The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.--Albert Ellis
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The cat and I wait for the sunrise this peaceful Sunday, with the second cup of coffee by my side. I'm thinking about the marches going on in cities in the mideast and how each day brings new hope and also new tensions. The daily lives of those people are in total upheaval. Their future so unclear. Lots of worry and uncertainty. Danger. My advice to them: Go after your dreams. Promote peace and dignity and democracy for all and by all means, get educated and also do everything you can for women's rights.
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Meanwhile the endless news cycle here is focused on our nation being broke. Day after day it's the same thing. How many times have I seen the orange face who leads the Congress telling us.... We are broke. That the poor have to pay, the poor have to receive fewer services, teachers are the problem, unions are the problem, education has to be cut etc. -
Oh really? It's like Aunt Millie used to say. The poor stay poor and the rich get richer. That's the way the mop flops.
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Aunt Millie didn't trust the fatcats much. She wouldn't have understood the derivatives and the mortgage scheme and all the corruption in our banking system, but she did understand the need to educate our children. And our country is sadly falling behind other countries, who "get it."
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Mother Teresa once said she would not go to an anti-war protest, but she would go to a peace rally. It's all in how you look at things. Instead of all this energy expended with blame, what if we turned on the news and instead saw Congressmen and women joining together to actually solve problems rather than pick and choose scapegoats and give dramatic speeches against abortion or public televison. Is this the model of democracy we want to show the world?
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