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Why? Why not? What if?Sahilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11610179287237833742noreply@blogger.comBlogger461125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374816119519398476.post-41195348862457585442013-12-09T23:32:00.000-08:002013-12-09T23:48:17.367-08:00I'm Racist - There, I've Said It....<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I grew up in a time - the 60s - and a place - New Zealand - where black faces were hardly ever seen...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I saw brown faces and yellow faces and olive-complexioned faces here and there, but black faces not at all... at least not until I was in my teens and my mother rented out one of the bedrooms in our house to students from Africa who were studying at our local university as part of the Colombo Plan...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Nothing in this was thought to be disrespectful; in fact, it wasn't thought of at all - there was no concept of political correctness... and as young children, absorbing this through osmosis, without the capacity or experience to think critically about it, without a frame of reference/context to hang any of this on, how could we possibly know that there was anything wrong in this?<br /><br />Of course, later when I got a chance to look at the world with mature eyes, to learn history, to travel and to think things through, I saw how caricaturish, stereotypical and inappropriate all of this was... <br /><br />I don't know if anyone MEANT all of this to be actively racist... not in New Zealand anyway... I get the feeling that someone in education for example, working out a reading curriculum, saw the readers on the market, thought "how cute, kids will love these" and plowed on without thinking it through... while New Zealanders then were inventive and creative and bright and savvy in many respects, they were, after all, isolated down at the bottom of the world, away - in experience, distance and time - from much of what was fomenting in the US...<br /><br />My point is that as a young child, I was exposed to, and took in, various disrespectful, RACIST images and messages about people of colour, mostly African and, by extension, African Americans. And this stuff gets hardwired into the brain... it just pops up when a cue is triggered...<br /><br />In 1990, I went back to school, to get a diploma in broadcast journalism. As part of our coursework, we were required to undertake compulsory cultural sensitivity training. I wrote about that here: <a href="http://sahilachangebringer.blogspot.com/2010/11/white-privilege-colour-blindness.html">White Privilege & Colour Blindness</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To this day, despite that "sensitivity training" and my willing acceptance of the truth with which I was confronted in that class, certain images, sounds or real time 3D interactions will cause a racist thought to come to mind, a thought that was seeded in those early childhood exposures... I don't know how to stop those thoughts arising in a nano-second... I notice them, am ashamed and I send them packing... <br /><br />In truth, while I've had a lot of interaction with people of all skin colours, from many countries, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, gender identifications, I still feel confused and foolish when I am around people "other" than me. I feel ignorant and diffident around them... I am ALWAYS afraid that my ignorance will cause offence in some way... that I will do or say something that is unintentionally hurtful, demeaning, perceived as arrogant, patronising, RACIST...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And then I get pissy... I know I'm a good, kind, loving person who honours all beings, who is sincerely interested in deep, meaningful, respectful connection with others, who is not intentionally racist. Why should I be on the back foot all the time, feel defensive in even the most superficial encounters with others who are not like me?<br /><br />And then, finally, it all comes full circle, when on a Twitter thread yesterday some person I don't know comments in a discussion on poverty and education (with a sub text that poor black children have it harder than poor white children), that all white people are a plague on the earth...<br /><br /> I guess that might be poetic justice, that a person of colour makes global statements about the white race, just as whites have made global statements about blacks... But is that an improvement, an evolution? <br /><br />There was a complete unwillingness to acknowledge that oppression happens to all of us, to varying degrees. That I might have more privilege than a black woman, but that I have less than a white man... and that black woman has more privilege than a Native American woman... That we humans have ALWAYS found ways to marginalise each other, to get power over each other, since the dawn of time, within our own families, clans, tribes and in relation to the "other", the "outsider"... We are in many respects, no different to wild pack animals, who have complicated rules around dominance. We pretend we have risen above all that, but we haven't... we're just a lot more subtle - though no less brutal - about how we enforce it...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Nothing can/will change until we human beings deal with each other as unique individuals, without all of the baggage history has left us with... we can't turn the clock back... we can't undo what was done... in many cases, we can't fix it, though some countries, like New Zealand, are attempting to right some wrongs and heal some wounds... <br /><br />What is to be done to help us move forward in some kind of state of grace?</span></span></span></div>
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<br />Sahilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11610179287237833742noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7374816119519398476.post-27433157508134273492013-12-09T00:33:00.002-08:002013-12-09T00:33:29.238-08:00Who Wins the Prize for Being the Most Victimised?<div style="text-align: justify;">
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really stressful living in a country where the original sin of genocide
and land theft hasn't been addressed, which is then overlaid by the
atrocity of slavery, which is then overlaid by convict deportation, which is then overlaid by false promises of
equality, freedom, justice and liberty for all... so much
dysfunction... and so much jostling for the role of "most damaged
victim"...</span></span></span></span></div>
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right now, are the original people living in this land, on this
continent... the rest of us arrived as immigrants and we all - of every
skin colour - have huge privilege, taken/bought on the backs of that
indigenous suffering, displacement and genocide... </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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me say up front, that I recognise and own my status/privilege as a
white formerly middle class woman with the advantage of a good
education... having owned that, and at the risk of being vilified, I'm
going to admit that I can't be bothered finding</span></span><span data-reactid=".r[ne3q].[1][3][1]{comment10202030505276714_6178259}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3]"><span data-reactid=".r[ne3q].[1][3][1]{comment10202030505276714_6178259}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[ne3q].[1][3][1]{comment10202030505276714_6178259}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[0]"> my way through the maze of which race in this country, on this continent, on this planet, has been the most victimised...</span><br data-reactid=".r[ne3q].[1][3][1]{comment10202030505276714_6178259}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[1]" /><br data-reactid=".r[ne3q].[1][3][1]{comment10202030505276714_6178259}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[2]" /><span data-reactid=".r[ne3q].[1][3][1]{comment10202030505276714_6178259}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[3]">I
totally get that since I left The Netherlands/Holland as a child, I have been an
immigrant to four countries and lived well in each, which comfort was
paid for by the suffering of the indigenous people who had been
colonised in times past; in some of those countries the first
colonisers were white... in others, they were brown or yellow
skinned...</span><br data-reactid=".r[ne3q].[1][3][1]{comment10202030505276714_6178259}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[4]" /><br data-reactid=".r[ne3q].[1][3][1]{comment10202030505276714_6178259}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[5]" /><span data-reactid=".r[ne3q].[1][3][1]{comment10202030505276714_6178259}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[6]">I
know what its like to be an outsider... coming into a country, speaking
a different language, not knowing the customs, being of a different
class... being teased, bullied, "oppressed" by other whites - yes,
racism DOES exist within groups sharing the same skin colour...</span><br data-reactid=".r[ne3q].[1][3][1]{comment10202030505276714_6178259}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[7]" /><br data-reactid=".r[ne3q].[1][3][1]{comment10202030505276714_6178259}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[8]" /><span data-reactid=".r[ne3q].[1][3][1]{comment10202030505276714_6178259}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[9]">and...
I totally get the pain of the wounds inflicted by the colonisers...
and wherever possible, reparations and restitution should happen...</span><br data-reactid=".r[ne3q].[1][3][1]{comment10202030505276714_6178259}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[10]" /><br data-reactid=".r[ne3q].[1][3][1]{comment10202030505276714_6178259}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[11]" /><span data-reactid=".r[ne3q].[1][3][1]{comment10202030505276714_6178259}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[12]">and...
this whole tendency to oppression thing is something it seems all
humans on the planet have within themselves, individually and
collectively... there's black on black oppression, yellow on yellow,
white on white, brown on brown, 'red' on 'red' oppression... I've seen
it, everywhere I've gone... In Singapore, for example, until recently it
used to be white on yellow, yellow on brown and brown on brown... now
that most of the whites are expat business people, not colonial rulers,
it's yellow on brown, brown on brown... </span><br data-reactid=".r[ne3q].[1][3][1]{comment10202030505276714_6178259}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[13]" /><br data-reactid=".r[ne3q].[1][3][1]{comment10202030505276714_6178259}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[14]" /><span data-reactid=".r[ne3q].[1][3][1]{comment10202030505276714_6178259}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[15]">and...
we've been doing it since the beginning of gathering together in
groups... check out the history of human interaction - conquest and
colonisation - on every continent...</span><br data-reactid=".r[ne3q].[1][3][1]{comment10202030505276714_6178259}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[16]" /><br data-reactid=".r[ne3q].[1][3][1]{comment10202030505276714_6178259}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[17]" /><span data-reactid=".r[ne3q].[1][3][1]{comment10202030505276714_6178259}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[18]">so, at some point, don't we have to give up on holding on to it all, because, really, aren't we ALL guilty?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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not have... AND... at the same time, poverty hurts my child as much as
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">the boy and I were homeless - in Seattle, on Vashon Island and back in Seattle... though we never had to sleep in the van or in a shelter, thanks to loving people in our lives, old friends and new...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">we are now in transitional housing - we have a warm, dry, comfortable house to ourselves with our cats, with a big yard full of tall trees, in a beach-side neighbourhood just a bit north of the Seattle city limits. And we have some breathing space to rebuild our lives here, seeing the courts said I couldn't take the boy back to Australia to live...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">found out a while ago that the people the boy's father hired to represent him and give evidence in court on his behalf were FATHERS' RIGHTS people.... wondered at the time what was the hidden agenda being played out, given the weirdness of these peoples' actions and attacks - now I know... I didn't stand a chance against them, especially without an attorney representing me...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and I have to say I am seriously pissy that total strangers, with an anti-woman axe to grind, have managed to interfere in our lives so much! There are things to be done about that - all in good time...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">have pulled back from much of the social activism I was doing, including this blog, obviously! Much of what I was seeing going on in the world and was dealing with personally, was making me angry and bitter and cynical, and using that anger to fuel my social justice advocacy, and having that arena as a place to vent my resentment, wasn't working any longer... I had to step back and focus on our own immediate environment and needs... </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and I have been doing a second go-around with breast cancer... After a year of dithering and playing around with alternative ideas regarding treatment, I finally put my hand up for some neo-adjuvant chemotherapy to shrink the tumours prior to surgery and radiation... it hasn't been much fun and the novelty really and truly has worn off! <br /><br />and we have been doing unschooling stuff with classes on basic electronics, geology, astronomy and chemistry... and the boy started Aikido three months ago, loves it and has already earned his yellow stripe... he's aiming for a black belt, he tells me...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">In business, the biggest cost is labour; with slavery, profits were weighed down/eaten up by the costs of keeping slaves - housing, feeding, keeping them healthy...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Try and remember now just what has been done.<br />Enslavement, displacement of every nation.<br />And now to one nation, everyone hold their grudge.<br />Kind of makes me wonder about which side I'm on.<br />I don't defend white, and I don't defend black.<br />I defend truth and rights and all of that.<br />I work on situations where I'm at<br />Hold my position and never fall of track.<br /><br />Chorus<br />Nah give up my faith!<br />Though Babylon rage,<br />I and I will strive until<br />the end of my days.<br />go against society, Rasta courage.<br /><br />I never give no good vibes<br />and I never give up no truth.<br />Never trade my sanity for living in Babylon crew.<br />Vanity will never drive this man insane.<br />This man will walk alongside Jah again.<br />We see all of the pressure to conform today,<br />And I may sometimes bend,<br />but only as not to break.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Just because we've been doing it this way for thousands of years, doesn't make it sane, sensible, right...</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I've been having a dialogue on whether or not people should have to "work" for a living...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I don't think so...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As you can see from the quote above, Buckminster Fuller didn't think we should have to either...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Nor do many philosophers and economists...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I've been thinking about this idea on and off for almost 20 years...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What brought it to the forefront of my mind again the other day, was my decision to stop my public education advocacy/activism...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Most of the reason was because of where things stand now in that arena, and my inability to control/handle my frustration at what I see as teachers' refusal to fight for their profession, their jobs and the wellbeing of their students (see previous blog entry <a href="http://sahilachangebringer.blogspot.com/2012/07/closing-doors.html">Closing Doors...</a>)...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A smaller part of the reason relates to the fact that I had turned my advocacy into a full-time UNPAID job, and I wasn't getting any nourishment/support back from it - either to help live in the material world or emotionally/spiritually...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>"One of the things that is kinda hard to process right now is that I've been asking for donations both on my blog and on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MiseducationNation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MisEducation Nation</a> for a while... </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>I've been asking:</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>IF you feel you've received anything of value in my writings/efforts AND</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>IF you have enough for yourself and your loved ones </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>THEN would you please consider sharing something of what you have in excess with me and the boy...</i></span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The blog gets around 250 page views a day, often more...</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">50 people a month (600 people over the year), giving a one-off $20 donation over a year, would be enough to keep me and the boy housed for that year...</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I've had a couple of people recognise my efforts on the blog and honour the energy exchange with a donation, which has been lovely - THANK YOU...</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Because of my efforts, MisEducation Nation has reached 1300 "likers" over two years, with those numbers continuing to grow at the rate of about 10-15 a week, so those people would only have had to give $27 once to keep me financially viable for three years...</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Was what I was producing/offering worth $27 once in every three years, to each of those 1300 people, to the larger world?</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It's bitter sweet, now that I've announced my decision to quit public ed advocacy, to have lots of people on the page, talking about how much the effort I put in made a difference, how they spread what I posted to other arenas, how it actually did change perceptions and how much they value my passion and voice, how much they will miss it etc...</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">No one translated that appreciation for the value of the work into even a small donation. In fact, when I first asked 18 months ago, someone castigated me for having the temerity to put the idea forward at all...</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">here: <a href="http://sahilachangebringer.blogspot.com/2011/01/whats-it-worth-to-you.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">What's It Worth To You?</a></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">and I have some very robust ideas around the issue of volunteering...<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">here: </span><a href="http://sahilachangebringer.blogspot.com/2010/05/volunteering-service-or-exploitation.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" target="_blank">Volunteering - Service Or Exploitation?</a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Put into the circle what we can, take out what we need...</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What I do apparently has value and yet it's not valued enough to warrant an energy exchange that allows my son and I to house/feed/clothe ourselves?</span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">How are we going to move forward as a world, if this doesn't change?"</span></span><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show">It seems to me that people have been conned into agreeing, even welcoming, living as slaves in this world...</span></span></div>
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show">From a spiritual perspective, I agree that one of the reasons we're here on this planet, in this reality, is to be of service to others...<br /><br />AND I agree that there is value in carrying out tasks with mindfulness, that the most humble activity does have sacredness to be found within it...</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show">There's a lie we've all been brainwashed with, that there is "nobility", "dignity" in working... that if you have to, you will do anything to survive, to provide for your children, up to and including cleaning other peoples' toilets...</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show">Do we really believe that? That there is dignity in cleaning other peoples' shit, so we can buy a crust of bread for our children?</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show">Our world is being raped and pillaged to such an extent by the oligarchs and we have such a high degree of technology operating now, that there are insufficient good, satisfying jobs with dignity left for all of those who need/want them...</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show">People with PhD's are working two and three jobs as service workers in coffee shops, restaurants and supermarkets, just to pay the rent, never mind being able to pay off their student loan debts...</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show">Real under/unemployment in the US stands at around 30% and in European countries it's even higher, with youth unemployment reaching 60% plus...</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show">We can't go on this way. We can't keep pretending that we can "grow" our way out of this - one cannot have infinite growth in a finite system (the earth) - </span></span><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show">the environmental and social damage/cost is enormous...</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show">Robert Theobald also thought we ought not to have to work... In fact, he said:<br /><br /> </span></span><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="font-size: small;"><i style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"My goal is to create a situation of full unemployment - a world in
which people do not have to hold a job. And I believe that this kind of
world can actually be achieved." ~</i><i> </i><span class="text_exposed_show"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Theobald">Robert Theobald </a></span></span></h6>
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show">For more information, go here:<i> </i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Income_Guarantee">Basic Income Guarantee</a></span></span><br /><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="font-size: small;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> All of this is possible - we just have to start thinking about and DOING things differently...</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Buckminster Fuller agreed with François de Chardenedes that petroleum, from the standpoint of its replacement cost out of our current energy "budget" (essentially, the net incoming </span>solar flux<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">), had cost nature "over a million dollars" per U.S. gallon (US$300,000 per litre) to produce. From this point of view, its use as a transportation fuel by people commuting to work represents a huge net loss compared to their earnings.</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><b>~ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller">Buckminster Fuller </a></b></i></span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Think about this next time you're standing in the supermarket (or any store) thinking about buying soap, or shampoo, or beans, or dishwasher liquid or milk or any other consumable:</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Why do we allow businesses/profiteers/corporations to use slave labour here and in other countries, to make large quantities of one item, then use millions of dollars packaging and 'branding' it as different products, so that we believe the lie that we're being given choice, and then we spend more or less money buying it (depending on our "station in life" and our own illusory fabrication of who we think ourselves to be)...</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">How much did the slave "earn" to make that product? How many hours at minimum wage do some of us have to "work" to "earn" enough to buy it?</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">How many hours do you have to "work" to pay for a roof over your head, clothes on your back, food in your belly and the means to get you around in this world (seeing how the layout of our cities/communities now makes access to services and resources difficult)? </span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What happens in our world, if you don't "work"? Eventually, you have no home, no shelter, no warmth, no food, no clothing, no cleanliness, no medical care, no recreation, no leisure activities...</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And yet, the <a href="http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/">United Nations declares</a> that, amongst other things, we humans each, by virtue of being alive, of existing, have a BIRTHRIGHT to food, shelter, medical care and education... </span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ironically, it also states that we have the RIGHT to dignified, meaningful, work... NOTICE - nowhere in the Declaration does it say that the two sets of rights are connected - <i><b>that we must work for our food, shelter and other necessities of life...</b></i></span></span></h6>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I want to break free<br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
I want to break free</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
I want to break free from your lies</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
You're so self satisfied I don't need you</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
I've got to break free</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
God knows, God knows I want to break free</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
I've fallen in love</span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
I've fallen in love for the first time</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
And this time I know it's for real</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
I've fallen in love yeah</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
God knows God knows I've fallen in love</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
It's strange but it's true</span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
I can't get over the way you love me like you do</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
But I have to be sure</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
When I walk out that door</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
Oh how I want to be free baby</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
Oh how I want to be free</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
Oh how I want to break free</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
But life still goes on</span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
I can't get used to living without living without</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
Living without you by my side</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
I don't want to live alone hey</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
God knows got to make it on my own</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
So baby can't you see</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
I've got to break free</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
I've got to break free</span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
I want to break free yeah</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
I want, I want, I want, I want to break free</span></span>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">(</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">The David Mallet-directed music video, is a parody of the British northern working class soap opera Coronation Street. Mercury's character was loosely based on Bet Lynch, while
May's character was based on Hilda Ogden. The video also depicts the
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>I have value - I'm an expression of one of the infinite potentials of the life force</i></span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>What I contribute to life has value; I change the world just by being in it </i></span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>At some point in time, ownership of the resources necessary for living passed from the community to a few people, who then demanded we pay/work for access to and use of those resources </i></span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>There isn't enough 'work' to go around and what there is, increasingly doesn't pay enough for people to buy the necessities of life and to live with dignity</i></span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Our planet can't support more of us 'working', when 'working' really means using up resources to make junk we don't need to keep a broken, artificial economic model going</i></span></span></h6>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When will we all throw off our worker chains</span></span></h6>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and claim our freedom?</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After four years of almost full-time focus on what's been happening in Seattle and nationally...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I like to think that I've had some small effect in slowing down the implementation of the ed deform agenda - at the very least, in WITNESSING it, declaring to the oligarchs: "I know what you're doing, it's not OK and you're not doing it in my name - or my son's!"</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And I've been pushing and pushing against ed deform, pushing for people, especially teachers to wake up, stand up, step up, break free...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MiseducationNation" target="_blank">MiseducationNation</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and </span></span><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/sahila-changebringer/taking-the-narrative-de-railing-the-ed-reform-train-quick-and-dirty-notes/446352285391698" target="_blank">Taking the Narrative - De-Railing the Ed Reform Train</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/sahila-changebringer/teachers-standing-up-stepping-up-breaking-free/499059520120974" target="_blank">Teachers - Standing Up, Stepping Up, Breaking Free</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/sahila-changebringer/which-side-are-you-on/499974373362822" target="_blank">Which Side Are You On?</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and on Twitter and all over the web and at rallies and school board meetings and in newspapers...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">got lots of defensiveness back from both parents and teachers, coming out of fear I know...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ed deform hurts children, abuses children, stunts their beings, uses them as cash cows...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And from my perspective, teachers, by continuing to implement ed deform, are complicit in that child abuse...</span></span><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AND I do appreciate what it is they especially have to lose if they get serious about standing in front of the bulldozer of the corporate rape and pillaging of public education...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">... lots been churning, burning, inside myself over the past weeks and months - half a dozen 'works-in-progress' posts sitting in the draft queue...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and none of it is ready to be put out into the world yet...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">so, I shall communicate what I can...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">AND wish you all a happy, happy solstice - may the sun bring us all sanity, peace and joy as we celebrate the longest day and move into summer here in the northern hemisphere...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and for my children moving into the dark of winter in the antipodes, I say: "I love you and I miss you, as does the boy..." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">you know it's my birthday soon, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(AND the boy's birthday 27 days later, right?)...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">AND you know it'll be the start of my first adult year (as per the medicine wheel) right? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well, all I want for my birthday this year, is a long term HOME (on Vashon) for me and the boy and the cats, with our stuff in it/out of storage, with the means to live there in comfort, with ease, dignity and grace...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We're done with the gypsying - grateful for the experience, thank you...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">AND storage fees go up on the 1st July...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">AND we have better things to spend our money on... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">so, there you go - that's my birthday wish/intention... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">AND so it is... Blessings Be... AUM...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">PS: <br />oh, AND an all expenses paid, all needs/desires met, indefinite sojourn on a sunny, sandy beach with shade when and where I want it, would be good about now...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">AND you'll have to sort out the visitation/passport/travel issues to make that happen so that the boy can come too...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">How about it, Life?</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Welcome to your life</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
There's no turning back</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
Even while sleep</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
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Acting on your best behaviour</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
Turn your back on mother nature</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
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It's my own remorse</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
Help me to decide</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
Help make the most</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
Of freedom and of pleasure</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
Nothing ever lasts forever</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
Everybody wants to rule the world</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
There's a room where the light won't find you</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
When they do I'll be right behind you</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
So glad we've almost made it</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
So sad they had to fade it</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
Everybody wants to rule the world</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
I can't stand this indecision</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
Married with a lack of vision</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
Everybody wants to rule the world</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
Say that you'll never never never need it</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
One headline why believe it ?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
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All for freedom and for pleasure</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
Nothing ever lasts forever</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
Everybody wants to rule the world
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Man of the house has just reminded me that today's the day we agreed boy and I would leave by, and said that if I didn't follow through by 5pm, there will be an "ugly scene" and "consequences"...</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">$3.00 in the bank, boy, 2 cats, two van-fulls worth of stuff, no gas in the van...</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My brain so fried.... stay out of victim mode.... stay open for/to what's coming...</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We have had a long time here and he and his wife have been very generous and accepting...</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AND he and she have their own dance to work out in this...</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AND we did have an agreement...</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AND I have been making choices/holding out for something he has a judgement about, in that he thinks beggars ought not to be choosers...</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AND and I see and accept that from him, seeing it's his (and his wife's) energy that has sheltered and fed us...</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AND I HAVE contributed to the household (sharing what I have had in cash/food AND mostly in ways he doesn't recognise and value)... </span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AND he has a son he can't influence to make better choices...</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AND he can't/won't put the hard word on his son's friend's who have crashed here long term... </span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AND he's worried about his job security and his wife changing jobs...</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AND they have their own money worries...</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AND I have been dragging my feet in dealing with having to take the next step - fear, overwhelm, confusion, burn-out, inner-child fear, hurt, anger and stubbornness, wanting to hide, wanting to be rescued...</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AND this is wrapped up in my stuff around getting boy's father to honour and respect me and to show that by supporting me in raising the boy, to stop playing the power-and-control with-holding money and resources game...</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AND he doesn't/won't realise that he's hurting his own son in this... </span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AND this must be what my mother faced/felt as she slowly killed herself through overwork walking this path, raising my sister and me through our teenage years without our father meeting any of his parental obligations, taking whatever low-paid menial work she could get to keep a roof over our heads, food on the table, clothes on our backs...</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AND she died when she was 60, sick and sore, still working her arse off to pay a mortgage on a tiny home that reminded her of the houses in Holland...</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AND I'm almost 54 and have turned my back on realities (relationships, life paths) in which I/we had secure housing and our physical needs met... </span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AND boy's father hasn't healed from his relationship with his (now dead) abusive mother...</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">... just as my father never healed from his relationship with his abusive mother... </span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">... ... just as the husband in this house hasn't healed from his dysfunctional relationship with his mother...</span></span></h6>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">... ... ... just as the boy's father's lawyer hasn't healed from his dysfunctional relationship with his mother - he barked at me in court that "you're just like my mother"...</span></span></h6>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br />Dear Universe...<br /><br />I'm grateful for having had this haven for these last months...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">AND it's REALLY, REALLY REALLY time for us to move on... it's almost June 1st, Shawn is getting antsy, the teenage boy thing is revving up and we really need to settle in our own space with our stuff around us...<br /><br /> Which means there needs to be somewhere for us to go to, AND resources to make the move possible... <br /><br /> I've already put out intentions for the housing situation - what that looks like in terms of people and environment... <br /><br /> The economic and resources issues are next for consideration...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /> From my limited human perspective I can see several ways to bring that about: <br /><br /> Satisfying income-generating opportunities come my way, that make worthwhile use of my skills and talents, still leave me time and energy to be present with the boy AND bring sufficient cash and other resources for us to move AND to live well; <br /><br /> AND the judge decides that boy's father has to make a serious, generous, real-world contribution to the cost of raising and enriching the boy and the money part of that is enough to move AND pay the rent and other costs;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">AND someone who has more than they need, chooses to share some of it with me and the boy, in a free, no-strings attached manner, so that I can continue and expand the social change work I've been doing in a joyous, care-free way...<br /><br /> AND some sort of windfall lands in my lap that takes care of our housing and living requirements... <br /><br /> I don't care which solution manifests - whether it's one, some, or all of these options combined, or something completely different ... Just BRING IT ON! <br /><br /> Thank you <br /><br /> Namaste<br /><br /><br /> Sahila</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I needed to read those words today...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AND I so need to come up with some sort of mental/emotional re-frame that will motivate me to open and read ex's (sure to be horrible, if past experience is anything to go by) court response justifying why he ought not to pay adequate child support, and to come up with my own response, for filing TODAY...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A friend suggested: "Pretend you are an advocate for someone else in the same situation. Pretend he is not really your ex. That you have never even met him, you are merely reading the particulars of the situation someone else is struggling with. It might help you distance yourself from the initial emotional reaction (which is completely justified, by the way. Praying for you, Love ♥"</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And the (metaphorical) harvest is late - all of that activity, energy, commitment hasn't brought in anything we can live off, at least in the "traditional" sense...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You've bags under your eyes</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You've got boobs to your knees</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Your hand's full of poo and your bra's full of cheese</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Your stomach is bloated your clothes do not fit</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He still wants sex while you feel like shit</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He begs for this favour not long after labour</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It's like eating a meal after you've just been sick</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And the boys at the office tell him I should give him what he wants</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To this I say that they're a bunch of lalalalalalala</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You bastard you cocked up it's you got me knocked up</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Just cos you want me to have bigger tits</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You're pleading, you're pining</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh please stop your whining</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You're not getting sex 'til the kid's 26</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You say you want another child, another pregnancy</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When you can poo a watermelon I'll agree</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I could have been someone if you just hadn't come (along)</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If I hadn't been so drunk and I'd said maybe</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We'd be going out and stuff, now there's forceps up my chuff</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Pulling the head of a screaming 10lb baby</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And the mums on Hornby Island* say keep breast feeding 'til they're four</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If I do I won't have nipples anymore</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And all the doctors told me that I'd need a stitch or ten</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I say sew me up so I can't do this again.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">*an island nearby with a reputation for being very wholesome!</span></span><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">UNSCHOOLED YOUNGSTER,</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">TWO CATS and</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">ME (crone hippy wannabe with strong pragmatic streak),</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">DESIRING SOMEWHERE LONG TERM, SEMI-PERMANENT</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">TO LIVE AND WORK</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">From June 1st...</span></span><span style="color: orange;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> We've been living on Vashon Island with friends while waiting for our personal situation to solidify...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Which it has - I keep custody of the boy AND we have to stay living here in the US...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">T</span></span><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">ime now to settle, give our loving, generous, patient friends their space back...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> In the "BEST-OF-ALL-POSSIBLE-WORLDS" I see in my visions,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">we're living here on Vashon...</span></span><span style="color: orange;"> </span></div>
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<li><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">in a community</span></span>... </li>
<li><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> with compatible, loving, like-minded, awake and aware, creative, sober folk</span></span>... </li>
<li><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> in an eco-friendly, sustainable environment (earth house and/or small farm style etc with a garden, orchard, bees, poultry, goats, PEACOCKS! etc - I'm willing to help make that happen)...</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> moving towards an organic, whole food/paleo diet... </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">near water with a view of the mountain... </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> with other children...</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> with a separate room/studio I can use as my office and for my breath work and spiritual/life coaching practice...</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">with all the resources we need to support and care for ourselves, our community, the land, air and water, to live fully and richly... </span></span></li>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> I'm mature, self-aware, non-judgemental, very left/progressive/anarchic-leaning social justice activist,</span></span><span style="color: orange;"> </span><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> independent in nature, plain speaking (with love), real, with a sarcastic, sardonic, mildly black sense of humour, focusing on supporting</span></span> <span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Occupy/99% Spring activities, highlighting alternative economies, alternative </span></span><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">forms of social organisation and public education issues...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The boy's loving, giving, mature, intelligent, curious, gentle, calm, respectful</span></span><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, funny... </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The cats are mature, spayed/neutered, house-trained, calm, sane, indoor-outdoor</span></span><span style="color: orange;">... </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> I have lots of skills to share - see here:</span></span><span style="color: orange;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> mainstream = communication, marketing, PR, research, project management = </span></span><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.metamind-creative.com/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">http://www.metamind-creative.com/</a></span><span style="color: orange;"> </span><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> ;</span></span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> alternative = healer/shaman/therapist/minister/birth, death, marriage celebrant</span></span><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> = </span><a href="http://www.metamind-spirit.com/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">http://www.metamind-spirit.com/</a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> ;</span></span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> activist = </span><a href="http://www.sahilachangebringer.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">http://www.sahilachangebringer.blogspot.com/</a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> ;</span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/changebringer" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/changebringer</a></span><span style="color: orange;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> plus interior design, renovation/building project management, housekeeping,</span></span><span style="color: orange;"> </span><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">child and elder care, cooking, knitting etc...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> I have a complete household of stuff in storage, which I'm happy to share with </span></span><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">others...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> We will contribute cash to rent/mortgage, household costs and food...</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> RENT a "tiny" house/cottage (less than 600 sq ft) OR</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> WORK as residential property manager in exchange for free rent of 2-bedroom apartment, condo, house...</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thanks Universe, for making this a reality in 3D,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">for our highest good and the highest good of all</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"> Namaste</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><i> </i><i>with love and thanks for, and to, all the wonderful beings,</i><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">walking beside me in my life...</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Boy and I marched yesterday, in Seattle, to honour the May Day General Strike action...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Interesting experience - a reality check about the state of the world really, giving me lots to think about... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">To bear witness, and, by our presence, to send a message to the powers-that-be that we know what is going on, and it's not OK... </span></div>
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<i style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"If we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents and to live now as we think Human beings should live - in defiance of all that is bad around us - is in and of itself a marvellous victory." </span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We were a little late to the event, joining the march half way through...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We weren't expecting it to be the big deal it turned out to be... </span></div>
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advising us to take a detour when things got 'exciting', so that the
children would not be caught up in the fracas and the tear gas, pepper
spray...<br /><br />Some cars parked along the route were spray painted with protest symbols and had their tyres slashed...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I felt empathy for the owners of those cars who would come back to find this damage; </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The police were positioned to PROTECT BUILDINGS/CORPORATIONS not citizens...</span></div>
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a country, state and city (USA/Washington/Seattle) decides to use
military force, surveillance and unmanned drones against its own
citizenry, does it really think that the people won't feel they have to
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2012/5/2/may_day_protests_span_the_globe" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">May Day Protests Span The Globe</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Any company or brand expecting you to pay to wear their logos...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Tell me again - why should I do that?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ought it not to be the other way around, where you pay me to wear, carry, drive your products - seeing I'm a walking advertisement for you???</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It used to bug my children that I wouldn't buy branded, labelled products...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">They felt left out, when they compared themselves to their peers...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">When my daughters were in primary school, Benetton and Esprit entered the New Zealand clothing market...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My daughters went to a suburban school that had a high socio-economic population and most of their friends were wearing both brands within a matter of weeks of their launch in the country...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Knowing how much peer pressure around body image and popularity affected young girls especially, I gave both girls socks with the Benetton and Esprit brands woven into the tops...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">They were so happy; they felt like they were part of the 'in crowd', normal, equals, accepted...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It was a small thing to do to make life a little easier for daughters who have a mother who doesn't fit the mould...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And I had a hard time giving in to the programming, on even that scale...</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And this doesn't even address the issues relating to slave labour being employed in Third World countries to make these products and the unholy profits manufacturers are making on the backs of this exploitation...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My mother worked for most of her life in the clothing industry. I saw how hard she worked and how little she was paid, even in a western factory. I know the cost of the materials, of marketing and distribution etc...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Why on earth would I want to pay more to be used as a walking billboard to market a label, which, in itself has no substance in reality, is nothing more than an illusion?</span></span></div>
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<br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">... is never done, whether she's a single mother or part of a two-parent family, whether she works full time or part-time, or stays at home with her children... </span></span><i><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A man came home from work and found his three children outside, still in their pyjamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn around garden...</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The door of his wife's car was open, as was the front door to the house and no sign of the dog...</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Walking in the door, he found an even bigger mess...</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A lamp had been knocked over, the throw rug was against one wall...</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the front room the TV was on loudly with the cartoon channel, the family room was strewn with toys and various items of clothing...</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the kitchen, dishes filled the sink, breakfast food was spilled on the counter, the fridge door was open wide, dog food was spilled on the floor, a broken glass lay under the table, and a small pile of sand was spread by the back door...</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He quickly headed up the stairs, stepping over toys and more piles of clothes, looking for his wife. He was worried she might be ill, or that something serious had happened...</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He was met with a small trickle of water as it made its way out the bathroom door. As he peered inside he found wet towels, scummy soap and more toys strewn over the floor. Miles of toilet paper lay in a heap and toothpaste had been smeared over the mirror and walls...</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As he rushed to the bedroom, he found his wife still curled up in the bed in her pyjamas, reading a novel... </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She looked up at him, smiled and asked how his day went...</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He looked at her bewildered and asked, "What happened here today?" </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She again smiled and answered, "You know every day when you come home from work and you ask me what in the world do I do all day?"...</span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">''Yes," was his incredulous reply..</span></span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She answered, "Well, today I didn't do it.." </span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Daily, in every place I look, I see/hear/feel a harsh, cruel darkness descending on us... </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We've been in this place before, I know...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We could be excused for that in the Middle Ages and even up to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, because it could be argued that we didn't know any better and/also didn't have the technology to do better, for the planet, for our fellow beings on the planet, for our fellow humans...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But that excuse is no longer valid...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So now we are in the midst of a final struggle, where we either commit, finally, to doing what we know is healthy for all life on the planet, or we drag much of life with us into a body and soul-killing blackness, from which we might never emerge...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I want to turn my back on it all and just do the best I can with what I have for me and the boy - AND - at the same time, that feels like collusion, collaboration - being like the Germans who knew what was going on under Hitler and turned their heads and hearts away...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And this time, it's a global issue, occurring on the environmental, economic, political, social, psychological, spiritual levels, all at once...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">How to keep holding the space, doing what I can to push back against the blackness, make space for more light to come in, and stay present for the boy, stay sane, clear, tranquil, take care of our physical, emotional, spiritual needs? </span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"The tranquil clarity, which is devoid of mental turmoil, alone is the samadhi which is the firm base for liberation.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By earnestly trying to destroy the deceptive mental turmoil, experience that samadhi as the peaceful consciousness which is inner clarity.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In yoga the term samadhi refers to some kind of trance and there are various kinds of samadhi.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is sahaja samadhi.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">From here you have samadhana [steadiness] and you remain calm and composed even while you are active. </span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I get to it sometimes, for several moment, hours, a day even...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">AND more often than not, I am<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"> so tired and depressed
watching this train wreck happening all around me on so many levels, in
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"></span>I've been thinking along several lines...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">One is the concept of non-attachment which I think is related to sahaja samadhi, and I'll write about that in another post...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">The other is the realisation that </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">life in this reality IS about movement and change and our own participation, responsibility in that...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">AND </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">that I'm not sure anything in our current model can be saved... </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">One idea that's been percolating in my thoughts has been that of using the Dual Power Strategy to move from here to there...</span></span></div>
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<br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><i style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Dual power is a method of struggle for the revolutionary transformation of society. It presupposes a pre-existing, fundamentally flawed </span>social order<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">.</span></span></i></div>
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<i style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Within that society, those who envision a different future create alternative institutions (AIs) that embody their vision.</span></span></i></div>
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<i style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AIs are places for experimentation with new social forms as well as places for liberation for those who are </span>oppressed<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> within the larger society. As AIs spread and diversify, they take on more and more of the functions of a larger social system: creating over time an "alternative social infrastructure" that fulfills economic, political, social, and cultural needs. In addition to their direct functions, AIs demonstrate the viability of new ways of organizing society, and attract interest to the ideals behind them. </span></span></i><br style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><i style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As the </span>ideological<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> monopoly of dominant </span>institutions<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> is broken and people increasingly rely on AIs, those who benefited from existing arrangements may seek to dismantle their upstart competitors.</span></span></i></div>
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<i style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The line between AIs and XIs is seldom entirely clear as many alternative institutions are also self-promoting or defending. Together the AIs and XIs form an alternative source of power in society which is "necessarily autonomous from, and competitive with, the dominant system, seeking to encroach upon the latter's domain, and, eventually, to replace it."</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></i><br style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><i style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">During the process of building the alternative institutions and the ideology that supports them, the advantage of dual power is the creation of real, and not merely political, momentum towards the revolutionary transformation of society.</span></span></i></div>
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<i style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The possibility of co-option is minimized: "When the people recognize their true power, it cannot be taken away by rhetoric or […] imposition."</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></i><br style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><i style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Dual power is a strategy, rather than an ideology, and it could plausibly be used to advance a variety of forms of social change.</span></span></i></div>
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use my limited energy on building something new using the Dual Power strategy, </span><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">approaching it, as a friend
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">IF it's my role at this time in history to keep being a conduit for information a la what I've been doing over the past couple of years...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">THEN you need to bring me income and resources so that I can continue to do that AND house, feed, clothe, educate, transport the boy and myself...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AND doesn't have the time or skills to contribute to that effort,</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AND wants to support someone else who IS qualified</span></span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and DOES have the time, </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">THEN I would be delighted to consider a</span></span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">no-strings, no-editorial control, patronage arrangement...</span></span></div>
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