There is a lot of talk now about Hillary fighting for every last delegate, including the delegates in Michigan and Florida. I think that this type of strategy that her own campaign is forging and talking about- even promoting the significance of superdelegates as important, equal votes (instead of votes that may undermine our democracy by going against the popular vote) speaks of the selfish focus that Hillary has to win this election. Her claims that she is doing this for America just are not backed by her actions, in my view.
So, yesterday I came across this letter, and although the author has a much higher regard for Senator Clinton than I do, I think she eloquently speaks to the heart of the choice we have to make. http://queenofspainblog.com/2008/02/12/dear-senator-hillary-clinton-please-step-down/
A unified America... is it possible? I don't know, but I sure would like to give it a fighting chance.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
I get to vote today!
I get to vote today! I get to vote today!
I don't think I've ever been this excited to vote. I am actually voting for someone who I really like, think could make a good leader, and has a really good chance to win. Wow. I have always felt delighted upon leaving the polling place having cast a ballot and utilizing my freedoms, but this year I am bubbling in anticipation. I feel HOPE. I think I can make a difference toward CHANGE, and that, my friend, is beautiful.
I don't think I've ever been this excited to vote. I am actually voting for someone who I really like, think could make a good leader, and has a really good chance to win. Wow. I have always felt delighted upon leaving the polling place having cast a ballot and utilizing my freedoms, but this year I am bubbling in anticipation. I feel HOPE. I think I can make a difference toward CHANGE, and that, my friend, is beautiful.
Monday, February 4, 2008
Sporadic weather as a reflection of life and death
When I was younger, I regularly recognized that the weather often reflected my mood or the tide of the day. I took note when I was sad on rainy days... especially when I'd leave a visit with my dad in Missouri and it was raining and I'd arrive to be with my mom in Texas and it was sunny. I was sad to go and yet happy to be home- and the weather was on board. Then, on the day I graduated from high school it was one of those sunny/rainy days where the sun would light up the rain in a bright grey green glow- a perfect representation of the bittersweet emotions I was feeling at this big moment in my young life.
Although I long ago released my embrace of the delusion that the world and weather revolved around me and my life, it still seems to correlate just right from time to time. We are in the middle of a wacky winter here in Missouri where we are having 70 degree days and series of tornadoes in January and February followed by a day with 3 inches of snow. It is unreal. Life has also been offering such sporadic and utterly surprising changes. Unfortunately, they are the types of changes that bring tornadoes of grief and not a blanket of white, powdery beauty.
Last week the wife of my husband's friend and coworker died suddenly of heart failure. She was 43 years old. She and her husband were lying in bed talking and her heart stopped. No previous indications of health problems were present. She and her husband had been high school sweethearts, married for 20 years with two sons. Then, just two days later, my cousin's husband collapsed at work. Evidently he had some plaque that broke through an artery killing him instantly. He was 42. My cousin and her husband had also been high school sweethearts; they have two teenage girls.
What is going on? Mortality occasionally slaps us in the face, but the magnitude of grief that come with these two premature and sudden deaths is overwhelming. I just don't know what I would do or how I could survive in the same circumstances. I think I'd have to take the kid(s) and run away for a while. My heart goes out to these two families...
Although I long ago released my embrace of the delusion that the world and weather revolved around me and my life, it still seems to correlate just right from time to time. We are in the middle of a wacky winter here in Missouri where we are having 70 degree days and series of tornadoes in January and February followed by a day with 3 inches of snow. It is unreal. Life has also been offering such sporadic and utterly surprising changes. Unfortunately, they are the types of changes that bring tornadoes of grief and not a blanket of white, powdery beauty.
Last week the wife of my husband's friend and coworker died suddenly of heart failure. She was 43 years old. She and her husband were lying in bed talking and her heart stopped. No previous indications of health problems were present. She and her husband had been high school sweethearts, married for 20 years with two sons. Then, just two days later, my cousin's husband collapsed at work. Evidently he had some plaque that broke through an artery killing him instantly. He was 42. My cousin and her husband had also been high school sweethearts; they have two teenage girls.
What is going on? Mortality occasionally slaps us in the face, but the magnitude of grief that come with these two premature and sudden deaths is overwhelming. I just don't know what I would do or how I could survive in the same circumstances. I think I'd have to take the kid(s) and run away for a while. My heart goes out to these two families...
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