this morning i meditated on my inner child. no, not the child inside me that i used to be, but the child that i hope to have one day soon, who for the time being, still is me.

here's what she helped me realize:

i wish we could all stop speaking in unrealistic, absurd hypotheticals and ego-driven assertions and really get to who is best prepared to protect AND PROGRESS our nation's fallen standing in the world.

instead of Straw Man Gas Tax Holidays, i wish that fewer of us would take a holiday from common sense when such common sense contradicts our egos' needs.

i wish we could really reallly discuss more things like the falling levels of education, the rising high-school dropout rate among our youth and compare that to the disproportionate numbers of our citizens in our nation's jails. we might see a solution that would end the trend of  our growing inability to compete with poor but proud kids from places like india.

we would also see how much attention Hillary's pantsuits and American Idol truly warrant.

i wish that Terry McAuliffe would start some trendy new diet and exercise program or become a college basketball coach, or at least have Rain Man teach him to do proper mathematical -- not political -- calculations.

i wish we didn't care so much about lapel pins and that we cared more about the pinned-in, those receiving ANTIsocial INsecurity while the Europeans and the Japanese receive more in exchange for their tax dollars than we do, pension scandals notwithstanding.

i wish someone could explain to hillary that we really really do appreciate her desire to make health care universal, but that such ideas existed before 1992, and such ideas can come into fruition without her. she has at some point in this cycle offended, insulted, or just plain ignored (hello my asian brothers and sisters!) every single subgroup in our country, all under the notion that she's doing this to take care of us. please rescue her from the megalomaniacal theory that she must rescue all of us. herself. please talk her in from the cold.

just don't bring her to my house.

i wish we could figure out a way to talk to cuba that didn't just keep the interests of the privileged exiles front and foremost, but that somehow led us on an enlightened discourse to learn how they accomplish such good health care, such inexpensive medication, and such excellent doctors even without the assistance of the united states.

i wish i could get the email addresses of some of the really cool jews i see posting comments in the cybersphere about progressive ways for Israel to dialogue with its adversaries in the middle east. an adversary is just someone who opposes you, like in a tennis match or a dungeons and dragons tournament...an enemy is something different....and i wish my Jewish/Palestinian/Muslim brothers and sisters could tell me exactly how i could help them in the struggle to live peacefully. i really do.

that said, i wish we in the U.S. could figure out how to have enough adversaries to keep us strong, defined, and walking in the Light without so many enemies constantly out to utterly destroy us -- and i wish we could be a better adversary to those with whom we are fundamentally at odds.

i wish we could find a way to disagree and still make each other stronger. but maybe that's just me.

i wish that i could stop seeing comment posts from people who say "i'm a 36 year old white woman and a working mother of two, and OMG sexism is SO MUCH worse than racism".

i am a black woman. so will my daughter(s) be, whether i wind up with the Hot Swiss Guy or with the Righteous Black Brother who's my cousin's work colleague. there are many places i could go with this, but the bottom line is that racism and sexism both suck noodles. I WISH these women who are so quick to compare and contrast could at acknowledge that there is an existential distinction between the female progeny of a people who once were slaves and the female progeny of those who enslaved them.

i say this not as a crutch or to beg anyone to understand or validate what i feel and what i know about my experience. it does not negate the love and camaraderie i sincerely feel with many of my sisters from other ethnic backgrounds, but the blanket comparisons PLUS Geraldine Ferraro PLUS Hillary Clinton's assertion that there has been no racism in this campaign -- YEESH!

if i don't laugh i'll cry, and I WISH somebody White besides my Dutch girlfriends and my favorite auntie understood THAT.

i wish that more people would realize that the Democratic Party has received only about 40% of the so-called Reagan Democrats (working-class white men) since the civil rights era (hmmm), including bill clinton, who won the election twice, and black people voted for him in the largest proportions of any other ethnic demographic. twice.

therefore, i wish the MSM would please pump their brakes on the argument that the white men who voted against obama for hillary this time around in a primary are racist enough to do so, but still not so sexist (in those pockets of Kentucky ) that they'll let the GIRL retain their vote against a white male war hero in a general election.

i wish folks would please remember that as much as democrats and democratic-leaning independents have a distaste for her, the republicans will treat mccain like BraveHeart going to the battlefield come november if Hillary Clinton is the nominee. and just acknowledge it, mourn it, and then come together ENOUGH to all punch obama in the ballot (pun intended) this november.

i wish that more people would come forward to really ask hillary and bill to explain why they did not seem to have any problem with the rules when bill won twice, and when hillary looked inevitable.

finally, i wish that people could just read this post and breathe for a minute, without complaining or asserting their tortured, torturous and TORTUOUS points of view in the comments section...take a break from the drama -- stretch, relax and release, 'cause i'mma do me and y'all should do you.

as best as we all can, Do.

luv&hugz,
mE.