The latest talk is about Mit Romney saying he knows what women want or need from his wife Ann. I like the fact that President Obama said the spouses of candidates are off limits. He has always had that stand.
I can see though why since Ann Romney has as they say never worked in her life and cannot relate to a poor single mother trying to manage daycare, bills, etc., that some people were a bit put off.
Still, I think the news is making a big to do about this, like they make a big to do about everything.
Being blind, I take state transportation to doctor appointments and get to hear from young single mothers what it is like for them now. Recently I was riding the van, and a pretty young woman with a child with a disability was riding and talking about not only her personal problems to the driver but problems about work (she was not the one on disability but her son). Every time I made a comment, she said, "yes Mam". And every time the driver commented, she said "yes Sir." That is the way of the south. I do the same thing in certain circumstances. I think it is nice. When you are up north, they do not care for it.
Last night on the Rachel Maddow show, she was talking about how many states are doing away with the death penalty, like other countries in the free trade world other than China and Iran.
The governor of Connecticut was
interviewed about it because they just did away with the death penalty.
I think America is an enlightened nation and that the citizens are what truly make it great. I believe in a very positive light that American collective consciousness is growing higher and more spiritual. I realize that the death penalty has been said to give closure to family, but maybe they can still get closure. Really bad criminals will still have much more severe punishment.
I think it would be more civilized as a nation if we did not have the death penalty. Some states still use the electric chair. My son said we still have one in this state but do not use it. I said "where do you get your information?" I was being flippant. Twenty-two year old's know everything (they think they do). I admit he is very bright though.
Well now that I have blogged on the news, have a great day!
I am listening to Craig Ferguson's autobiography, An Unlikely Patriot. He talks a lot about alcohol recovery and what AA calls the 'big book'. It is really inspiring how his life improved in sobriety, learning to live life on life's terms and enjoy so many things in life one never thought possible. Interesting.
The funniest part, he being a comedian is when his wife was pregnant in the '90's in L.A. and they went to childbirth classes where they had to watch '70's childbirth films with really hairy people and they started giggling so much that their 'no sense of humored' childbirth class teacher told them to leave. It reminded me of an SNL skit I saw exactly like that, but really gross.
When I was pregnant both times in the '80's my ex and I took Lamaze childbirth classes at the hospital but it was not creepy like that. We did not have to watch movies like that thank the Lord.
Although I confess we did have the books Spiritual Midwifery and Prenatal Yoga, of course given to us by our hippy friends. LOL. Prenatal yoga is very good though for helping women prepare for childbirth.
That part of the book was so funny I just had to share it.
I have to admit though being a Virgo woman, I have a bit of earth mother in me. My younger son was saying how his stepmother did not like his father's church because women breastfeed there, but to tell you the truth I think a woman should be allowed to feed her baby when her baby is hungry, even if that be in church. That is just my opinion. If someone has an issue with it, that is their problem I think.
No where to run, no where to hide, from the audacity to be who i am. waiting for answers to find new ways to live, lost in dreams and misty hopes, wondering how to make it through this merky sea of illusion and nights of confusion, still waiting to see the sun in the sky and the ocean's blue cry...
Lord, i'll wait til moons and stars and rocks cry out to You, so let Your love rain over me like wine to my thirst, like water to my eyes in this desert where i long for You
in the audacity of me.
It is an honor when someone needs your help, something that does not happen to me every day, because of my disability, but when someone needs me, it is always an honor, either to give advice, to let a sick friend sleep over because they do not feel well enough to drive.
My son did not get to visit me on Easter weekend. This is my younger boy I am talking about and really a young man, but very respectful to me and his grandmother, who he stays with when he is in town, because his asthma is better at Grandma's and he can get to the center easier.
However, David has his license now. Some rich people made a big to do, saying that he nicked their Lexus SUV. They were trying to make a huge claim which would make my mother's insurance go sky high and she is no rich lady.
The kind policeman did not issue my son a ticket. I said,
"thank you so much. You helped with my other son."
And he said "I have been helping your boys since they were just kids."
I was really touched. He knew my boys. He knew we had difficulties and no vehicle. That my older son has been really sick.
It was a day that made me believe in the goodness of humanity.
I just read Elephant Journals, stories about Americans in India. A young American woman is raped by an Indian guy. She is at an ashram, but no one there is supportive and no one in the law enforcement or legal burocratic system will help. They only want her to sign papers saying she will not pursue this, but she refuses. Finally the ashram asks her to leave. Even the guru is no help at all.
So in the end she lures her rapist to his death by her only friend, an elephant in captivity, and lets go the chain. Then she leaves on a train.
I suppose it is definitely about revenge and justice, but it was also a statement about a male dominant, women do not matter society, even among spiritual communities. Why is it that everywhere on earth women are treated second class, whether it be Islamic countries, Orthodox Jews, Chinese, Japanese, East Indian, etc.? I wonder why this is.
I voted for President Obama. I cried when he was elected because I was so touched that we had elected the first African American president. I had canvased for him in North Carolina, and I have avidly defended him. So, this may shock some of my friends and I hope you will accept the way I feel, but I am not going to vote for him again.
Things for the poor, which I am, have gotten worse under Obama. It was better for me and my family under Bush. I never thought I would be saying this.
I also do not approve of his policies on torture and Guatanimo Bay. I also do not like his handling of the oil spill. The dolphins are dying.
I had praised him bringing our troops home, but December 2011 was the date the Iraq war was promised to end before he took office.
I realize that many are counting on his health care, Obama Care, but I do not think it is going to pass. And, for the poor it is getting worse all around, even if you have health care. There is no chance of the poor being anything but poor. The rich just get richer. At least the Republicans are honest about where they stand.
I realize many will not like my new stand, but this is how it is for the poor people under this administration. The only way to do anything about the country is get out and vote, and personally I will be voting and it is not going to be for Obama or Ron Paul for that matter.
Today I had a thought, the audacity of being who I am. You would have to know a person's history and life story to know why someone would feel something this negative. Everywhere in my life, I am working to self improve, to heal, to look at things from a different angle, learning new ideology, meditation, yoga, twelves steps, Course in Miracles and yes Baba. But, understand that I feel often like Meher Baba is not tangible for me, like someone that I can try to love but somehow cannot feel love in return. I know that if I had the faith other Baba lovers hold I would not feel this way, but growing up on the center makes you see things differently. You see it as your own back yard and then everyone comes and half of them start 'spiritual careers' and are very important. Meanwhile I have the audacity to be who I am. Do I sound angry? I am. If you took the time to know me and my life and circumstances of how I got here where I am, you would understand why I feel this way.
Where is Baba anyway? Everywhere, beyond beyond, Paramatma? Is He in everyone and everything, "on all planes and beyond all planes", to quote the Parvardigar Prayer. I suppose that is correct. Perhaps He loves some more than others. Specialness. In the Course in Miracles, there is no specialness, so in a sense there really is audacity in wanting to be or have anything I suppose.
Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows says in one of his songs, so much rejection in every connection. I could relate to that because I feel like that sometimes. Maybe everyone does.
