Date: Mon, 03
Jul 2006 05:33:16 -0700
From: bronax
Subject:
Quatro Julie.....
Happy pre
birth of our independance position. Break away from Britain. That's the spirit.
I am dumping
yet another recycle trash bag into big blue plastic can at curb. 5:14 am. Dawn
not yet arrived. Cat outside. Classical music videos on from our city pbs
station, channel 35. Will read at least index of elementary college algebra
text I picked up for free in donation box before door of newly renovated Mar
Vista Library, Will return and bring back two DVDs I got there and will pick
out three others.
Adjusting
budget move, watch all those movies I didn't pay to see, and missed
so far. Some
good ones.
Note how mix
of people in our melting pot country is changing. More Asians in the schools,
more poverty in central decaying city areas. Jobs changing in character,
needing some computer knowledge, middle class dress and behavior, less union
manual labor lifetime jobs with benefits. Our auto companies supporting rich
life style for managers, forgot major activity: make a good reliable long
lasting vehicle to sell. Hence, no sales, and Asian mfg. taking over, working
on making good product, improving just a little on basic working platforms,
lesson pioneered by Volkswagon for years.
Day of meeting
family and friends. Eating bad public food: hot dogs, barbeque, hamburgers,
potato salad, chips, beer. Hard to factor in good forest food into this, except
as 'chasers' for the heavy fat and flour and salt leaden public fare: cheese,
dried fish, fruit, soy, walnuts, tomato paste, olive oil, raw colored
vegetables, nuts, avacados, berries. That's the goal for this week, jam in some
crunchies and some extra movement. Re arrange those sock drawers.
My personal
treat: I bought a wooden park bench from China for $25.00 on sale at Big Five
Sporting Goods Store. Assembly next two days, before heat of afternoon makes me
succumb. Make another horizontal storage area next to my outside table
underneath the awning in back yard. Home improvement. Time for some winnowing
of various tools and things, sucked out from my rusted tool shed which next
house door renovators kindly ripped out from my yard for free a month ago.
May just treat
myself to a side of ribs, on sale at local market. Aren't we lucky not to be
fighting a war on our own land for now? This good fortune not shared by many
lands on the planet, where local humans still haven't adopted the civilized
approach to living, i.e. helping one's neighbors and making one's local
governments function better and more humanely. People still killing one another
over ideas, i.e. politics or religions. People still thinking possession of
land important to solve local economic or social problems. When will we ever
get over this? We are world economy and people with specialists at differing
locations. We should all function now as world society and forget this family
tribal neighboorhood race religion class juvenilisms. Looking down, we note our
feet on our space ship, the earth, where we stand as primates, the big picture,
not as caucasians, republicans, christians, africans, asians, third worlders,
intellectuals, workers, owners, breeders, growers, etc.
Chance is
there for us to take one small step for the species this holiday and not just
stomp out the campsite again with chauvinistic enthusiam.
Happy Fourth
Of July.
Stillness
promotes acceptance of change, and learning.
