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Why Do I Write This Blog???

The easiest (and probably the most honest) answer to that question is: I don't know. It all started in the summer of 2005, when I went to Crawford, Texas ( a.k.a. the home of the prez's ranch, a.k.a. the home of Camp Casey) to support Cindy Sheehan. I wanted the world to know that, contrary to what one could read in the mainstream media, the peace movement was alive and well and large numbers of Americans did not support the war in Iraq. I wanted people to know that thousands of Americans were willing to travel to Texas and tolerate the heat, humidity, and bugs in order to support a grieving mother whose new purpose was to shine a light on the lies that led to the war and to bring home our troops so that no other mother would have to know the pain that she felt.

Over time, this blog has become more of an exploration of who I am, my spirituality, and how life works. I love life's complexities, exploring the shades of gray. I want to, as Rainier Maria Rilke said,

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."

Maybe my blog is just one big question about what is needed in order for people to take the time to love and cherish each other and our earth. Maybe someday, I will "live along some distant day into the answer."

In the meantime, thank you for joining me on my journey. I welcome you to share yours with me

 

Thursday, June 01, 2006

The Weight

Some of the things that make me worry about being a human in this century
(Sorry these won't make your day - but I gotta be honest):

Our dependency on gas and oil and what we will do as we start to get low on these resources (or, more accurately, what we are already doing now that we are realizing they aren't limitless). Tom Paine posted a fairly simple James Howard Kunstler article about it.

Climate change. Even the skeptics are starting to understand.

The Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower spoke of and which now has so much power.

The RFID microchip that can be inserted under our skin to track us. Wisconsin is the first (and I hope not the last) state to make a law banning involuntary use of the chip.

The possible demise of Net Neutrality which would stop us from freely traveling the net, thus reducing our access to a free flow of info (this blog would probably be history). A simple explanation on YouTube. A longer explanation with music that some find annoying can be found at OneGoodMove.org.

There are more, but that's enough for today.

posted by Carol at 7:17 AM

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