Annoying Autobiographical Pause # 989
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008Been a very long week, campers. Bear with me, I’m busier than a mongoose chasing cobras.
With that said, a few things I wish to throw at you tonight.
I’ve taken a few days away from politics. No, I’m doing some ground work because that’s what one does if that’s our thing (as it is mine.) I enjoyed Barack Obama’s speech but I’m so tired of pundits dictating the wave of the party with Obama and Clinton. Very tired of it. We need unity, no matter who gets the ticket. We need to believe that we are part of something instead of an endless news cycle filling time on our televisions. We have to unify.
If I sound discouraged, I am.
We are living in world that I feel is quite volatile now. A world where we do need to be unified no matter what our beliefs might be. We are in two wars, we are looking at a jacked-up economy and yet we talk about things like Amy Winehouse’s skin problem and Britney Spears being on a television show?
I look at national debt that my nieces will be paying on long into their adulthood. I look at the lack of respect that we show one another. I see belief systems of people’s personal lives being thrown around as if it’s meaningless.
People mock others for wanting hope?
People mock others for losing their jobs?
With that said, the best this week I can give you is a walrus who can dance that made me smile and zombies. It’s amusing to me.
I hope that we all can find those small things that do give us some pleasure and joy. I don’t want to argue about the particulars.
I’m actually quite positive today. I know it doesn’t sound like it, but I’m amazed that we, as a nation, have lost some of what makes us great.
And that is compassion.
So I’ll do my part in my little spectrum of the world and that is believe that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. And do my part, how small it might be, to get us there a bit faster.
