In A Holding Cel

DON'T MISS SHIT
U don't have to miss
because U R doing
something that feeds that
which takes away UR power.
birds of a feather flock together (right?),
so, B the bird U want to B
and those who are 2
will B there right
there with you.
maybe,
not
?

I was reminded by John Carlos about, "just showing up" as being the most important thing you can ever do.  If you are there, you are given the opportunity to be a part of the experience.  Even if you are not "there" be where you are, and the opportunity to experience the life you are creating has a chance.  Do everything you can to be where you think you want to be -- where you think you need to be -- and then let it go.  And just experience what is.

I was sitting in a holding cel in the North Las Vegas Detention Center on 13 September 2008.  I missed the 2008 September Strip Peace Walk memorializing the moment on 11 September our whole world reached critical mass for the change that we now see as clear as day.  It was, for me, a very important walk because it brought together all the sides for one common reason, re-member-ing. 

And, from each group we outreached to be a part of the Walk -- from the Support The Troops (the "flag wavers") and Veterans groups to the 9-11 Truth Out to everyone in between -- they were going to each lead a part of the walk from the Statue of Liberty to our Federal Building, showing solidarity that no matter where we are in our beliefs concerning 11 September, we remember together and we will go forward from there -- having come together for that time in a unifying singular purpose.

September 13 was about building a "more perfect union" based on a deep impacting event that hit our nation -- our world.  While I sat in the cel, pacing as I did that day, I tried so hard to understand what was going on -- why I was there -- in that holding cel rather than experiencing that walk.  There was, that day, no real answer or explanation in my head.

But, today, the answer to that changes every day because there is no one reason why anything happens.

Any given experience of the individual is the result of the interaction between the choices of the individual and everyone else on the planet in that moment.  When we experience a homeless person and feel whatever it is we feel, that is the same connection.  Whether you are strangers or intimates, your choices have the same connection to the continuum of life that is experienced by everyone, every day.  The impact of your choices vary, obviously, on those most closely to you with those half-a-world away, but the connection is always the same.

Everything we create and experience creates our world, together.  And, we do what we do, ultimately for one reason:  the survival our species.  Sure, we can go to the ego and say all our personal reasons for doing any one thing, but underneath all that it is about our collective survival -- our children.

Protect our children -- all of them.  Plan for the future -- for all of them.  Be with them -- all of them.  They are never not our children, our future, our only hope, our survival.  Love them without prejudice.

discriminate = hate = violence = death.

love = love.

K.I.S.S., for us blondes!

peace & harmony,
elaine
'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'