Other Things

So how did your morning start today? Kids crying, cup of coffee, long commute?  While in the shower did you run a video of what lies ahead or did you stand quiet, warm water running down the back as you actually felt your body speak?

Sometimes I think the key to life is choice: How do we choose to see the morning, the day or our lives?  Here is how Ralph Waldo Emerson saw it...

"I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share.  The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light.  From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I delight and conspire with the morning wind."

What do you choose to see today?  Why not try something new.  Leave the radio off while driving, sit in the silence of your commute, listen to your tires as they role beneath you and look, really look at your world.  If someone is angry that passes, smile and wish them a better moment.  It is not as difficult as you may think to make  new choices or create a new morning. You might be surprised at how your day unfolds.

Politics 2012 and OZ

Tonight, as I lay on the sofa, my husband in his chair and Bogart (the dog) by my side, I listened as Brian Williams and Ted Koppel of NBC's  - Rock Center discuss the brilliant vote created by our Supreme Court in 2010. The Rock Center discussed Super PAC'S . This vote/decision of wisdom allows anyone running for the most important position in this great country - President, an open door of opportunity for yet more financial fraud and corruption. It allows candidates with clear conscious, to look directly  into your eye and say, "I have nothing to do with that organization." This organization is called a Super PAC and is actually the army of political marketers working behind the scenes, to puppet your vote for a specific candidate, their special interests and with unlimited funds at their disposal.  

I believe I have seen this movie before, but they called it The Wizard of Oz!  What was it he said to Dorothy, "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain...I AM the great and powerful OZ!" For those of you too young to have seen the movie - rent it!

Question: "Do those involved in these campaigns and their machines, really take us to be the Brainless Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion or the Heartless Tin Man?" Do they actually trust, we are so dumb as to not see what they are doing, that we do not have enough courage to stand up and say, "go back and find new candidates that ARE acceptable to vote for," or that we have not enough heart for this great country to close down her old electoral process and construct a new one; one with no doors for moral or financial corruption?  It is sad to say, but I  really think they do. 

I have listened to so many as of late, consider leaving this great country, their homeland and even their grandchildren.  People who have fought or who's fathers' and grandfathers' have fought for these United States and her democracy.  They pay their taxes, obey the laws - ALL of the them, and do not think themselves above the law.  Perhaps it is time these politicians and their "machines" take heed and make note of who is standing at the polls this year and remember this: The Scarecrow got his brain, the Tin Man his heart and the Lion his courage and oh yes...in the end, they were in charge of Oz!