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Imagine

“Imagine there’s no countries/ It isn’t hard to do/ Nothing to kill or die for/ And no religion too./ Imagine all the people/ Living life in peace, aha./ You may say I’m a dreamer/ but I’m not the only one/ I hope someday you’ll join us/ and the world will live as one.” John Lennon […]


Wake up!

Well, here I go again. Definite proof I am appealing to a particular target market. Howard Dean is right. We are no safer with Saddam in jail. Saddam was never a threat to us. George Bush is a threat to us. Regarding Plan B, the Morning After Pill, anything that will help women avoid unwanted […]


Guys

It’s like why are men so cavalier when it comes to personal safety measures especially when doing stuff like home repairs? Does it have to bring out the macho, indestructible (in our own minds) genetic make-up we are ingrained with? My wife and I began tearing up our carpeting and redoing the hardwood floors this […]


A positive vision

Yesterday, my wife and I finally got to see The Matrix: Revolutions at the Imax. I was truly anxious to see this film, feeling I needed closure. I loved the first Matrix film and was just elated that so many spiritual themes were woven into the plot and that it was being so well received […]


The right to earn a living

Last night I was awarded the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award by the Kent-Ionia Labor Council. This was in recognition of the work I have been doing for three years along with the president of the Labor Council, the mayor-elect and other community leaders to get Grand Rapids to accept a Livable Family Income Incentive […]


Health care choices

One of the benefits of the decline in health insurance benefits that I and many Americans are experiencing is that today I visited Jock, a practitioner of Oriental Assessment and Herbal Counseling. You see, last week, my wife whose health insurance I am under told me that because the deductibles are now so high on […]


The need for change

Last night my wife and I went to a wonderful house party sponsored by MoveOn to view the video Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War. The video confirmed what I already knew about Bush’s lies that dragged us into this stupid Iraq war. It was good to view it with about 25 others […]


Christmas

I’m finding it hard to get into the Christmas spirit this year. I haven’t put up any decorations or sent any cards. It seems like such a hollow ritual celebrating an event that never happened historically in the way it’s described. There probably was a person named Jesus, but as for a “virgin” birth, angels, […]


Change the world

Life is perfect and getting more perfect by the day, at least for me. I’ve been absorbed in working the Perfect Life Program in my own life as I prepare to offer a series of workshops on the subject starting next month. I find myself much more content and happily engaged in the activities of […]


Perfect! 12.3

A perfect life, what an incredible idea. To be able to live a perfect life in the midst of this world with all its obvious imperfections. When our life is so full of struggle, conflict, suffering, disappointment, etc., to be able to see the perfection in it is amazing. The thought that anything is “perfect” […]