Bloodless Coup

Saturday, August 15, 2009

fledgling

‘the world has yet to know what

one man fully committed to god

can do’ +

i am but one woman made

in the image of god *

a creator

and known to myself

i am ^

+ attr to dl moody

* genesis 1:26-7

^ exodus 3:14-5

fear pt. 1

i was taught to fear
            man
                  god
              my (self)motivations
yet held to the standard of

‘yea, though i walk though

the valley of the SHADOW of death

i shall fear no evil.’

and so
i sometimes bow
when i should stand,
and yet i believe,
when hope itself
begins to tremble.

Sunday, July 26, 2009

this napkin was given to me by a woman in an italian restaurant bar in eagle, co, after many a shared cocktail and tale. i had told her i wanted to write a book or something, and she proceeded to tell me some about her life…..had the feeling she’d lived more than most, clearly most of it tough. but she had a huge fire and passion for everything, and i truly enjoyed her stories and company that evening. it felt to me that she hungered to be known, and she wrote this down, hoping maybe that i’d use some of it somewhere. i just moved, and consequently just went through all my stuff and this surfaced….feels like it wants out there…

‘signed: m.L.a.

american indian-lived in southeast asia. thailand–korea, 6 months in singapore 4 months in bataan (a side place of indonesia). traveled. but to find-hindu reality. husband ex con 1st man to ever record album in state penitentiary (san quentin) ran….next man, child from. father design the nuclear texa (?can’t make that word out) project built in 1974.’

i don’t know if a word of it’s true, but i can tell you i didn’t doubt her when i was looking at her eyes. other people’s lives are amazing, and i think we all feel so ordinary….

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

‘the end of america’

i realize this content is close to 2 years old, but legislation has been passed, and we’ll have to research ourselves to find out where we are now. still feels timely.

for those who prefer the more creative expression of a cautionary plea. great use of two hours, primer for the recent history of early 80’s germany, and the fall of the berlin wall.

umm…..

i have an innate dislike of politics and politicking, but i’ve started to pay more attention to the things that are happening in the world, even voting for president in the last two elections, a privilege i’d skipped out of protest for a while. i don’t watch much tv news, i prefer to surf the web and read time magazine. this video plays like a scene in a phillip k. dick novel, a notion grim and harrowing enough to spur me to some kind of action. don’t know a whole lot about naomi wolf, but i have seen a movie on the web that she put together called ‘the end of america’, based on her book of the same name. haven’t read the book, haven’t fact checked the information in her documentary, but it sounds plausible and feels true on some visceral level. maybe it has something to do with how unsettling the airport is now with its threatening branding of the department of homeland security, images and logos posted everywhere, including the shoulders of the people acting dutifully as its agents. i’ve read this story before, it’s called ‘1984.’ and apparently it’s a well established violent pattern from our collective histories, not just our collective nightmares. it amazes me that this is being broadcast as journalism. but then again, if we really are becoming a democracy in collapse, on the brink of tyranny, wouldn’t it be a fine way to entertain the masses while you did whatever the hell you wanted? something is horribly wrong here….