When war breaks you~Cindy Sheehan and Mark Twain

I haven't felt like posting much on my blog. Sometimes the events of the day of which I have no control over wear at my being. It's hard to take day after day, week after week, month after month and year after year. I read, I speak to others about the events but sometimes you have to decide where your going to put your energy in the 24 hours given to you each day. There are only very few days of breath in a life time.

How we choose to spend our time determines what kind of life we will have. My days are long gone standing in the streets holding up a sign in protest of the war . It doesn't help to end the killing. All you get are people either shooting you a bird with their middle finger or honks for peace from cars driving by. Your either on one side of the divide or the other. If your for killing people and this invasion your not going to change your mind at this point. I'd much rather be giving my time to my children, to my family, to my business because the power elite doesn't care if your in their free speech zone. Their going to keep killing people so they can make more money.

I was kinda shocked when I found out Cindy Sheehan was going home. Just the day before I had emailed her to tell her I was thinking of her and Casey. I told her a gift from Casey to her was for her to be good to herself. I was very happy for her when she decided to go home because I've been telling her for a long time that this is her life and she needs to spend her time with what brings her the most joy. Life is precious. We must use the gift the best we can. For someone who loves her children so much to do what Cindy did for Casey, I knew for her to have the most joy in her life was to spend time with her children. Almost 3 years Cindy gave her time - her life to us. I am so thankful for what she did for our country and my children's future. She didn't have to give 3 years of her life to us but she did. She has learned like I did a while ago that standing in the streets doesn't get you anywhere in todays society. They just don't care. This country isn't about "we the people" any longer. We have no control what they do to us ~ no choice what is being done ~ we only can control our on actions and reactions.

So, I've been giving my time to myself. Trying to give my energy to positive things and not to the negative. What you feed grows. I don't want to give in to the death and destruction anymore. I choose to celebrate life by spending my short time given to me by sharing love and life. Honoring those who's death I had no control over but never wanted to happen. This is why I say enjoy your moments ~ it's all we have are our moments.

From a great article I read this morning. I never read Mark Twain but I think I'm going to have to after reading what Ramzy Baroud wrote:

When I resorted to Mark Twain’s writings I attempted to escape, at least temporarily from my often distressing readings on war, politics and terror. But his “The Mysterious Stranger,” although published 1916, still left me with an eerie feel. The imaginative story calls into question beliefs that we hold as a “matter of course” -- a favorite phrase of his. It summons the awful tendencies of “our race”: our irrational drive for violence, be it burning ‘witches’ at the stake or engaging in wars that only serve the “little monarchs and the nobilities.”

As the Iraq war rages on, Twain's words ring truer by the day. "The loud little handful will shout for war ... Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will out shout them and presently the anti-war audiences will thin and lose popularity. Before long you will see the most curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men. And now the whole nation will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open.

"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after the process of grotesque self-deception."

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Thank you Ramzy for writing this and sharing with all of us. Our lessons will keep repeating themselves until we learn what is being taught to us.

HAPPY FATHERS DAY - enjoy your moments with your children. Moments so many fathers no longer have with their children.


May PEACE be inside ALL of us,
Cindy