so just who are my people?

So oddly, that's a question that permeates all of my lives but my place here is about my posters.   I'll dissect them a little:   a few are clones of myself, several others friends of those near-hearted people and I might guess aligned pretty closely with my circumstances and thinking.   There are a few enough older than me that they do this as an entertainment and to be nice.  And the others?? All young very engaged, smart young people.   ah ha. 


The need to think here today is again the news and the key, major shifting worldwide which is almost entirely overwhelming.   Even if you discount the silent long range worry about carbon and oil, budgets, overthrows, labor demonstrations, unemployment, rising food prices, Michele Bachmann; it can hardly get worse.   [Actually it did just get worse b/c Newt Gingrich just declared his intention to run for President.]  What is everyone else doing?   If you aren't bankrolling lobbyists and think tanks, what are you doing?   If you aren't pedaling as fast as you can to protect your money, what are you doing?   If helping at the food shelf each week isn't enough, what else do you do?

So clear to me again, that in my circles anyway, I'm a downer.  But, my need to push for change, to read and think about what's on our hands has found an outlet.  It's isn't the talk of the day.  [Did solving cultural problems ever used to be the talk of the day?]  Encouraging those who aren't bankrolled might a way to summarize...

Remember Karen that this IS your path.  I drifted and watched and wandered boldly through the crack in the door and I came here.   It's the right use of my talents.  I know why I have this kind of life and the couple decades stretching ahead of me.   A lot of the time I'm very, very invigorated by that.   As my cousin Barb practically hollered out from GA last week..... " this is VERY empowering".  

It is right for some others too, but I need to weigh every week what I bring forward.  I need to consider how much opining I do and I need to think constantly of the young people who are with me.   What an honor that is. 

Mostly think of the kids.  Find things that can help THEM feel like the world can get a hold of things, that their future is something vigorous and brilliant.