Heal the World

Okay... sometimes my maddness when it comes to reading a good bok get's strecthed a bit far. I was up until 3:30 this morning reading an MOST excellent book called The Deed of Paksernarion, by Elizabeth Moon. It is actually a triloogy, three books in one. But it wassucha good read that even tho I kept looking up and seeing the hours creep by, and even though I KNEW that I would have to come to work in the morning, I drifted right back inot that world. *sighs* So of COURSE I made it in to work late... ah well. I will do better time wise next week.

I am surprised that MS. (the magazine) is under new ownership. You can feel a diffence in the magazine somehow, it isn't as....womanish anymore somehow. *shrugs* Or that could just be my reaction to the fact that they had almost 12 pages dedicated to Monica Lewinsky. I tend to distance myself from daily news, and the rest of the world in general. They are crazy.. they are ALL crazy. And it is kinda frightening that people get so involved in the little things... perhaps it is our societes way of pulling blinders over their eyes to the BIG problems... that if you listened to most of the folx in power, dont really exist.

I got an email acouple of days ago that linked the Columbine shooting to everything from taking prayer out of the school to supporting abortion and safer sex to voilence on TV to rap music to *sighs* even to the internet. It is amazing to me that someone can blame things that have affected hundreds upon thousands of children on a daily basis, and point to these things as the 'reason' why those young men reacted as they did.
Once again, we (as a soiciety) are trying to ignore the fac that any demons that are in our midst have been created BY us. Through either sins of omission or comission, we (as a SOCIETY) are to blame. When the governemnt itself is more concerned with how & when & why she sucked him off than with the fact that at LEAST 25% of children live so far below the 'poverty' level that it is terrfiying,, why do we have the nerve to wonder why SOME children don't understand the preciousness of life. When good 'Christian' folx blow up, burn, & kill abortion doctors and those who are in their clinics, in order to STOP the destruction of one life, that the mother & father have decided cannot be raised in a healthy heart & head whole way... we wonder why those boys thought the violence solves all. When we have a war going on to STOP killing....can we have the audacity to ask why they were so comfrtable with guns?? Don't blame a lack of 'godliness' on the worlds ills, because that isn't the source either. The so called "word of God' (as interpeted by man) has been used over the years & eons to destory so many & so much it is no surprise that some shy away from those 'standard practices of belief and religon'. Instead blame the fact that money, power & respect (as the rapper said) rule everything. And those boys KNEW not from fictional shows on TV that guns = power, they knew from watching the news... they Knew from Desert Storm, from Kosovo..from the fact that even tho we (the US ) is acknowleded as STILL being the most pwerful (arms wise) nation in the world, the Defense Budget is larger than the Department of Education...or that of health and human services... or hell.... it's bigger than the budget of the two PUT TOGETHER. . And who can deny that the power to destroy is the second greatest power after the power to create &LOVE
Until showing a woman kissing WHOEVER she loves is less shocking than the sight of someones guts being ripped out on Prime Time TV.... until the sight of two men walking down the street is no more disgusting than the random & meaningless violence that occurs on Thunder (a WWF wrestling show) every Thursday night, until loving someone ANYONE ina healthy and beautiful and supportive way is as acceptable to us as the fact that yes the sky IS blue & yes sun will rise..... is it any wonder that until we realize these things we (as a SOCIETY) will not be able to...


Stay Jazzed.