I Want to Hold your Hand

I want to hold your hand. I want to give you hope. I want to remind you of the strength you have that has kept you alive and productive your whole life. I want to tell you how much you mean to me. I want to thank you for the beauty you create and generate in this world. I want to take you on a mental vacation, so you can rest and repair and relax. Smile.

I want to make you laugh, tell you a joke. Here’s one. A guy is sitting at home when he hears a knock at the door. He opens the door and sees a snail on the porch. He picks up the snail and throws it as far as he can.
Three years later, there is a knock on the door. He opens it and sees the same snail. The snail says, "What the hell was that all about?"

I want to honor your intelligence and appreciate the small things you do everyday that go unnoticed like making dinner, doing the laundry, taking care of the children, the elders, the animals.

I want to dance around the room with you, play games, swim in the river, dip our toes in the ocean. I want to remind you to rest, take a nap if you can. Sing loud in the car because when I drive by you, it’ll make me laugh. I want you to know that singing helps your spleen and balances the left right hemispheres of your brain. I want to encourage you to hold a baby, visit an elder and tell them a story.

I want to thank you for taking care of yourself. I want to acknowledge how much you contribute to community, all the events, gardens, meals, festivals, celebrations, concerts, benefits and fairs that bring us all together to enjoy our time together. I want you to know that inspite of all the terrible awful things going on in the world that there is most definitely and surely good news. Here’s some of the headlines from the Positive News out OF Bolinas CA. American Indians Granted $760 million in a class action lawsuit settlement. Teachers without Borders connecting teachers Globally to make changes locals. Slow Food movement saves a Vermont. President Obama meets with 11 young climate activists. Huge Palm Oil Company in Indonesia promises to End Deforestation and 12 year old food grower Katie Tagliano from south Carolina donates 2 tons of vegetables to homeless

I want to tell you a story about a guy who photographs individuals who normally go unseen, enlarges them to extreme gigantic sizes and plasters them to buildings to surprise and enlighten neighborhoods devastated by war, crime and poverty. His name is JR and his the winner of the 2011 TED Prize which operates under the concept; one wish to change the world. One of JR’s most recent projects was to photograph Israelis and Palestinians in the same occupations, Taxi drivers, chefs, teachers, army and to put their photos side by side on the Walls which separate the two people. This artistic action has opened so many minds to the idea that we’re not that different.

Help others.org has a smile deck that you electronically shuffle and are given instructions for actions of kindness. Clubs are for people you know, hearts are for strangers, diamonds are acts for yourself and spades are for the world. This is a terrific exercise and could be contagious.

These are just a few of the sentiments and stories that are happening at this very moment in our world. The stories that never make the front page or even the last. The stories that we don’t see on TV or hear on the mainstream radio. We are a planet of 7 billion mostly good people and it is our daily interactions, of Art, compassion, love, kindness and simplicity that very much deserve our attention. We deserve to hear it, integrate it and spread it around. Here’s a challenge. See how long you can hold a smile without laughing. Pass it on.

You can finds links to these stories at my website. Sherryglaser.net

Gulf Leak plugged, Wikileaks unplugged.

So many beautiful stories in the world, the beauty makes me cry as much as the devastation. I know some people had a strong condemnation toward our Women weeping by the water, but I can tell you a full blown emotional life with all it's,sorrows, pathos, slapstick, and absurdities makes this life so satisfying. I would love to see more and more people experience the fulfillment that I know regularly because of my connection to humanity, the earth and the cosmos. I believe one can be emotional and powerfully effective at the same time. It is the lack of emotion, or depression that tends to destroy our inner lives. I know a majority of you love to be touched, entertained, you love a good story and the juicier the better. Would you buy a ticket to a show that had no emotion, no dramatic arc, or are you more interested in a story, say that starts with utter hopelessness that by some twist of fate or will becomes a heroic triumph. And according to the signs I'm seeing, Yes, we are on the verge of a climax here. I'll be the first to admit that my latest editorials are fraught with deep dark emotions but at the same time A psychic once told me my rose colored glasses have rose colored clip ons there is a kind of optimism that always accompanies me.

I see great evidence of consciousness rising and that kind of behavior reflected. in current events. Today, the VA announced that Veterans have the right to use Marijuana to help deal with PTSD in 14 States where it is legal. Huge leap forward. Last week the front page of the Ashland Newspaper, Daily Tidings, told us Northwest airline hubs will be using biodiesel to fuel their airplanes. Exciting. New York opens it's first electric vehicle charging station while New Jersey mounts 200,000 solar panels on utility poles. Illegal timber trade has dropped %50 in the Amazon! The California legislature is poised to pass AB 1998, banning single-use plastic bags. Governor Schwarzenegger has said he'll sign it,Yeah! There was An article last week in the Press democrat about a significant increase in Vaginal births after C-section. I'm always inspired when I see positive news about vaginas in the newspaper. Tropical storm Bonnie spared Gulf residents a terrible beating and the cap on the bp oil leak is holding. Everyday people are coming up with creative solutions to clean up the gulf. And in other water news, Salmon returning to the columbia Snake river in record numbers. Then there's the case of Shirley Sherrod who was unjustly accused of Racism regarding her speech to the NAACP. the source of course for that nasty spin was fox news. This set off a chain of unfortunate events that led to her firing, but, then drum roll please, the President of the United States called her and apologized and offered her job back. Wow, can we take a moment. I remember reporter after reporter asking George Bush if he made any mistakes his answer was a standard and absolute No. But Barack Obama and his minions made a mistake and addressed it. If Ms. Sherrod accepts his apology and returns to her post at the USDA that would be an extraordinary lesson for America. To err is human. To forgive, divine. We are at this moment also being appraised of the Truth of the War in Iraq and Afghanistan through the eyes of Wikileaks. There are over 90,000 pages documenting extreme war crimes against innocent people. While that in itself is an undeniable horror, the outcome may surprise us. The footage is all over the internet and the newspaper and Robert Gibbs White house Spokesman has been fielding questions about it all day. We cannot live in denial of that facts, just the facts. and here they are all dressed up with everywhere to go. The light is shining in the darkest places. Thank you internet, thanks to the people who care enough to risk there lives, livelihoods, reputations to bring us inconvenient truths. How appropriate that Today We are in a full moon 3 degrees of Aquarius and according to it's Sabian symbol, another drum roll please is "A Deserter From the Navy: according to the website Lincoln's This and That Astrology, "This is a symbol of human independence carried to a point of extreme rebellion against things as they are, here emphasized in a disregard of all consequences for the sake of an immediate liberation of the spirit. There is a demand for a more rewarding expression of individuality, and the reversed symbolism suggests that any late acceptance of full and personal responsibility for life is better than none at all. Except as man creates his own allegiances, his destiny holds no depth. The keyword is defiance. When positive, the degree is genuine psychological courage in a repudiation of all meaningless loyalties, and when negative, complete inability to follow the rules of any game." After watching one of the leaked wikileaks on You Tube called Collateral Murders, Wiki leak, Iraq. I am even more emboldened to speak up, speak out. Act out. This universe is calling. We can respond, everyone of us with truth and beauty as Rob Brezny says on his www.freewillastrology.com website. I am in the process of gathering data and quickly turning my attention to the creation, to the symbolic as an offering to you as a gift. My job is to enlighten you, provoke you, engage you, inform you and turn you on to the marvelous possibilities that are offered to us everyday.