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- I was born in Venezuela but I feel a citizen of the World. Since the first time that I experienced my deepest Self, since that first awakening of Pure Conscience that freed me from cultural and religious conditionings, I felt Unity and Love as the reason for my existence. Today I know that the main Purpose of my Life is to contribute to the Evolution of Consciousness. I know we are One so I know that every thought, word or deed will have repercusions in the Whole. Being an Observer, or Silent Witness, conscious of my Real Self, is my way of life. I allow myself to flow with life surrendering to the Universe.
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It seems the more they try to rethink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.
Well, I know I sound maudlin, but there is truth in this.
Same goes for housing...
I guess I'm too close to these issues...I need to learn how to let go in these matters.I get about $900US or so in Social Security. Public Housing takes about half of that...After food and other necessities, I don't have much left for copays and with an untreated mental case for a wife demanding of me to spend money this way and that, I find I have little choice in where my money goes.
I am sure you are in far worse trouble or could be down there. Let me know if I can help you and your family in any way.
I hope my words don't get you in trouble. My words are my words and no outhers are responsible for them...
As to here, well things are going slow and not exactly in the direction we hoped and dreamed. We have two parties (for the most part) here. The Republicans and the Democrats...Many of the politicians, thinking this will keep them in power are straddeling the line between the two. The Republicans are the party of the Right (or Reicht, as some of us think) they are the Fundamentalists and Fiscal Conservatives who think Dickens wrote economic treatists and not social satire. They want things back to the way they were in Dicken's day! The Democrats are more "liberal" but not really. The main difference is the Democrats support Abortion, Assisted Suicide and other forms of Euthenasia as well as Eugenics. There are "fringe" parties and I tend to favor the Greens, but am still a Democrat mostly. However, I follow Catholic social teaching and don't support abortion, euthenasia and eugenics. Otherwise things are ok. Do you get news of us down there?
Been a while since I've heard from you. How are things going down there?
Rene Wadlow
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed in Resolution A/61/L22, the year 2009 as the International Year of Reconciliation “recognizing that reconciliation processes are particularly necessary and urgent in countries and regions of the world which have suffered or are suffering situations of conflict that have affected and divided societies in their various internal, national, and international facets.” The Resolution was introduced by Nicaragua’s representative who stated that “reconciliation between those estranged by conflicts was the only way to confront today’s challenges and heal wherever fraternity and justice were absent from human relations.”
Yet we need to ask how can genuine reconciliation take place between people and groups with bitterly held beliefs and a violent history? How can the needs for national healing be reconciled with the demands for justice by the victims of terrible violence?
The General Assembly resolution gives a partial answer by stressing that “dialogue among opponents from positions of respect and tolerance is an essential element of peace and reconciliation.”
For there to be a respectful dialogue among opponents, certain barriers that prevent negotiations must be dismantled as a sign of a willingness to enter into a process of negotiations. Some barriers are physical, some psychological, others ideological. These barriers must be overcome if we are to progress on the long road to reconciliation. Let us, with the New Year, start now both as individuals and as members of movements in the spirit of the historian Howard Zinn’s “People are Practical”
They want change but feel powerless, alone,
do not want to be the blade of grass that
sticks up above the others and is cut down.
They wait for a sign from someone else
who will make the first move, or the second.
And at certain times in history
there are certain intrepid people who take the risk
that if they make that first move others will follow
quickly enough to prevent their being cut down.
And if we understand this, we
might make that first move.
…And if we do act, in however small a way,
we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future.
The future is an infinite succession of presents,
and to live now as we think human beings should live,
in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself
a marvellous victory.
Rene Wadlow, Representative to the UN, Geneva, Association of World Citizens
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