Memo From God 1/11/10
You are about to realize all of your dreams. You have come to a crossroads in your life. You are more ready and willing to receive what I have for you. Your heart is blossoming into a beautiful rose whose fragrance is love. All who come to you will find Our love. It's not just My love or your love, it is Our love. I love you, you love me, you love you, and We love love them. “Them” is the whole world. As you focus on loving those around you, you make yourself more receptive to blessings. As you release the fear from your being, your hands are outstretched, waiting to receive. When in fear, your hands are on your eyes because you are afraid to look. Or on you ears because you don't want to hear. Or crossed over your chest because you don't trust others with your heart. Or you sit on your hands (the doing part of yourself) because you fear failure. Freedom from fear frees up your hands to receive. Moreover, your hands are freed up to give to others. A heart full of love, a mind that creates, and hands that are outstretched, this is your grandest self, this is Who We Are.

It's Time For A Whole New Government

I have a dear friend who has been tweeting about the health care bill, and the issue appears to be upsetting him greatly. I tend to believe that the American public in general is upset as well, and rightly so. What if you woke up from cancer surgery and the surgeon told you he had put a bandage over the affected area and that should take care of it? I know I'd be screaming “Why didn't you remove the damned cancer?” We don't need a bandage on our health care problem, we need a whole new system. Unfortunately, we need more than just a new health care system. We need a whole new government. What we have for a government no longer works in our world. I'm talking about the whole republic/democracy enchilada. How much longer can we pretend to sustain our culture with an ideology that comes from the ancient Greeks? Do you honestly think that mankind can't come up with something better than those people who lived almost 2,000 years ago? Come on! We are the generation that has connected the whole world. Surely we can put our heads together and come up with something better. Marxism, communism, and socialism are also obsolete ideologies. There is a very dangerous fallacy entrenched in our society. This fallacy is that only ancient wisdom is trustworthy. People today have the ability to create or discover new revelations about what will work in our time. And it's time that we wake up and decide what it is we want as a community, as a nation, as a world. There is power in unity.

Of course, there are those who tremble at the idea of the American people revolting in the streets and demanding change. Those people are the corporations who have a grip on the economy of this country. They operate under a paradigm of ownership that is detrimental to us all. It's time for the people to revolt and take back their power from these mongrels. NOBODY OWNS ANYTHING! Ownership is a flawed, temporary mental construct. Ownership gives the illusion of power. For too long the average citizen has been duped into thinking they are too stupid or uneducated to understand the underpinnings of our ancient and dysfunctional government. Did I say dysfunctional? Yes, as in “our government is no longer functional!” How does this dysfunctional system continue to control us? By keeping us divided against ourselves. By keeping us fearful. I may not have a PhD, or use all the correct vocabulary, but I darned well know what I want as an American citizen. I also know that as long as corporations continue to dominate Congress, my inalienable rights continue to get flushed down the toilet. It may be that our founding fathers knew very well that the average citizen would never really have any power because they were elitists. However, I believe there can be a first time for everything. All we need is consensus. All we have to do is agree on who we are and what we want. Let's do it. Let's take back our country.

On Becoming a Social Butterfly

As Aldous Huxley would say, it's a brave new world. This brave new world is the world of social media platform building. When the industrial revolution brought thousands of people to together to work in factories and live in neighborhoods, it didn't automatically create cohesive communities. People had to make an effort to connect with their neighbors, or attempt to create friendships with co-workers. One could choose to remain as isolated as one wanted. Thanks to recent technological advances, we now have an opportunity to connect with people we've never met, creating an endless number of virtual communities. The Internet was a giant step for mankind which, in my opinion, was more monumental than landing on the moon.

I've had several email addresses in the past five years, and I've even had a blog site for over a year. I didn't really take my blog seriously. I think the reason for this is, even though I am a writer, I've never been one for journaling. I had a one-sided perspective of blogging. It took attending a writer's conference for me to wake up and smell the roses. I learned that as a novelist, I will be responsible for promoting my own novel. Thus, the need for a social media platform. I need to become known not only in the literary world, but also in all the communities that value good writing skills. At first, I rebelled, screaming "NO, it's too complicated, too time consuming!" I've surrendered and am now headed down the road to Twitter, Plaxo, and Linkedin, wondering what amazing things the future holds for me.