The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
People often make resolutions for the new year. I’m going to quit smoking. I am going to the gym three days a week. I will read a book a month. I will make more time for mediation. I am going to eat better. And more often than not – the resolution seldom gets past a month before it becomes forgotten, neglected, or otherwise lost in the shuffle of day-to-day life. Paying a visit to Dictionary.com, we see the meaning of
What can I do? This is the question a lot of us, I believe, are asking. In the face of global warming/climate change, the NDAA, SOPA, atrocities committed in the name of God or money or government – what can I do? With open discrimination and hostility against women, homosexuals, Muslims, and stories of intolerance and acts of utter selfishness against people different from one another – what can I do? In the face of so much death, war, famine,
The Occupy Wall Street movement may not make sense to everyone. But I think the one, simple point they are making needs to be spread far and wide. Wake up! That is, I believe, their primary message. Are We, the people, actually in control of this nation? The answer is simple. No. And that is the point of this movement. Wake up and see who is in charge! It’s not the government, it is not the people – it is
To go forwards, you cannot go backwards. There is a push by reactionary conservatives to take us back to a simpler, more naïve time (that never ACTUALLY existed) – and they are pushing through laws and ideas that are, simply, backwards. The ‘personhood’ issue in Mississippi. The repeal of the criminalization of domestic violence to save money in Kansas. Dismissing unions and their place in organized labor all across the country. Suggesting the uninsured should be allowed to die. These
There is some scary stuff being talked about these days. Class warfare. Letting the uninsured get sick and die. Cutting funds for education. Cutting funding for disaster victims. More and more it is obvious that the effort to separate people and put them at odds with one another is of greater import than bringing people together for the greater good. Everywhere we turn we see division. Red state vs. Blue state. Democrat vs. Republican. Muslim vs. Christian. Rich vs. Poor.
What are your hopes? What are your dreams? Who are you? What do you want from life? What are you afraid of? These are big questions we all ask of our friends, our families, and ourselves. I have been feeling rather introspective the past few days. Part of this is related to what I am reading – Paulo Coelho’s The Valkyries. This is causing me to question a great deal about the above questions. The question, though, causing me the
Dear Mister President, The odds of you actually reading this letter yourself are slim, I’m sure. But I still feel this urge to write to you, and hope that maybe, just maybe, you will see this. When you ran for office just a few short years ago, your message was hope. It was a message of change. A message that if we elected you, you would change the course of our nation, get us out of this downward spiral, bring
Once upon a time, “the news” reported precisely that – the news. There were reports on local events, international happenings, financial markets, and then something light and fluffy and human-interest related. No bias, no agenda, just “the news”. And then large corporations acquired the mainstream media. Newspapers, radio and television stations suddenly fell under large corporate entities, far more interested in making money than actually reporting on “the news”. Over the next two or three decades (I am estimating when
Dear House of Representatives, How dare you? How dare you mess with our national economy this way? How can you possibly justify this politicking? The economy is fragile enough as it is – how can you possibly dare to risk our recovery further? Yes, we all know you Republicans want to win the White House in 2012, and anything that might cause the President to be perceived badly seems good to you. But this nation was NOT founded on the
Feel free to cut and paste this, and send it to the appropriate people: Joe/Jane Average American 123 Any Street Somewhere, USA 00000 Senator/Congress(wo)man *insert name here* http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ (to get the necessary address for your rep(s)) July 14, 2011 Dear (Congress(wo)man, Senator) *insert name here* I am a concerned, average American citizen, and I continue to feel that my voice is not heard. “We the people” begins the preamble to our constitution. And in theory, “We the people” elect