Start, Wage, Loving: For Joy Serve Soul In Solidarity

9.09.2009

Blame who? When Harry, Jack, Ted, Bil & Barack aren't enough? Blame who?

Really? Is the answer for Health Care Reform yet another president? We wait for the right president?

Of course! The is no other option! I mean there couldn't be anyone to blame but the President!

Or could there?

Well, there is the team; COULD THE "TEAM" BE TO BLAME?. US? Democrats? The Left? Progressives?

THERE ARE THREE REASONS WE CAN'T WAIT FOR THE PRESIDENT, OR A "NEW" PRESIDENT:

1. WE ARE OUT OF TIME, unless we accept collapse of the US Economy and
return to Rethuglican rule as acceptable answers.

2. WE ARE NOT GOING TO GET BETTER THAN BILL OR BARACK. EVER.
They don't come MORE capable than that.

3. THE "RIGHT" PRESIDENT HAS NEVER BEEN THE ANSWER. THE PEOPLE,
UNITED, HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE ANSWER (repeat). THE PRES. WAS THE ANSWER FOR -
* NOT for Civil Rights.
* NOT the end the Vietnam War.
* NOT for Labor Rights.
* NOT for Women's Suffrage.
* NOT for the huge social issues.
* NOT EVER. NOT EVER.

I'm no historian, but wasn't the Bush 1 & 2 GOP takeover largely the result of a 30 year
forced "march" by the Right ROOTS??? From the town, to county, to city, to state... 30 year
march of TAKEOVER? YES!

SO AGAIN, WE-THE-LEFT ARE THE PROBLEM.

SOOOOOO, WE LOOK IN THE MIRROR, SUCK IT UP, AND GET TO WORK, AND STOP
BLAMING THE PRESIDENT, OR IT IS TIME TO SHUT UP.
THE PRESIDENCY IS NOT THE PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE PRESIDENCY IS NOT THE SOLUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE-THE-LEFT ARE THE SOLUTION, WE MUST BECOME THE SOLUTION - NOW.

MOBILIZE, NOW, OR FAIL. PERIOD.

9.08.2009

HELP FRIENDS, ENCOURAGE THIS GREAT ARTIST, SHARE THIS, NOW; PLEASE We need to INSPIRE WORK, and SOLIDARITY, and UNITY; NOW.

HELP FRIENDS, ENCOURAGE THIS GREAT ARTIST, SHARE THIS, NOW;
PLEASE We need to INSPIRE WORK, and SOLIDARITY, and UNITY; NOW.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WQ2bO7JF10

Hurry.

Please PUT YOUR BACK INTO THIS.

PLEASE.

RIGHT NOW.

Start

Obama is being Killed by the same Mob that got ML King.

Paraphrase (with liberal liberties) of the intro to Saul Alinsky's definitive Reveille for Radicals, that Pres. Obama knows and lives well:

'Conservatives: Will fight every day to the death(preferably yours) to keep things the same.

Progressives/Liberals: Want change with their head, and will talk (whine, complain) all
day long trying to get others to bring about change, but themselves,
they will risk nothing, fight THEMSELVES for
NOTHING,
EVER.

Radicals: Want change so much with their head and Heart they will
fight to the death (not yours, but their own) in order to achieve it.

I am so totally not a Conservative, or a Progressive/Liberal.'

I am a Radical.

Pres Obama is a Radical. No wonder the
Progressives/Liberals are
killing him.

Progressives were the death
of Dr. King, Jr, too,
standing
by.

'My problem is not the vicious bigot. My problem is the good person that says yes,
we need change, but not so fast, not in this way, I can't pay for it now.' MLK Jr's
letter from the Birmingham Jail, paraphrase with ample license by me.

This remind me that ALL of us were put here to TEACH and of course to LE...

Hi! This is Start. I Love you, and I am really glad you are in my Life.
From: Nancemerrill
To: Nancemerrill
Sent: 9/8/2009 8:46:59 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: This remind me that ALL of us were put here to TEACH and of course to LEARN...

Excerpt from: The Heart of a Teacher,
by Paula Fox

He was in the first third grade class I taught at Saint Mary's School in Morris, Minnesota. All 34 of my students were dear to me, but Mark Eklund was one in a million. Very neat in appearance, he had that happy-to-be-alive attitude that made even his occasional mischievousness delightful.

Mark talked incessantly. I had to remind him again and again that talking without permission was not acceptable. What impressed me so much, though, was his sincere response every time I had to correct him for misbehaving. "Thank you for correcting me, Sister!" I didn't know what to make of it at first, but before long I became accustomed to hearing it many times a day.

One morning my patience was growing thin when Mark talked once too often, and then I made a novice teacher's mistake. I looked at Mark and said, "If you say one more word, I am going to tape your mouth shut!" It wasn't ten seconds later when Chuck blurted out, "Mark is talking again." I hadn't asked any of the students to help me watch Mark, but since I had stated the punishment in front of the class, I had to act on it. I remember the scene as if it had occurred this morning. I walked to my desk, very deliberately opened my drawer and took out a roll of masking tape. Without saying a word, I proceeded to Mark's desk, tore off two pieces of tape and made a big X with them over his mouth. I then returned to the front of the room. As I glanced at Mark to see how he was doing, he winked at me. That did it! I started laughing. The class cheered as I walked back to Mark's desk, removed the tape, and shrugged my shoulders. His first words were, "Thank you for correcting me, Sister."

At the end of the year, I was asked to teach junior-high math. The years flew by, and before I knew it Mark was in my classroom again. He was more handsome than ever and just as polite. Since he had to listen carefully to my instruction in the "new math," he did not talk as much in ninth grade as he had in third. One Friday, things just didn't feel right. We had worked hard on a new concept all week, and I sensed that the students were frowning, frustrated with themselves and edgy with one another. I had to stop this crankiness before it got out of hand. So I asked them to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then I told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down. It took the remainder of the class period to finish their assignment, and as the students left the room, each one handed me the papers. Charlie smiled. Mark said, "Thank you for teaching me, Sister. Have a good weekend." That Saturday, I wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and I listed what everyone else had said about that individual.

On Monday I gave each student his or her list. Before long, the entire class was smiling. "Really?" I heard whispered. "I never knew that meant anything to anyone! I didn't know others liked me so much." No one ever mentioned those papers in class again. I never knew if they discussed them after class or with their parents, but it didn't matter. The exercise had accomplished its purpose. The students were happy with themselves and one another again.

That group of students moved on. Several years later, after I returned from vacation, my parents met me at the airport. As we were driving home, Mother asked me the usual questions about the trip, the weather, my experiences in general. There was a lull in the conversation. Mother gave Dad a sideways glance and simply said, "Dad?" My father cleared his throat as he usually did before something important. "The Eklunds called last night," he began. "Really?" I said. "I haven't heard from them in years. I wonder how Mark is." Dad responded quietly. "Mark was killed in Vietnam," he said. "The funeral is tomorrow, and his parents would like it if you could attend." To this day I can still point to the exact spot on I-494 where Dad told me about Mark.

I had never seen a serviceman in a military coffin before. Mark looked so handsome, so mature. All I could think at that moment was, "Mark, I would give all the masking tape in the world if only you would talk to me." The church was packed with Mark's friends. Chuck's sister sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Why did it have to rain on the day of the funeral? It was difficult enough at the graveside. The pastor said the usual prayers, and the bugler played taps. One by one those who loved Mark took a last walk by the coffin and sprinkled it with holy water. I was the last one to bless the coffin. As I stood there, one of the soldiers who acted as pallbearer came up to me. "Were you Mark's math teacher?" he asked. I nodded as I continued to stare at the coffin. "Mark talked about you a lot," he said.

After the funeral, most of Mark's former classmates headed to Chuck's farmhouse for lunch. Mark's mother and father were there, obviously waiting for me. "We want to show you something," his father said, taking a wallet out of his pocket. "They found this on Mark when he was killed. We thought you might recognize it." Opening the billfold, he carefully removed two worn pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been taped, folded and refolded many times. I knew without looking that the papers were the ones on which I had listed all the good things each of Mark's classmates had said about him. "Thank you so much for doing that," Mark's mother said. "As you can see, Mark treasured it." Mark's classmates started to gather around us. Charlie smiled rather sheepishly and said, "I still have my list. I keep it in the top drawer of my desk at home." Chuck's wife said, "Chuck asked me to put his in our wedding album." "I have mine too," Marilyn said. "It's in my diary." Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her pocketbook, took out her wallet and showed her worn and frazzled list to the group. "I carry this with me at all times," Vicki said without batting an eyelash. "I think we all saved our lists." That's when I finally sat down and cried. I cried for Mark and for all his friends who would never see him again.

The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one day will be. So please, tell the people you love and care for that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.

Legolas should have stood and watched Aragorn be killed. Right? Duh!

"First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist, so I said nothing.
Then they came for the Social Democrats, but I was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing.
Then came the trade unionists, but I was not a trade unionist.
And then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew, so I did little.
Then when they came for me, there was no one left to stand up for me."

I mean, that's what WE are doing as the monster on the Right slaughters Obama

and US.

Oh, hmmmm. I forgot our brilliant leaders at BuzzFlash, and DemocracyNow, etc.

OF COURSE! Legolas should have ----

1. JUST WATCHED Aragorn be slaugered,

AND,

2. BLAMED HIM FOR NOT FIGHTING HARD ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmmm. ALSO, Legolas should have cowardly retreated - like US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Faith in the PEOPLE is how the Right/Beck Lynched Jones, and HC, so far.

Faith in the PEOPLE is how the Right/Beck Lynched Jones, and HC, so far.

While we on the Left insist that EVERYTHING DEPENDS on what OBAMA,
Pentagon, Congress... does,
Fox RALLIES THE CLONES / DRONES / POD PEOPLE!!!!

Way to go Left WHINERS & Blogs. Stay on your butts (blogs KEEP US on
our butts just a few days more and
the Dark Side wins, for ever.

Fw: Serious question: Could there ever be a day when -

Not Fox,

Not Glen Beck,
Not MSM,
Not the Military,
Not the Corporations,
Not the Insurance companies,
Not Pres. Obama,
Not Congress,
Not the Elite,
Not the Pod people...

...but WE THE PEOPLE on the LEFT, WE PROGRESSIVES are
to be called out on the carpet for our blaming, whining,
apathy, lethargy, spectating... SO THAT,
WE WAKE UP,
GET OFF OUR BUTTS,
GET ONTO MOVEON.ORG,
GET ONTO BARACKOBAMA.COM
AND DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!??????

If not now, when?
If not here, where?
If not YOU, WHO?

Serious question: Could there ever be a day when -

Not Fox,
Not Glen Beck,
Not MSM,
Not the Military,
Not the Corporations,
Not the Insurance companies,
Not Pres. Obama,
Not Congress,
Not the Elite,
Not the Pod people...

...but WE THE PEOPLE on the LEFT, WE PROGRESSIVES are
to be called out on the carpet for our blaming, whining,
apathy, lethargy, spectating... SO THAT,
WE WAKE UP,
GET OFF OUR BUTTS,
GET ONTO MOVEON.ORG,
GET ONTO BARACKOBAMA.COM
AND DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!??????

If not now, when?
If not here, where?
If not YOU, WHO?

Obama - STOP ACTING LIKE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE A ROLE TO PLAY!!!

Obama - STOP ACTING LIKE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE A ROLE TO PLAY!!!

Aragorn, quit trying to rally the troops and LEAD!!!

The stupidity, of the Fox and other headlines is stunning - "Stop Cheerleading and Lead!".

Except, Fox is crazy, LIKE a fox. They probably understand it on some level. If after
40 years, and the last 10 months of slumber, Obama can once again raise the Left, raise
Progressives from among the DEAD, TO FIGHT ON THE FIELD ALONG SIDE HIM,
we'll get health care reform.

However, if Fox, along with our death wish to be views as not responsible,
can rally the pundits, including BF, to RALLY the troops to see
Aragorn's attempt as SILLY, subject to RIDICULE, then Aragorn is f*cked, and
we receive the final slaughter; that we will RICHLY deserve. But do our children
deserve the slaughter we are bringing on them, and the poor in this and foreign lands?
Ah, who cares? No one so far, except Aragorn cares. Do we help him? Finally?

NOW WOULD BE A GOOD TIME.

9.07.2009

The way of Abuse

Abuse - the chronic mis-use of something in a way that can be EXPECTED to be destructive, not CONSTRUCTIVE.

Our classic conception is to do with the child or loved one, right? Rather than investing the massive amounts of work associated with a CONSTRUCTIVE relationship, building, creating, problem solving, helping, supporting, communicating - SLAP! SHOUT! WHINE! Right? And the outcomes we can anticipate? REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY BAD. RIGHT?

Now, the reason that we would find Abuse relative to the LEFT'S treatment President to be desirable is ___________? (I'm hoping someone can explain this to me.)

Rachel Maddow Highlights this week. DON'T MISS.

[sorry if some of these sent you already]

Thanks BuzzFlash. FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION!!!!!! ACT. NOW. NOW!!!

AT THIS JUNCTURE GERMANS FAILED IN 1930. AND U.S.?

Got this crucial article off of BuzzFlash.com this morning:
NYT: Obama Faces a Critical Moment in His Presidency

AS USUAL, the author GOT IT WRONG!!! The correct title would be:
NYT: [AMERICANS] Face [their] Critical Moment in His Presidency

WE ARE NOT GOING TO GET ANOTHER CHANCE AT:

* Health Care Reform
* Climate Change Legislation
* Wall Street Reform
* Mid-East Peace
* Education Reform
* Economic Restart
* Labor Rights
* Jobs....

WE are at stake here, NOT Pres. Obama. HE is right with conscience, good,
humanity, God... ARE WE? WE ARE NOT SO FAR.

If we let the Pod People, CORP(ses), AND OUR APATHY AND COWARDICE devour
THIS PRESIDENT, THIS AGENDA, at THIS TIME OF CLARITY - we are DOOMED
folks, DOOMED, and your children and loved ones along with us.

http://MoveOn.org and/or http://BarackObama.com . NOW. NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please check out, this page today.

Please Check out http://BuzzFlash.com. TODAY'S Page gets it right; it is soooooooo....

* Constructive
* Energizing
* Focussing - on the real, real, real bad guys in this Country
* Illuminating of how we need to be ACTING, TODAY, to TAKE THIS
COUNTRY BACK from the CORPse Elite, and GOP Pod People (I'm not kidding)
* Fair and balanced - holding the Admin accountable, but also encouraging and giving
credit where credit is due.
* Hmmmmmm - CHECK IT OUT!

BuzzFlash, AS WITH MOST OF US, is struggling with a transition from
"STOP" (Bush / Cheney) to "WE-THE-PEOPLE MUST TAKE THIS COUNTRY BACK."
It is a hard transition, but overall, if we can't
depend on BuzzFlash.com - we're toast.

PLEASE SHARE. PLEASE SUPPORT THEIR FUND DRIVE!!!!!!

"Ask not what Pres. Obama can do for your country. Ask what YOU can do for your country, and the world." SL

9.06.2009

URGENT - VIEW - SHARE - NOW - PLEASE. NOW.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_5PvDko9AU

Very Important

From Friday Night:

Rachel Maddow: GOP Pod People intend Death to Thinkers!!!

Rachel Maddow: Tenther GOP Pod People

Rachel Maddow: Rise of the GOP Pod People; Death of Conservatism

Rachel Maddow: Deadly, Dreadful Democrat Divisions

Friends - Help, please.

If you haven't seen this - watch it all. < 3 min.

Definitely watch the first 30 sec, and last 30 sec. Then SHARE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5ILsVo8r4M

The Beauty of Mathmatics

In tears. Thanks K. Enjoy

Click attachment. Trust me.

"Joy is found in the ATTEMPT to serve the least of these our "family." No other place is Joy found. If it is not found there, it is not Joy, but pleasure" SL

9.05.2009

Inconvenient Truths (that the Left, Progressives relentlessly, conveniently overlook).

* Political Capital places absolute constraints on what a President / Politician / Leader
can achieve. That it is invisible and difficult to "see" is besides the point.
ESPECIALLY TODAY, RATHER THAN FACE THIS TRUTH, GET OFF THEIR BUTTS,
AND RAISE SUPPORT WITHIN THE ELECTORATE, THEY JUST BEAT THE SH*T
OUT OF PRES. OBAMA. CLASSIC, CLINICAL ABUSE.

* Politicians ARE ABSOLUTELY CONSTRAINED by their constituencies. That they
can maneuver within those constraints, or violate them and take the consequences,
is besides the point.
ESPECIALLY TODAY, RATHER THAN FACE THIS TRUTH, GET OFF THEIR BUTTS,
AND RAISE SUPPORT WITHIN POLITICAL DISTRICTS, THEY JUST BEAT THE SH*T
OUT OF THE "BLUE DOGS." CLASSIC, CLINICAL ABUSE.

Peace Work is the Exercising of Universal Love; or it is not Peace Work.

Peace Work is the Exercising of Universal Love; or it is not Peace Work.

"LOVE is the Greedily Taking of Responsibility for the well-being of the least-of-these,
or it is NOT Love. Love is Universal, or it is NOT Love. Love involves Courage,
or it is not Love." SL

"Love," by a different name, is that which is "therapeutic" in Couseling / Psychology. Who wudda thunk?!

"Love," by a different name, is that which is "therapeutic" in Counseling /
Psychology. Who wudda thunk?! I just made the connection. Duh.

In the dreadful field of Psychology, the "Therapeutic Alliance", if well established,
is that which predicts "Health Producing" within the client. A palpable "being with" and
"being for" the client is that, by whatever name or theory or "school," that a therapist
can provide to help the client.

"LOVE is the Greedily Taking of Responsibility for the well-being of the least-of-these,
or it is NOT Love. Love is Universal, or it is NOT Love. Love involves Courage,
or it is not Love." SL

"Love (Courage) is WILLING TO FAIL; but UNWILLING TO NOT TRY to the bitter end." SL

SL here. URGENT: Obama's Wars - PULL OUT!!!! NOW!!!!!

President Obama:

REMEMBER VIETNAM!!! YOU CAN'T WIN!!! YOU'LL WASTE OUR BLOOD AND TREASURE (SCARCE POLITICAL CAPITAL) ON A FUTILE EFFORT!!!!! PULL OUT NOW, OF YOUR WAR (for a Public Option)!!!!

1. The American people are sooooooooo not with you!!! Yup, you KNOW what public support looks like. Remember your election campaign? Millions on the phone, walking the neighborhoods knocking on doors, rallies.... Have you seen anything like that since the election (I mean not counting the right wing loonies trying to get you killed)? NO WAY!!!! We on the left and center abandoned you LAST NOVEMBER buddy!!! Oh sure, we whine at you from the comfort of our arm chairs, but stand with you? GET YOU THE SUPPORT AND VOTES YOU NEED???? Sorry pal, we are one shot wonders, and getting you elected was it! You are on your own. Pick fights you can win by yourself. DON'T GET US INTO A QUAGMIRE WE WON'T FIGHT FOR AND WIN!!!

2. What tiny capital you have left - spend it on Climate Change - the greatest catastrophe ever faced by human kind....

3. FORGET YOUR WAR FOR Mid-East peace too.

4. FORGET YOUR WAR FOR taking on Wall Street Bankers too.

5. FORGET YOUR WAR FOR Education Reform. Hell, we won't even stand and protect you from the GOPod people trying to kill you for simply talking to their kids!

6. FORGET TRYING TO PROTECT US FROM THE GOPod PEOPLE - THEY GOT 1930'S GERMANY, AND WE'RE LETTING THEM GET U.S. Period. Get over it.

Enjoy the resources we gave you for stimulus / staving off the depression - cuz that's all you get.

The poll numbers you say???? The numbers that say we WANT HEALTHCARE REFORM / PUBLIC OPTION????? SUCKERRRRRR!!!! WE WANT MILLION DOLLAR HOMES, TOO!!!!! BUT WE ARE NOT GOING TO GET OFF OUR ASSES TO FIGHT FOR THEM!!!!! WAKE UP MAN, AND FACE REALITY!!!

WE QUIT 10 MONTHS AGO!!!

DON'T LEAD US INTO A WAR WE WILL NOT STAND UP FOR. DON'T. IT WILL BE YOUR VIETNAM.

Unless it involves killing foreigners. You can do whatever you want with Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, whatever. Live it up! Quagmire? Escalation? Whatever. We Americans are such stupid drones, we'll let you or any politician, EVERY politician bleed us to death as long as it has to do with killing folks in foreign lands with weapons of destruction. Plus, the MI Complex - THEY will get in the trenches with you to fight and win the resources for that one!

Enjoy!

9.04.2009

Ike's Other Warning. DON'T, DON'T, DON'T MISS THIS.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/opinion/03blumenthal.html

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." But imitate King? Jesus? Gandhi? Nah. Let's "worship," let's "admire" them instead. Soooooo much easier. Soooooo much safer. So much DEADLIER.

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." But imitate King? Jesus? Gandhi? Nah.
Let's "worship," let's "admire" them instead. Soooooo much easier. Soooooo much safer.

So much DEADLIER.

GIGANTIC DAY!

Don't miss the one I "*********************************" below. Hurry. Share.

Fw: "Start, you totally transformed my life. How can I ever thank you?" Michael

*** your eyes only please! Confidential ***

To you few crazies that have not yet totally divorced me -

The 8 word response from Mark below, blows me away, and gives me
great hope. He is the Editor of the Blog buzzflash.com that I've found
totally indispensable this last year of political battle. I hesitated to
copy him on this email of this morning (below). Never occurred to me
he would read it. As God is my witness I suspected he was DONE
with my rantings. I provided maybe 8-10 blistering (with passion) submissions
to him yesterday. YES, my motives were ENTIRELY constructive,
but you know me when I get INTENSE!

So his response - "you are sort of an oracle to me" - well, it is
a miracle of Hope. If I am what I think I am, and he is who I KNOW
he is - knows Obama, deeply connected in Progressive circles,
widely read, wise, committed, constructive, enlightened... -
then this connection and mutual respect at this most
pivotal of all times in History right now is, well - Heaven Sent?

His post today was HUGE: http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/9350

This was my response / comment back: http://blog.buzzflash.com/comment/edit/57381

Start

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: mark karlin <markkarlin@gmail.com>
To: Start Loving <start_loving@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2009 8:11:07 AM
Subject: Re: "Start, you totally transformed my life. How can I ever thank you?" Michael

you are sort of an oracle to me

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Start Loving <start_loving@yahoo.com> wrote:

Did I? His recent, almost as brief as the quote above email, out of the blue, said so.
When we first met, here in front of the White House, I was on hunger
strike, and round the clock "occupation" of the bit of grass I was
seated on - for Darfur. He was a college student, traveling through DC.
We spoke for hours, about life and what it means to Live. He gave me
a cap inscribed with a deeply meaningful phrase - that tragically I've
forgotten. I gave him a book I treasured - and I don't remember which
one.

He told me of Ubuntu - an African word and I think he defined it for
me as - "I am who I am because you are who you are."

This was maybe 3 years ago. If I recall correctly, he came back
through DC about a year later, with a female friend in tow.

Not long ago I got an email, pretty much this brief -
"Start, you totally transformed my life. How can I ever thank you?" Michael

My professional life's work, for which I was paid shamefully much,
required that I be a powerful agent of change. There is much
concrete evidence that I was. My point? I have a frame of reference
to judge that yes, if I didn't change Michael, and he says that I did,
I KNOW that I've changed one, or two, or more these last four or five
years in DC. Is that enough? It is the best I can do so far. So, it is
"enough" for me, so far, it seems. God knows why.

MY REAL POINT - in this most toxic of all cultures ever, the best we
can do if we totally, totally, totally devote every waking second to
bringing positive change within ourselves and others - the best we
may achieve is helping one or two. And we've got to be OK with
that. Further, we've got to ACCEPT, we've got to EMBRACE that
most of our brothers and sisters are so clinically dead - brain and
heart - that we've got to let them go, for now - conserving our energy and
PREPARING FOR the rare, chance encounter with the rare individual
with enough Heart and Mind left in tact that we can do some open
heart surgery and help them Thrive - and Serve! This is OUR reality
today. This was JESUS reality 2000 years ago! "No one comes
to me except that the Father brings him." 'I can't control who and when!'

Start, "let them go?!?!!??!" We've got to get / spark / inspire / Raise...
help before we can help the masses who are so desperately damaged
by their upbringing in this dreadful, hateful, sick culture.

Now, you will blow me off here (still reading?) but one of the 10 most
important books to read is "Crossing the Chasm." Trust me. But
Start, you idiot, this is regarding success in the high tech industry.
TRUST ME. If you wish to bring radical change, YOU MUST READ THIS
BOOK, and understand, and apply. It will protect you, inform you,
enlighten you, focus you, leverage you.

FIRES START SMALL, AND GROW AT THEIR OWN PACE, OR
THEY GO OUT! For now, until you read it, THAT is the point.
AND at the Start, they require dry wood available of the right size and dryness.
In the meantime, when such "wood" (Michael?) is not available, we
need to prepare to burn bright and sure, if and when when it appears
in front of us.

I know little about them, but frequently life brings to my mind the
monks who would go and live in caves or the desert. I think some of
them didn't go there to retreat or hide. I think they went there so
that the could be seen and found by the oh so few with in tact Hearts
and Minds - and light FIRE(S) when the rare, dry wood came to them.

That is how my life feels to me.

--
Mark Karlin
Editor and Publisher
BuzzFlash.com
BuzzFlash@BuzzFlash.com

312-826-7760

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"Start, you totally transformed my life. How can I ever thank you?" Michael

Did I? His recent, almost as brief as the quote above email, out of the blue, said so.
When we first met, here in front of the White House, I was on hunger
strike, and round the clock "occupation" of the bit of grass I was
seated on - for Darfur. He was a college student, traveling through DC.
We spoke for hours, about life and what it means to Live. He gave me
a cap inscribed with a deeply meaningful phrase - that tragically I've
forgotten. I gave him a book I treasured - and I don't remember which
one.

He told me of Ubuntu - an African word and I think he defined it for
me as - "I am who I am because you are who you are."

This was maybe 3 years ago. If I recall correctly, he came back
through DC about a year later, with a female friend in tow.

Not long ago I got an email, pretty much this brief -
"Start, you totally transformed my life. How can I ever thank you?" Michael

My professional life's work, for which I was paid shamefully much,
required that I be a powerful agent of change. There is much
concrete evidence that I was. My point? I have a frame of reference
to judge that yes, if I didn't change Michael, and he says that I did,
I KNOW that I've changed one, or two, or more these last four or five
years in DC. Is that enough? It is the best I can do so far. So, it is
"enough" for me, so far, it seems. God knows why.

MY REAL POINT - in this most toxic of all cultures ever, the best we
can do if we totally, totally, totally devote every waking second to
bringing positive change within ourselves and others - the best we
may achieve is helping one or two. And we've got to be OK with
that. Further, we've got to ACCEPT, we've got to EMBRACE that
most of our brothers and sisters are so clinically dead - brain and
heart - that we've got to let them go, for now - conserving our energy and
PREPARING FOR the rare, chance encounter with the rare individual
with enough Heart and Mind left in tact that we can do some open
heart surgery and help them Thrive - and Serve! This is OUR reality
today. This was JESUS reality 2000 years ago! "No one comes
to me except that the Father brings him." 'I can't control who and when!'

Start, "let them go?!?!!??!" We've got to get / spark / inspire / Raise...
help before we can help the masses who are so desperately damaged
by their upbringing in this dreadful, hateful, sick culture.

Now, you will blow me off here (still reading?) but one of the 10 most
important books to read is "Crossing the Chasm." Trust me. But
Start, you idiot, this is regarding success in the high tech industry.
TRUST ME. If you wish to bring radical change, YOU MUST READ THIS
BOOK, and understand, and apply. It will protect you, inform you,
enlighten you, focus you, leverage you.

FIRES START SMALL, AND GROW AT THEIR OWN PACE, OR
THEY GO OUT! For now, until you read it, THAT is the point.
AND at the Start, they require dry wood available of the right size and dryness.
In the meantime, when such "wood" (Michael?) is not available, we
need to prepare to burn bright and sure, if and when when it appears
in front of us.

I know little about them, but frequently life brings to my mind the
monks who would go and live in caves or the desert. I think some of
them didn't go there to retreat or hide. I think they went there so
that they could be seen and found by the oh so few with in tact Hearts
and Minds - and light FIRE(S) when the rare, dry wood came to them.

That is how my life feels to me.

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Excerpt from: The Heart of a Teacher, by Paula Fox

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Excerpt from: The Heart of a Teacher,
by Paula Fox