A quote from Ovid -

“Que non viribus istis Munera conveiunt.”

These lines form part of the tale of Metamorphoses, of Phobe’s speech to Phaeton after the latter had requested permission to drive the sun chariot for a day.

Just yesterday I remembered what I had heard on TV. The Voice of Opposition to our *new* President’s requirement of capping executive salaries. When I heard complaints about being able to attract and hire QUOTE “the brightest, the best and most talented”.

“Hey, wait a minute,” I mumbled to my husband, “Did you hear that? When did the definition of success become divorced from results? If this is the result of the decision making of the ‘best, the brightest and most talented’ that we’ve got, then we’re in deeper *shit* then I thought.”

It was incredulous to me. Of course I’ve known about “golden parachutes” for a long time. They became increasingly popular after corporations began taking over and gobbling up other companies and corporations.

It was insurance for executives if the company or the corporation was not as successful as its competition. “Fire sale” insurance. Entrance to this level of ‘executives’ was usually like being invited into a men’s club, of sorts.

In other words, “golden parachutes” rewarded and personally insured, decision making that did not result in profitable consequences.

Educated fools are a dime a dozen. George W. Bush graduated from Yale and Harvard Business School. While his self expression in total contradiction with any intelligence belongs on “Ripley’s Believe It or Not?” show.

What’s the use in knowing a lot of facts if we don’t have any sense when it comes to putting them together?

Sense = cents.

No sense = no cents.

How obvious could it get?

Using one of the same type of tools that dug this hole we are in…, looking to one of us that’s been beguiled and indoctrinated into believing in the screwed up economics started back in the late 70′s…, the one divorced from a reality of accountability and responsibility for  results, ISN’T the way to go.  Trusting in those of us who have betrayed the public Trust ISN’T the way to go.

Calling all sheep!

Now’s the time to take a ewe turn…

According to basic accounting principals, if my professional services require I attend continuing education and business conferences, then those expenses are written off my gross income, under “business expenses”  on my schedule C, as per IRS rules.

Even though said expenses may have been covered by “donations”…(in other words, paid for by others),  it does not negate the fact that these expenses are considered under business ethics and law, as,

“the costs of doing business”.

If I were them, as I guess I AM, if I desired to stay IN business,  I would suggest WE start cutting *this* business’ costs.

Donations can just go to paying off their debt to US.  For those that made them had a vested interest in the “business” staying IN business and courting these “agents” favor, too.

And instead of relying on the *old* energy and *power* of ~money~,  start integrating business models based upon business principals and ethics related to the concepts of Responsibility and Accountability for the use of Life’s resources.

My daughter is my daughter.  She is also her father’s daughter.  So she comes by her tendencies to speak her mind, honestly.  A lot of times we clash, when I do not agree.

We had such an instance today, when it came to California’s “Proposition 8″, which made same sex “marriages”, illegal.  Angela doesn’t like the idea of negating freedoms AT ALL.  She cites bias and prejudice towards alternative lifestyles, as the basis for her perspective of what is going on. And marched off in a huff because I didn’t agree with her~victimization scenario~.

Angela is only 14.  And has just reached the age where I can share with her what I understand.  She is asking, expressing interest.  And will become a far better messenger and communicator then I ever could be, when she comes into her own Power.  Far more naturally attractive to Mass Humanity then I, because Humanity will have changed by then.  So I guess I could say I do what I do for my daughter.  To pave the way for the realization of her Passions.

I recognize the validity of same sex marriage.  I simply don’t recognize the state’s right to deny the Sovereignty of our Hearts.  We WILL Love and Live with whom we WILL.  We do NOT need a “license” or any other “authority” to sanction Loving someone.  To be “married” or “joined together” in our Hearts and Souls.

Licenses and blood tests came about related to the health of possible children.  And does NOT relate to “same sex marriage”.

In observation of the fact that opponents to same sex marriages adamantly express being LACKING in genuine and essential qualities of character, namely LACKING in Tolerance, LACKING in Acceptance, LACKING in being Understanding and filled with FEAR, I question this group’s “parenting skills” to begin with.  So as concerns possible children of said marriage, our choice of the way we express personal intimacy, sexually, has very little to do with parenting.

As for what is going on, as I told my daughter, this is about *benefits*.  It’s about who is going to get their *benefits* paid for, by others.  And what I told my daughter was…

We have the Liberty to Love and Live with whom we will.  Sovereignty belongs to the People.  This whole drama is being created  by giving false power to an outside ‘authority’.  That, is Self betrayal.   And choosing Self betrayal, is what both sides of the issue have in common.

Proponents of same sex marriage are seeking the VALIDATION of the State, having surrendered the Authority of their own Hearts, just like the opponents to same sex marriage, have surrendered the Authority of their own Hearts, over to their preachers and priests.

Surrendering the Sovereignty of our own Hearts was our *old* way of doing things.  While CLAIMING it, is our *new*.

On election day I sat across the table from one of my in-laws.  A very Precious Lady.  Sincere and genuine.  While her children filled out their ballots, voting for those I already knew were going to lose.  She told me a story of one of her friends.  Her friend had been all confused about “voting” and “elections”.   Anything having to do with “civics” being totally beyond her understanding.

So when she spoke of Freedom of Religion I said, “Yes, we all have the Liberty to choose our Beliefs.  But the definition of Liberty is the freedom of choice while being responsible and accountable for the costs and the consequences.  License is not Liberty.  License is when we insist on freedom of choice and deny the costs and the consequences of those choices.  And I am speaking about being responsible and accountable for the consequences of our beliefs, to our mental and emotional health and sense of well being.  Believing in the worship of fear and ignorance carries with it costs and consequences.

This week has been an active one for me.  From ‘reports’ I’ve had coming in, I’ not the ~only~ one experiencing such activity.  Most of what I hear about, comes to me in the form of people calling me.  Sometimes not really knowing why they called, just feeling like calling.  Like my son did from college yesterday.  I had time to catch up with him late last night.

What’s going on concerns the subject of “power”.  And as the bottom falls out of our understanding of what it is and how to use it, the ground is also swelling under a totally *new* understanding of what it is and how to use it.  We’re swtiching from one energy flow to another on a very basic level.  Likened to swtiching from AC to DC currents.  Some of us call this level “quantum”.

Even my own energy field has been fluxuating.  Electronics and electrical appliances and equipment acting ~scewry~.  Blowing light bulbs all over the place.  I spent yesterday replacing a pressure swtich to our pump system…so we would have running water again.

Hear that?  I did it.

I was able to perform the task, with the arm and hand dexterity required.  My left arm and my left hand.    The ones that used to be numb and paralyzed, then operated only under severe pain.   And I did it without feeling any pain or discomfort at all.

that’s not all that has changed…

I am taking my walks now, without tears streaming down my face from the pain in my legs.  It simply happened all of a sudden, ~this~ week.  I can walk all the way to my destination of the bend in the river and back without stopping to rest until the pain subsides.  There and back…NO pain.

And the reason why my son and other people have called me, is because they *know*, I *know* what is happening and how to understand it.

I am going to speak for all the people in our world that have never ‘qualified’ for credit.  The ones of us that did not meet the “conditions”.

Since the markets have been fueled by credit demand, they have responded to only fulfilling the desires of those who have it and use it, while a vast percentage of our populations’ basic needs have been ignored.  Like a basic need for water.

When our pipes started flowing with water that tasted ‘bad’, how did we respond?

We responded by creating an industry that sold bottled water fit to drink.  Which in turn has created further challenges in disposing of the empty plastic bottles, as well as, all the costs of the materials for the plastic itself, and the energy expended in the production of said plastic bottles.

Which also left a lot of people stuck with the awful tasting water coming out of municipal pipes.

BECAUSE this was the way we RESPONDED to our need for water, ~now~ more and more of us are going to be stuck drinking the awful tasting water coming out of our pipes, UNTIL SUCH TIME as the problem is addressed that satifies the need of the many.  It’s simply a matter of HOW many it is going to take until such time as we decided to RESPOND differently to the problem.

HINT.  HINT.

Take PROFIT out of the picture when it comes to our water supply.

How about that scare a few months ago involving our pet food?    Ever take a look at how MANY brand names were effected?   ALL coming from the same plant?

Did it even dawn on us to question WHY we needed ALL those brands of essentially a lot of the same thing?

Last but not least I ask…

Wouldn’t it cost a lot less and get us a lot further, if we based our markets on the SPIRIT of Cooperation, rather then Competition?

After we walk the mile in another’s moccasins, we end up *knowing* the value of a good pair of walking shoes…ones with support.

Every day it seems I hear some moron on TV talking about how our nations’ security depends on oil. I understand the relics in the oil industries’ security is tied to oil but not this country’s. To even sell that idea to the American public is a betrayal of the public Trust.

Trust, now that’s a word, isn’t it? What’s happening to all that Trust now? The Trust we misplaced in others?

I think we could use a reminder of exactly Who we ARE.

We’re A M E R I C A N S!!!!!!!!!!!!

What follows is a speech given on July 4, 1946…

“I propose today to discuss certain elements of the American character, which have made this nation great. It is well for us to recall them today, for this is a day of recollection and a day of hope.

A nation’s character, like that of an individual, is elusive. It is produced partly by things we have done and partly by what has been done to us. It is the result of physical factors, intellectual factors, and spiritual factors. It is well for us to consider our American character, for in peace, as in war, we will survive or fail according to its measure.

Our government was founded on the essential spiritual idea of integrity of the individual. It was this spiritual sense which inspired the authors of the Declaration of Independence:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.”

Inspired by a deeply spiritual sense, this country, which has ever been devoted to the dignity of man, which has ever fostered the growth of the human spirit, has always met and hurled back the challenge of those deathly philosophies of hate and despair. We have defeated them in the past; we will always defeat them.

Another element in the American character that I would bring to your attention this morning is the idealism of our people. This idealism, this fixed regard for principle, has been an element of the American character from the birth of this nation to the present day.

In recent years, the existence of this element in the American character has been challenged by those who seek to give an economic interpretation to American history. They seek to destroy our faith in our past so that they may guide our future. These cynics are wrong.

In Revolutionary times, the cry “No taxation without representation” was not an economic complaint. Rather, it was directly traceable to the eminently fair and just principle that no sovereign power has the right to govern without the consent of the governed. Anything short of that was tyranny. It was against this tyranny that the colonists “fired the shot heard ’round the world.”

Woodrow Wilson’s idealism was the traditional idealism of America. To such a degree was this true that he was able to say, “Some people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.”

The idealism with which we had entered the battle made the subsequent disillusionment all the more bitter and revealed a dangerous facet to this element of the American character, for this bitterness, a direct result of our inflated hopes, brought a radical change in our foreign policy

We failed to make the adjustment between what we had hoped to win and what we actually could win. Our idealism was too strong. We would not compromise. It is now in the postwar world that this idealism–this devotion to principle–this belief in the natural law– will meet its greatest trial. But, if we remain faithful to the American tradition, our idealism will be a steadfast thing, a constant flame, a torch held aloft for the guidance of other nations.

It will take great faith.

Our idealism, the second element of the American character, is being severely tested. Now, only time will tell whether this element of the American character will be true to its historic tradition.

The third element of the American character that I would bring to your attention this morning is the great patriotic instinct of our people. This American patriotism has always had as its core a strange and almost mystical love of the land.

Early in our history we acquired, as James Truslow Adams has pointed out, “a sense of unlimited energy face to face with unlimited resources.”

The American character has been not only spiritual, idealistic, and patriotic, but because of these it has been essentially individual. The right of the individual against the State has ever been one of our most cherished political principles.

The American Constitution has set down for all men to see the essentially Spiritual and American principle that there are certain rights held by every man which no government and no majority, however powerful, can deny.

Conceived in Grecian thought, strengthened by ethics, and stamped indelibly into American political philosophy, the right of the individual against the State is the keystone of our Constitution. Each man is free.

He is free in thought.

He is free in expression.

He is free in worship.

To us, who have been reared in the American tradition, these rights have become part of our very being. They have become so much a part of our being that most of us are prone to feel that they are rights universally recognized and universally exercised. But the sad fact is that this is not true. They were dearly won for us only a few short centuries ago and they were dearly preserved for us in the days just past. And there are large sections of the world today where these rights are denied as a matter of philosophy and as a matter of government.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. It was the price yesterday. It is the price today, and it will ever be the price.

The characteristics of the American people have ever been a deep sense of Spirit, a deep sense of idealism, a deep sense of patriotism, and a deep sense of individualism.

Let us not blink the fact that the days which lie ahead of us are bitter ones.

May God grant that, at some distant date, on this day, and on this platform, the orator may be able to say that these are still the great qualities of the American character and that they have prevailed.”

John F. Kennedy