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THE ONLY CANDIDATE FOR HOPE & CHANGE! Barack Obama For President
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I want to meet and to enjoy *everyone* whom I've had the pleasure of being and will be of friends and family. I enjoy and deeply love all of you--new, old and yet to be, as well as psychics, seers, pagans, shamans, dream walkers, poets, mystics, muses, authors, musicians, artists, professors and doctors, and those of us who have lived past lives.
Those who are around long enough to know, understand that we are not uni-dimensional. We just are. And, others I would like to meet include these wonderful people that I mention or quote below.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: As I was preparing for this article, I asked a friend who is Jewish if it was appropriate to use the term "holocaust" to portray the worldwide violence against women." She's the author of INFIDEL, a Muslim and an extraordinary woman. Read the book. (The filmmaker who made a movie about her point of view was stabbed through the heart in the streets of Europe with a written death threat on the knife . . . the death threat was against Ayaan Hirsi Ali.)
David Mamet: author of the THE WICKED SON, a playwriter.
Susan Griffin: "I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman" (see my blog). It's a powerful poem about strong women and Harriet Tubman.
Cleopatra: Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.
Zora Neale Hurston: I LOVE MYSELF WHEN I'M LAUGHING: And Then Again When I am Looking Mean and Impressive.
Black Elk ~ Oglala Sioux Shaman (1863-1950): You have noticed that everything as Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round..... The Sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours....
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
Agatha Christie: I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find-at the age of 50, say-that a whole new life has opened before you.
Dr. Martin Luther King: At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Chris Rock: . . . the hipcrocy of democracy . . . And the biggest problem in America is Affirmative Action . . . from the 1600's to 1964 . . . or whenever you're place realized there was a problem!
Friedrich Nietzsche: You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
Queen Elizabeth I: Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War": What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Rosa Luxemburg: Freedom for supporters of the government only, for members of one party only; no matter how big its membership may be; is no freedom at all. Freedom is always freedom for the man who thinks differently.
Jane Addams: We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or class; but we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.
Albert Einstein: The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Susan B. Anthony: Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unitarian Minister, Transcendentalist, Poet & Philosopher: Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness~~an open and noble temper.
Ayn Rand: There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
David Ben-Gurion: In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.
Sonia Choquette: The power of the word is real whether or not you are conscious of it. Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Behind every word flows energy.
Alexander The Great: I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
Emperor Constantine of Rome: "Under Gods watch, we shall conquer and never fall!" He proclaimed wonderfully, standing atop . . . well, what you can now visit as the ruins of a once great nation. . . . Does this ring any bells for anyone?
Catherine The Great: I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
The secret of my success:
Swami Sivananda: Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
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Among the absolutely-adored include Sweet Honey In the Rock, everyone in the slideshow and (obviously) those on my playlist, and (my life-long favorites) John Lennon and George Harrison.
Like all my interests, my love of music is ecletic. Everything appeals to me and music is in my blood. My grandfather was a published musician in the 1800's and my son plays violin; most of the women in my family play keyboard and I've played sax. Rock, Country, Motown, Gospel, Opera, Classical, Raggae, and just about everything else.
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If you haven't seen Al Gore's documentary, here's a trailer.
If you're not afraid, you should be. The entire world populace is going to feel the effects of gluttonous corporate pollution. There's no way to *stop* it and it's not coming. . . . It's here.
I don't watch network television for the most part, because of the violence, but also because there's so much more to do in life. When I do watch, I stick to comedy, music or movies and movies and movies.
This is a clip from THE AXIS OF EVIL. (And it's not about WWII. It's about being Middle Eastern.) Take a gander and LYAO. It's wonderful!
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One of my favorite authors who I was fortunate enough to meet, said: I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. ~ Maya Angelou
Our home is filled with books . . . walls and walls . . . and walls of books. Many from graduate school and years of doctoral work; many are family heirlooms from the turn of the century; others are a contemporary collection signed by authors.
In the last decades we've started another area for what the children love: THE LITTLE PRINCE, the entire Harry Potter series, GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES, TAO OF POOH, THE TE OF PIGLET, the LORD OF THE RINGS series.
A FEW OF MY FAVORITE QUOTES FROM BOOKS:
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~ Dr. Seuss
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~ Rachel Carson (1907-1964), SILENT SPRING
Seek the good in everyone, and reveal it, bring it forth. ~ Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (1772-1811), LIKUTEY MOHARAN
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. ~ Anne Frank
They heard the familiar great shivering of the air, as if wind had passed through a thousand aspens, and the angels were there. ~ Ethel Pochocki, THE WIND HARP & OTHER ANGEL TALES
Like all UU's, we make a difference in our communities, our country and our world. There are so many of us throughout history who have defined all America~~our country, our heritage, our politics and our rights~~and we still do so.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, the Zen Buddhist monk who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King Jr.
Presence is the most powerful, precious, healing; and challenging gift we can offer. ~ Marshall Rosenberg
Dr. Marshall B. Rosenberg is Founder and Director of Educational Services for the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC). He has provided training and initiated peace programs in a number of war-torn areas including Rwanda, Burundi, Nigeria, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, the Middle East, Colombia, Serbia, Croatia and Northern Ireland.