Marsha, Chris (I hear your call!)(also Chris mentioned below),
I'm half-way through reading this article. I have been feeling a sense of
urgency, especially recently, to get this project I've been working on done.
It was done, but in preliminary efforts to see how others would view this
project of mine, I discovered I assumed too much and I have these gaps to fill
to better explain what I'm talking about in this project. I've been working on
it late into the night, and it is getting better and better. I've always been
a late bloomer. I remember playing baseball and not doing very well, in fact,
superb until late in the game or season. I also make up my mind later than
what it seems other people are doing and deciding, but I keep holding out for
not just anything. I'm holding out, each time, for what is me. It's been very
hard as I've grown up in this culture to find exactly those activities that are
me in which I can allow my dreams to not want to escape from. To do an
activity that my heart is in. I
just hope I'm not too late in this social contribution that I finally figured
out will help me express what's been on my mind and in my heart deep down. I
think it's worth it, not just for me, but for others to hear what I have to
say. I'm going to finish this article. It is quite interesting, and certainly
fits the time, thus far (re: only read part of it as I said). Have you ever
come across this book:
"The Fourth Turning"
http://www.fourthturning.com/
Listen everybody! I haven't read the book, but this historian has found a
rhythm in this U.S. culture and the two authors say European and Chinese
cultures are falling into this same rhythm as well, it would seem. They are
NOT deterministic, but they have found a pattern. It is a seasonal pattern,
thus, a pattern based on four. This pattern has occurred in this U.S. culture
since it's establishment and it stretches back into the Anglo-Saxon rhythm that
established the European settlements on this North American continent before
the American Revolution. It is very interesting. It is about generations and
how each generation plays out in a different temperament. The differing
temperaments are in one part due to the preceding generation and their
temperament and how they then treat their children, which then has those
children grow-up differently. Generation X, according to the patterns that
these authors speak of, it's time. It's time to step
up. It's time for the crisis is coming and we work best in crisis. We are
the pessimistic generation and we went out on our own ways pickering about this
culture. We are seen as the slackers, but we slack because we have known for a
long time that this culture is not something to go full head of steam into and
want to fully put our hearts in. This is about change, and now that we've gone
out on our very individually inclined paths slacking we discovered something,
and for me, what I discovered is I can't escape this culture. It's strangled
hold is far reaching. So, we need to push this change that is coming. We have
been the risk takers and I think, as a generation, we know what to do in danger
and in crisis. We've cultivated crisis in our slacking. We've gone against
the grain in our slacking trying to figure out what new solution, what new
culture we can come up with. We haven't allowed ourselves to get too seeped
into this culture by
slacking. It's passive resistance, but now we've realized enough that there
are other choices. In our slacking we've been able to hold onto our dreams,
but it has been tough. Very tough. It has threatened our sanity numerous
times, and we still feel this deep grunge. We've dressed sloppy on purpose,
with hair all over the place, we are messy, we are the grunge. It fits
perfectly. How will we step it up? Each generation has a critical role in how
this culture will develop. This is a moment, a call. I'm with you Chris.
I've tried to organize behind the scenes, but I've come across rode blocks as
others are caught up in other activities. But maybe we can now see this call
is serious. As Ming-Ming says in Wonder Pets, "This is serious!"
woods,
be creative,
SA
--- On Wed, 10/1/08, MarshaV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: MarshaV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [MD] Shouldn’t we be, like, revolting?
> To: "MD Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 12:27 AM
> Truth with humor.
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> http://bill-in-portland-maine.dailykos.com/
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