Earlier today I was walking by a nearby school. There was a little girl, maybe about 7 years old. She was severely handicapped. She was being lowered in her wheelchair from the bus that just picked her up for school.
The little girl was met by two of her teachers. She was grinning from ear-to-ear with the most radiant smile that really touched me. In her hand was a paper that had a copy of two pictures from Halloween. The grin was from her joy of her pictures and her pride at being able to share them with her teacher.
That one moment touched me, nearly to tears, in fact, I was choking back the tears. I wanted to go over to the little girl and let her share her picture with me too but honestly I don’t know what the scenario was and I certainly didn’t want to scare her. (although something said to me that she would have been just as proud showing off her Halloween picture to me.
So instead of approaching the little girl, I decided to share my moment here. See this is the reason of why we are all here. And that little girl showed me that with her radiant smile. We are all here to love, to be joyful. and to share that joy with others.
Sometimes it is funny to me that we, the adults, are not always the ones teaching our children; but often, it is them... teaching us. They constantly remind us to love, to laugh, to smile, and to let go and simply enjoy the moment.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
Transparency... is the New Black!
We are a day away from the mid-term elections and candidates are scrambling to get their voices heard. I saw a gentleman who was running for my local school board earlier when I was dropping off the chitlins. He was kissing babies and shaking hands (oblivious to the fact that he was majorly messing with our school’s very strict morning keep-your-ass-movin’ drop off line.
Writing campaign statements is a good way to let people know what the candidates stand for. No matter what party is talking, nor the matter they are talking about, have you noticed that they are all basically writing the same speeches.
Hope and change were the buzzwords from the last presidential election, words that bought President Obama a First Class ticket into the Oval Office no less, but it seems this election we are going in a new direction altogether. We are scrapping HOPE for TEA and CHANGE is still one of the major buzzwords because no one is happy and we are changing parties literally like we are taking out the garbage. We have done a complete flip-flop in the past two years and I don’t think people know which direction to turn in next. What they do know is that they want CHANGE!
We don’t even care about HOPE anymore. Hope is just something you do to try and make your circumstances look a little better. We want our circumstances to be different. VERY different and the only way to conquer that goal is CHANGE.
We are tired of the same ‘ol, same ‘ol... so instead of saying, “I want to focus on jobs, immigration, housing and foreclosures, your child’s education, etc…” please say, “this is HOW I am going to get you a job, and this PLAN is going to help you keep your home.”
Instead we get, “Yea, I know that children are our future and their education is important BUT, we can’t afford it. We can’t afford streets and jobs," but we can pay for the politicians to meet me at my child’s bus stop, begging for my vote… all candidates lining their speeches with the new buzz word. Transparency.
Transparency is the new black... or pink. Whatever the recent flavor-of-the-month is. Does the meaning of transparency will hold any merit? Perhaps holding its own weight in gold? Or green in Robert Rizzo, City of Bell’s now-in-jail City Manager's case. Green and gold are the colors of his word, tran$parency. Whatever it takes to get elected we will say it. We are transparent… only you really can’t see through us. You know that right?
What happens once they get into office? Well, it’s really the most amazing thing to watch as they begin to change colors, like a chameleon; they seem to camouflage in with the many colors of corporate logos and our most elite special interests and political action committees.
Our newbies get to carry around their new BackPAC’s … the wishes and desires for the wealthy and elite. Just look at our own Governor, Arnie. After all, he loves children and they sure do love Arnold, right? At least they did in Kindergarten Cop. You ever wonder why it’s so easy for Actors to become elected officials? They sure know how to put on a good show.
Here is a fun fact. Speechwriters and PR people watch how people reacted to certain buzzwords and then when they needed to get public interests back, they thrown in the buzzwords- safety, security, taxes. During the Ronald Reagan era, whenever he was going to get a bad approval on something, he just threw out those magic words.
President Reagan is meeting with so-and-so today to discuss our nation’s safety against terrorist’s strikes that have been feared …
So does that mean that after the election everything is going to change? Naaa, prolly not. Everything in the US is going to flip-flop all again. Dunno if we can withstand all the transparency coming our way from politics.
I think the smartest thing to do is something similar to the TEA parties (minus PALIN and all her crackpot gun-toting extremists) and literally take the keys back from the idiot’s carving out our nation’s future in an ice sculpture of the Statue of Liberty made of primarily of melted ice.
Oh and transparency. What’s the worst that can happen? We will begin to see their true colors?
The smart thing to do is to fire everyone and let’s elect George Clooney. He can rule all the way from Italy and it's the same difference. Only he is way better to look at!
Writing campaign statements is a good way to let people know what the candidates stand for. No matter what party is talking, nor the matter they are talking about, have you noticed that they are all basically writing the same speeches.
Hope and change were the buzzwords from the last presidential election, words that bought President Obama a First Class ticket into the Oval Office no less, but it seems this election we are going in a new direction altogether. We are scrapping HOPE for TEA and CHANGE is still one of the major buzzwords because no one is happy and we are changing parties literally like we are taking out the garbage. We have done a complete flip-flop in the past two years and I don’t think people know which direction to turn in next. What they do know is that they want CHANGE!
We don’t even care about HOPE anymore. Hope is just something you do to try and make your circumstances look a little better. We want our circumstances to be different. VERY different and the only way to conquer that goal is CHANGE.
We are tired of the same ‘ol, same ‘ol... so instead of saying, “I want to focus on jobs, immigration, housing and foreclosures, your child’s education, etc…” please say, “this is HOW I am going to get you a job, and this PLAN is going to help you keep your home.”
Instead we get, “Yea, I know that children are our future and their education is important BUT, we can’t afford it. We can’t afford streets and jobs," but we can pay for the politicians to meet me at my child’s bus stop, begging for my vote… all candidates lining their speeches with the new buzz word. Transparency.
Transparency is the new black... or pink. Whatever the recent flavor-of-the-month is. Does the meaning of transparency will hold any merit? Perhaps holding its own weight in gold? Or green in Robert Rizzo, City of Bell’s now-in-jail City Manager's case. Green and gold are the colors of his word, tran$parency. Whatever it takes to get elected we will say it. We are transparent… only you really can’t see through us. You know that right?
What happens once they get into office? Well, it’s really the most amazing thing to watch as they begin to change colors, like a chameleon; they seem to camouflage in with the many colors of corporate logos and our most elite special interests and political action committees.
Our newbies get to carry around their new BackPAC’s … the wishes and desires for the wealthy and elite. Just look at our own Governor, Arnie. After all, he loves children and they sure do love Arnold, right? At least they did in Kindergarten Cop. You ever wonder why it’s so easy for Actors to become elected officials? They sure know how to put on a good show.
Here is a fun fact. Speechwriters and PR people watch how people reacted to certain buzzwords and then when they needed to get public interests back, they thrown in the buzzwords- safety, security, taxes. During the Ronald Reagan era, whenever he was going to get a bad approval on something, he just threw out those magic words.
President Reagan is meeting with so-and-so today to discuss our nation’s safety against terrorist’s strikes that have been feared …
So does that mean that after the election everything is going to change? Naaa, prolly not. Everything in the US is going to flip-flop all again. Dunno if we can withstand all the transparency coming our way from politics.
I think the smartest thing to do is something similar to the TEA parties (minus PALIN and all her crackpot gun-toting extremists) and literally take the keys back from the idiot’s carving out our nation’s future in an ice sculpture of the Statue of Liberty made of primarily of melted ice.
Oh and transparency. What’s the worst that can happen? We will begin to see their true colors?
HAHAHAHA! I should be a comedian!
The smart thing to do is to fire everyone and let’s elect George Clooney. He can rule all the way from Italy and it's the same difference. Only he is way better to look at! Good luck to everyone trying to muddy through all of the varying shades of transparency as you head to the polls tomorrow. I'll be there. I will be the one holding the sign, "Clooney 4 Pres."
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