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March 14, 2013

Soar~

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You?

March 14, 2013

Food for Thought

Some delicious food for thought on procrastination

Procrastination is not what it seems...What looks from the outside like our delay; our lack of commitment; even our laziness may have more to do with a slow, necessary ripening through time and the central struggle with the realities of any endeavor to which we have set our minds. To hate our procrastinating tendencies is in some way to hate our relationship with time itself, to be unequal to the phenomenology of revelation and the way it works its own way in its own gifted time, only emerging when the qualities it represents have a firm correspondence in our necessarily struggling heart and imagination.
- David Whyte
from Readers' Circle Essay, "Procrastination"

http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2013/03/some-delicious-food-for-thought-on.html

Does this sound familar to anyone here? Our President perhaps?

"necessary ripening through time and the central struggle with the realities of any endeavor to which we have set our minds."


Procrastination, no. He thinks things through, he looks at the realities of his decision.

In the very begining, when I watched him giving an interview, I thought his pausing when he gave an answer was a struggle to answer. I soon learned that he was pausing to think. To work things through, to look at the realities, the cause and the effect.

only emerging when the qualities it represents have a firm correspondence in our necessarily struggling heart and imagination.


Thank you, Mr President!

I thank my lucky stars that we have a President that will Think before he acts!

March 14, 2013

Beautiful

Meshell Ndegeocello






Wiki: Meshell Ndegeocello (born Michelle Lynn Johnson, August 29, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, bassist, and vocalist. Her music incorporates a wide variety of influences, including funk, soul, hip hop, reggae, R&B, rock, and jazz. She has received significant critical acclaim throughout her career,[1][2] and has had ten career Grammy Award nominations.[3] She has been credited for having “sparked the neo-soul movement.”[4]

Born in Germany, to army Sergeant Major and saxophonist father Jacques Johnson and health care worker mother Helen. She was raised in Washington, D.C. where she attended Duke Ellington School of the Arts andOxon Hill High School. In early press releases from Maverick Records her birth year was erroneously listed as 1969. The 1968 birth date has been confirmed through a previous manager and lifelong friend.[citation needed]

Named Michelle Lynn Johnson at birth, Ndegeocello adopted her surname at the age of 17, which she says means “free like a bird” inSwahili. Meshell Ndegeocello is pronounced Mee-shell N-deh-gay-o-chel-o. Early pressings of Plantation Lullabies were stickered with the instructions. The spelling has changed in the hands of record labels a few times during her career; however, the correct spelling of her stage name is now Meshell Ndegeocello.[5]


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http://3chicspolitico.com/2013/03/12/serendipity-soul-tuesday-open-thread-neo-soul-week/


March 13, 2013

President Obama and Democratic Party’s Goal =



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TRANSLATION: “Take this shit and shove it where the SUN don’t shine SON, I’M THE PRESIDENT.”

Thank you, President Obama.

Paul Ryan & GOP’s GOAL =
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http://3chicspolitico.com/2013/03/12/video-president-obama-my-goal-is-not-to-chase-a-balanced-budget-for-the-sake-of-balance-my-goal-is-jobs/
March 12, 2013

If not Heaven and not Hell...

Where do we go?
Not that I am a true believer, I lost that years ago.

Middle ground is limbo.

Any ideas?




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February 17, 2013

Has this ever happened to you? No? Then I am glad.

Violence against Women most often Starts at Home.

As a young child, did you ever sit down to dinner, while your mom and dad were in the middle of a very loud argument. Did you ever sit there and watch your dad backhand your mom so hard that blood spattered across the table. Did you ever stand around the bathroom, with your mom sitting on the toilet seat, and hand her tissues to stop the blood flow. Did you stand there and cry. No? Then I am glad. My sister and brother and I, it happened to us.

That is the only time that I saw my dad hit my mom. However the fights and verbal abuse were the same as a physical blow. It can crush you. They stayed together for 25 years...for the children. I wish they had not.

The ironic part in all this, I had a similar marriage. Most of it was verbal abuse. He made me feel worthless, that I was nothing. I knew that I was not. It was short lived. I left, with scars on my soul from my marriage and my upbringing.

I have never talked about this, not to anyone, ever. I hinted about it. That was it. So you might ask yourself, why now. I started to post something a few times.I wanted to make a point. It was hard.

However after posting thread after thread on VAWA, and watching other similar posts sink and die with so little notice. I felt like someone, that had the air sucked out their body. I wept each time they died unnoticed.

I have said before, that there is not one single person here on DU that does not have at least one Woman in their life. Someone that they care about, someone they want to protect. We can only protect them if we stand for all Women.

Please sign the Violence Against Women Petition:


http://www.beaubiden.com/landing/w1302vw/

Originally posted by gateley here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2366783


February 9, 2013

Blizzard 2013...pics from Mass.

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