On the 12th
day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival, my
Significant
Other in a consenting adult, monogamous relationship gave to
me:
TWELVE males
reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual drumming,
ELEVEN pipers
piping (plus the 18-member pit orchestra made up of
members in
good standing of the Musicians Equity Union as called for in
their union
contract even though they will not be asked to play a note),
TEN melanin
deprived testosterone-poisoned scions of the patriarchal
ruling class
system leaping,
NINE persons
engaged in rhythmic self-expression,
EIGHT
economically disadvantaged female persons stealing milk-products
from enslaved
Bovine-Americans,
SEVEN
endangered swans swimming on federally protected wetlands,
SIX enslaved
Fowl-Americans producing stolen non-human animal products,
FIVE golden
symbols of culturally sanctioned enforced domestic
incarceration,
(NOTE after
members of the Animal Liberation Front threatened to throw
red paint at
my computer, the calling birds, French hens and partridge
have been
reintroduced to their native habitat. To avoid further
Animal-American
enslavement, the remaining gift package has been
revised.)
FOUR hours of
recorded whale songs
THREE
deconstructionist poets
TWO Sierra
Club calendars printed on recycled processed tree carcasses
AND a
Spotted Owl activist chained to an old-growth pear tree.
All Good Thoughts
Here are 3
quotes I have added to my "Book of Courage"...
The
question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will.
The question is, are you ready to get back up and fight for what you
believe in?
Dan Quayle
"Believe in
yourself, your neighbors, your work,
your ultimate
attainment of more complete happiness.
It is only
the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in
the Spring,
who reaps a harvest in Autumn.
B. C. Forbes
Take control
of your destiny. Believe in yourself.
Ignore those
who try to discourage you. Avoid negative
sources,
people, places, things and habits. Don't give
up and don't
give in.
Wanda Carter
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Inspirational Reading
YOU WERE
MEANT FOR THE SKIES by Steve Goodier, copyright 2005
This story
reminds us how important a healthy self-image really is.
A man found an eagle's egg and put it in a nest of a
barnyard hen. The eagle hatched with the brood of chicks and grew
up with them. All his life, the eagle did what the barnyard chicks
did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth
for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he thrashed his
wings and flew a few feet in the air.
Years passed and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a
magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in
graceful majesty among powerful wind currents, with scarcely a
beat of its strong, golden wings.
The old eagle looked up in awe. "Who's that?" he asked.
"That's the eagle, the king of the birds," said his neighbor. "He
belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth we're chickens." So
the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that is what he thought he
was. (Author unknown)
You were meant
for the skies - not the chicken coop. Who
will believe in
you if you do not believe in yourself?