ICU Hal Begin from the End, End at the Beginning.

Inculcated To Work: Banana Publics

2011-09-10T12:09:00.001-04:00

For bye bye American black and blue pie

Her tools were the bowl and spoon

Although sacred are the knife and tine

In the gardens past time

Cat scratches, chickens fight

Worms casting Fir art

Fair ware and all love is in

Fractions of a fall sale

Eternal dog fight for the days told about

Double crosses aligned with no lines in sight

Mugs waiting a flow from valleys

Below robin' hoods who owe

As above so in the out cycles

The red knight sees with green sleeves in the lead

Forever thing was yellow

Apples to oranges water runs with fish

Pointing the waves in both directions going down down

From the mountain top the flowers bow with chins raising

Sounds of three little monkeys play laughing way down

The pings ding and we sing these songs of freedom

With arrows flying in both directions, down down

We return to the path at hand

Disassociating with disposition

2011-02-18T14:14:00.003-05:00

Glimpse why from time to time
My knee aches (because it knew)
That my gait is long but trends to curve
Trouble standing tall until the ground is found
I bend to re-cycle and consider how long I can do this.

Peaking at consuming without being a "consumer"
Letting go without throwing it all away
And using without being a user
Settling for disassociating with dispositions

The peril elles abound
From "End User License Agreements" (EULA)
And EU to LA
The tech-no already

Post Modern Economics, and tell em' we're coming.

2009-08-25T03:02:00.003-04:00

Post-modern economics or wiki's entry on post-capitalism have illuminated just where we are today. Economics doesn't explain the current situation any more clearly than the good books and pundits. Still if you are here and now, you can see for yourself what is going on. And that is just what the market requires: Bartering and appreciation of value, knowledge and interest in the basics as well as the finer things.

Below you will see the two main points key for resolution to achieve a market, local and global. They not only support but facilitate development, however you may define that. It is as much about us individually as collectively. The adage "think globally and act locally" has meaning we must remember and know.

So when the relationship broke from planting the seeds for the future of mankind to fighting over the fruits of our labor, the kernel of knowledge was reaped that shows us it will grow with or without us. My belief is that beyond sorting ownership and efficient allocation issues out, the markets as well as the ecology will resume operations beautifully.

Past economic theory wrongly thought or promoted these topics as already defined. The case is still open though. Law as we know it shows itself to be created by man. Not even woman has spoken on this issue of ownership: They who play by the rules anyway.

With your help, the case could take a turn so that the shared understanding of the "tree of life" belonging to everyone, symbolically and literally, as well that everyone must serve in their own capacity to protect, if not only tread lightly, on life, to simply continue the conversation.

In western economic theory, ownership is benefit or asset, an equation, matter of liability or a question of responsibilities and irresponsibility. I can't speak for Easterners, multi-generational natives or non-Westerners, but usury and the comprehension of owning is more likely related to belonging. Maybe the focus that we're indebted to only the Earth and Sun, and belong to the Earth more than the Earth belongs to us.

This line of reasoning or set of values and core beliefs have an immense impact on how an economy would function. Ideally there would be room for ownership, along with all it's benefits and liabilities. And a production market, above and beyond the material needs, where service and information economies grow to suit those who understand the whole picture. By the whole picture I mean that it would be only fair to gamble that which you have to gamble with. This action requires understanding more than is required now, before being able to so easily manipulate world markets. Business would not be required to be of prime interests to the majority, no more than minding your own business is today...with the current very marginal returns. This is not and could not be dictated or governed, controlled by few or by all, government or bank. Lord knows we've been trying but without the need maybe for those responsible for trying so hard to be tried we can settle for fair practices and conscientious decisions from here on.

Regarding efficient allocation: It's 'efficient' if factoring out what economics calls externalities: Costs not paid for directly or a cost usually added to the public or entire economy / ecology. The risk and costs have been acceptable because of miscalculations and ignorance of the efficacy of full disclosures.

But today it's clear: The cost of energy reveals the inefficiency in transportation, trade and production. When foreign policy and local economies mix we end up competing with everyone. That sets the stage for the bad effects of globalisation. When foreign policy and local economics are distilled, the benefit of a outside revenue or input is sometimes invaluable.

Finally, economic theory assumes perfect information. This is something we can take action with today. As we allow the issues of ownership and efficient allocation to settle, we can inform ourselves easily just by putting the wish to do so first. Above all is the creation of a future in which we are happy and adjusted, where we and our kids are in balance better than our check books.

Looking at the books, but not always by the books:

Greco Chapter 16 A regional Economic Plan

Dowd's Experience of Free Banking

Bottom of the Market: Nowhere to go but O that magic feeling.

2009-08-17T15:31:00.006-04:00

Bottom of the 11th. 2 outs to go. Is it deeper into left field or everything on red? Here's the pitch, the ball's left the invisible hand. It looks straight but it's a curve. The batter rises and the catcher is in the right.

Take an other angle on this pitch in time, to see which way the stitches are spun on that base-ball. Is there something to be cheering for here? There are losers among us. We share the same stadium with them. The same urinals and emergency exits.

Hell O World. Where were you all my life?
Ground under pushin' up Daisy?
You don't say.
What now?
Dance? At a time like this?
There's no time.
Like the present?

As utilities rise
And solar price set
The bottom of the market is
Where we get wet

Sign language and sine waves
Investments have a way today without paying respects to zero's.
One day down and another day up
With out another look we'll all end up in chiottes

Summary : The Net Works betta

2009-04-21T11:41:00.002-04:00

So the summary of the thoughts and interests of the previous posts is that the net works. It only requires that we get 'online' and start communing. Still most are busy and preoccupied with holding on to the material which is not objectionable, just a 'bit' of a waste.

The idea is to get efficient at going from the 5th dimension or higher dimensions, down to the physical and then go right back up. Surfing the web or a real wave, we've got to just 'do it'.

Finally this communication doesn't require the net but it is sometimes definitely easier when you are here and they are there. The world is flat, but still I'll see you around.

Revisit the texts

2009-04-21T11:33:00.002-04:00

The tragedy of the commons is based on false assumptions. Namely humans are rational and also selfish to the point that competition appears a better choice than cooperation. Game theory is even still stuck in the rules that were made when WE weren't calling the shots. Isn't it time to revisit the texts?

2009-04-16T08:30:00.000-04:00

...to live on the far parameter of a world that might have been

2009-03-17T14:42:00.004-04:00

Hunter S. Thompson wrote and spoke exactly what was to be seen. Following his instincts and intellect, accepting the missions and omitting the admissions that we all share, he takes it a step forward, a little to the side and onwards and upwards. He spent his energy eluding and focus alluding to those who whisper the secrets. Those which are known to all but spoken by only leaders, and whispered by traders inside with shares of the alchemical pot.

The lid on that can doesn't always require being blown off in order to know that a flush is needed. But a cork on a bottle neck will be properly lanced once the room is cleaned, if the lid should lift alone and the shits hit the fan.

Eternally pessimist and in all ways a daemon tango dancer extra ordinate, Hunter S. Thompson shall ride on in the hearts and minds, souls and bones of those who are in the know of how to unclog a toilet without such a fuss. Hence the world that might have been, still may be.

photo courtesy of Mel's French Fotografix

Ass et Reality Managment MINT 741 prereq. for Admittance (℧) to School of Hard Knots

2009-03-16T16:05:00.010-04:00

Realizing it's why I went to school for naught, but for what it's worth: Uncles who passed know what is meant in saying "keep your ass behind you when your on the job."

Plumbing or strumming, get tar in tuning the car radio station, this is one piece of additional vice that will keep you grounded in any business.

Management, the action, scientifically and quantitatively speaking this is where the buck gets passed. If the buck should stop does a man-age-er fail to learn how to earn? This is the position that cable and phone cords and ring tunes find ways to wrap around your neck. You can't expect to get very high if you trip up in this house of cards.

But bend and see a return. This is the United States calling. Depending on how the land in'is more important than how far the fall.

Take precautions and then dispose of them promptly. Bet on her to play it safe if you're interested in planning to keep on shining, ICU crazy diamonds in the rough, you'll want to keep an eye on what you're putting at risk.

Reefer to E-con Cha.14 Network (Tread lightly on heavy water Anwar)

2009-03-13T13:28:00.003-04:00

The Fourteenth Link

As above so below

V

Ashes To Ashes and Dust We Must

2009-03-13T11:21:00.003-04:00

WHO says?: in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
-ER Version

Bury the green, returns too
Cultivate their flowers to be /---- SortWaveRad IO Channels Bob Dylan \----
Nothing more than something
They invest in Speaking<----

Still search for the point
But pre pair for the trip's tip
Here there is room
Just beneath the sweep

Sim bowls and blue bolts
From the sky or to get high
IT's all in the way
O what say you mean gentle man
IS is as if the plan

Ecomonics Chapter 1Ч: Tread Light On IX Anwar

2009-03-12T20:47:00.016-04:00

There is no play in town that will show what's happening
There is not a book around that will show the plays
Matinee is the same price, but only the reel on file is Yesterdaze New X
Box office opens and case files closed.
Same old red, whites and blues.
Ixept OS Hi! gЧ

Che CHa Ch I-Ching changes
IPackage upgraded, price is coming down, sails on sea sell shells
By paying attent you left the door open
The mosquitoes got in and are biting to insure their future
No torch or flash gordian lightning bulb switch, can be found,
Shines the light on what is going on, in your mind

Mother mother should I trust the G.
Father father what shall be in the end as it was in the beg-inning
It sounds good and judged in different worlds, winning.
The worlds ware will be tell revised and derived, weather permitting.
Kin folk on the tele, talking in Morse code again
Tschuse, enter nationaL: to speak on the world platform

Who ever we believe, will save our souls from that which needs savings.
After hours trading time for money, risk for ward.
Twist a wish and bend a 6. Sit back and face forward
You won't feel a thing, heavy water has n'attaché strings.
Ions missed, Eons passed, Muons yet to be.

But the sales that make way will at some singular point need revisiting
Double entry, book cooking, measuring twice, cutting once.
Red or blue? Your choice. But get at the back of the line?
Ahead is the curve which you come to see.
IT's all right here, on some wave of sea.

(Anwar is the English transliteration of two Arabic names commonly used in the Muslim World: the male given name Anwar (أنور), meaning "luminous"; or the female given name Anwār (أنوار), meaning "a collection of lights." Both names may also be encountered as surnames. In Francophone countries, both names are usually transliterated as Anouar.)

tea is for time, 2 be is for rhy-me, too full my self I O'er spell the bee

2009-03-02T05:09:00.002-05:00

Don't try to understand. Throw me the bri'r patch from the training seminal seminar.

Just listen and hear the seeds sprout. Then the time and place becomes irrelevant to the task at hand. Mind the manners in which matter is manipulate.

Mirrors for striking and memoirs for matches all produce smoke.
Infinity 8 1 |on with a twist of the wrist, the inevitable was was unmist

Be the cause: Wiz in the yards. Wane and wax in is surely faster than cat||ions.

|oN and oFF and of moving on
Kneel and lay rows
Je Ponce at the pop

Act I on to create contacts to collaborate

Tesla all red E set the t-para meters, use be why's

Don't none of this come with fries?

Playing myself in a full length feature: Part 1

2009-02-18T18:23:00.003-05:00

I've accepted the role: Harold Gets to Work On Time

A positively dynamic characterization of a pessimistic and panicked (mostly) dark situational dramedy about a boy learning about how "to live on the far perimeter of a world that might have been" (H.S.Thompson). Harold (Hal Hardy)grew up quickly into a world of contrasts and enigmas. Sprung out of the Generation of Love, his family and friends were only beginning once again to see the space in which Harold lived. Mel (Melanie Strang-Hardy) and an ensemble cast of all stars and extras round out this poignant look at what to spear 'it' is, through a half beaten soul, body out of step, and a mind out of time.

Heart warming and mind bending, this movie is a taste of what life can be when no prisoners are taken and no one steps off the fine line.

"Pop! You Late": Ions de controle now

2009-01-28T23:32:00.004-05:00

There is no need for ‘pop u late ion’ control

Death has a way of finding life out of balance

Take the hands off the yolk and let her settle easy

On the rivers and those who see that an other will receive

The energy will keep spiraling down until a resting place is found

Men in Black: Still the sun rise.

2009-01-23T11:34:00.003-05:00

In God We Trust, but let my people go. Like a fallen angel I've been bad and dug a hole because I wasn't any the wise. Will I be for-give-n time? Must I still pay the system and people that stink and sink the majority by a-betting they are the minority?

Where was I when the rules were writ? Who sat at the table and de-clarified where trust should sit and to touch is to be bit? So I sit and scratch like the animal that I am. Wonder about the plan. Why I'm confused and see every scam. Even if the president is black man, he's wearing blue and read the paper that holds true the shoe fits, a foot's dis-stance. I hope too he'll see through.

But don't have pity. I still sit high in the city. There are many that need your hand rather than mine. I see time and find lines. See space and homeostais. Step aside and take things in stride. Won't do what I can't and can't do what I won't. Do what you will, think about what?...to fill.

Look for the light an' see all. Image 'I' nation when it's night, but in the lights, the vision is imposed, like a dear dear deer in the road. What is this thing we call reality? Some say ill-US-i-on. Some say TH.IS is IT. So is it really? Just for the comfort of knowing? We are behind the masks we use, to smile and chose. Or is it because we know the comfort of being? Behind or in front, on the way up or down. For better or worse, sicker and poorer. Does not matter, still the sun rise and house fly.

Building Stable Political and Economic Platforms: No strings attached

2009-01-13T16:39:00.002-05:00

Candidates can and usually do have good intentions, smart, doable policies and proposals. But it is up to the individual people that make up this country, and world, to decide how money will be spent, and how life will be lived in the future. There is a duty of each individual, running for office or walking to work, to understand these platforms we create. How we can support them and what has been shaking the foundations.

We can have an economy built on building more, and more. And "We the People" can subsidize more alternative fuels, green building, corn, or algae. All lucrative and worthwhile, but none really requiring subsidies. I'm not against spending but spending more never helps when the solution isn't clear.

The job of making the rules, and seeing that the oil companies and eventually the green companies get regulated and do the right thing, is all of ours. But what do we value? The value of the resources or the resources themselves? Make it what you want. The world's work can be efficient and clean, useful and lean.

My best "shot": Buildings built from bullet and bomb proof glass, with solar panels behind them and gutters that catch, direct and store rain water! It sounds crazy but is it really? We'll have solved the three biggest problems facing the U.S. and the world, terrorism, water shortages, and our energy and resource needs. This kind of government spending will create short term production and jobs, community and connections. We the people will take it from there.

Direct current (DC) energy could be freely available from our sidewalks and building walls if they were made with this concoction of safety glass and solar panels. That means freely available, if not simply free, electricity for phones, computers and cars.

If you want to build, build a safe place. I'm tired of oil in my asphalt, in my water, and even in my car. Build a bike lane on the side, maybe an electric train.

Our Veterans, as well as the many inspired students and people who are looking for jobs designing and creating a better future, will need employment. Building clear and stable is the key, like we want our selves to be, like our government and businesses want to be able to be, and like our children will want to see. Don't build in another factory, I believe.

Materials and Spirituals: "Putting" IT...All Together

2009-01-11T01:35:00.006-05:00

Technology is all the knowledge we know how to apply to materials. The knowledge which we understand how to apply to the non-material could be called spiritual-ness. The problem we face today in rectifying the material and spiritual worlds is where the solutions wait. We must take conscious steps back (or forward) into the moment. Just look around and see what is actually here, and the path is clear.

Misunderstanding and misleading has created many "crossed wires" and "mixed signals". Our understanding of "it", the technology, the systems, political and physical, has been corrupted by those who love power and control, rather than those who understand the power of love and have faith that good will come of it. From the businesses that sell out and the people who buy in, we are in a race with little thought of what awaits us at the finish line. The connections and relationships, the choice of material used, the order and the design is ill suited for sustainability. God, the world markets and even the sky seem to be falling.

Understanding "it", our machines, or hard-IT, and a better awareness of "soft-IT" and even AI and telepathy are possibly only moments away. Our body's joints and bones, like "our" machines, can be bent and broken if we ignore or permit the power to support something or someone that is reckless with it.

Alas, the body repaired can transmit a signal, like a old short wave radio. Just by finding the "inner space" or the "time" to become aware of ourselves, we can start this work of repairing and straightening out the mixed and crossed signals. All in order to begin real learning. Things that no other can teach, and things that may be only something you see. My hope is that we see better what is our actual job, not that which we do because we believe we have to.

WE THE PEOPLE need an overhaul, and that means busi-ness...and that's okay. It's always seemed good when I've lost and found myself before.

Purpose takes a lifetime. Still I think it's our job to figure that out: Both the reasons we are here and what we can actually accomplish.

See you in the future?

ICU Age

2008-12-18T23:53:00.006-05:00

The literal play on words: Intensive Care Unit Age and I See You Age. These points I aim towards orthogonally, at right angles. One vector from where I see and an other for those by my side, to the right and left. I'm looking to see the next steps aren't prescribed, or more acutely are "trans-parent" and fit the stride. It takes a bit of faith and a gig of nerve to stand on only the belief, but the test comes before the less-on in life.

ICU is big business, and big businesses are in the ICU. We've got a cue to form a line and wait our turn. But we've got a clue to bend the sign and hear to learn. We know what is in front of us but only if we imagine what is ahead do we find our way true.

A majority may already believe socializing (western) medicine and corporate socialism (time shares of shares of stock) is the remedy to our malady. But as Buckminster Fuller reassures: "The maladies of the body may prove medicine to the mind."

The figurative meaning is then the objective: To swallow our collective medicine.

Account and figure out where, when and why it hurts. Connect the dots. And cross the "t" that makes all the difference between here and t.here.

There, there, there. There is no rush
If you believe, there is here and we're all a flush
Of the same suit and same rose cheeks.
Of the same rocks that make the beach.

The master minds, and our body bends
Climb on to the shoulders of giants
But walk gently on the back of men.

Small business only a pawn in this game
No better or worse but the same
An induction to the pain
A Di-æther for the brain

Social entrepreneur may even be thy name
But with clear eyes still a manifestation of the lame
The limitation is the claim
That land is taken in His or your name

So ICU and espouse the main
Building anew will begin in the abyssal plain
Where there's little relief, the insane

So prepare and do not wane
The winds of change are again a gain

Anyway, U is me and I am you, we are then them...etc. So we grow a little wiser a lot of the time, when we stop and think. But to be aware and move is a whole other game. Take your self out of the box and feel the chill of the unknown, but be mindful and re-member, that you're always home.

Reach up and feel the strength of the new branches.
They are all ready, strong enough, especially if you've seen enough.

Post Log: I wonder where we are all going. I've got interests and plans for my self. I'm sure there are things in store that I can't imagine. But the wonder has overcome the imagery and the imaginary. The way forward is the Tao, the DOW tells you only the past. I feel what I'm up to, but to ex-plain and plan et. not in a million years. While being in it, the able alibi, and the girl be side.

To buy or sell I don't say is bad. The interest I have is what's beyond the mad. The place where I long to short is the sale on peace with out the need of a court.

The Spirit of Au: Color-Gold, Classification-"Transition Metal"

2008-11-25T10:21:00.006-05:00

A U! Revisit with me the way we define and use gold?

The gold standard (Au, chemical symbol for gold), once again needs reevaluation so that the spirit(uA)ll world, life and liberty, may continue. The Bretton Woods group are aware that if they don't come "up" with something, there will be a lot of spirits leaving this physical world. 30 years older now and still trying to tell us which way the wind blows. As a mirror reflects the way backwards, statistics, cycles, and the past don't include the possibilities of the 5th dimension.

But how many roads must a man walk "down", to see what's wrong when looking back? Do we need a "whether man" or no-mad man scenario to know the way the world works?

The masses have allowed the gold standards and poor to go hungry. By deriving all available value from gold and many others materials.

(Just fyi the other transit-ion metals are iron, cobalt, and nickel...and the only ones know to produce an electric field.)

We even had to detach our economies from the Gold Standard to survive...what did that cost the world? We've succeeded so far only in keeping the machines and systems lubricated so that the screwing gets done smoothly and efficiently.

It is time to see, appreciate, defend and increase the value of the infinitely connected, ecologically divers material world with the innate, although primate (second definition), abilities that man and woman can offer from the spirit world.

The international economic game (globalization) was sold as something or all to do about “competitive currency devaluation”. This was the best solution that those in "charge" could negotiate with the dark side of Yin. Our (Yang) ability to bargain with something that is equal, and inseparable, but far more grave, yielded the appropriate paradigm "less is more" but with the values backward: "A-U how much for that wood?" "$400 bucks"..."I'll give you $300" "Deal." "U-A National Park Officer?..."

But until the value is recog-nized on many different levels, the current market price, aka sell price (or in physical terms the valence electron with the lowest potential located in the outermost shell of an atom) can be whisk away tarnishing the element "appearing" to diminish the potential value.

So we can't expect to have the "taking" cease unless we bond with these "things" more strongly than on the de-valuated level. And with the market spiraling, now is the perfect time to consider the value of the whole processes that occur (nature) instead of the value of the land and material divided. It is up to each of us to find the value that the market may not yet see but that will be recog-nized by those who are to 'inherit the earth'. The highest land value use (like a mall compared to a housing development) is really not the most valuable, even if the market says so. I'm into humane care of the Golden Generation: Is it now not our turn to make sure this generation has protection from being stripped of their values? And how about apples that are really good and not poisonous-sss, and a little room to learn before being taught, "leave those kids alone" let them explore the possibilities.

We are coming full circle with the G20 meetings and the big whigs will likely come up with another similar stratagem to keep an economic war engine red lining for another 20 or 30 years but then what? Game over? Break down? Rebuild? Why not slow down, even pull over? Save the art and skills of the past so that we may continue them in the future.

Consider the value of an old oak tree, oil deposit, or a mountain top veined with coal and quartz to be more than the current market value can yield. That can't hurt the financial system but has the power to change it. The job for us is to show this reality to those with the accounts for "checking".

You can't necessarily put a price tag on a sunset or clean air, but we can take our master's card approach and simply say, priceless. Still, to do this will require some creative financing. Education may be the thing to allow a human consciousness evolution. Education, organic food and health-care, I believe, are the only sectors not being devalued in the falling markets.

So, in summary, the reason gold is classified as a transition metal is because the valence electrons it shares with other elements, exist in more than just the outer most shell. Help me find a way to real-ize that gold is just a transition metal. Something to use along the way to aligning our spiritual values with our material world.

I "charge" you all with seeking with valor, beyond the surface, of how we can "share valence" elect-r-ons with the material world on deeper level. Find something that will bring you up instead of something that is marked “down”?

U A helper of healing? Think about it and get back with me. This is not an endgame, it's a time for cooperative creating.

Mother Should I Trust The Government?

2008-10-02T19:18:00.005-04:00

Wiki breaks down The Wall : The song itself is inspired by the very concept The Wall was made for; the feeling of despair and isolation from one's peers. "Hey You" has a very desperate tone which steadily grows as the song progresses, and there has been much debate as to what the lyrics symbolize, though it is generally agreed that the song is about isolation from ones' peers, whether it be Pink or the listener, or both.

Hello.
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?

Come on, now.
I hear you're feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain,
Get you on your feet again.

Relax.
I need some information first.
Just the basic facts:
Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ships smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I cant hear what you're saying.
When I was a child I had a fever.
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I got that feeling once again.
I can't explain, you would not understand.
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.

Ok.
Just a little pinprick. [ping]
There'll be no more --aaaaaahhhhh!
But you may feel a little sick.

Can you stand up?
I do believe its working. good.
That'll keep you going for the show.
Come on its time to go.

There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ships smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I cant hear what you're saying.
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.

In the End, As In the Beginning

2008-09-30T00:13:00.003-04:00

Allowing people to believe they are participating in a free market when really the game is fixed is the underlying problem.

We are pawns and slaves to ATM machine that has been running for hundreds if not thousands of years. I think that domination and control is the cause of the problems. Greed, ignorance, and caste systems follow closely. Freedom is what we fight for but someone is holding the leash.

Simply put the economy operates on debt. Instead of based on an actual standard, like gold, the transactions occur only because the lender and borrower have confidence. Now that the loan for a home that one person bought can be sold to another and another, the derived value of that loan contract becomes almost worthless because the confidence is etched away all along the supply chain.

In actuality, people must instead spend their money getting to work, buying food, and the biggest cost, taking care of their health care; be it insurance and medical bills, or organic food. This is because we have allowed the factories that we need to work in to pollute. Allowed driving our inefficient cars to pass for progress because the shape and model numbers changed. Allowed ourselves to smoke and drink, stress and bend our bodies like good Americans. Well I'm a bad boy.

The promises that were made were not being delivered. Whether it be a pension, a promotion or a better future, we are now finding ourselves almost out of time. The story is supposed to go...and they lived happily ever after. Well ever after is almost here. Happily is up to us, not the US.

So all of these derivatives and credit accounts that are seizing because the tread mill got too fast are causing the financial structures we use to “do business” to carry too much debt and that makes the tread mill sag so that it looks bad to investors who won't even throw other people's money on the thing for fear the whole thing will break. The game is up when you’ve got something to sell and no where to "put" it.

Or, is the game just starting? This problem we find ourselves in can’t be fixed by the same minds that got us into it. To throw more cash at debt in order to stabilize it is like putting more lipstick on a pit-bull. Facing that this economy is unsustainable and getting this "vehicle" to the next rest stop should be our concern. How to keep our investments from tanking and disappearing while we shore up new industry which will allow people to support their causes and themselves without damage and costs like war and pollution is a question we should consider. The answers are staring at us in the forms of problems.

Our economy is operating in an unsustainable way on two levels. One level that is really pretty easy to fix: Business, government, and the public won’t walk away from the easy “pickins” if we don’t walk away first. We are considered consumers. We buy because we can and the cost doesn't matter because if we don't have it, we know we can get it. That time is over.

Businesses, no matter what they sell, must be operating "green" where the energy for distribution is renewable. Why would we continue to pay an overhead cost unless it somehow served a bigger purpose, control? Domination? Market domination? Just because that would limit the competition by causing the scale of business that must be achieved to support a family require a loan from a bank? Just because big business needs more time to work it out with the government how we'll can be led down a path that keeps us producing...and consuming.

We must only buy that which is sustainable: Those goods that are fairly traded. We must be able to see where the money goes. If it can’t be done all at once, it is something to strive for. When you know what your money pays for, you are in the driver’s seat of the economy and no economist will be able to tell you anything that you couldn't agree or disagree with. No longer will you be at the mercy of your "stock man", "money guy", or "portfolio manager". You'll know where your money is because you wouldn't put it anywhere that you might not be able to find it.

The second level is that our bigger, global economy if you will is manipulated by those who see a good deal and know they can make it. This is called taking advantage and is not part of "fair trade". If it sounds too good to be true...it probably is. From the poor farmer or craftsman in another country being promised everything he would seem to need to the 2 for 1 tennies and half price sales we are so accustomed to by now.

So the confusing part is that you can have it all but just not at the cost that you have to pay today. The whole system is set up to perpetuate the paradigm of the rich getting a lot richer and the poor getting a little less poor and this we call progress. Would you be content if you were 'given' health care? The rights and privileges attained by white men in 1776 are still greater than those of most people today. The only difference is that we now have technology that makes the injustice a little more tolerable. From laughing gas to propane, and penicillin to paxil, I think I can, I think I can. Oh wait pandemic? World economic collapse? I can't handle that...

We need to search ourselves and get back to our beginnings. We took this land from native people who were living in relative harmony because our monetary and social structure was taxing us without representing us. We've corrupted their way of life and learned only enough from their way of life to get us face to face with our way of life. The systems developed (or developed and corrupted) for control and continuance of empires, religions, nations and corporations may be stabilized, but will not be looked upon the same anymore. This bailout solution is one that the "powers that be" have come up with once again, a solution was never found so quickly? Pay more for a system which ensures it’s strangle hold on our necks and ankles and wrists. Pay to play and pay to keep those who don't play "fairly" in prison, and those who bend the rules on the top.

Look at these issues closely and see that all we need to do is to learn how to take care of our business, our finances, our health and our environment. Always looking to another for direction is what got us all stamped. Walk gently in the direction that is best for you and those that you love. Spend your energy and time helping instead of taking.

If you later find that you were one of the few who were able to “get theirs” and it was at the cost to all the others, things soon will then change, with out a need for legislation. It will be judgment day as it was in the beginning. But if you follow your heart, it matters not how much wealth you acquire or how much money you can give, only that your hands are there to share.

2008-09-29T00:29:00.004-04:00

The Times They Are A-Changin'
By Robert Zimmerman

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

To be or not to b-ailout Woozy Henry Paulson

2008-09-28T23:45:00.009-04:00

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA also referred to as loco essay) is in my humble opinion a rushed attempt at saving pensions, jobs and the jobs that the majority love to bitch about. Why save the ship when we can save ourselves and let the shit sink.

Buffet, on 60 Minutes, and John Paulson, in the Wall Street Journal, tried to explain that this could be done better. From the right (shy of the mark) or left (in the cold) this document I believe is too socialist for my tax bracket, let alone my fear of Freedom to Fascism being less than a day away with the BBC article noted that the US Admin. wanted "a deal to be announced before markets in Asia opened" ...tomorrow ...today... yesterday?

There must be a better way than buying all the jerk off bad investments to re-capitalize the markets. The only thing I would support is funding an attempt to steer this monetary system off the highway and finance a sustainable revolution.

Does the U.S. really need to go down like this? Didn't we pay enough yet? Can we instead subsidize a health care industry that would allow the Golden Generation to really have what they were promised? Can our government break the chains of big business or does it make a deal that we all need to carry more weight?

If we can agree that a government should support a social service, be it preservation, conservation, or sustaining our resources, the pressure to take care of everything will be spread out over the whole country and allow each one of us to step up and do our part. That is something I'm willing to take on.

If we are plunged into astronomical, undefinable and mind boggling debt, the pensions and potential for change will be undermined once again and maybe beyond help from the U.S. people or economy.

Pray for dissent on the LOCO ESSAY. Otherwise our hammers will not be used to fix the rocking chairs but to keep everyone in line, be it for soup or for US Monetary System Support.

See that money can be used in a good or bad way, even if the intention is for good.

The Interdisciplinary Life: The HR 1950's Post War Economy Revisited

2008-09-24T19:04:00.011-04:00

Life is swell. Simultaneously things are falling apart. 1984 has come and gone, we find live m.i.c.s in a brave new world. So be aware of the similarities and subtle differences of what is said and heard. And which way is in if you want to get out.

At some points in time and space, it matters not what is believed or understood. Noticeable is only the distance between one and other. The divisions of interests between the physicists and the physicians, financial specialists and magicians are not yet beyond a point of no return. Although the energy and costs at some point, whether measured by physics or philosophes require that we just make sure if we want to continue.

Consider the viewpoint of another and reflect on how the occurrences, or karma, as well as dharma, that righteous action we all chose to take or not take, is changing the very fabric we clothe our selves in, as this can only help.

The monetary, legal, literal and figuratively interpretable terms of HR 1955, that, I state optimistically, were writ in collective defense of ideologies, but find pessimistically, to be developed with primary intention to be a somewhat firm yet fable Uncle Sam grasp on his own nephew's neck for the security, defense, and preservation of the missteps of the stumbling United States. Once again "He" wants you.

And with these terms now set out from the House to the Senate, I now understand enough to know that I need to understand more. So I continue without a declaration of guilt, and unable to summon my innocence.

Please notice what others are saying.

Pornocracy: Rule of the Harlots

2008-09-23T11:33:00.001-04:00

We're in danger of being labeled something not so appealing. Again wiki reveals that Pornocracy was a period from 904 to 964 where the powerful aristocratic Theophylacti family influenced Pope X-XII along with Pope Sergius III, Leo VI and John XI.

So pretty much no one is immune to sweet talk. I'm wondering what other kinds of "cracy" we could have. See wiki's list of possibilities and maybe come up with a few of your own while we still have some assemblance of democracy, or rule by the people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-cracy

"Never Forget" What You Don't Know

2008-09-13T22:50:00.002-04:00

Remember to learn

Conspiracy Theory

Conspire

Con Spire

Definition: An argument against a top part, structure or formation, that tapers upward.

The pyramid is by default defended by its own definition. NO worries lest we forget the power of a few 0s.

Wake up call: New World Order Documentary 2008

Putting 2 and 2 together has never been easier. But believing is still as hard as ever.

What to do? Say your prayers and rest up.

Plan for the best and prepare for the worst.

IF THE JAGUAR ATE THE OWL WOULD WE CEASE TO WONDER WHO?

If you've ever lost your keys

2008-09-12T09:52:00.003-04:00

Muddy Waters said if you got something good, keep it in your pocket. But at some point, something "precious" must be unabashedly shared and that's the risk we must take.

So for those who've ever locked their keys in the car, left them in the door or just completely forgot where they were left, here is a way to right the wrongs: We're humans after all.

One of the first to (publicly) use the phrase "the law of attraction" Charles F. Haanel wrote a book called The Master Key System (1912) to help all those that chose to help themselves to understand that even if we can't answer the question of questions, we can unlock the doors and continue to decide what we are going to do in the mean time.

Here's the link to the book The Master Key System

And here's some info on the author C.F. Haanel

The ideas are believed to stem from the Tenets of the Rosicrucians

Proofs and Revelations

2008-09-11T15:02:00.005-04:00

Internet 2, LHC, petabytes and a bag of (hardware) chips.

There are revolutions and links beginning. The Super Large Hadron Collider (SLHC) is planned to come online in 2012, appropriately bridging the gap between the spirit and physical world. The answer the CERN is trying to determine is why do things have mass; quite similar to the spiritual question, why are we here.

Science has been trying to answer the same questions that the humanities have pondered. Why? I suppose even if science comes up with an equation to reveal the answer, the "matter" will still depend on if you do or don't believe.

Keep the faith, whether for a mathematical proof or revelations

McC & Hockey Mom Vs. Big O & Foreign Relations

2008-09-05T16:03:00.002-04:00

With shiny confetti, real balloons and a persuasive argument John McCain, at 72 years old, promised to continue the good fight. If we find it necessary to take more beatings, with a thumbs-up, elect him and stick your thumbs back in your ears! Giuliani, Bush, and business as usual will still mean change, as McCain can deliver promise and hope, but while just right of center, I’m interested in being right on.

On the ebb of world order and globalization, I would prefer to be focusing on more change than we can count on McCain to understand. I would rather gamble that our country has produced a leader who knows that the conference table is better to get the facts straight than the battle field.

The one who promises to speak for us, I vote for. Not those who promise to fight for us. We’ve got our independence; let us get to it.

It is truly not by increasing oil availability that we can change. It is not by giving time to large corporations to position themselves to sell us freedom in a recyclable can. I want my freedom to come from the inside, not legislated and marketed.

There is only one way to stop the progress, stick our noses in other countries affairs. If we are threatened, we can still fight (we may need to extend the eligible age for enlisting to 80), and if we are needed, we can help. Finally if we are not afraid we can elect a leader who is untested but fully competent.

Enough with the warring and divisions, even the hope of promise of a future where work means a better outcomes than the creation of more work where the economy doesn’t depend only on the backs of sweaty labor but the ingenuity that McCain’s generation fought for us to retain. It’s time the torch was passed on.

Yes so quickly after the glittery Olympics (again “wow” for the thinking impaired) brought a new kind of political tactic to the stage, journalists and dissenters today spend time in jail instead of on the free speech PA system mic.

McCain will ensure another kind of MIC, the Military Industrial Complex, has work for years. You want jobs; he will almost surely create a stain on the fabric of international conflict that won’t wash out. The pants we pull up everyday will have to be trashed.

The man does have something to offer. He knows what’s going on wrong and only if in my dreams he would be a great ad-Vice President for Barack. We need balance to find the next steps to take in the volatile dynamic of globalization and inner revelation. We’re working on multitasking at multileveled actions, praying that the reactions don’t boil over too much. True we have reservations about a young man taking the lead but I believe Barack will hear and understand that a true master of war neither offends nor provokes, and fights only the battles worth fighting.

Keep your junk in the trunk

2008-09-05T14:46:00.001-04:00

Brother brother brother…If we do in fact continue to revisit the love and peace revolutions and civil rights issues of the sixties, let us prepare now so we can scratch the disco era disk of the seventies that might once again corrupted that funk which we all need to keep the junk in the trunk and our axes in tune.

For all the people who love to disco, go on; just don’t make me watch you do it. I’ll keep my love from smacking you up side your head if you keep yours from vomiting up bad drugs and running me down in a deal that turned the wrong way. I won’t allow myself to be subject to the strobe lights, coke heads, and polyester suit wearing long beards telling me how to stay alive and use my walk to show I’m a woman’s man and no time to talk. Moreover, keep the freaks singing that they want to love me all over, and over and over, tied down before they find themselves tied up in a prison getting schooled over and over. The theme is catchy but in an STD dis-ease kind of way. Finally, I am well aware that ecstasy comes in any pill form now but the real cost is far higher than the street price of $5.

From the clothing and flashy style, everything about disco served the purpose of promoting the abuse of happy time drugs, supporting the so called “black” market and reinforcing the belief that the revolution had succeeded. For some there was success but for most we still getting tuned up for the Age of Aquarius.

I can imagine the pointed fingers and Travolta type moves can be good for the soul but all this led us in the wrong direction. Disco simply came prematurely. The soul was forgotten once the pants got tight at the top and too wide at the bottom. In the continuing changes for a brother to be unique, the style now has stretched shirts to the knees and pants to hang off the thighs. Ok, you win, “your” soul had it right all along. Now pull up your pants and stop flaunting your trunk.

From the need to celebrate and recognize the progress the sixties experiments yielded came the commercialism and Club 54 type joints that only served to further the divide and conquer the ideologies from the original intent. As Gil Scott Heron said, the revolution will not be televised. In other words, these “demands” will not be “supplied” by the “free” market. It has a price but you can’t buy me love.

The desire for the positive expressiveness of disco has a close cousin for comparison and room for further development in both techno or house music and the hip hop genre with bands like Black Eyed Peas and US3 reworking the original standards into songs like “You can’t hold me down” and “Where is the Love?”. The big screen equivalent of what hip hop is to disco is Pulp Fiction. In the post modern film about bad things happening to even badder people, Travolta places himself in a more fitting role of Vincent Vega.

Music and film can serve to unite the public that is tuned in far better than any swinger party could ever help get people over their humanness. US3 shows we are all brothers and sisters, not just the “woman’s man, with no time to talk” that the time of the Bee Gees dictated. The need to express joy and pain can surely be better articulated in these “open source” mediums than by any boom chick beat I can stand to walk to.

FIFTH DIMENSION FRIDAYS

2008-09-03T18:36:00.001-04:00

To change the world we take a step. The fifth dimension is the space time fabric that may be knit and cut to specific interests and requirements. To address personal problems or individual interests, as well as world issues and global concerns, I consider work in the 5^th dimension to be the way.

By collaborating and learning, listening and considering, the small amount of energy we individually possess can be amplified, focused and synergistically channeled towards arriving at the destinations of choice with little waste and all in due time.

The power of the collective is often lost in the structure of the organization. From government and business to networks and relationships, we are working within and without forces from tax, building, ethics and even college electorates, the codes are there for deciphering.

So participate. Within the 5^th dimension to win only requires that you contribute, either by graciously losing a disagreement or by intent resolution you’ll find accord.

The Information Age is upon us: We have always been able to confirm our intuition and thoughts with many people, but only now does technology support construction in the 5^th Dimension.

Still there are guidelines: The US Constitution is a good place to start. We will be working and doing business in a framework of tax codes and legal precedents. Consideration for these laws should not dictate but shape our actions so as to be free from judgment. This is called minding your own business and is legal. Anyway Franklin and Madison sort of incorporated democracy from The Great Law of Peace (Iroquois Constitution). And even more interesting, farther back in history and less known the potential for applying the beliefs, culture and systems of the Maya Aztec and Inca Civilizations to our own.

So there is plenty work but the fingers now touch. It’s a stretch but it’s not that far.

So weather your interest in design, history, art, law, physics, technology, business or thought. It will pay someday to work today in the 5^th dimension.

The end. Z beginning...

2008-08-26T22:12:00.003-04:00

The time has come.

To listen and learn

Foreign Language and Local Business

To develop what we need in order to achieve what we want. The physical material has been AWAiting.
Technology is ready.
The east and west have met many times
And the south and north are coming together.

The O factor is seen as a political ideology for change
but it's only the shape that we move through. ♀ ♂ © ® ☼ ∞ %

U must come together and with I too
combine into the symbol Φ

Phi representing the Golden
Here meaning ratio and
In the oldest chinese calligraphy this symbol
Represents the middle.

Own Ly 2 gather puzzle pieces that so many have created be solved by the meeting of z mind.
The meeting is where times 2 changes everything.
Imagine a gain hat that quantizes the gamut, the full (0) and hold ON

Mind your P’s and Q’s
They play better than you KNO?W?
SUBLIMINAL MODE IS BOLD
key Pin Touch and Play On the beat
The music must goWON NOW
Prick your ears up or prick your fat fuck finger
The questions to start the FLOW
WHo
WHat
WHeRe
WHeN
WHY ASK WHY
When we can GO

But HOW!
Z other question to be seen, from the beginning.

The time has come.

2008-08-26T19:08:00.002-04:00

The time has come to develop what we need in order to achieve what we want. The physical material has always been available. Technology is ready. The east and west have met many times and the south and north are coming together. The O factor is seen as a political ideology for change but it is only the shape that we are moving through. ♀ ♂ © ® ☼ ∞ % ,

U is what must come together with I. combine into the symbol Φ, phi representing the return to the Golden, here meaning ratio and In the oldest Chinese calligraphy this symbol represented the middle.

Own lee 2 gather puzzle pieces that so many have created be solved by the meeting of z mind.

Waking up from the American Dream, and turning over.

2008-08-23T21:19:00.002-04:00

Waking up from the American Dream, and turning over.

If it’s true or if it is the search that counts, I’m waking up to the fact that the American Dream is great until you wake up.

I’ve had a dream. Just when I finished school in 2002, I searched my soul to find a path. Since I had learned that it was a big game that everyone was playing, I thought a lot about whether I even wanted to play. But, I needed money.

I knew that in order to mind my own business, I had to talk with accountants and S.C.O.R.E.s of people. But the game was rigged. Taxes, brackets, licenses, and rackets are the plays. My first interest doesn’t pay well but at least I am clean. So finally I broaden and narrow, once the search, now the quest for living among all this killing.

Now I’ve got dreams to remember.

I’m going back to sleep a while.

May be gone till November,

But we all got to walk through the green mile.

The Outing of the Mustard Seed

2008-08-17T13:54:00.003-04:00

Who'd a thought? The mustard seed at one time used to deter pests, would come full circle from mustard gas and the still live M.I.C pesticide companies that developed from it, to fuel for organic farming.

So once again the mustard seed has meaning beyond making "bread" for those who know "dough"...the money makers, y'all. "Not that there's anything wrong with that" - George Castanza The Outing

Liquid Flow

2008-08-14T17:01:00.004-04:00

I want to coin a new meaning but as "it" turns out, those who came before have had time to think, arguably more clearly than is frequently possible today.

Flow is defined by wikipedia as: the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity...
similar mental states include: to be on the ball, in the zone, or in the groove.

Liquid may still have room for interpretation. Although the definitions are pretty well established, there is no (psychology) in parenthesis next to the term. The physical and spiritual characteristics of water or any liquid can apply to a state of mind like 'flow'. The interpretation can be left up to those who inquire and desire to go with the flow and study topics like Shen and Guro.

New Castle County Is Swale But Turned The Wrong Way

2008-08-11T17:04:00.003-04:00

New Castle Co. is swell but its swales are turned the wrong way. Flows out of a crack down town like ours sucks like a bathroom drain in the rain. Likely we all would be flush, if we can hang on that long. If too much more crap gets piled up, whether it's the landfill or the heavy pockets, no belt wearin', too big for your britches with all them bitches, on the run, with the gun cocked, against the clock, doped copped and luck broke. Delaware just wouldn't be fun.

Our ecology is at the same risk level as our economy, city government is balancing but it's a tight wire act and the fact that "the man" represents us is lost on the one who would observe. To those who call to fight, and prefer the man down, or at some point utter the words "down with the man" best realize that YoU are being called to action, and it is time to stand up. That means YoU.

Figure things out and keep movin' on. Head up and back strong. It's forward movement with D. Lightfoot on the ground's projections.

Like Cats and Dogs, Lions and Lambs will lay

2008-08-07T17:22:00.000-04:00

Ex's and Why's : Sometimes Lie

2008-08-07T16:57:00.004-04:00

On hearing that a good political Delaware blog has recently gone down, I offer my condolences and self and continue to stand up to the racism, oppression and mismanagement of life.

So, it's official I am involved. Still innocent, I plan to see the steps that would prove my self guilty and lead to an end that is worthy of beginning.

I am just excited to be bridging some ideas really. I was happy to gently tell a CEO of a Delaware building / development company (1.) He is not all right and (2.) I want to talk more about business and less about politics.

It started when I read last Saturday's paper, today. The Comments section had Delaware Voice Stephen Mockbee, president and CEO of Bancroft Construction Co., inquire Why can't America fight back against all of its enemies?

Seen online here: http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080802/OPINION07/808020313/1108

My reply to the News Journal and Mockbee was maybe lengthy but I sent them both a copy. I wanted to pay my respects and give fair notice that a public retort was on its way, as well as the provide the newspaper a chance to publish some good news.

So I'll also publish it my self just in case the weird weather of Delaware blows it by, and so that you may read it here with a little more ease of vision.

Yes We Can?

In regards to Stephen Mockbee's question this past weekend: "Why can't America fight back against all its enemies?" I'll just quote one of my father's last songs, "It ain't no fun when the rabbit's got the gun"; a statement to his friends and public that would hit home without out no collateral damage.

We are a nation that is divided from within with Americans in opposition to America and confusion on what being an American means. We Americans have also opposed any other power by default and to the point of creating our own enemies through our economic strength, military might and stubbornness that the U.S. is the "best country in America" a direct quote from one of the only times I went to a rodeo.

It's my contention that the goal is not to be the strongest nation but simply to be a nation. One where prosperity is obtainable and fear is again the only thing to fear.

Mockbee argues justly to "...Wake up..." but got many other points misdirected and off base. The war on terrorism does have an end in sight: Exactly the moment when the opposition sits at the table, to be heard and considered equally along with the majority.

Mockbee also used the word control fifteen times: Control of corporations, resources, economies, religion, destiny, even world control. This level of control is possible but is this really what is desired? The amount of sacrifice is just too high. Include the gambles we take with Iraq and any battle: economic stability, future economies, land, resources, lives, education and vision, a price I for one am not willing to pay. These things we sacrifices in the name of control or power are our partners. We invest in foreign markets, share common interest in undeveloped renewable resources, calculate potential interests in futures, help foreign and domestic children's children, build schools and breath life back into idealism. All partners that help light the path to a world at peace.

Basing policy on vision is another of Mockbee's points. But that's what leaders are supposed to do. We already have a policy with vision, the Constitution!

But, if the vision is unclear, listen to the supposed opposition and help to non violently and without hostility, takeover the reigns of the ships that once sailed away from taxation without representation to a place where freedoms may thrive. And do this before all those who disagree with the current spending on war and subsidies find it necessary to leave and thereby create a new tax base in other lands.

When atrocities occur, see how they relate to our policy. Do we want to continue to promote our way of life as millions more take the same path and "rise" to our way of life and standard of living?

I for one am interested in weathering this storm. I believe it will bring forth growth, new life and change. I've learned from you CEO's, five star generals, professors and parents, commitment is unwavering in a battle that is not to be feared, and life is what you make of it.

I have a vision where corporations are utilized once again for the benefit of the public instead of primary vehicles for profit and market dominance. I believe the impetus for incorporating was to tackle seemingly impossible feats like building bridges and national infrastructures, possibly before the over arching law and interest that profits be the main focus. I could be wrong but wouldn't it be better?

Living is getting harder, though the rules remain the same. The use of terrorism has been employed and developing since the creation of a majority yielded a disenfranchised minority. And along with the first use of bombs and knowledge of pyrotechnics, came the development of chemical and biological warfare, still being invested in by the U.S. military industrial complex. Competing and winning has come with high costs. But I was told: "All is fair in love and war."

But, now the world is waking up to dominance and control and the ability of conflict resolution to solve issues that no amount of power has been able to accomplish. I argue that we need less control and dominance, and more self control and commitment. This will be the way to regain our freedom.

So to answer your question, "Why can't America fight back against all it's enemies?" Because protests are starved and squelched of their meaning and wisdom for fear of change. Instead of hearing and implementing the ideas, fear of losing control of an economic world power created "enemies" among and within the U.S.

And the points and lessons of the time...that economic warfare was a no win solution...was lost. Among this loss was also much of the idealism that create and organize great nations.

If you look at life only as a competition, there are just too many people competing for less resources, less power, and less control. And don't forget the need and want of freedom. Competition is a part of life, but it serves to separate the better from the best.

With the "US" the Banks Can Too

Now that the practice of capitalist competition has been permitted to continue, simply because another economic system that would protect, ensure and serve individual and economic rights was not fully realized, we find ourselves faced again with similar issues. Oppression leading to depression with drugs permitting the visions to become disillusions. If we aren't careful, today's need and use of pharmaceutical drugs could cause just the same thing to happen again. We the people are just waking up from hitting the snooze button on the voice that says "something ain't right" and looking once again for re-enchantment and remembrance that everything is alright.

Because, although the roots we have allowed to grow are deep, from our Federal Reserve banking system and corporate power to genetic patent laws to general fatigue and indifference of our racially and economically divided nation, solutions are always there for those who search.

I disagree with your statement that "...the problem is simple and the solution is complex." The solution is in simply righting the wrongs that have been permitted: We've tied the knot and we can untie it. The problem and solution is then in knowing how and with whom to create new "bonds" with. This is where the leaders and people are needed. Do we continue to trade unfairly or is it time to act fairly. Do we invest in the best defense (offense)? Do we continue trying to legislate and regulate marriage and love? Can we allow ourselves the freedom to find what works for us? Can we police ourselves and prevent the violence better than the police have been permitted to attempt? Can we find our way back to a golden standard and gardens of delight? Can we happily share the fruit of both the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life? And might this lead to peace with all nations and religions alike.

Independence is ours and has always been, but interdependence, between populations, governments and businesses is a key to the comfort, stability, and life that people and nations must share. Furthermore, fiscal and monetary policy adapt quite well, as we have seen with the recent net that was cast for Bear Stearns Company. And even more powerful and subtle are individuals' actions that may further our "local economy" to adapt and thrive in the "new world economy".

The core of what we are dealing with is mind set and ignorance of potentials. There is another way, there always is. Controlling the market and the future of a nation is too much even for the strongest nation in the world. We the people can only control our selves, our actions and the decisions we make with the choices that are presented to us. The future of any nation is in its peoples' hearts.

We are all in this together, let's embrace the these challenges together. Where ecologist and economist find that the terms that represent their interests are the same, and control and competition is no longer the mainstay of the economic ship we wish to sail.

Harold Hardy
Natural Resource Management
Minor in Resource Economics
Indebted Environmentalist
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Key Ping the Peace: I-ching the Priests

2008-08-03T14:29:00.007-04:00

An answer to the insanity I see may be to teach the teachers: From the streets to the schools and the kennel to the homes, from the church and the thrones: there's links in a Scott's Ancient Near East Drone (SANED).

Teachers go to school with varying levels of understanding. My qualm is the system of subjects and topics of unjust are typically historical and rhetorical, while not without merit, fail to open the parachute of the mind in any manner which is foreign or unreckognizable :) to the teacher 'him' self. Thereby diluting the lesson to the point where sparks cause no burning.

Now my parents were both teachers, my grandmothers, stepmother and oldest sister too. I'm very appreciative of the guides in my family and through school, civic associations and even the cross burners too. Yet, I am repelled and attracted by The Way the World Works (Wanniski) from business to politics, and education to graduation; I wanted more guidance, more comprehensive comprehension. In school it already seemed one needed to fight for permission to complain. And the resolution, solving disagreements by the well established ruler, can make one drive one another insane.

The lessons inculcate, with or without the books and computers, but the mind needs to calculate for itself the value of information, the presentation and most of all these days, what it is that we are doing with our lives. Rousseau sowed the seeds of a revolution, let us eat the fruits.

My experiences in school and church, at nuclear protests (as a baby?) and on the street LEFT little time to consider emotional and spiritual development, let alone economic and self development. If a fraction of the time and energy that is currently put on testing and producing, focused on developing the individual, I believe we would more easily reckognize that life gives you the test first, and then comes the lesson. The job is to learn the lessons.

So I still strive to live life backwards from what is typically the norm. First "old" age, where you sit and watch, laugh and cry. Then at maturity where you understand life is pretty simple. Next addressing learning and teaching, treating others, raising kids and developing multifaceted relationships, simply complex at times. And only then, tackle the hecklers and ignorance of mans' mind, and tune up the strings of the dynamic patterns of establishment.

So ping your own self as a computer pings its self. Step away from the time of day or forecasts of probabilities, to a place of possibilities and moments that stay.

Teach the teachers that Grier's Theory of Living Systems is more than a subject for analysis and that general ed topics do include balancing budgets, civil rights and things out of sight. Most of all the ideas that once protected "US", like separation of church and state, and no taxation without representation, while not needing to be re-writ do need re-form. When priests are pedophiles, and Uncle Sam invests in my debt, dog are born to fight, then you know something ain't RIGHT.

Now if the peace can't be kept
unless the keys ring no more,
all the misled will be found dead
behind the gate's locked door.

And we'll find our self stagnant
in worries that bore,
and only gate keepers
that knead breads and heads
will know the score.

With out the key
the little and big that be,
lie gored on the floor, looking for an oar
to help them reach the core that's in store,
but instead given a paddle
and taught fear of the battle.

The highest mission of law and enforcement, keyping the peace, will now require an involved and evolved blend of bland reason with deeper reasoning to season. If you're against regulation of marriage and sex, good times bad, find your way to the end list of S.A.D., before out comes a child who thinks Bush is bad. Let hair gROW where hair will GO and calculate the amount you concentrate on other PEOPLE's interest. There you'll find the barber whom cuts hair less has a mess enough left to turn into a nest.

But base economic growth on competition and margins, and find borders and walls to all the glorious gardens. So put energy to use for purpose and truth, there you'll find your life and the fruit's juice to boot.

In the Throws of a Third Quater, I sit

2008-08-01T15:00:00.001-04:00

In the throw of a quarter, I sit
The dog earns what he learns
And the cat shit dries where it lies
Fit to be lit if the gas price rise.

I am bound: just able to sit and watch the world swirl around. Feeling the ground, unaware it's down, or yet to be drown. The money seems to disappear like a dream waking you from fear. The honey finished, while the subsidized sugar coffer gets wind of a reign thats at blame. Hips, ships and tips still churn while fewer and fewer pockets burn, we all learn.

Banks be whit adventitious with out the supports and confidences of the governments peoples'. Could the people have been trusted equally as god, republic and state? From the very beginning, had been confided and treated fairly squarely, save slave traded and swapped quite summarily?

I'm sure others are sitting and wondering what will become of the moment. Will "Zer-O" really bam a system into assemblance of what we the people thought it was? Or will it be only an Oh? that may make the change of the day be that which we lay.

So I lie myself down each night and day,
in thoughts, dreams and research of a new way,
I look far out to the future at bay,
and keep covered the key touched pass several days.
since god, banks and governments have had their say.

Iz I.T. the final frontier?

2008-07-30T12:30:00.009-04:00

This land is your land,
this land is my land
So, what is my space, if I'm at your place?

My space or yours?

In order to consider space, we must consider our self. Physically we assume ourselves to be pretty dense, mostly water and sometimes full of hot air. But on an atomic level we are barely here. Held together by the strong bonds that are simultaneously as fragile as a misplaced hope.

Consider what it is that we are and you'll find the fabric that we've weaved. Be aware, look too close and you'll find nothing but space, mine or yours, it'll be space and that's what I called Lost; a bit of a waste of prime-time. I'm interested in Found.

Let's get beyond my space, my place, and the rat race. We're in It together whether we weather it for the better or never measure up to the potential pleasure. My space or yours? It really isn't matter anyway.

Fruits of Our Labor

However, In today's market matter is important. Ownership, rights and stewardship is still being negotiated with the main interest and focus on the efficient allocation of resources; so as to raise the standard of living. How we can save ourselves by creating yet another market for our monopoly game of life to sell and buy carbon life forms, trees, dead flees, bees and organic cheese. Are we going to far yet? :)

The ideas of seven generations, Seven Nations and inter national relations carried out by five star generals, five sided buildings and 5% returns, means something doesn't add up. Economic competition yields good returns but you reap just what you sow. And long overdue consideration for long term viability of seeds, seas, and shes, has just now began to factor in with the shiny red crunchiness these possibly forbidden fruits of labor really are.

To each individual making their way through the day, rethinking, or simply thinking, would be the first step. Every thing is fine but something ain't right. Think before you drink and look before you leap. Because when Dylan said everyone must get stoned, he probably wasn't talking about kidney stones, reality hits it out of the park even if you miss: How much coffee will IT take to wake US up!

I got my iPod, my space, my dog, and smokes. But there are things I have that while intangible are consistently needing tending:
My life, this moment, the future, past, and my thoughts, and I am looking at the difference between my debt and the dept. we've all inherited and finding signs IT will tease it-self apart.

So for the moment:

I will till until I'm still
With little will to consider the bill
That was placed on the sill
Long before I had my fill

I see now I'd have to kill to refill that grill
May just dill the bill and build a mill.
And there I'll till until I'm still

Note: Economic theory considers ownership as one way to efficiently arrive at a desired group of benefits and goods. If the river has an owner, analysis yields a deal to be struck to keep it clean or produce energy etc. Although add into the equation many assumptions economists require to calculate not only monetary balance but quantifying the hearts and desires of man. This inner balance has to be found before a real deal can be struck between the value of life and liberty and the value of a dollar or a moment of mans' time.

Public Works and Corporations: Hum a little tune for me to hear.

2008-05-17T16:59:00.003-04:00

If I understand correctly, Public Works like we have in all cities and governments, is the original interest of the necessity of Corporations. The use of public money that is non-repayable to build economic prosperity for the benefit of the physical economy.

A danger to this is in the utilization of the power to compete with it's mirrored selves (other countries) as well as the other nation states that prefer to play by their own rules, or at least not by ours. This is the economic competition we've seen for all of history: It's the strength and weakness of the system. You have to play to Win, but play by the rules and you lose.

For the US it has been yet another twist and layer: Escaping the taxes from Great Britain Kingdom of "Public Works" and taxation without representation, to build our own nation revealed what we don't want but still disallowed us to achieve what we want. We have what we need though. Jack of The White Stripes sings of the Seven Nation Army, where I imagine the economy and relations of the native Americans included seven nations which cooperated in order to successfully continue to evolve. These Seven Nations still have something to teach US even if Franklin was unable to sway the public to follow the advice of their Great Law. Namely, final action decided by a council of elder women, and mutual agreements between the seven nations that no action would be done that hurts any of the other. Sited Arkhom and the Geometries of Destiny in the North.

To the remaining natives I can see and agree that, outside forces are only natural. Acceptance accepted the forced change, not without resistance but without understanding. This acceptance is similar to the eastern belief in spirit and nature as having a life similar and related to our own, worth dying for and worth living for. And the stronger power either moves in or passes through.

Today we have come again full circle to understand that our existence is as dynamic as the earth is round and our travels are spirals. The parallels I draw sometimes cross at a point, run between concepts that are completely understood by few and affected by many. I do claim to understand completely, only theoretically and sometimes applicably, usually only momentarily. Still, I understand that my need to figure out what I am doing here is more important than figuring out what you are doing to me, or not. May be the first level of change, may be the last. But the I Ching says the same things my computer tells me: Processing, username, login, settings, sign out. I say stay tuned.

American Constitution Renewed: Permits and Allowances

2008-04-21T20:34:00.005-04:00

We the people, have conceded, in order to form a more perfect union. Given of ourselves and our histories for our unique and universal futures and still wait for permission to live and act in the ways that we know we should live and act.

The time has come that the understanding of what we are waiting for has been among us and within reach for all time and that only by opening our own eyes may we see these truths. Through the study of religion, science, markets and thought itself, ascension is possible.

Through the knowledge that available technologies are available, comprehension that the methods and systems we've wished to understand are discernible and decipherable, and the awareness of actions which we wish to take have retained their shape and strengths for these days to be discussed, considered, implemented and supported.

No longer shall peace require permission, and no longer shall inequity be allowed to walk hand in hand with time in the light of our compassion and comprehension of life on Earth today.

"The Future Depends on Knowing" -TRN

2008-04-04T11:34:00.003-04:00

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Heal nature

2008-02-23T11:41:00.004-05:00

Ever felt dirty? :)

Let nature heal you. Listen to what you are wanting to do.

I say this because it was only until I had a cat that I realized: These houses are built to enclose. Nature is built to let go. So if you're fuming or rheuming, get out into the cleaner parts of nature and let it take away your stress and cleanse your body for you may have the sponge, but it has the soap.

So a call out to nature to heal and be good, sit and roll over. And a call out to U to do the same. Then we'll stand and start the music.

Intranet Paths

2008-02-23T11:25:00.003-05:00

Blogs are dane-jer-ou! Can you tell the words I mean? Is IT lost entranslation? I'm intending all spelling mistakes now for those who try to read between the lines

begin at the beginning

but for those who try to see mean-ing. Read the words.

This is an attempt, and beginning at building the interest for intra-net service that requires no service. No bulky hardware and little in the way of reality.

With software can repare itself
and signals find a way
at some frequency or intensity
There you'll find elasticity.

The web is designed as everything else. IN nature there are rules and physics is the beginning and end for physical understanding of the world. MEta Physics is after physics as Aristotle's assistant intended as well as after Aristotle himself.

Cosmology and microscopy is within both physics and metaphysics although the rules are a little better understood for physics, but still constantly changing with relativity to perspective (do I need to cite this?).

WIth Metaphysics the relationship between those objects is now what is being defined and observed, constructed and constrained.

So with treatment to the dang-er-ue internet. Join the intranet world with a lighter touch and more time to discuss the way we want to go, the changes that we are hopeful for and the paths we are already on to get there.

Eclipse the Moon

2008-02-19T02:23:00.003-05:00

You can see the dark side of the moon but there are more interesting things happening on the bright side.

Urban, native, indigenous, and all kinds of permanent agriculture are revealing themselves. AKA permaculture seems to be spreading faster than courses can be arranged. Lot's of information and certification is for everyone.

But what are we doing it for and is it going to be enough? I think it would simply be the best way to live, whatever climate or bracket you are. Although it's likely that some will want to spend the majority of their time working or online, interacting face to face with people talking about things other than fruit quality and rain falls. Whatever though :)

The eclipse also reminds me that space missions to the moon are increasingly inexpensive and time will allow US to travel on. Moon malls or stepping stones, you can choose your own path.

But to me this time we live in can reveal a great deal about what kind of deals we want to make. Speaking in terms of governments, business, individuals and species, things are changing and the time to change is always now.

6?/6!/IXs Beware of the scare

2008-02-13T12:22:00.005-05:00

A note on the Mayan Calender and what 2012 is about, a little.

"In addition to this year [unknown reference year], the Transit will re-occur again on June 6th, 2012. The year 2012 stands out in South American lore [Lore is a database management system (DBMS) for XML. The Lore executables are available for public use. Stanford University] as the culmination of the Mayan calendar, and Venus is associated with Quetzal Coatl, the Mayan Christ figure who roamed the earth in AD 40."

"Transits of Venus are associated with huge leaps forward in human knowledge."

Found from http://www.spiritnexus.org/
and copied without express permission from http://www.breakfornews.com/

All this is of interest to cross reference and dose with a healthy pinch of salt. It leads to wonder again.
What are we doing here? And where are we going?

I can't imagine some of the prophecies coming about, although shit happens. And whether it's a 9 headed beast from the depths according to the good book or a more "natural" disaster, we should learn and do what we are feel and think.

At the same time. No scare tactics will be found on my site so just relax and trust that it is what it is.

Read and learned alike about 2012 at www.calleman.com and learn about yourself and others with http://www.mayanmajix.com/TZOLKIN/index.php where you can enter your birth DAY meaning if you were born before sunrise you birth date is the DAY before.

Anew year, changing times.

2008-01-25T03:30:00.000-05:00

What is there to say that hasn't already been said. I'm quoting someone there. One way. No right turns.

Caution there's a full moon rising. Hope you are ready to begin at the beginning and end in the present.

Never looking back where freedom becomes a constraint in itself.

A novel business approach

2007-10-28T02:40:00.001-04:00

A Novel Business Approach

With the basis that most people have some money, I wonder what can be provided that is affordable, valuable and desired? Information? Knowledge? Helping people find their way, make money, fulfill their destiny? So how can this be provided? How can an exchange be made for more accurately facilitating buyers and sellers?

Educate and the individual will still purchase what you sell when you sell something worthwhile.

Specifically, it's established that we need to change, but to what and how? You need to change to see what you need to change and what you need to change in to. Individually based understanding, selfish, but for the greater good and self preservation.

What we need to change into is more thoughtful individuals who act in accordance with the laws of nature that deliver to us the deeper knowledge that we may not have words for as of yet. How can it be explained is even more simple and clear.

By education and being facilitators to change, being a financial and social, political economic framework that allows and encourages change in all the "right" ways, right being determined by the participants. To be determined is what is needing to be revolutionized from the old system (greed, hate, anger, competition) and what needs to be reformed (systems, thoughts, machines, technologies) to a symbiotic system which facilitates movement and allows for transactions instead of charging for them. This change is beginning with the use of the internet: You can find out what you want/need without payment or at least a minimal cost of getting "online".

This original author and all intended recipients are held responsible for anything written, thought, believed, or dreamed.

Everyone needs some medicine sometimes.

2007-07-21T18:20:00.001-04:00

Monetary System Returns to the "Gold Standard"
Someday I see that the return to the garden of Eve, g of eve being a return to natural living without harming environment, will allow for the monetary system to be once again representative of values we place on things, derailed from the gold standard by an economy forces our hand on correct system design, I see that developing a deeper understanding that food, air, water, oil, etc all have a value and the money that is spent on those resources must be equal to their intrinsic value as well as the value we place on them. Currently and historically without this proper valuation, because of the disconnect between human and the environment, resources have been overused.

Tricky to begin this return with the current system but with the keys of hydroponics, and technology, social compassion and universal understanding that we all stand together and fall when divided, a conversion of the economy can be undertaken with relative security that the business sector will adjust (if not already prepared) and individuals with unique specialization will continue to occur but now with the reorientation of sustainability, with more time available for pondering where we are going and what we are doing instead of next quarters profits and simple survival needs. This does mean a dramatic shift for the individuals who have a huge percentage of the worlds currency or property etc. But they will be known and watched with baited eyes to make the best decisions for themselves and for the common good with the power that they are possessing and may continue to possess. King of the castle was never safer in a way, but still comes with responsibility and ramifications.

Natural Resource Management

2007-05-06T23:16:00.000-04:00

I ended up in the School of Agriculture. It's true that I was always interested in the environment but I got to the Ag school the long way around. First trying for Environmental Engineering (too much math and I found out that the major prepares you for building damns or running air conditioning for skyscrapers) then Environmental Science (everyone calls economics the dismal science but just take a look at the environment scientifically...an inconvenient truth, plus the science is kind of lab based and number crunching, not really hands on) and then found Natural Resource Management and have not stopped being interested in this yet! This major had (not too much calculus, just two semesters) and included all the topics I liked: political science, economics (also a social science (meaning the study of people) by the way, it's not just for business), and plant/animal/earth science, along with education in judicial system. The only thing this major missed on was the "how to" part of dealing with mismanagement of natural resources: How to actually replace the way we "efficiently allocate goods".

The answer from the view of economics would have to be: go to the top and change the rules. Since business and individuals, governments and organizations are behaving according to stresses and benefits, a proper re-defining of costs and benefits would suffice to change the directions of resource consumption. If the light was turned on by matching our laws more closely with natural laws, who would cut a tree 100 year old tree for a 15 year guarantee on siding, or a deck that lasts about 20 years that requires staining and sealing about every other year (with toxins that last for more than a hundred years) ?

From the answer of the business school: Get to work! There is so much money to be made in making these systems and products more clean, efficient and stress free. No longer does our economy require that we sell more to increase the quality of living but we can sell better. Why we have to buy tires every thirty thousand miles, because no one has discovered a better solution. Why we continue to drive, or sit in traffic: no one found a better solution. Now that we are beginning to open up to the "new" ideas, like public transport and energy efficient homes, I want to know where I can get on and how much it costs?

The answer from the arm chair yogi in me is that people are coming around well enough. Those that choose to take too much advantage of a good thing will in the end pay for it. But still I feel a need to give business back it's good name in that it serves a noble function: A relationship between have and "have-nots" or needs. It no longer has to be a relation of have and never will have or "now that I've got mine, I'll let you get yours". We'll both sleep better at night knowing that I don't envy my neighbor and I can afford all the food and vacation a person could want. It's not expensive to sleep on a beach all day but after a while I would feel like doing something!

Fair Trade, Love Coffee and At War

2007-04-04T14:11:00.001-04:00

Coffee! I just got inspired, again. But at what cost? $1?

If "all is fair in love and war", how does the brewing fair trade coffee scene fit into foreign relations?

I've heard:
1. Without fair trade: The middleman profits disproportionately from the labor and resources of foreign lands.
2. With fair trade: Circumstances lead one to go organic and/or fair trade, which has the result in disproportionatly benefitting one farm versus the next, his own neighbor. (Can that be considered inciting a riot?)
3. And finally: foreign trade used to (and maybe still does) serve as an economic war (if not, then atleast nation states directly competing for market strength).

Should we be more informed before buying foreign products (or any products at all)? Is that question rhetorical? I tell you it's difficult to sell advice or information: The situation stands that the consumer/client/customer are not aware of the information they need to know.

Finally it's understandable and most natural to build a strong economy (whether it's your personal finances or the value of the dollar). Although at some point the link between "their" economy and "our" economy becomes "The" economy. So we would be harming ourselves if we build our nation disproportionatly stronger or larger than another countries. I'm in favor of a little account balancing. How about fair price? The best way to get at that is to be informed. How much does it cost for that coffee really? Is it sustainable?

In the current Age of Information, it seems as though the only advantage an individual (or market) could have is access to the Low Down. Supply chains are getting longer and longer and with that comes more chances for the real information to be marginalized and metamorphosed into what we want to hear.

Wouldn't you like to talk with Jaun Valdez? I'm sure he'd be up for sitting down to a cup of coffee.

A note on Satyagraha and Change

2007-03-26T09:20:00.000-04:00

It is in the search for truth that true meaning comes, not in the arriving.

Fiction and misinformation fits so well with truth,
it is sometimes difficult to separate.

The choices are given, and decision are ours.

It is maybe not necessary to discuss all the changes that are occuring these days. In fact, I believe that the more changes the more possibility for good things to happen; but I am an optimist and an idealist. Still, change seems to be the theme of life. And the important thing to note is that if you are ready to adapt and survive than the change can be a good force called life. Only when you are not ready for change does it bother you. And only when you are not aware of what the changes mean do you suffer. Here's to a little more time each day spent on meditating and prayer, preparing and evaluating where we are and where we are going.

Being an optimist I am able to build up a little immunity, or defense, to all the terrible things I see. Still I see them and they still hurt but, by holding on to the idea that each individual is capable and responsible for their own decision on how to react, I can place them in the catagory "lesson learned". From international relations, wars in the name of religion and civil rights, resource availability and all the occasions where the occurances not directy alterable by my own hands I try to remember to practice satyagraha, the search for truth. It's a constant struggle to remember to always be kind and gentle, not to even raise my voice or honk my horn. But these changes will happen whether or not I'm here honking and meditating or not here at all. One more thing on these changes, I believe the Buddist way to affect change is to change those things in themselves and then they will (somehow) see them differently when they return to focus on the outside world. Like Gandhi said "Be the change you wish to see in the world". In physics this is explainable by (I believe Einsteins comment that) object or occurance that is watched or viewed is changed by the position or location of the viewer. Now we can begin to talk about metaphysics.

There is the physical world and then there is everything in between. Simple but sufficient for understanding that between you and me, the Earth and Sun, electons and protons, there is energy. Also known as God, magic, electricity, the unknown, etc. Metaphysics is a level at which we have to begin working from to comprehend the occurances and changes we face today. Like, it is not just the U.S. government that is responsible for war. It is what is in between me and you, oil and religion distance and closeness. All these ideas, and energies that cause salafist and citizens alike to "bump" into the U.S. and the U.S. bump back.

Without making a lot of examples I hope that you understand how to better see the things that cause change and with that same idea how to cause some change in the world for the better. Just being conscious of your actions and thoughts will radiate so much benefit to everything.

And finally this is where the work of satyagraha begins. There is plenty to read and plenty to learn about Gandhi's employment of satyagraha and Martin Luther King's. We can all benefit from reviewing there cause, and understanding why, and for what effect they were enduring, facing, and confronting the relationships or "energy" between people, governments, the economy and the future.

what you are doing at the moment

2007-03-20T01:12:00.000-04:00

Actually, I don't understand what I'm doing :)

I will tell you:

I organized a meeting where the objective was to both have fun, and talk about serious issues. You know, I am trying to find a way to live in society and not require so much energy per person, or be subject to work all day. So I talk about the cooperation we can do, the non-violent methods of changing from capitalism to a better -ism and so on. We try to have a real intellectual discussion about the times and experiences we have had and how to do things better than they are being done now.

Hope to utilize the information and the relationships with others to keep information free and allow individuals to thrive.

So specifically the first meeting set the "ground rules" for future meetings. Since we will betalking about hot topics (politics, religions, and so on) I chose to begin with the idea of Nonviolent communication. We talked about a more recent application of satyagraha (as defined by Gandhi, can mean "an effort to discover, discern, obtain or apply the Truth) where Marshall Rosenberg applies the methods to communication between two opposing groups, as well as our own personal views and experiences.

Overall, the first meeting was good in that it was the first meeting. Meaning that there will be more where I believe we will discover ways to cooperate and collaborate to benefit ourselves and society much more than if we were not to have met.

Property Rights: Water, Air, Space, the Net and Thoughts

2007-03-12T10:47:00.000-04:00

Studying natural resource management, I found that along with the crazy way in which the "Untied" States were begun...property rights and public or common property rights are still up for grab, in a matter of speaking.

Without showing how much I paid attention, or possibly missed the class where the rules were explained: I'll just be content to express my interest in interesting you and everyone in better understanding the relationship between individuals, society, natural resources (water, space, the moon even) and government.

I'd love to learn more and discuss the details of where we are heading with these things. I for one am already tiring of paying for internet which I believe is a public or atleast common property. It's only one's and zero's after all. Did someone already buy those?

Chain of Weak Links, Physical Properties of Life, and the Web We Weave

2007-03-12T10:44:00.000-04:00

We weave a web of life, and to me life is intelligence.

"A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link."

Laws of Physics rule our hearts and minds.

Society is a web of chains that we must focus on. The weakest links are those who have been passed over, rejected or left unaffected. We are all teachers as well as students in life. It does not matter how much technology, intelligence, or economic strength our society is capable of. If the weakest link breaks down we have lost our ability to continue one of the best human characteristics: humaness. Being human means we have consideration for our fellow humans, as well as respect and understanding of our surroundings and the implications and ramifications of our actions. So teachers: Turn the world on! Spark the minds and don't force too much order: We naturally gravitate towards the safety and beauty of intelligent order.

So the point to take from this thought is that we, as individuals, must work to help ourselves out of our problems, must work to take care of ourselves. We don't say these things everyday for naught. Put your oxygen mask on first and then breathe. Help others and then you will find a higher level of utility that is not attainable by working alone. Have you not found that the harder you try the more resistance you find?

I pose the problems that society faces can be identified by a few ideas: corruption, fear or hatred of others, greed, and ignorance. Though these may be large factors they are surmountable with tools that we have used for many years. Solutions lay in our brains and hearts, as well as our gut and hands. We have the tools. Let's get to work!

Take care of yourself.
Help yourself.
Help others.

Prophet Vs. Profit: The Case of the Missing Link

2007-03-12T09:55:00.000-04:00

What I'm selling is a way of living. I profit by promoting the idea that intelligence manages society. It may be for their profit, but it may be for your profit as well.

What do you say? We have no where to go but up from here. Can you spare a dime? If you work only for money it is your way. If you work for many reasons, that is your way. If you have money work for you be sure to know what it is your work is doing.

Business is only business: It seems as if this is the expression that creates Homo Sappenme's from men and women of pre-industrial, pre-service and pre-agricultural economies.

Business is business. In a "new" world economy, business is capable of again returning from converting people into vehicles for profit back into vehicles for persons. Instead of rejecting the old world economy, embrace it, own it and prophet from it. This is the economy owned by your parents and peers and I don't advocate for diminishing the capability of the free market. However, I do advocate for removal of those business men and women who are justifying the end with the means. It's not personal, it's just business.

This new world economy will be and may be already a place where intelligence, understanding and strength lay in the hands and minds each person participating not in the lawmakers hands nor the hands of those that are already so strong that a simple handshake might make or break a young mans spirit. Firm is plenty!

And something to think about once we exist, in this new world information age economy: While ones thoughts may be invisible at first, the ideas move from place to place radiating and reverberating. Something that we should think about in the old world is that thoughts are powerful and responsibility comes with power.

In the end I leave you with where I begin: To think about a new place is the beginning. Not throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Practice what you preach. Lead by example.

And here I begin with the ideas and thoughts of where I want to go, how I want to get there, and maybe even why.

Social Experiment? More like ONe LifE 2 Live

2007-03-07T11:44:00.000-05:00

I'm so excited. a recap of a meeting that was had on the topic of:

Discussion on Communication: Focus on World Issues

At 3 o'clock I was resting up for my first big meeting of friends to talk about communication and world issues (education, business, non-violent communication, society). I received a phone call from Stephane and Barbara who were already on their way to Art of Living Foundation's meeting on almost the exact same topic: non-violent communication (NVC) but via-breathing and yoga.

Anyway, I considered heading over to this meeting but feeling the need to prepare a little more (clean the bathroom, put away my jackets, wash dishes, you know really get ready :) I opted to just hear how it went when we met up later with the two of them.

First to arrive was our dear friend Kathleen, a yoga instructor who we had met through a similar friend almost two years ago. We considered running to view the lunar eclipse from the roof of her building but as it was a little cloudy and guest were on the way, we stayed and opened some wine. Next to come was my neighbor Dianne. Introductions and astrological signs were read and we began to get into Marshall Rosenberg's teachings and really feel the effects of a full moon (and the wine). Barbara and Stephane came shortly after with another bottle and we all began to talk about NVC much more easily. We talked about Astrology and our relative places in life, who we are and who we are to become. Business models in the "information age" Success of movement towards peaceful communication.

Astronomically and Astrologically speaking Kathleen shared the fact that in 2012 the planets are to line up and this will be an ideal time for cohesiveness in society and the universe for alignment.

We retired from the kitchen with cheese, sweet breads, my computer as wells as wine and water in tow to further discuss definitions of work, comparing some to legalized slavery, individuals backgrounds (Barbara is a physics teacher but has found her interests to be more directed towards peoples relationship with the physical world after having completed her PhD in physics, and how she can contribute to the current culmination of understanding to progress the quality of life for society).

For all you business and economics minded persons!…

A similar interest in creating a business relationship that can benefit society as well as both parties, or all parties interested. Stephane had posed the really important and fittingly direct question of "what this information age business relationship idea add to the pro quo".

One answer is that information and general knowledge would be facilitated and uninhibited (as I correctly or incorrectly believe it is now) because: there would be no barrier to sharing information. A scale to measure gauge quality and therefore price, at one end pure information (there is plenty so it's free) with a middle section of general knowledge to the most highly sought after, complete understanding. Therefore knowledge would be "marketed" at an appropriate price. As Stephane compared this idea with the current status of consulting, making consulting prices more competitive and more accurately reflecting the abilities of the individual participants and/or their contributions would allow for increase in overall production or advancement of the collective.

Secondly, it would allow all individuals access to "the market" by removing barriers of entry by allowing contracting to be the mode of employment instead of actually doing the job"sell" my expertise and have the owner/other by the needed bundle of goods (including the right persons expertise in installation) to have the correct job done. It is not a middle man but a service of information and knowledge to get to the appropriate end objective. Furthermore it is not just a phone call or a name the owner would pay for, it is the right number.

Stephane noted that this exists in the work place/market today, aptly called consulting and the fact still remains that it is a companies responsibility to decide if the work should be done in-store or out-sourced (consultants). And the decision usually depends on availability and confidence. Note: There is a lack of skilled consultants in the market, driving the price of consulting and hindering the progress of IT in business as well as service, and goods.

For all professors and teachers, spiritual and intellectual:

I compared our understanding of religion/spirituality and science or knowledge through the scientific method. That they both have enough points of understanding that an arc can be drawn to locate the heart of the matter (whether it be in science String Theory or in spirituality God). Those arcs can be layered over each other and then a scientific explanation of God, or a Comprehensive Theory via a spiritual explanation can join science and spirituality. Note: If another proposal is available please come forward because I believe Scientology is attempting to do this. Little do I know about Scientology, I believe with all that is changing there is room for a new religion and new leaders. Although I do not wish to support any organization that has structure imposed from above. Rather new ideas and new organizations should come from the inside thoughts of individuals needs and desires. Environmental stresses (wind, heat, or lack thereof) cannot be misnamed as God! Just because we don't understand something, say why we are here, we contribute it to God's way or God's will. My wife, Melanie, just explained the similarities of successes that the Hezbolah and Scientologist have had: It is because they give in exchange for receiving power and fame. Famous people were "recruited" similarly to how Hezbolah utilized Lebanon for the advancement of an objective not well understood or disclosed. Hezbolah buys houses for people and Scientologist give education help for special education needs.

Note: Science fiction novels to compete with Hubbard's understanding as well as a great source of philosophical understanding of where we are and where we are going. See Dickenson's Dorsai, and Asimov's Foundation. Two great books that go great together.

Barbara added at the meeting that science seeks to find answers for the questions whereas spirituality and religion are the answers to questions. Maybe she will contribute more details on the differences.
So this is just an attempt at trying to understand something that I am interested in. We are all existing in a world where information is the latest and greatest.

And therefore I close with a reinstatement of full disclosure: I am interested in where we are going as a society and that the path we chose to take is mutually agreed upon before setting out. It is of most importance to first better understand where we are now and where we are coming from, our needs, our desires, our dreams, and then to begin deciding how to achieve these goals. It truly is the trip, not always the destination that is what we call life. So here's to life and love and happiness. May we all be aware of it in and around us, in others and with others.

Please search for information on:

Marshall Rosenberg
and
Mohandas Gandhi

Mon Pere:

2007-02-27T11:17:00.000-05:00

In tribute to a life, a song: Eddie Harris/Les McCann's

"Try to make it real, Compared to What?"

WRH 1943-2000

My father around the age of 25, I guess. He began playing sax in military school around the age of 13. Took up bass and guitar during the love revolution where he played and co habitated with the big names Jerry, Frank, Owsley, and Janice and the lesser known but closer to heart Mel (accomplice in all things crazy), Erio (his father like mentor and medicine man, Jim (co musician and friend), and many others who may wish to remain unnamed that were close to him and his band, the CIA (Citizens for Interplanetary Activity).

So I imagine it was a good time in San Francis Co. He talked this woman into coming back to his territory where he continued his music, masters in educating, and making love. Ten years later, Kennedy, King, Lennon, the KKK and fragile dreams were dead or dying and Ariel, I and Juliana were crying. My mother, the chosen woman, Adelaide, left with us for her territory to get back to teaching while my father reaquainted himself with "the search".

Soon after he met another teacher, Nancye, from whom he finally learned the true meaning of love and life continued. He spent many happy years close to his parents learning what POA meant and finding this harder to elude than the draft, tried to live as civilized a life as possible in an uncivilized society.

He headed bands by the names of Howlin' Ridge, a tribute to me, "Hal, and Ridge" his first born son, The Winston Hardy Original Blues Band, with band members too many to name, and finally published an album and book, respectively Mumbo Jumbo and Endurance, while giggiling around with The Roadmasters: Rocky Amaretto, Andy Brauner, Joe Moore making the core of the sometimes 12 piece blues band.

I lived with him from when I was 18 until 3 years later in 1997 when I went back to finish college at University of Delaware. A lot of learning and catching up was done in a short time. I learned what it would be like to not be able to let go of a dying parent by watching him and his father. I learned what blazing your own path would mean in relations to those around you who couldn't keep up or wanted to take a different way. I learned that there is no moment other than the present moment, and I wasn't crazy for thinking that everything I could ever want was within reach, if I just got up the nerve to reach for it.

He died from a broken heart just after the mellinium. Having touched many lives inexorably and definitely changing the world we live in. He will not be forgotten. As Nancye appropriately engraved on his tombstone: To be continued...

R they trying to say something?

2007-02-24T19:59:00.001-05:00

Evolutionarily and technically Ethnically speaking, the Daddy Long Legs are our Daddy's long legs. Like the Original People of America appreciate, the plants and animals are our fathers' and mothers'. So don't be afraid of even the long legs, they are probably females anyway, okay then be a little afraid:0

Photo: Bed Diagram and Monologue on Cost of Comfort

It's Not jUSt OIL: my eco-NO-my? +/or Yours?

2007-02-23T12:41:00.000-05:00

For some of my comments I ask forgiveness in advance and begin with the fact that my platform is heavy and I am standing under it, rather than on top. Also, excuse my tongue, stuck, permanently in the side of my cheek with my mouth wide open for too long being unknown to me used and abused. Now to not say something would be remise. There is a duty of each individual, "running" or walking. So with no offense intended, I contribute:
I would go green and lean! Look as closely at your life as the specialist do and try to find the best solution for where U R.

We can have an economy built on building more, and more. And "We the People" can subsidize more research into alternative fuels, green building, corn, or bowel movements: All lucrative and worth while.

But, government spending is more than subsidies and investments. Where does all that money come from anyway? Where does it go? I'm not against spending but spending more never helped to solve my financial problems.

Give me a day off, without pay, and see where I volunteer: I will be volunteering for freedom from my economy. Yes! But that is America. Work hard, play hard. I get it. And I like it.

Give me the job of making the rules and seeing that they (oil companies, eventually corn farmers, solar and wind energy providers, green companies) get regulated. Business will love it. Maybe I can even start a business that helps explain regulation to laymen! I'll make a killing.

But what about the so called values? Do contribute to our economy. Make it what you want. It can be efficient and clean. Useful and lean.

My best "shot":

Buildings and roofs built from bullet and bomb proof glass? With solar panels behind them and gutters that catch, direct and store all the rain water! It sounds crazy but is it really radical? We will have solved the two or three biggest problems facing the U.S. Terrorism, water shortages, and energy sources, as well as creating short term production and job creation (Business likey), creation of community even?

Direct current (DC) energy could be freely available if our sidewalks and walls were made with this concoction. That means freely available, if not simply free, electricity for phones, computers and cars?

If you want to build, build me a safe place. I'm tired of oil in my asphalt, oil in my water, and oil in my car, too. Give me a bike and a solar panel. Maybe a train to ride and a car to show off a little.

Our Veterans will need employment, as well as those who are looking for jobs designing and creating. Build us cities made from strong glass, clear and stable like we want our selves to be. Like our government would like to be able to be, and like our children will
want to see. Don't build in another factory. I believe.

Candidates can have, and usually do have good intentions. Smart, doable policies and proposals. But it is up to the individual people that make up this country, and world, to decide how money will be spent, and life, lived in the future. Post Bush, in 1/20/09 we will be in a new time. And from now on, on September 1st, I will celebrate the freedom that was known before terrorism, after terrorism, before and after the 11th.

I will thank my mind for the freedom to protect and adapt. I will assess the dangers that face US and everyone as I do for myself. We must celebrate life and beauty and freedom.

Cherish it, don't bury it. Look at it and learn from it.

It is a brave new world and One not to be played with. So take it back, and then let it go, by understanding the problems to the solutions.

And look closely at the world you want to build, because it will be the world you construct that you will live and die in.

Here's to newness, my grandmother's favorite part of the United States Constitution: A peaceful transition from one leader to the next.

And Happy Chinese New Year: Golden Auspicous Piggy

The East in Us: "Compared to What"?

2007-02-10T15:29:00.000-05:00

Try to keep it real, Compared to what?

Abandonment issues? What going on? And finally Where have all the good people gone? We have under God Seven Nations and they lived happily after ever. Yes, just after Eve -grrr! And from the east, things we don't understand consciously, cerebrally. How can they do that? How can we do that? Will they do It to Us? And cerebrally I mean scientifically. They know something we don't know but maybe we can figure it out. Historically, if the natives of any land can't grasp the change they don't survive; You gotta hold on, All you do, is just hold on. What we've got is just enough.

The best advice for someone who doesn't understand , is to just continue moving west and this way you will learn what the east is. But if you want to stay here and you don't feel like you understand the east, just look towards it. The east brings with it a newness. Just as the sun rises in the east.

We talk about the dark side of the moon and looking into the sun, they talk about looking into the darkness of life, their, your and my third eyes. Its just another dimension that we can chose to understand, or not. To me it's another "axis" of a spectrum, not of evil. In one direction: every thing in side of you (or behind you), it's the dark side. In another opposite direction: in front of you, visable and forward and light. This is the understanding that we didn't have come naturally to us in the U.S. We always get it. But this time we can't get it without letting go.

Still holding on but thinking about letting go of a little. It's all relative. Right? Or is IT?

Still Searching? Still Steering?

2006-08-10T14:30:00.000-04:00

Who's steering the ship? Rosenau's ideas in Turbulence in World Politics: A Theory of Change and Continuity specifically Global Governance explain that we are all involved in the future of the world. It has merit as you can see for yourself if you're interested. I've been thinking too much but still interested in searching for a way to end current wars, prevent future wars, stop pollution, end discrimination, exterminate corruption and find a nice place to go camping afterwards.

So as I try to find my "captain" and make sure I don't bump into you, please be kind enough to check your course and make sure to be prepared for the weather ahead.

Beautiful Antagonism

2006-05-06T20:44:00.000-04:00

We are always together. Held by a strong bond of love at first sight and dreams of the same future. Daily life is as turbulent as waves over taking eachother with the constant pull back to the ocean winning out. We are living and learning. Life is so complex and included in the complexity is the fact that life is simple.
Communicate. Appreciate.

Where we go from here

2006-03-25T10:00:00.000-05:00

In discussion and debate it is important to find a common ground from which all persons can begin. This, to me, is that:

We are all alive and interested in a better future.

From discussions with my grandmother, business research, discussions with my wife, the study of religion and spiritualism, and all the positive relationships with friends, what we all share in common, whether Republican, black, young or Buddhist, is the thirst for a good life.

I make no claim to knowing exactly what is going on these days but have had the advantage of growing up with a father that believes in speaking the truth (as often as possible). Whenever I had a question, and even when I didn't, the reality was before my eyes laid out like an animal killed on the road. Too much information and awareness, and too many end-of-the-world environmental and social issues made me feel at one point that going through life with a multiple personality disorder might not only be safer but maybe a little more interesting. Then again no. Center, breath, relax, focus.

So I'm happy to say that I've pulled myself together and I am still looking intently on what has happened and where we go from here. But, in a way I was assimilated, maybe.

The many smoky monologue moments I have valued have mixed with the debatable debates I've had with persons. [It takes a lot of energy to explain something that is not understood to the other. But that is what parents and dear friends do.] Maybe it's not worth trying to explain it, just living it and doing it.

I am now, once again, interested: Has the pendulum swung from the effects of the ideas behind civil and human rights and "WAR IS OVER" in the sixties? And where it is swinging back to now. Part of balancing the equation is the question of what makes one extreme see the need for restoration of control and order and the opposite viewpoint believe there is a need for anarchy and complete personal freedom. It may be that we need both the "law from above" (whether it be religion, culture, conscience, or repercussions federally punishable by up to 8 years in prison) as well as the freedom that we all have innately from within?

The sixties I see and hear about appear to be a special time where the younger generation's rebellion against the status quo allowed for special moments and space for a social and economic idealism to make a return. Like all things, bittersweet since its ultimate result was dazed and confused from the use of drugs and realization that living in a capitalistic society, one needs more than love to survive.

Quinn's proverbial dissecting blade from Ishmael, a book in which the world's population was divided into two categories, takers and leavers, led by Abraham's sons, Ishmael and Isaac, is a very defined line, even between people today. If you feel the Earth is ours to use until our children inherit it, you are a leaver. If you believe you really own the land and it is yours and only yours, you are a taker. But this is equivalent to "taking" the two major political groups, Democrat and Republican, and say that the future depends on who comes up with the best solution to today's issues.

My interest is in seeing that this is a dividing debate and as soon as we have two "takers" who want to hash it out, we will end up with high blood pressure and more problems.

It is not always this way I am happy to say: I have just had another political and economic discussion with my grandmother which sifted out to unveil that we were both in agreement. We also agree that we both worry about our future. (She will say that her time is over and she has nothing to worry about but I see that she thinks about such things.)

So here's to good debates, not abusing, but using, discuss and disgust, all the while keeping your head up and enjoying the ride.

Office of Public Relations: University of Delaware

2006-03-22T15:17:00.000-05:00

I had a great time when I went to U of D. Although there were things happening like rapes on north campus, deaths at crosswalks and a general atmosphere of business more than education, I tried to stay there as long as possible because all of the good things. There were great teachers, social clubs, strong coffee, quiet library and I had a thirst for learning more than I ever thought I was interested in.

But as far as public relations go, U of D and any organization has a front door and a back door. Just like a first date, you would love to have the "lowdown" before you meet the person. I had already decided what I wanted to get before I contacted the university: A degree, in what I had no idea. But, I knew how much it was going to cost and the alternative to paying that cost: A job, work, and no time for growing.

My wife is nearing the completion of a two year Associate in Arts program from U of D, through their Delaware Technical and Community College campus. At about $1,200 each semester it is a deal compared to driving to Newark everyday, paying $110 for parking, and droping 3x as much for the same courses. She will also be able to focus specifically on her major for the second two years, with math, English Lit, etc. all completed. It has it's drawbacks but she knew what she wanted and how to get it.

I mean no disrespect to U of D or DTCC. They are providing a great service in education but the point I like to remind myself is that it is, first and foremost, a business. It is up to the consumer or student (of life) to decide what to buy and what to pass on.

So I write this as a reminder to take care of your own business first or someone will take care of it for you. Decide first what you want, need, or will do and then find the person to help you with that. It is not that money is everything, it is that everything involves money...even public relations.

I'm happy to say that I graduated with a degree in Natural Resource Management, with a minor in Resource Economics. I manage my own resources and am helping my clients in sustainable landscaping and the economics of yard management. (First thing is to get someone cheaper than me to rake the leaves! I'm getting busy!)

Bird flu by me today!

2006-03-18T07:52:00.000-05:00

I've found the bird flu very frightening. The most deep down fear is because the experience of going through this seems to be etched in cell genetic memory. I've never been through a pandemic and hope that I find a healthy immune defense is the best defense.

I get sick sometimes but for the most part have felt like I can avoid coming down with flu, sore throats, etc. It doesn't mean that I dont get a sniffly nose! And that is what I am working on: to keep myself from becoming a statistic, a carrier, a fucking vector.

When I learned about reproduction in a high school biology class, it was funny and even philosophical to think about how we humans are just the adult stage of the zygote. Ultimately making me, a 17 y.o. zygote, relax a little understanding genetics and time is on my side, and I'll eventually lose my virginity. That we have no control over what happens is completely untrue though.

If you take care of your health (the basics washing your hands and eating healthy foods, take your vitamins and get lots of sleep) You will be a positive force against this H5N1 and maybe he won't even try! The other common sense but necessary thing to do is to be capable of accessing food without it being prepared or you being in direct contact with other people.

I'm a social creature and I'm not excited about avoiding family and friends but at the cost of life I will forgo a visit, a hug and even a handshake. At the very least wash your hands and don't get to obsessive. It is life that we are living, there are no directions in a book but I think I got a road map here somewhere.

Can I get a witness?

2006-03-16T09:05:00.000-05:00

What's going on these days? Has it always been this way? I know that I'm an idealist but why does a quest for a straight answer have to be amended, categorized, edited and contextualized?

I recently called my accountant and asked the question: How much will I be taxed on income made from being a contracted employee of the county government? The answer was qualified with the fact that I don't make much money from the time I put into my landscaping business, the statement that any additional money is a good idea, and that wonderful fact that I'm in the lowest tax bracket. The answer? 20%.

After I stated that I enjoy my life and don't feel the need to be taxed in a higher bracket he laughed and we both had a moment.

Believing I understood something else to be true, I asked about social security and other taxes and I asked again: How much will I be taxed? How much will I actually make after all the taxes?

The answer: "Oh, that's a different story. You'll have to add another, say, 15%." Something to this effect.

So it's true! I think I'm making $50/hr doing something I'd love and what is actually happening is that almost 40% of that money is used to employ an accountant and a whole branch of government, both insisting that you keep every piece of paper ever handed to you and in the end, give those smelly pictures of past presidents back to the institution that printed them.

If it was up to me I'd tax only one thing: Having too much money and not spending it! That solves all the economic problems doesn't it? Keep the economy healthy, decrease the difference between the rich and poor, create well paid jobs, and lessen the need to calculate three of four different equations just to decided how much money you need to save for when you retire. Can I get a witness?

Theophane and the Gaps in the Strang Family : History

2006-03-11T08:39:00.001-05:00

Theophane's family is from St. Petersburg, Russia. He was born in St. Germain de Calberte and that may be reason for his name sounding French. It was an amazing trek and I am researching the history more; his grandfather and father ecsaping from Russia's revolutions to France's occupation. Teddy is referred to as the Russian Prince by his family. Here I caught him in Paris after finishing a Morrocan meal puffing a Dutch miniature cigar: The life of a Prince.

Delaware and Hawaii

2006-03-07T01:02:00.000-05:00

My sister, Juliana and her husband, Mike live in Hawaii. He's an intern and she's a massage therapist. Every time I talk to them I am invited to go. So why not? Here is the moment to seize a golden opportunity to see a beautiful place in the world with a family member to boot!

O, how the time does fly. It has been about a year since they have moved there and still I have no definitive plans to visit. I guess this is what people mean when they say keep your head up. Like U2's Caught in the Moment, I can't get out of it. I'd like to get caught in the moment more often, just not the moments I spend these days thinking of debt and future income, mortgages and ill grandparents. Here is the moment to seize a golden opportunity to heed the advice so often given for free: Take care.

Delaware and France

2006-03-05T16:56:00.001-05:00

Melanie and moi at Valley Garden Park.
My bro David and almost the whole family following.

Melanie and me again, this time a la plage (at the beach). Then Melanie and her father posing for a picture in South France.

2006-03-04T11:36:00.000-05:00

Moi

The Value of Shock

2006-03-04T10:16:00.000-05:00

I want to take you on a trip where we will both learn, or relearn lessons. There will be interesting pictures along the way, as you can see, to reinforce where we are, or provide a catalyst for helping us chose the direction at the crossroads that we come to each moment. Here's to taking off autopilot and living the day like it is our last. Whether it is our last day is not the important thing, only that we are aware that it could be. This picture to me represents the pain that we all have inside that is rarely ever visable to ourselves or others. I guess I am learning from the physical reality that the wounds that we carry in our hearts and minds are no less damaging than the unhealing wound on a knee. But to be truly me, I won't leave you with this image because whether we believe it or not, there is energy that is constantly trying and succeeding on healing our hearts and minds just as there is physical healing forces in our bodies. If we could just keep from picking at it! I dedicate this moment to my very dear friend Eric who has the strenth and and ability to heal. (Pictured here center back)

Here I Am

2006-03-03T18:37:00.000-05:00

ICU

Closer than you think, farther than you imagine.

2006-03-03T18:04:00.001-05:00

Hello. I am writing this in hopes of someday conveying to you what I think and why I think it. Please feel free to interact and act in a way that helps you to understand what I am thinking and change my beliefs.

I have many interests. The primary one being to communicate and learn, teach and burn. We are here for only a short time and there is no guarantee that we will be able to say what we need to say at a future time. Next time I hope to tell you more about who I am.

If you are still interested, I am happy and we are going to have fun.