good morning I, good morning All...after i checked my work emails this is the first thing i opened...i think this could definitely grow on me like a bad habit. (not that my boss will mind, at least it makes it seem like i'm so busy & serious on some project)...anyway, today i felt like treating myself so i got my favorite starbucks coffee grande w/ soy & the marble loaf! Hmm, & as i'm enjoying it, i meditate on what's new today...
well, aside from noting that it is friday - whoopee!, the 13th! no big deal, i don't believe in superstitions...the conversations i had w/ some regular folks on the bus & ferry seemed to revolve around the next President (hopefully!) John Kerry...also where we'll be during the coming dreaded Republican convention here in our city...why of all places did they have to pick NY?! i mean haven't we gone thru enough already?! after 9-11, the deadly SI Ferry crash, the sudden unemployments, the Bloombergization, FOX 5 biased news (thank God i hardly watch that news, i'm an NBC fan)... It's no wonder why I along w/ a lot of other working parents i get a chance to speak w/ are considering packing our bags & taking the U-Haul to search for a new life...a better life from here? who knows. only time will tell. my brother lives down south (of Georgia) & so is my hubby's sister's family so...at least there's equal representation from both families there. If push comes to shove, there's always some place to run to.
but as i was saying, i'm glad that there is a renewed interest in this voting process...but we still talk abt. the bitterness after all that confusion & whatever-happened-to-the-Florida-votes?...maybe people have grown cynical? ...Maybe. but after 4 years of nothing & this stupid purported Iraq war!, maybe people are at the point of vomitting...enough is enough.
i know they're talking abt the politics of "hope" but if that's the only thing left to keep working class folks such as me going, feeling like maybe a change is gonna come...well then i am all for HOPE...
i always remember where hope came from, especially for me as a kid growing up w/ a lot of "family drama", bitter images of 2 loving parents going thru their own crises, staging their tragic-comedies not realizing the little ones ( the formative not so little teeny sons & daughter) had to sit at home & witness this passion play...while at the same time trying to stay sane & make the grade in school...well, u know what i mean....
...I always turned to that greek mythology about Pandora's box, where all sorts of evils & monsters have been opened & released to the world....yikes, kinda reminds me of where WE are right now in our times...look at all the funny evil stuff shown in the movies...(i just can't be bothered watching horror flicks anymore...why raise my adrenaline for that??) ...anyway, what remained in that box, waiting to come out & redeem what's lost, what's forgotten...the last thing that remained in that box, the only thing that could give back Love & Peace to people is HOPE...
so, whatever they wanna call it, Politics of Hope, "Help is on the Way"... well i'd rather believe in something good...that there is still some inherent goodness in all of us, & that we will go out there to cast our vote for Hope - John & John, isn't that something? it's almost a sign...they have got to win this time. I don't care anymore whatever vile (which when scrambled up - comes out w/ the word evil)...stuff i hear in this coming republican convention...i just hope it's not gonna be violent around here...hey this is my city too, u know, i live & work here....what about us little folks?! pls. don't cause more trouble than what we've been through...we have families to support too u know.
anyway, there was even 1 older guy on the bus, who listened to the Democratic convention & liked what he heard....who used to be a republican, w/ a son in the Navy or something like that...who thinks that this time he will swing more towards becoming a democrat...Well, that is hopeful.
...maybe a change is brewing, a good brew just like my coffee...hmmm,
till then, happy trails,
:)
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