The Furious Spinner

Wishing you all the love, creativity, and passion you need, want, desire.

P.S. I've gotten a few letters lately about my essays on Common Dreams and Alternet where the letter writers seem very angry. I'm a pretty angry broad myself, but I've been a bit perplexed. If I express doubt or wonder or confusion or anything positive, the uproar begins; apparently because I'm an American, I should suffer as much as possible. And I'm often accused in these letters of being naive. Mario says he thinks people confuse my idealism with naivete. Although I am ignorant about many things, I don't think I'm particularly naive. This is what I believe, as I'm sure I told you before: there is nothing holy about suffering. Suffering because others are suffering if you don't have to seems ridiculous—almost sacrilegious if I were a different-thinking person. I say we do our work, we try to create and participate in peace and justice rather than in war, and we try to live lives of joy! Because our government may be full of shitheads spewing their crap all over the planet doesn't mean we eschew joy when it is offered and available to us. Joy is always a gift. Cherish it, roll around in it, kiss it wildly.

OK?

So here's a big sloppy joyful one from me to you.

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