Random Thoughts (As if mine aren't ever random to begin with)
If none of the sources of our energy are working, why keep working?
What was so wrong with claiming some land and working it instead of claiming to work and grabbing land and calling that landing some work?
If someone can no longer afford a room in a boarding house, how can they afford a psych ward if they have no insurance?
Is a psych ward safer than prison? Each provides 3 hots and a cot, and a roof over one's head, but who ends up paying for it, and who really gains from it if a lesson is not learned?
If one is born of two Republicans and becomes a Liberal, is one a throwback, or a throwforward?
If a woman who's been seeking out "Daddy" all her life suddenly starts falling for guys 10 years younger than herself, does this mean she's grown up, or grown old?
Lastly, how many more cabinet members does Barack have to appoint before we get bored about it?
Oh, wait, that wasn't last: Anyone who can get me the Tim Curry version of Joni Mitchell's "Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire" wins a kiss when they meet me in DC next month.
I think I'm downloading it
you'll know in the morning
;)
December 3, 2008 10:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Have I told you lately that I love chicken?
December 3, 2008 10:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Random means your mind is searching ... not stuck in one place or on one thing. Always good!
December 4, 2008 12:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ah...but you caught me early. Now they are stuck....but getting unstuck as we sleep.
December 4, 2008 1:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
LisB, you do not write poetry ... you breathe it and you will be the first I shall designate to "Follow", not in a creepy way, but in a way that seeks the Light that shows through you.
December 4, 2008 3:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think you have to go further back up (down?) your political family tree to answer the throwback/forward question. And then you might have to confront the frightening possibility that political genes skip a generation. Think of the children...
December 4, 2008 5:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
The pscyh wards hardly exist anymore! That is another thing we've let go of as a society. Most of these folks end up homeless or in prison. Don't get me started!
December 4, 2008 9:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
"What was so wrong with claiming some land and working it instead of claiming to work and grabbing land and calling that landing some work?"
Damn - kudos to you, Lis - I wish I would/could have written that! I genuflect in your direction.
Brings to mind something I wrote long ago under the influence of the L-S-D. Not as mobius-strip-like as your line, but here's a piece of it:
How could he kill (?)
With the eyes of the beech trees beseeching him,
Teaching him - nature has eyes!
How could he kill (?)
When his whole world reflects in a fly's eye,
That shiny fly perched on his thigh.
December 4, 2008 5:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Born of two Republicans, I consider myself a throwforward, while ma and pa consider me a throwinabasementandmaybethefamilywontnoticethefreak.
December 4, 2008 5:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
O god yes!
December 4, 2008 6:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
How many more cabinet members does Obama have to appoint before we get one that gives a damn about psych wards, prisons or poverty?
December 4, 2008 6:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Speaking of prisons, they are definitely a Republican priority right up there with police and the military. Notice a theme? And isn't it strange that a state governor is protecting military programs at the expense of education and health care or even roads? I mean how much military does Minnesota need? Is Governor Pawlenty expecting a Canadian invasion?
"Gov. Tim Pawlenty ordered most state agencies to show him how they could shave 10% of spending — not including prisons, state troopers, crime labs or military programs."
December 4, 2008 7:35 PM | Reply | Permalink