MamaMo

Ride with me for a moment… My girls have reached a stage (12 & 9) where life revolves around the radio – just waiting for those favorite songs to play (the pop ones they play at least twice a day EVERY day). When riding around town, I usually defer to them on choice of station, but I’m not lax in my Mom duty of throwing an occasional eye-rolling, especially when the shrieky, giggley, “OMG! my favorite song!” songs come on. So we’re riding home, listening to THEIR station, when I hear a few familiar notes, and loudly proclaim, “I can’t believe it! They’re actually playing some GOOD music for a change!!” and I crank the volume. Only…

I think I’m getting ready to hear a great song by one of my all time favorite bands, The Clash:

But what I get instead, almost immediately, another shrieky, giggley, OMG! pop song:

O.K., so I did, in fact, jinx myself. The computer worked for all of ONE day, then fried again for the week. I think we may have FINALLY addressed the root cause (a dying/dead battery on the motherboard), but I am NOT gonna get too excited yet. We’ll see tomorrow if we’re still in business.

p.s. still no luck with my computer – have to re-load the operating system, uuuugggghh!!
Hope to be fully functional (able to access my photos!) soon.

See Wednesday’s post. 🙁

I’ve still got it. You’d think after this many years of real life, I’d have lost my “edge”, but listening to Hillary Clinton’s speech last night confirmed it — I remain a hopeless idealist. I actually found myself in tears throughout most of it.

Now, I’m a staunch “Independent”, so this post isn’t about politics, it’s about hope. I know that sounds corny, but welling up from deep inside me is the hope we will (and the belief we can) collectively create the kind of community that nurtures each individual’s capacity then harnesses it through service to the community. We must. I’m reminded of my favorite Bill Clinton quote, “There’s nothing wrong with America, that can’t be fixed by what is right with America.”

Jesus wasn’t kidding when he promised the “meek shall inherit the earth.” Evidence abounds. “The world in the past has been ruled by force, and man has dominated over women by reason of his more forceful and aggressive qualities both of body and mind. But the balance is already shifting — force is losing its weight and mental alertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love and service, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy. Hence the new age will be an age, less masculine, and more permeated with the feminine ideals — or, to speak more exactly, will be an age in which the masculine and feminine elements of civilization will be more evenly balanced.” (‘Abdu’l-Bahá, 1912)

cue music…