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.

Getting To The Bottom Of It

Memorial Day/again

You know, generally, I'm a well balanced individual. I have enormous joy, like receiving a phone call from my daughter in Egypt today and hearing the call to prayers in the background as she tells me of her trip down the nile. I have my share of sorrow, just this Saturday I had to put my dog Butch to sleep. He's been my loyal, loving companion for 13 years. My shepherd through arguably the most painful phases of my life. And though it was extremely painful and I wept uncontrollably as he passed, I know all dogs go to heaven and he is free as a bird and what I did was merciful and it's over now. I can see beyond the gritty, nasty surface and extract the beauty, compassion, the silver lining, but it is first with great devotion to my emotional truth. I can laugh, but only after I've paid homage to the vital presence of rage and sadness and fear. While the prospect of a permanent ban on off shore oil drilling dances in my head. I cannot deny the present grim and reprehensible circumstances. Things that blow right off the trauma scale. Ok people are you ready? because I'm about to take you down, take you to the bottom of the sea. The bottom, we are talking deep. In an effort to unleash your gushing self. You see as the days go by, things seem to be getting worse and the only way to lift up is to bottom out. Just in the last week we were informed that the leak in the gulf is probably ten or twenty or thirty times worse than we could have imagined. BP's failed attempt at a "top kill" an already terrible choice of title, leaves us breathless imagining that we won't find any relief from the much anticipated relief WELL till August. August. millions of gallons of crude continuously spews ghastly suffocating nightmares for any living creature in the vicinity. They call if the dead zone. 28 species; Orcas, Bottlenose dolphins, turtles, shrimp choking to death. Then there's the birds. I'm sure you've all seen images of these mortally wounded creatures sludging through the marshes. The severe injury and murder of these gentle, lovely, innocents is dreadful. then there are the already Katrina ravaged people of Louisiana, Mississippi, and other coastal area residents who are witnessing this tragedy that unfolds further into their future, their livelihoods, their wetlands, shores, beaches, the eyes and lungs of their elders and children on their laps. Sorrow doesn't express the depth of suffering. Avoidable, unnecessary malfeasance, incompetence, and misconduct, throw in cruelty and you have todays news of the Humanitarian aid flotilla drifting defiantly toward Gaza only to be met by the violent hands and arms of Israeli gunships who without remorse massacre human beings who came with only one thing in mind to help those who are in terrible need. the white house "deeply regrets' all of this . I don't think the white house, or BP, of the mineral managements service or Halliburton, or the Israeli government deeply regrets anything. One cannot tee up on the golf course when one is in mourning. One is pulverized, and if the tragedy is still unfolding, one is obsessed with finding solutions. I don't believe these folks have the ability or capacity to deeply regret, because if they did we would see a sign of emotion. Like the Representative Charlie Melancon's tearful testimony before congress. He could not speak because he was overwhelmed with grief. Imagine a CNN or CBS anchor breaking down, like a human being.That is what is appropriate right now, an outpouring of grief and wailing that would be heard around the world and act as a catalyst for all sentient beings to release a flood of sadness and pain that has been swelling in our veins with each and every trespass and intentional violation of our precious fragile flesh. For every oil spill, home foreclosed upon, pension stolen, every medical procedure denied or botched operation, For every woman raped, or cut, for every child kidnapped and indoctrinated in an army for every bomb, bullet and blast a cry would ring out. A liberation of emotion that could not be ignored or hung up on. Let these things break your heart let yourself in on the disaster, let it move you to a place that is forbidden. That hurts too much. The results will amaze you, because the weight of things such as these are on you. And the eruption of emotional response is the truth of our dwindling existence. Once you touch this untapped well. With this force of nature uncorked pick up the phone and call, radio stations, television, the white house, call congressional offices. Let them know how you feel. Here's a cou[ple of good numbers for you it's the mineral management services 800-200-gulf and(202) 364-5500 is the Israeli embassy in Washington.