hello lovelies,
josh, thank you for your wwoof access - i'll be checking that out tomorrow.
jacob, you definitely have a marvelous view from your front door. to contrast, i saw piles of snow today.
cerri, travel it up! follow the streams of happy smells and good sounds. i look forward to hearing more.
meg, very cool vimeo and keep up the happy farmersmarketing, and empowering medi(t)ating.
hayley, a mom already! mozel tov! she's a pretty child.
dawn, your gears are turning! and maybe this online space is some oil for my mindbot too?
*(yours was my favorite title yet).
nate, you speak well on the last post of your blog. and i too wish of a reunion with friends young and old - plans anyone?
katie, you are adventurous, even in the face of undesired changes. keep up those great computer doings.
heaven, you are surely vincely. one day i will travel to the land of manchin-mountain heavens (sorry about the mountain party loss).
hope, i'm glad you found some dirt under those fingernails.
corey, it's midnight. go to bed. i hope the neversleepingcityofbrotherlyapples is treating you the way you deserve. kick back if need be.
will, you are a building machine. wanna go to mexico together?
kate, you are magnificient. i wouldn't want to be unemployed with anyone else.
my mom finished her cancer treatment last week. i was lucky enough to be down there to celebrate with her. she is a very strong woman who i respect, love and admire. this post is for her
(and for all of you lovelies for the words, plans, ideas and inspirings you have posted.)
and one quick thought: i have tried everything possible short of total desertion to shed my unitedstatesofamerican identity. i went to the rally to restore sanity. i don't know what it accomplished on a large scale, or what the real purpose of it was. but i left feeling, for the first time in my memorable life, okay to be a unitedstatesofamerican. heres why:
i was standing in back of a group of twentysomething muslim women, to the left of anarchist kids, in front of a black couple, and watched as an elderly white woman picked up litter to properly dispose of. we stood there for many hours under tiring circumstances. we laughed together, cheered, oogled the creative signage, and eventually left en masse.
maybe that's what the unitedstatesofamerica is - or can be. a blob of different people not altogether sure why we're here, but making the most of it until we go home and take a nap.
or maybe it's a greedy empire that continues to gobble up sovereignty and resources, marginalize undesirable members, and evangelize its econopolitics.
i am with you,
eli.
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