will be in london friday to wednesday.
talk to you soon!
i can go twice as high
i tried to book a flight to london for the weekend. i have time off and i found a cheap ticket. but i felt so guilty. why do i deserve to go away for 5 days and spend $500 just to get there and back? who do i think i am? a jet setter? an heiress? ha!
nope. im not. and i feel too strongly about every little thing. sometimes i know my thought process could prove me to be insane. but there are so many details to consider!
i hate that im waiting and waiting and waiting for things to be 'perfect' before i start living exactly the best life i can envision. for now i am living half a life… and the other half is preparing for the whole.
” He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, ‘Live!’” -Rumi
" God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one. ”
“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”
"If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?”
“No mirror ever became iron again;
No bread ever became wheat;
No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.
Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.
Become the light.”
“That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.”
"Patience is the key to joy.”
There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.”
~ Mevlana Rumi
13th century sufi poet and mystic
section from Common Dreams article on good news.. .. .. .. ..
Last week Russ Feingold pointed out the hypocrisy of Sen. Arlen "Flip-Flop" Specter, who purposely held a session of the Judiciary Committee in a room so small TV cameras were not allowed in to capture his vote to ban gay and lesbian partnerships. Russ told Specter that it was absurd. (Specter opposes the ban but voted to send the measure to the full Senate.) Russ walked out in protest and Flip-Flop said "good riddance." Good for you, Russ Feingold. You hold the Gaylord Nelson seat and you are living up to the challenge.
And good news in Wisconsin as hundreds of people started going door-to-door to urge voters to vote against the referendum to ban gay and lesbian marriages. Hate and discrimination are not Wisconsin values. Recall when Hitler ordered Danish Jews to wear a Star of David and the king of Denmark wore a Star of David and said, in essence, we are all Jews in the face of hatred. Let us, in Wisconsin, wear a pink triangle to demonstrate our solidarity with our gay and lesbian friends and relatives. (Frank Rich brings news of a Pew poll showing 43 percent strongly opposed gay marriage in 2004. Today the number is down to 28 percent.)
Judge Paul Beibel, a Cook County, Ill., circuit judge, ruled that the results of a report on police torture in Chicago must be released to the public. (Electric shocks and suffocation were used to gain "confessions.") Good for the judge, who may end this disgraceful activity in Chicago by shining light on some out-of-control police.
The United Nations Anti-Torture Commission told our country to close Guantanamo Bay prison, stop torturing detainees, and to close secret CIA prisons. Even the attorney general of Great Britain called on us to close Gitmo. Good for the U.N. and good for the British attorney general. Human rights are creeping back into focus.
Italian voters finally got rid of media mogul and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and his successor, Romano Prodi, announced that Italy will withdraw its troops from Iraq. Ah, the "Coalition of the Willing" is shrinking. As each country withdraws we edge ever closer to our withdrawal.
Latin Americans are moving toward economic justice and throwing off the yoke of multinational corporate exploitation in election after election. Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, Venezuela and quite possibly Mexico. They want the oil and gas companies to share gross revenues with the poor people of Latin America. President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, in addition to driving President Bush crazy, is providing oil at a discount for the poor in our country and others.
www.commondreams.org
ALIVE
"Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
- Harold Thurman Whitman
anyone like Coco Rosie?
they are playing at vox populi in philly which i dont think i can make on the 3rd of june… but they are playing the 2nd at the bowery ballroom in nyc, which i can make.
Odunde Festival!
im telling everyone.
June 9-11th, southwest Philly. Odunde Festival. http://www.odundeinc.org/
they finally have a website! i will be there on Sunday for the market and events they have that day,,, then i will head over to the manayunk bike race. i wrote bike rice but fixed it.
lets meet uppppp!
