Not Politics as Usual

Once again, months have pasted since my last post. Sorry. To use a strange word used by my children to describe a really large quantity of something, I have agoogle things to write about. So much has happened over the last four months, it is impossible to recap anything--should have sent out Christmas letters. Sufficeth to say, everyone is happy an healthy. Doug is enjoying school, I'm in good spirits, we enjoy living by family, and time is flying by.

With the start of a new political season, I'm reminded once again why I disengage myself from the computer, news, and other media bombardments. I feel so incapable and powerless when it comes to the issues, I'd much rather shove my nose into a period romance novel.

I seem to do that quite a bit, actually--disengage myself, I mean, not read romance novels. I tune into the world, get myself all fired up over this and that, write a few incendiary letters in my mind or heaven help me, in an actual and awful place like Facebook. I make resolutions to take up my sword alongside my brave brothers and sisters in the cause of justice (think Arab Spring). I will do my part. I will shout it from the hilltops. I will make bumper stickers.

Yes. Bumper stickers. Every issue can be summed up in ten words or less and everyone will know who I am and what I am by the car I drive!

Vote Conscience Not Party

Kermit the Frog for the Republican Nomination

Pro Life Liberal is not an Oxymoron

Just call it what it is--Eugenics

I falter, however, when I remember I have no desire or inclination to learn InDesign or Illustrator and a handwritten note taped to my minivan just won't have the same pizazz.

I slink back to my world of diapering and housewiffery to mull over the probable reality that what I say and do outside my little home doesn't make much difference in the largess of the issues.

Cynicism is an awful, awful thing I struggle against and why I must make an effort to refer you to these two blogs for my most recent brush with a cause worth drawing a sword for.

From Bird on the Street: Quantify This

From Wolfhirschhorn.org: Brick-Walls

Please read these posts. Forward them to family and friends. Talk about it. Be angry and disgusted and make people aware that this sentiment is alive and thriving in the United State and all over the world. Ponder it, discuss it, research it, write about it, so maybe someday when you inadvertently find yourself in a position to speak out, you will know what to say.