I've been around for more than 30 years and have internet access. So here I am, offering up digital hieroglyphs, tossing my pebble of influence into the limitless digital ocean of perspective, saying "I was here."
Looked up the lyrics and even more into this one. Whenever it circles its way back into rotation, I have to put it on repeat. never gets old. Turn the bass up.
“Undark
Splattered with light
Down to the waist
The brush sweeps, mind fleets
Still it won’t fade
It creeps in and in and never out
Now pretty girls glow undergroundMake a small point
Keep the point tight
Focus your eyes
And draw the line”
I just took the coldest/fastest shower in a long time, am now on the lookout for locally grown products and *gasp* no more meat.
This documentary, narrated by Glenn Close, is a visually stunning mind-opener.
80% of Earth’s resources are consumed by 20% of us.
2012 Resolutions:
1. Hack away at the unessential
2. Remember my consumer voting power is stronger than my political voting power.
3. Learn more about the methane under Siberia’s permafrost (seriously, why TF have I never heard of that before?)
4. Pay attention to my daily habits and determine whether it makes sense, or if I’ve been programmed to believe it’s necessary, instead of superfluous (examples: washing my hair every single day, using plastic razors, how often I buy new clothes/belongings, and -again, GASP - eating meat).
5. Breathe
6. Remember to NOT get crazy or violent with people carrying plastic Crystal Geyser bottles. It’s better to just be the change I wish to see in the world. (Thanks Gandhi)
I’m going to watch this again to process it more fully and will keep looking for more Earth-balancing resolutions. If you have any suggestions or stories about how you’ve adjusted your own lifestyle in ways other people could fairly easily integrate, I’d love to hear about it..
The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
****
To: Planet Earth
Love: Humans
*****
Oh baby give me one more chance
(show you that I love you)
Won’t you please let me
(back in your heart)
Oh darlin’ I was blind to let you go
(let you go baby)
Video from the Foreclose Wall Street March @ Wells Fargo.
What’s a revolution without live music?
Occupy SF
Oct 12, 2011
Great video clip. OWS is not Us vs Them in an obvious sense. It is about the willingness to demonstrate your belief that a different way is possible. A demand for it. A demand anyone can make -whether you’re on Wall Street or Main Street.
Now to figure out what we WANT.
There have been encouraging reports of imaginative collaboration, leading to concrete OWS ideas in the last couple days. Continued momentum toward definitive desired goals is paramount.
If America 2.0 is to come to fruition, before 1% & Friends beat, arrest, or gas it, we’ll have to dream it.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world. And all there ever will be to know and understand.”
-Albert Einstein
