6 Years

Really?
It's been 6 years?
This is the first year I haven't woken up and wept. Am I getting numb? Used to it? Has the ongoing cluster-F of Iraq worn me out?
I remember someone saying "on 9/12/01 the President could have completely galvanized the nation, could have asked ANYTHING of us and we, in our unity of grief, would have done it."
He could have said to Detroit: no more fossil fuel;to the world: no more genocide. The world came to us, with love and sadness and said what can we do? The President could have said: we can mourn, grieve and then stand united against ignorance, intolerance and hatred.

In the immortal words of the late great John Belushi:

"BUT, NOOOOOOOOOOO"
He told us to go shopping.

The myopic,ignorant,greedy,zealous,jingoistic WEASEL who had STOLEN the office treated us like a bunch of scared hens; while in the meantime he stooped to the level of extremism, fundamentalism and terrorism and ushered in, (how it pains me to write this) almost a decade of fear.

Man, am I fucking tired of it.

Mary, take me away...


The Summer Day

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

-Mary Oliver

On The Mend

Cranking Foo Fighters "In Your Honor" on my new (I'm the last human on earth to get one) ipod.
On The Mend
Beautiful.
What helps me mend?
Time. Mostly.
And acting. So this is a short entry because I've got some major lines to memorize.
So, to all of you who give a shit:
"I'm here, and I'm on the mend."