10 Days One Way

OBAMA

Wishing to connect.

There are times...like tonight.

I think about my life.

All that I have been through.

The good, the bad.

Or is there a good and bad?

Or is it just what it is.

Like the yin and yang.

There cannot be light without dark, hate without love.

Not being able to lap up the ecstasy of color without the lack of it.

Or could there really just be good?

Maybe every once in a while the evil urchin would rear it's ugly head to remind us we are veering off track.

Sometimes I hate that evil urchin and yet sometimes

I want to "be" that evil urchin.

So tonight I realize that I am downloading some data that has been stuck somewhere in my head.

Must have been that stabbing pain I got in my head.

You know what I mean.

When it feels like someone has temporarily stuck a knife in your head and then magically it's gone?

So I check out all my fam's blogs.

And I feel somewhat connected to them.

But not.

I miss them.

And I wonder....do they miss me?

But how can you miss something you never really had.

Is it a desperate plea for something that is lost?

A need to feel loved?

Or just simply the desire that you make a difference in someones life.

That your existence matters.

After all, we all want to matter.

We all want to have an effect.

Make a difference.

Will I?

I will.

Peace Out

Let's talk about new skin...

While I work, I listen to music, or talk radio, or just the voices in my head.

Unless they tell me to do evil things....then I crank up the music louder to drown them out.

This election year has brought out some scary creatures that I had no idea were out there.

I mean, I have pretty much figured out that there are some really close minded people out there, but now they are coming out of the woodwork and it frightens me.

So I came up with a grand scheme.

In one split second everyone in the world who harbors any negative feelings for a group of people, for example (whites, blacks, immigrants, Chinese, Japanese, tall, short, fat, thin, blond, brown,gay, straight, etc.etc.etc.)

I could go on and on and on with every label in the universe.

But I won't.

So, in that moment , everyone is switched to the issue that they have the most negative feelings about.

So, all those people out there who say

"I would never vote to have a black man as president",

will become black.

Anyone who resides in fear of another, or hatred of another, simply because of a label or from the actions of one or a few, will become that.

Nothing else will change.

Not where they live, their job, their family, their name.

Then will they realize that hate is ignorance.

Will they realize when one life is lost, we all lose.

Do we hold onto each other near the cliffs edge

or do we push each other off to make room for ourselves?

No Misery

First Blog....One of my favorite sayings:

"Being miserable now so you can be happy later, makes about as much sense as throwing yourself overboard so you will feel good about being rescued."

Ponder on it...