[MD] Shouldn’t we be, like, revolting?

[MarshaV]

Wonder Pets!
Wonder Pets!
We're on our way
To help a friend
And save the day
We're not too big
And we're not too tough
But when we work together
We've got the right stuff
Go, Wonder Pets, ya'ay!




At 12:22 PM 10/1/2008, you wrote:
>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 <marshalz at charter.net> 
>wrote: > From: MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> > 
>Subject: [MD] Shouldn’t we be, like, 
>revolting? > To: "MD Forum" 
><moq_discuss at moqtalk.org> > Date: Wednesday, 
>October 1, 2008, 12:27 AM > Truth with 
>humor. > > 
>http://bill-in-portland-maine.dailykos.com/ > > > 
>  > > . > . > > Shoot for the moon.  Even if you 
>miss, you'll land > among the stars......... > 
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