You and me both, hon. This weekend, I plan to focus on cleaning and rebuilding and crafting and writing new blog entries about things that are kind and compassionate.
The only 9/11 response I have seen that I have any respect for anymore, is a movement to make it a National Day of Service. A time to go out into the community and volunteer, do neighborhood cleanups and work to help each other. That's what this day should be about. Celebrating us, as a family of incredibly diverse and sometimes opposed people, that can, nevertheless, pull together to help each other in compassion, kindness and love.
I must say, going without broadcast tv, or cable has its benefits, not being flooding with even more 9/11 violence porn is one of them. The only drawback so far is not being able to see My Big, Fat, Gypsy Wedding.
A national day of service would be SUCH a great thing and would yield so much that would be positive on a variety of fronts - these folks have a bully pulpit right now so why aren't they mentioning this sort of thing? I sure would, if I were president. I'm about to the point of just pulling the plug on the TV entirely anyway. It's gotten to the point where I don't really have the time to watch it anyway. I'd rather be reading or drawing or writing or piddling around in my garden.
I heard about off Paula Deen's blog of all places, but I don't see any reason why *we* can't make it a big deal.
I highly recommend turning it off, you save an insane amount of money and you get a lot more control of the input you receive. Most everything I want to watch I can find somewhere on the net, Hulu, netflix, amazon etc.
One of the local NPR stations (we have two) does local programming at noon, and one of the topics tjeu were going to address was, did the terrorists win.
That said, thanks for posting this. You said, more or less, just about everything I've been thinking.
Oh really? I would actually love to hear more people take on that topic. It seems to me to be a much more relevant point of discussion than "Should 9-11 widows remarry?" which, I kid you not, was the round table topic of one of the talk shows I saw.
Yes! One quilt at a time, you're changing the world. As the recipient of one of your beautiful quilts, I can tell you how much that loving, compassionate, wonderful energy absolutely conveys to the lucky recipients. It is there every time I look at that quilt. It never fails to make me smile. Putting that sort of energy out into the world is such a massively good thing, it really could change everything if we all committed to that course of action. It's just a shame that those big shots you mention can't seem to figure that out!
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The only 9/11 response I have seen that I have any respect for anymore, is a movement to make it a National Day of Service. A time to go out into the community and volunteer, do neighborhood cleanups and work to help each other. That's what this day should be about. Celebrating us, as a family of incredibly diverse and sometimes opposed people, that can, nevertheless, pull together to help each other in compassion, kindness and love.
I must say, going without broadcast tv, or cable has its benefits, not being flooding with even more 9/11 violence porn is one of them. The only drawback so far is not being able to see My Big, Fat, Gypsy Wedding.
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I'm about to the point of just pulling the plug on the TV entirely anyway. It's gotten to the point where I don't really have the time to watch it anyway. I'd rather be reading or drawing or writing or piddling around in my garden.
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I highly recommend turning it off, you save an insane amount of money and you get a lot more control of the input you receive. Most everything I want to watch I can find somewhere on the net, Hulu, netflix, amazon etc.
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That said, thanks for posting this. You said, more or less, just about everything I've been thinking.
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