Wednesday, October 8, 2003
Grandma's t.v. is scratching its nuts and farting on the sofa again.
MY TELEVISION ISN'T LOVABLE ANYMORE and I may have to really kill its crass commercial self. When television first came into this American world, it arrived like a new relative just married into the family. I welcomed it, embraced it and tried to accept and love it, flaws and shortcomings and...
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Tuesday, October 7, 2003
SARCASTIC SALESPEOPLE lose customers and money for their stores.
My elderly sisters and I walked into a Mexican art gallery and artesanias shop in Puerto Vallarta last week. One salesgirl, from Canada and who had started work there two days previously, walked up to us and said, "What lovely shopping bags you carry!" She was putting us down as idiots and making...
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Thursday, August 14, 2003
4th blog on Kahlil Gibran's poem WE AND YOU, explaining CNN and al Jazeera
as our eyes and viewpoints. The first part of this final segment, " We spread your path with roses," is talking about radio, t.v., newspaper and film propaganda, what we say about each other, how we describe each other. And, "somewhere between the roses and the thorns" (the truth and the...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2003
3rd blog on KAHLIL GIBRAN'S poem WE AND YOU, explaining Middle
Eastern thought about the West. Third Installment of Kahlil Gibran's WE AND YOU Kahlil Gibran, who died in 1931, wrote about the troubles between the Middle Eastern and the Western world long before our particular, younger generations were even born, and so, those generations of Americans may not...
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Sunday, July 27, 2003
2ND INSTALLMENT, KAHLIL GIBRAN explains middle eastern thought.
Many Americans ask themselves, "Why?" when they see the anger on the faces of middle easterners on television. When did they start to hate us so and why do they hate us? The middle easterners ask themselves the same questions about us and our feelings for them. We see ourselves as the "good" in the...
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Saturday, July 26, 2003
KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Prophet we read in the 60's, explains Al Quaeda, before
1931 when he died. Well, he doesn't REALLY explain Al Quaeda, but he does set down the thoughts of many Middle Eastern people, as they see themselves. He documents their frustration with us, the supposed cause of Al Quaeda's harsh attacks. I can only quote from this book of his writings if I do a...
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Friday, July 25, 2003
Our Mighty Holy Warrior, Martin Luther King Jr., is ignored by some
bloggers on their list of Civil Rights Leaders, because he wasn't a Muslim, because he preached non-violent revolutionary techniques, because he took a longer view of history and change, and because he included all Americans in his revolution. He touched the consciences of all decent people, not...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2003
B 4 coffee this a.m. I saw all Featured Blogs batting the N Word around
like a tennis ball from one blog to another. I was offended by it. I want the word to die a terrible death and I want it to die this week, forever, turning to ashes and dust and blowing out of our minds on winds of friendship. The word, born in ancient times on the lips of traders, should die and...
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Sunday, July 20, 2003
Muslim, Jew and Christian, even atheists hope for the same things....
An unbombed home, a fertile garden, healthy babies and loving unworried wives and husbands. Peace on their little piece of Earth. My mother used to read Rudyard Kipling to me and I remembered this Prayer of his and looked it up to recall it's wise words. My brother kneels, so saith Kabir, To stone...
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Saturday, July 19, 2003
Scottish roots,Robert Burns says that "it's guid to be merry and wise, it's
guid to be honest and true." Somber wisemen and honest villains are the role models of our day. It saddens my merry heart to say this. My three year old grandson threw a gang sign the other day. A boy raised in middle class suburbia. Today he called his sister "girl" and it wasn't a complimentary...
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