April 30, 2012
“Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for
granted... but to weigh and consider.” - Sir Francis Bacon
“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an
exact man.” - Sir Francis Bacon
“Next to religion, let your
care be to promote justice.” - Sir Francis Bacon
Happy Monday!
Aloha.
Corrections: March 19, 2012:
Oh, my goodness: My deepest
of apologies to the Dutch from the Netherlands whose country I have visited and
loved dearly.
I meant to write that the Danish of Denmark
were the rudest people I came across while travelling through Costa Rica two
weeks ago. I’m so sorry for the
confusion. Terribly sorry about the confusion!
An article triggered my memory in mistake.
Thank you for the correction.
A man told me that he was from Denmark and I
remembered how rude he and his wife had been to me and those around them! I
love how memory gets triggered.
I read an article about Denmark and his words
came back to me like a two ton block had hit me!
Please forgive me for being a dumb human,
sometimes. I humble myself before you!
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Oh, my goodness: My
next deepest apology in correction; our foreign exchange student came from
Borneo, Indonesia and not from the Philippines.
Oh, I’m so embarrassed for getting my
geography wrong. Not that I don’t know my general global geography because I
do, but I really do need to look at a global map while I write.
I’ll get better at writing the proper
countries. My deepest apologies.
I could climb underneath the furniture right
about now, however, my Father corrected me. He said, “You know that ‘Harry’
comes from Indonesia. Borneo has the history of the shrunken heads. That way
you won’t forget.” Thank you for the correction.
Please forgive me for being a dumb human,
sometimes. I humble myself before you!
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P.S. There’s so much oil in the world right now
that economists report that oil could feasibly go for ten dollars per barrel
(correction; not “barrel head” rather “barrel” only). It’s all political.
P.S.S. To China and your rebellious civilian
coup d'états, we think of you. China is on the verge of economical collapse for
those of you who don’t know.
*) Sudan, we love you. It’s been twenty years
of political upheaval. Ayi-ya-yai!
*) Haiti we love you!
*) Cuba we love you!
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Holiday! Tranquillo! Tranquillo, world!
Tranquillo, everybody!
As a writer it is my duty to provoke thoughts
of the greatest magnitude, no matter how vulgar the writing may seem or come
across to the reader (otherwise, you do have the option not to read and I can
respect that in any man or woman); as a human it is my responsibility to
promote global justice and as a woman it is my life-given right to be free and
to intellectually and philosophically fight for the freedoms of a global
humanity.
I’m a poet and that’s my job to stir free
thought, to bring about purity and to seek out the fundamental truths in life
even if it’s not packaged in a nicely and neatly little box with a bow on top.
Life is messy. What else can I say? A
lot more.
For example; Politicians have no business
making women’s vaginas into political rhetoric. It shows how weak male and
female Republican politicians truly are; not to be able to address and to deal
with pressing issues of our era, those, which are dire today such as the
American economy, lack of educational funding in America, lack of funding for
American socialized healthcare, renewable energy, and lack of American cultural
civilities and much, too, much classism and racism in America.
Team work is overrated while innovation dies
at the hands of collaborative bullies. Think. Think! Think, because it doesn’t
cost anything. Think with your own free wills, if you must, however, and
nevertheless, do it.
America must not allow for its fundamental
strengths and talents to be diminished nor ruined just because the herd is jumping
off the cliff. We call upon the innovators, inventors and thinkers of today to
step up to the plate even if this means having geeks, professional artists (not
gutter, alcoholic rats) and philosophers lead the think-tanks of 21st
century ideas in development, production, manufacturing and imports and
exports!
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Thoughts about the past year…
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Volunteerism is overrated.
Donating is the new 21st century
volunteerism.
I gave up on physically volunteering because
the food bank that, which, I volunteered for two years here in Minneapolis
didn’t care if they smoked marijuana in front of minors or not; they didn’t
care for the safety of their volunteers having to deal with prostitutes and
heroine junkies at their community garden. Nobody cared if mice ran around on
top of the food that was to be given away to the public.
I gave up volunteering because I couldn’t
even contribute without having barking mean spirited unleashed city dogs take
over my human space while coming to and from the facilities. I gave up on
volunteering because I was screamed at as a volunteer by people who were
constantly drunk or high.
I gave up on volunteering because I was
considered a means to an end and if I
would not bring-in monetary means to this particular “hippie-wanna-be”
non-profit food bank then I was not a valuable contributing volunteering
member, therefore, I became insignificant the less I offered to bring in
monetary funds. (There’s nothing sweatier than “humanitarian undercover work”.)
I was looked upon as “money bags” and not as
a volunteer. I was asked for money on a weekly basis towards the end about a
year ago, now. I was asked to write $100,000.00 grants without pay. I was
asked, begged for money without that being my volunteering role. I hate double
standards and sly bullies who enforce highfalutin righteousness, all in the
name of a great cause; (to feed the poor) while behind a volunteers back they’d
kill the volunteer if they could.
Kids are not safe volunteering in America today.
Send money, plus that’s all non-profit organizations truly want from you,
anyway, your money. I’m learning awfully, quick. It’s not enough to volunteer
anymore. No, Sir! Ultimately, non-profits just want money and the rest is
idiotic “religious” / “anarchistic” preachy rhetoric about helping out the
hungry and such business. Money. Money. Money. How boring. Not my money. I
can’t possibly carry an entire non-profit on my back but I was expected to or
else, I was not welcomed back. Therefore, I never went back. How pathetic to
run a non-profit like a hovel.
Catholics are some of the most insulting,
scared and imposing adults I’ve ever met. They’re also some of the most
brainwashed people I’ve ever come across. It seems as though Catholics must be
indoctrinated into believing anything so long as their rhetoric can be shoved
down others’ throats. How boring of them. As if though they have a need to
fulfill in enforcing others into believing as they do out of fear that they
might just be alone in the world, even if it’s rebelling against their parents.
Imagine; Catholic “hippie-wanna-bes”,
drunken-marijuana smokers with dreadlocks, bad breath, dirty and torn clothes,
screaming at the top of their lungs their organic mouse droppings filled
rhetoric while they can and would come close to beating your face in if you
don’t agree with them. Imagine it because that’s a demographic I volunteered
amongst for two long and tedious years. I made a commitment and I followed
through. What a waste of a life and time for such lost souls. Gutter rats.
Careful, of such nonsense! ‘Cuidado’ as the
Ticos say, ‘careful’. Such a demographics, isn’t a majority, they’re a small
pocket of culture that is too stoned or drunk to understand that the world has
indeed passed them by and nobody cares about them. Squalor politics, dirty and
mean like most politics is.
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I had an American Euro-trash dinner hostess
insult my Mayan religion and spirituality after dinner, one evening, early last
summer, and I never went back into such an abomination of a home.
As an educated intellectual fool, the last
thing, I resort to when I’m uncomfortable is attacking and making fun of other
people’s religions, spirituality and humanity.
I pegged her for whom and what she really was; she represented herself as
an insecure ‘white trash’ daughter of a single working secretary mother. A
daughter with a one-hundred-thousand-dollar educational debt pretending like
she could afford it. Her over priced Swiss university education obviously
didn’t teach her any true cultural values. A debt so high that she’d have to
contend with it for the better part of her latter twenties, thirties, forties
and fifties… I realized before she did that her education isn’t worth anything.
I realized as I was being insulted around her
table that no matter how expensive her education might have cost her, that she
would be as she had always been before, uneducated and unsophisticated.
She didn’t even have hosting and dinning 101
down. She was very much in the likes of her alcoholic partner. Rude,
passive-aggressive and low-brow. It was unforgivable for as much as they
demanded to be treated with respect and to be approached as two intellectuals.
My ridiculous hosts had no real ability to
connect to others without having to show-off, be demeaning and make put-downs
upon others while they pretended to deceive their more intelligent dinner
guests into a quasi refined conversation of political shallowness and personal
insults.
Insecure people sure are insane. I’ve let go
of their insanity. I’ve checked out of a world of insecure humans caused by…
Before I left, I turned to both of my hosts
and said, “Thank you for inviting me to your humble abode.” The male host
jumped on me and corrected me. Immediately I knew something about him that he
would not learn anytime soon. Humility, of the deepest sentiment. I was testing
him. He reproached me like a child and corrected me like an idiot. I rested my
case. Not to go back and sit at such a dirty and depressing table with their
personalities for first-and-last courses shoved down my throat as a dining
guest. Fools.
Why is it that in America when people grow-up
in a working class they become some of the most insecure of people? What is it
about being a preacher’s or a lower middle class kid that makes people feel
like they aren’t worth anything and they want everybody else to suffer at the
hands of their spiritual corruptness and their drunken depression?
I did my ten years of spiritual penance for a
lie that I told when I was 18 (I’ll write all about it later) about a kid that
I had a crush on.
I did my time with his rude and mean
alcoholic younger brother. I told myself that I could make it through such a
mean friendship for a decade to correct the lie that I had told when I was a
kid.
I let myself be insulted, manipulated, lied
to, dismissed, disregarded, degraded and made to be the smallest human in front
of others not to mention that not once, was I ever truly trusted by this kid
who was cold, demeaning, disrespectful and cruel to me for having a crush on
his brother when I was a teenager. I paid for my lie and that’s now over and
done with. Never again. What a crook. What a creep. He had so many chances to
be kind but that got beaten out of him early on when he got raped by his
older-kid neighbor.
I wasn’t sure if I was going to make it, but
I did.
I put in ten years of amazing, loving, kind
and respectful friendship to a horrible alcoholic man who insulted me every
time he could and I let him get away with it because I had to pay for the one
lie that I had told.
The entire time, I got to learn, what my
crush was all about and what a horrible life these brothers had lead with an emotionally
abusive father. I could relate, I had an emotionally abusive mother growing up.
I learned the greatest and the most valuable lesson; (Nope. Not today. The
answer is worth 20 billion dollars. Check you later.).
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If Iran must be imposed upon economical
sanctions by Israel and America then Israel ought to have economical sanctions
imposed upon for having Israeli Apartheid law in the likes of South Africa’s
former apartheid.
Israel’s rhetoric as of late holds far too
many double standards when their apartheid closes off their borders by some 400
miles and refuses property rights, working rights and voting rights to the
Palestinians.
Careful, Americans not to drink the Israeli
Kool-Aid.
Americans, don’t fall into that rabbit hole because
war against Iran could mean disaster for the United States for years to come
while Israel sits back and smiles at the fact that it got the giant to do all
its fighting for the ‘little dog’. Israel doesn’t have the United States of
America’s best interest at heart, otherwise, it wouldn’t push so hard for the
Americans to go to war.
“People aren’t afraid of the truth. People
are tired of being lied to by the mainstream media, the government and their
religions.”
Much love from an American daughter of a
Jewish Father and from a woman developed by American free speech, liberty and
in the pursuit of happiness.
Long live prose! Long live poetry! Long live
the professional working artists (not gutter rats)! Long live The People! Long
live wisdom! Long live truth! Long live your right to speak! Long live
philosophers! Long live lead-free foods! Long live non-animal tested cosmetic
products! Long live our youth who are far more open minded than our elderly!
Long live life! Long live thinking! Long live respect! Long live
respectability! Long live factual news! Long live global facts! Long live
animation! Long live avocados! Long live papaya! Long live little seeds that
grow into large trees! Long live your smiles! Long live you! Long live us! Long
live! Peace.
Ciao;
Gabriela
April 27, 2012
“Nature,
to be commanded, must be obeyed.” - Sir
Francis Bacon
Happy Friday!
Aloha.
April 26, 2012
“Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will
either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.” - Sir Francis Bacon
Happy Thursday!
Aloha.
April 25, 2012
“Silence
is the sleep that nourishes wisdom....” - Sir Francis Bacon
Happy Wednesday!
Aloha.
April 24, 2012
“People usually think according to their inclinations, speak
according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according
to custom.” - Sir Francis Bacon
Happy Tuesday!
Aloha.
April 23, 2012
“Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for
wise.” -
Sir Francis Bacon
Happy Monday!
Aloha.
April 20, 2012
“Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by
study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large,
except they be bounded in by experience.” - Sir Francis Bacon
Happy Friday!
Aloha.
April 19, 2012
“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that
natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.” - Sir Francis Bacon
Happy Thursday!
Aloha.
April 18, 2012
“Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.” - Sir Francis Bacon
Happy Wednesday!
Aloha.
April 17, 2012
“Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the
greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy,
mischievous, wretched thing.” - Sir Francis Bacon
“Opportunity makes a thief.” - Sir Francis Bacon
Happy Tuesday!
Aloha.
April 16, 2012
“Money is like manure, of
very little use except it be spread.” - Sir Francis Bacon
Happy Monday!
Aloha.
April 13, 2012
“Science is but an image of the truth.” - Sir Francis Bacon
Happy Friday!
Aloha.
What a great day for the Mayan people!
April 12, 2012
“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing
hits, but not when it misses.” - Sir Francis Bacon
Happy Thursday!
Aloha.
April 11, 2012
“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the
subtlety of the senses and understanding.” - Sir Francis Bacon
Happy Wednesday!
Aloha.
April 10, 2012
“The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a
number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a
number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs,
that make men fortunate.” - Sir Francis Bacon
Happy Tuesday!
Aloha.
April 9, 2012
“The worst men often give the
best advice.” - Sir Francis Bacon
Happy Monday!
Aloha.
April 6, 2012
“The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.” - Sir Francis Bacon
Happy Friday!
Aloha.
April 5, 2012
“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks
himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is
generally the greatest fool.” - Sir Francis Bacon
Happy Thursday!
Aloha.
April 4, 2012
“There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own
observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic
to preserve health.” - Sir Francis Bacon
Happy Wednesday!
Aloha.
April 3, 2012
“There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend
giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a
friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.” - Sir Francis Bacon
Happy Tuesday!
Aloha.
April 2, 2012
“There
is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is
lost by not trying.” - Sir Francis Bacon
Happy Monday!
Aloha.