hey all,

just thought you might be interested that it is my sister's birthday today, and I haven't a clue how to get hold of her. I have a string of phone numbers and emails that are nonoperational... my mother is wandering somewhere along the west coast, so the family nerve center is out of commission. I haven't actually spoken to either of my sibs, or Chuck, or Rosie in ages and ages and ages, and I miss them... what gives with this family!

This blog actually makes me feel lonely sometimes, cause where is my familyetcetera? I keep thinking, are we the victims of forces in this society that divide and conquer: to focus on our own needs, to avoid intimacy and truth between us? Or are we just pooped? I know I am! Anyway, I hope, I fervently hope this blog will change that!

Well, Fran, anyhoo, HAPPYHAPPYHAPPYBIRTHDAY!!! I hope you see this soon! Before you get too much older than me.... teehee!

call, write or post: hope to hear from you soon.

love you, mary

PS: I am sad that the news about Jeb Bush being ushered into a utility closet while democratic protesters were being tasered in Pittsburgh last Friday joins the reams and reams of stuff that never makes the major media outlets. I thought we lived in a Democracy, but another myth of my youth is stripped and my innocence yields before yet another harsh outcrop of reality: We are not who we think we are, are we?

Makes me wonder, if the truth were out, how could we even live with ourselves? I am reminded of the schoolyard: one contingent bullies and takes what they want because what they want is more important than anything, another giggles and chases after pretty things while secretly judging, comparing the worth of one human being against another based on accumulations or appearances; yet another has learned to blend like chameleons in fear, poverty, ignorance and disgrace. There are adults around too, but they are outnumbered... And there, in the corner, the Buddha club! Yay!

The worst taint is ignorance. Destroy this one taint and become taintless. - Buddha

I really boils down to the duality of subject and object, with supremacy granted to object, at least in our Western Mind. The same parallels can be seen between left and right-brain, male and female-specific organizations of brain, the energies of giving and recieving, the hunter/gatherer dichotomy, the strong and weak nuclear forces with gravity the mediator... We are suspended over the crevasse between them all....

Later! Got to wash off the gloom and go to work. Fortunately, it's no problem, cause I love my work!

Mary