Genesis

No, I'm not religious (I am spiritual, however). I'm calling this first post Genesis simply because it's fitting.

My approach is to deal with what's on my mind each morning. No doubt it will be a hodge-podge of ideas floating around like popcorn in this brain.

This morning it's authenticity, and how white lies can or cannot be part of authenticity. I have a teenage daughter and her father (my ex) is VERY difficult. Oy. How can I stay true to myself without getting sucked into their energy - into anyone's energy? That is my dilemma this morning.

I'm also thinking about words in general and how, in this election year, it's become evident how words have been corrupted - often intentionally over the years, decades - and the original meanings have been lost. Think about it: do you really know what the words liberal and conservative mean? Progressive? The powers that be (lower case on purpose) have used words and phrases to denigrate anyone threatening that power. And it's worked.

As I peruse the news headlines two things come to mind this morning: how most of us cannot conceive of the loss of 100,000 lives at one time...even 10,000 (does anyone really know the final death toll from Hurricane Katrina?); and how celebrity marriages always trump authentic news events. Unfrigginbelievable. A cyclone wipes out potentially 100,000 people and I see more stories about Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon. Distraction? Does the media feed us nonsense because that's what we really want, or do they feed us nonsense because that's what the powers that be have instructed in order to distract the masses?

We really need a revolution. An authentic, grassroots revolution to take our integrity as individuals and a nation back. Well, now, that is certainly worthy of a tome of its own. :)

I didn't say I'd have answers to anything...I'm simply throwing thoughts out there to come back to and elaborate upon later, to trigger other thoughts and, when you find me, to perhaps trigger discussion.