by AnnaLivia » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:54 pm
Well, friends, here’s an infusion of virtual strength from me, for anyone who wants it. I feel plenty to spare right now. Plenty.<br><br>It comes from my altered perspective, I guess. From having my head up that silly little global happiness plan for these past years.<br><br>For one thing, the suffering we’re looking at with utter horror, is just another day-in-the-life for many more people around this globe than we imagine. What is un-imaginable to us is routine for so many, and this is not a recent revelation/concern to me.<br><br>Second, it isn’t any shocking surprise at ALL, or at least it damn well shouldn’t be. It’s not the news, it’s the olds. The history of a predatory leisure class living off the backs, the blood, and the sweat of deprived and oppressed cheap labor by whatever means they can muster is the history of humanity.<br><br>We keep looking at the only thing we’ve ever known, like it was some amazing new thing!<br><br>Third, I keep having this daydream where Patrick Fitzgerald has the last laugh and drives the coffin nail into the bush dynasty, soon.<br><br>Ok, that last one is wishful thinking, but it sure cheers me to think it.<br><br>My tears won’t do these people a damn bit of good. But doubling my resolve to be a well-informed and capable leader should the people around me find they need one, that would help. So I’m determined to stay strong and use the voice I’ve got.<br><br>Defy the forces that would destroy you! Live and love and laugh and rest and work and play!<br><br>(and whisper to your neighbor that you know a way out of all this madness)<br> <p></p><i></i>