The Furious Spinner

It is a gorgeous blue day out today, and I am about to go roll around in it. I plan to smear my face with sunlight, wrap the blue sky around my shoulders, and clothe the rest of me with naked joy.

Want to come with?

You all know what's going on in the world. The Emperor has gone over the edge. Don't be fooled. This screaming at Iran is not diplomacy. This administration doesn't know the meaning of the word. Do what you can. Make your reps understand how you feel. And prepare.

You've no doubt heard about what they plan to do in Nevada this June. They're calling this bomb "divine strake." They're setting off 635 tons of explosive, and they seem proud of the fact that a mushroom cloud will once again bloom over Nevada. They also say this won't harm people or the environment. How could setting off 635 TONS of explosives not have a detrimental effect on the environment? Hello! That's like saying bug sprays aren't harmful. That's just stupid. They're designed to be harmful, and SO IS A 630 TON BOMB. I don't know why they're setting off this bomb, but it's not good. (Oh, I know why they SAY they're setting off this bomb, but there is no way they could drop a 635 ton bomb because no plane could carry it anywhere.)

Did you know the New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for the Bush wiretapping story? When I told Mario this, he said, "They won a Pulitzer for a story they sat on for a year?"

And finally, our Secretary of the Interior Gail Norton, should get a "shame on you" award for declaring we are no longer losing our wetlands because don't you know all those golf courses have water hazards and they make up the difference. (I won't even get into the amount of harmful chemicals golf course use and how polluted and pitiful those water hazards are.) The people in this administration are so full of shit I wouldn't be surprised if scientists discover they're the cause of global warming. (I don't think I told you that they've discovered that cows are the major cause of air pollution in the gorge where I live. And guess what? These huge cow factories are EXEMPT from any pollution controls.)

Well, the sunshine still beckons despite all this, and I'll leave you with a scene from Mercy, Unbound which seems appropriate today. Mercy is a fifteen year old girl who is having trouble coping in a world that seems out of control. She is the "I" of the piece.

“Terrible things happen, sugar,” Mom says. “And you can’t fix most of them. Maybe not any of them. But this is what I believe: if you don’t at least try to live in joy, to dance, to love ecstatically, then the bastards win.”

“I don’t have to save the world?”

“Do you know how you would save the world?”

I shake my head. “When I was a girl, I believed I was put on this Earth to love. That was it. Then I got older and realized that was kind of foolish.”

“A fool is just a person at the beginning of a journey,” Mom says.

Enjoy your day. Don't let the bastards win.

May you dance in beauty! 3 comments

3 Comments:

What a glorious day it will be, and I loved this blog entry, may I come along with you? I have just ordered "Mercy" and am looking forward to its arrival (soon). Spring blessings to you!

By  kerrdelune, at 4:47 AM  

Thanks so much! Yes, yes, come along! Looks like your part of the world is starting to bloom. Ain't it grand?

By  Kim Antieau, at 8:19 AM  

Hi Kim...I only recently found your blog and I love it. I love your outlook...I agree with everything! lol! Thanks for the reminder to live joyously...not to let the bastards get us down. :-) Blessed be! :-)

By  Wildgoddess, at 5:22 PM  

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