror. I think hard times are just what we need. I think we've gone too far down the line toward total self-absorption and a hunger for the frivolous. Too much 'easy money', and with it, the selfishness and shallowness that tag along for the ride when people live life wastefully.
I read too, that lots of folks are having to move in with relatives. Is this a bad thing? Remember 'The Waltons'? Remember shows with extended families living under the same roof, comfortable in their little tribes? Tell me one thing that's truly wrong with that? Personally, I think it's something that's been discarded that shouldn't have been. We're cave-dwellers. We've forgotten now, but I do think human beings do best within a supportive network of family around them. Maybe this bad economy will force us to relearn how to do with less, with non-essentials.....maybe how to live together again. Time to lay aside the masks
they were pretty....but they aren't the real persons inside. They are our too-big homes and too-fancy cars, our vactations paid for on credit, the latest gadget that adds more debt and that we'll be bored with in a week. We're being forced to strip down to what's really important, to the things that we truly need: food, shelter, clothing, love... instead of gourmet meals, faux-Tudor homes, the latest brand-name fashion, and a steady carousel of surface attachments based upon passing attraction. Maybe these times are just what we need - whether we believe it or not. I think it's good for the soul, and that's always a good thing.
October 7, 2008~ 7:45pm
You know.....I remember that corny commercial of Ronald Reagan's that was such a big hit in his campaign commercial in 1980...."It's morning in America....." --with lots of soft, calming music-- an ideal neighborhood shown, green lawns, perfect suburbia, folks reading the paper, smiling at one another. Little did we know that it was not 'morning' per se-- but the Dawn of the Dead. Abuse of power, greed, wars...wars.....wars. Right about now, the child that is America is a sad little thing
Watch the debate tonight. Watch the next one. VOTE. Put a happier, more hopeful and bright-eyed face on that badly abused child......
I think I'd like to stare out at the world with that kind of innocence again. I think it's time. I think....people, I think we really can bring on daybreak this time. No lies. Hope is all we can reach for....all we have. We know where we've been and how we got here. The alarm is ringing. It's time to wake up, now.
VOTE.
The one thing we truly have is a voice. Please use it.....be a voice for a change. This is the most important election you'll ever participate in...please don't make the same dumb frightened mistakes. People, we're better than that.
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October is here! Pretty leaves, cooler temperatures, lifted spirits. That's what it means to me. Maybe for some it may signal the beginning of melancholy, but even that has a golden ring to it for me. I think I'm hard-wired to do best in cooler, slower times with less crowding and more space. I look forward to a one-day outing set for this coming Friday with my sweetie. A nice drive up into the mountains to stomp around in the fresh air, see the pumpkin colors all around us, have a country breakfast somewhere, and fill the lungs with fall.
Everyone needs a mental health 'escape day'- and that'll be ours. I hope you get a chance this autumn to take in the golds and orange splendor on a relaxing day of your choosing, because let's face it-- these times have been harsh. The flagging economy-- the feeling of unrest and anxiety, it's everywhere nowadays. I read that cosmetic surgery is hurting BIG TIME-- down 40% from past years. It looks like folks have more urgent uses for their money and really, isn't that a good thing? How ridiculous to try and stave off the inevitable, pulling and snipping skin like it's a bed with hospital corners. The sag is part of it.....so what?
Faces are meant to tell a story, for heaven sake- so let them. Enjoy the youth around you. Rejoice in the beauty, the energy, but never, ever denigrate the dignity and character you see in your own mirror. I think hard times are just what we need. I think we've gone too far down the line toward total self-absorption and a hunger for the frivolous. Too much 'easy money', and with it, the selfishness and shallowness that tag along for the ride when people live life wastefully.
I read too, that lots of folks are having to move in with relatives. Is this a bad thing? Remember 'The Waltons'? Remember shows with extended families living under the same roof, comfortable in their little tribes? Tell me one thing that's truly wrong with that? Personally, I think it's something that's been discarded that shouldn't have been. We're cave-dwellers. We've forgotten now, but I do think human beings do best within a supportive network of family around them. Maybe this bad economy will force us to relearn how to do with less, with non-essentials.....maybe how to live together again. Time to lay aside the masks
they were pretty....but they aren't the real persons inside. They are our too-big homes and too-fancy cars, our vactations paid for on credit, the latest gadget that adds more debt and that we'll be bored with in a week. We're being forced to strip down to what's really important, to the things that we truly need: food, shelter, clothing, love... instead of gourmet meals, faux-Tudor homes, the latest brand-name fashion, and a steady carousel of surface attachments based upon passing attraction. Maybe these times are just what we need - whether we believe it or not. I think it's good for the soul, and that's always a good thing.
October 7, 2008~ 7:45pm
You know.....I remember that corny commercial of Ronald Reagan's that was such a big hit in his campaign commercial in 1980...."It's morning in America....." --with lots of soft, calming music-- an ideal neighborhood shown, green lawns, perfect suburbia, folks reading the paper, smiling at one another. Little did we know that it was not 'morning' per se-- but the Dawn of the Dead. Abuse of power, greed, wars...wars.....wars. Right about now, the child that is America is a sad little thing
Watch the debate tonight. Watch the next one. VOTE. Put a happier, more hopeful and bright-eyed face on that badly abused child......
I think I'd like to stare out at the world with that kind of innocence again. I think it's time. I think....people, I think we really can bring on daybreak this time. No lies. Hope is all we can reach for....all we have. We know where we've been and how we got here. The alarm is ringing. It's time to wake up, now.
The one thing we truly have is a voice. Please use it.....be a voice for a change. This is the most important election you'll ever participate in...please don't make the same dumb frightened mistakes. People, we're better than that.
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