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What have you done today to help someone in need?

How have you made the world a better place?

How have you reached out to those whom the world has shoved aside?

Have you?

The Lady Speaks!

This morning, the LA Times ran a piece about the Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild's decision to support the McCain-Palin ticket because, as she said, she doesn't like Obama. "I feel like he is an elitist."

As for McCain-Palin, the Lady speaks: "I want John McCain and Sarah Palin in the White House so other people can have that wonderful life."

In other words, "let them eat cake."

Not helping

In the course of an evening bike ride I came across some folks whose meandering on the trail caused me to divert just a bit. "You're not helping," I thought.

It was a troubling thought, because it was directed at those folks who were doing exactly what I was doing on a cool late summer evening. They weren't particularly aware of how their presence was affecting me any more than I was aware of how my presence was affecting them. But somehow, in my mind, their actions were related to how I would perceive not only them, but the entire artificial category of human beings that I believed they represented.

But, you see, no one ever looks at me and judges all so-called "White" people by the way I behave.

So much for "honor"

"A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man. Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve life than destroy it." -Thoreau

It's time that we listen to the genius of Thoreau.

Voting for Hope

What's wrong with voting for vision? Is it better to vote for what we've always voted for and expect different results? That, according to many, is the definition of insanity.

Transformational

Wrap your mind around this concept and your life will change: there is no tomorrow, there is no yesterday, there is only NOW.

Space

Feelings take up space. The question is, can we allow room for them without allowing them to control our destiny?

A fundamental difference

Cut through all the rhetoric and you will find a fundamental philosophical difference between those vying for the White House: competition vs. cooperation. Experience and eloquence can only go so far. In the end, leadership is about vision and hope not only for a select few or a particular nation, but for all people everywhere.

What's so funny?

Rudy Giuliani managed to get a good laugh out of the RNC this evening--by mentioning Barack Obama's efforts to organize communities on the south side of Chicago. The crowd broke into derisive laughter at the thought of someone working to help the victims of economic oppression.

What's so funny?

There is much to fear in the war-mongering rhetoric coming out of the Republican party. This mob scares me with their chanting for off-shore drilling, their wild cheering for an extremist governor who "clings to religion," and its claim to be the Party that "ended slavery." Pahleez.....

But what is truly SAD about it all is a group of people who would LAUGH at someone who chooses to give their life in service to others.