Spinning…

Spinning…

It’s all I can muster right now. More later…

Was it loneliness that brought you here
Broken and weak
Was it tiredness that made you sleep
Have you lost your will to speak
Was the earth spinning round
Were you falling through the ground
As the world came tumbling down
You prayed to God what have we done

Free me from these chains
I need to change my way
Heal these broken wings
I need to fly far away,
far away, far away
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Zero 7

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Fall

Fall

Well, it’s that time of year that I love best. This is MY season. I become so in tune with nature and it’s urge to take a nap. Even my hair changes color (naturally). The crips and the blue blue skies as the backdrop for auburn, gold and red leaves are all I need to feel like I’m totally at peace. I am ready for this season this year. I’ve been looking longingly at my sweaters. Can’t wait to don them. I believe that this will be a good end of year for me. So much to look forward to. A few weddings. A bunch of chapter events. And closer still to the completion of the planning for my future with my baby. I do feel lighter as a cause of recent events that have my personal space less cluttered which always helps to free me. I’m getting my finances in order. I’m starting to really keep it together at work. I’m getting to a good place.

Tomorrow is September 11th. They’re thinking of turning it into a service holiday (kind of like MLK day) which I totally wouldn’t mind at all. I’m just not looking forward to the days when we have September 11 Blowout sales at every store. I do hope it never gets there. I also hope that they don’t innundate us with a million images of the buildings coming down. That is forever etched in my memory. God bless everyone who was affected by that experience.

So I’ve had a million thoughts roaming around in my head the last few days. I just fail to make it here in time for me to actually place them on the screen. I did have one question though that I’d like to pose to my reading public:

If you were pregnant (or your girlfriend was pregnant) and early on you knew the child would be disabled somehow – down syndrome, missing a limb or two, brain damage etc. — what would you do? Would you have the child? Because it’s early enough, would you abort? Give it up for adoption? What would you do? No fluff answers, please. Your honest gut reaction is appreciated.

Thanks for participating. Oh well… here I go, off to the first chapter meeting of the season.

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Regenerate

Regenerate

I thought this article from The Australian was GREAT…

It’s a miracle: mice regrow hearts

August 29, 2005 SCIENTISTS have created “miracle mice” that can regenerate amputated limbs or damaged vital organs, making them able to recover from injuries that would kill or permanently disable normal animals. And when cells from the test mouse are injected into ordinary mice, they too acquire the ability to regenerate, the US-based researchers say. The experimental animals are unique among mammals in their ability to regrow their heart, toes, joints and tail.

Their discoveries raise the prospect that humans could one day be given the ability to regenerate lost or damaged organs, opening up a new era in medicine. Details of the research will be presented next week at a scientific conference on ageing titled Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence, at Cambridge University in Britain.

Then I shared it with my baby and he said… “Great development… they’ll probably find a way to use it for war.”

And I knew… he was right

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Mint Flavored Ferragamos

Mint-Flavored Ferragamos

This administration must get a discount if they buy in bulk – and they must LOVE THEM because their feet are ALWAYS in their mouths:

From the Washington Post

“In New Orleans, “you are dealing with the permanently poor — people who don’t have jobs, are not used to getting up and organizing themselves and getting things done and for whom sitting and waiting is a way of life,” says Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity and a former head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. “This is a natural disaster that is exacerbated by the problems of the underclass. The chief cause of poverty today among blacks is no longer racism. It is the breakdown of the traditional family.”

From NYTimes.com

“As President Bush battled criticism over the response to Hurricane Katrina, his mother declared it a success for evacuees who “were underprivileged anyway,” saying on Monday that many of the poor people she had seen while touring a Houston relocation site were faring better than before the storm hit.
“What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas,” Barbara Bush said in an interview on Monday with the radio program “Marketplace.” “Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.”
“And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway,” she said, “so this is working very well for them.”

I do try VERY HARD not to think very hard about these ARSES that are in power. But with someone making statements like that who is the president of Equal Opportunity… how much opportunity do they really have??? When she’s basically written the off as active functioning parts of the human race… *shaking my head*

It just won’t ever make sense to me…

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BRAVO KANYE!!

BRAVO KANYE!!

Dear Mr. West:

Thank you. Thank you for being so brave in what you did. I know in the past you’ve been accused of being arrogant and hypocritial (even though you never really denied either…) you had the courage to do what most were afraid to do. Speak exactly what was on your mind at the time that you had the audience to do it. Although, I probably would have preferred for you to rehearse what you were going to say a little more carefully so that you didn’t sound as scattered as you did… I heard you clear your throat before you started. I heard the warble in your pitch out of sheer nervousness (from you — a trained entertainer). Mostly, I heard the sincerity in your voice despite the somewhat disjointed thoughts. And your message did come through. Bush didn’t hop to it because it was mostly Black people that got affected and they DO portray us poorly in the media. And yes… martial law means that they send the National guard and all who are given the power to shoot us if we’re perceived to be “looting” and not “looking for food”. And no… he doesn’t care for us, Kanye. Honestly, I’m sure he cares for no one but himself and his own interests.

But what I love most… is that once upon a time… fame for an African-American / Black person in this country automatically made him part of the movement. It meant that he had the power to channel our voices and say what we were thinking… and say it often… and maybe even say it when it wasn’t deemed appropriate. But our voices would be heard and maybe even change effected. Seems that the limelight now is just somewhere for folks to shake their asses and be seen. Even if this was a publicity stunt just to get your name in the paper to sell your new album more — thank you for attempting to use your name for something that tied in to meaningful causes.

And lastly, thank you for admitting the hypocrisy that we all practice. Yeah, you went shopping before you made a donation. I hope that you did call your business manager. Because there’s a hell of a lot of us complaining about the management at the top, but haven’t done one thing to help — at all. It is human nature to be that way… and maybe you admitting that you’ve done it will make others see that they did to, and make them quicker to get out their wallets, or get some supplies on a bus or board a plane and get down there and help.

I’ll pray for you, Kanye. Who knows what the backlash on this will be. But I hope you stay safe… and stay vigilant.

God Bless You.

Victoria.

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