Thanks, Giving!

What's it for?

A group of Europeans hated the way they were being treated, set sail for a new land where they could mistreat the natives as they had been mistreated.

Pay me no mind...this gaggle of holidays is always challenging. i use everything taught me in therapy, it keeps my head just above water.

And then The Land gets in my car and tells me about the totem pole she is making at school.

"A lion to represent mom, a bear to represent (Fortunato), and I am a deer. I am not making one for (The Sea), she'll understand."

This is me waiting for the other shoe to drop, the one that never does: *****.

An hour later, The Sea gets in the car, sullen, and hands me a Thanksgiving card she made at school; the stereotypical holiday images on it are scribbled messily with colors. She tells me with a pout that she didn't have time to finish it, that she only had five minutes . I am grateful that she wanted me to have it, and ask her if she wants to give it to mom, and she says that mom got hers yesterday- she had a lot more time to work on it, and that it's beautiful.

How can one believe in a God that is not satisfied with your soul collapsing, but wants to see it bleed out as well?

viva la revolution

It is both encouraging and discouraging reading the news lately. i am encouraged by the occupy movement, but discouraged by Mississippi's attempt to define when life begins....if approved, it will set back reproductive rights forty years or more.

(Whenever i spell Mississippi i still say it a it was taught in grade school: M-I-S-S,I-S-S, I-P-P-I)

There is a growing divide in our country, or perhaps the illusion of a growing divide. To watch or read the news you would think there are only two camps, the Tea Party & the 99%, when i am sure there are those who fall in the middle. Even if it is an illusion, it has damaging outcomes. i find myself falling more and more to the left, wanting policies that restore money to social services and take care of all Americans, rather than the upper class.

When Obama mentioned his tax plan of the rich needing to pay more in taxes, my father told me that he was inciting a class war. He's right, but doesn't know that it is the lower class who will be galvanized and who will tire of supporting the 1%.