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Support Our Troops. Send A Care Package.

My Sister Married a Soldier On June 23, 2009. Today, July 5th, 2009, He is in Iraq. Ugh!

Well, it's not like I did not support the troops before. I do. I want them to come home. But now, NOW, it is hitting closer to home. I posted messages to twitter about watching my sister cry a couple days after she got married and had to say goodbye to her groom. It was S-A-D SAD!!! Anyway, I'm already working on some care packages and was surprised that the US actually gives away (as they should) free packing materials for care packages. Too bad they don't pay for postage. O well, what do we expect? Send a care package.

Since Priority Mail service supplies are the packaging of choice for families preparing care packages for service members overseas, the USPS has created a "Mili-kit" based on the items most frequently requested by the military.

The kit contains:

Three (3) each of flat rate boxes O-FRB1 and O-FRB2
Two (2) each of Cube boxes OBOX
Address labels - Label # 228 8 each
Address labels - Label # 106-A 1 each
Customs FORM 2976-A 8 EA.
Customs FORM 2976-E 8 EA.

The kit may be requested by calling 1-800-610-8734 (Packing Supply) and:

   1. Choose your language (1 is English, 2 is Spanish).

   2. Choose option 1 (it states it is for Express Mail service, Priority Mail or Global  Express Guaranteed).

   3. When you reach a live agent, request CAREKIT04.

   4. Please allow 7-10 days for delivery.

Note: These are free supplies, postage must be affixed.

The Best Items To Include In Military Care Packages:
Deodorant Body
Powder
Jelly beans
Disposable Camera
Mints
Snack Mixes
Sunflower seeds
Nuts
Ziploc Bags
Coffee
Jaw breakers
Playing cards
Inflatable Pillow
Hacky Sack
Music CD's
Toothbrushes & toothpaste
Cookies in individual packages (Big bags often fill with dust if not eaten right away.)
Pasta and sauce
Canned food items
Spices, salt, pepper
Smoked oysters and sardines
Squeeze butter
Pringles chips
Individually-wrapped licorice
Microwave popcorn
Olives, pickles, peppers (Be sure to add lots of bubble wrap around these items.)
Cereal bars/granola bars
Microwave pasta that doesn't need refrigeration
Hot cocoa mix
Soup mix
M&M's
DVD's
Koozies to keep water bottles and cans cool
Newspapers
Magazines
Air fresheners (...like stick-ups, F'breeze.)
Canned air to blow dust out of electronics
Stress relief squeeze balls
Sewing kit
Lysol wipes/ Face Wipes
Board games
Shoe laces for gym shoes and boots
Brown t-shirts
Boot Socks
Underwear
Hand warmers
Inflatable seat cushions
Razors
Ink pens
Icy/hot patches
Air activated heat wraps for sore muscles
Foot massager
Microwaveable plates, bowls, paper plates
Vitamins
Paperback books
Additionally, you can find guidelines for packing, addressing, and shipping items to U.S. troops at www.usps.com/supportingourtroops/.

Massive Lightning and a Deer in the hood.

J. Krishnamurti - World Suffering, You are Responsible.

Undetermined

Really, This is not about anyone or anything at all. Just words that get in the way. I'm gonna start writing/typing my true self here again.

When you remember me
it'll be too late
i'll be swept away
while you're still diggin your grave

i sat there watching you wrap your mind
around things that withered our souls heartless and blind
paranoia and disease, the fastest decline

but "its truth!! its truth!!"
you know it when you see it and feel the truth!!"
but does it really exist
or is just another illusion?
and who cares about the positive?
you 'never needed a cheerleader' steppin in.

and so they will continue to tell you
what you never should have known
like the violent games this five year old plays
in the crevices of both of our hearts maze

he pulls the trigger at an innocent bystander
he laughs and then runs over to her kneeling by her side
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry Mommy, forgive me!
I didn't know it was you I was aiming at."
(And daddy was too late.)
So he thinks to himself
"Oh what the hell?
I'll kill him next!!"

The technology has had an ill effect on our reconstruction site
It has turned us into numb snakes
slithering around each others necks
We reckon the infinite possibilities of our homes explosion
the end of our hearts, our union, our minds, our lives.

This is it
The earths biggest malfunction,
the parasitic flies rule along with their golden box
full of blood sucking ticks and tocks
Produced pornographic children and calamitous endings.

Our minds are a prison

You keep on trying to make yourself hate me
I know exactly why this is happening.
Cant waste any more time or energy
My tears will go away eventually.

Go back away from me.

"On Death and Dying"

Mother's Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe

In its origin, Mother's Day was an antiwar calling through the beautiful and bold statement by Julia Ward Howe. She was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she was the first to propose a "Mother’s Day" in 1870 not only to honor her dead mother, but as a call for women all over the world to come together to create ways of protesting war. She sought out to wake up the masses that WAR IS AN UNACCEPTABLE WAY OF SOLVING CONFLICT!

Arise, then, women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts,
Whether our baptism be of water or of tears!

Say firmly:
"We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

From the bosom of the devastated Earth a voice goes up with our own.
It says: "Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel.

Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace,
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God.

In the name of womanhood and humanity, i earnestly ask

That a general congress of women without limit of nationality

May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient

And at the earliest period consistent with its objects,

To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,

The amicable settlement of international questions,

The great and general interests of peace.

Every Day is Mother's Day!!

here is my personal tribute:
(this is the same pic i post every year, me and my mom posed in front of ancient looking books can't be a coincidence. Now when i think of who i am and forever becoming, i see myself always seeking the truth to live...to experience a moment like the one we shared in this snap...joy/peace/love/completion/knowledge in our background,etc...i was lifted, and thank you mom most of all for getting me through those dark nights (you know which ones) and for telling me to trust myself in that place we are sometimes called to go and for encouraging me to understand what it is and to never be scared because it is only me who can hurt mySelf.  I am stronger because of you, i hear your voice, "just let go gently, don't fight yourself, just keep dreaming and wake up, goodnight, sweetdreams, i love you")

Book: Uncommon Sense by Howard Zinn

Why Howard Zinn has become one of the most important and influential American historians is perhaps nowhere more evident than in this new book. Few social critics have been as inspiring as the ever-hopeful Zinn and, unlike many historians, Zinn turns historical details toward deeper observations on the universal truths and struggles of humankind.

His remarkable wisdom and insight can be found in his earliest writings through his latest essays, speeches, and plays. Uncommon Sense brings together his most poignant and profound quotations from decades of writing and speaking. The book reveals the philosophical side of Howard Zinn and a consistency of vision over 50 years on topics ranging from government to race, history, law, civil disobedience, and activism.

Offering quotations of universal and timeless quality, the book shows why history will regard this historian as a political and moral philosopher in the traditional of those who have inspired him—Tom Paine, Fredrick Douglass, Karl Marx, Emma Goldman, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Living near Boston, Howard Zinn is a historian, political essayist, playwright, and activist. His earlier experience as a bombardier in World War II and his later experience in the southern movement for racial justice propelled him into a lifetime of searching for larger truths in his writings, research, and activism. Among Zinn's many influential books, his A People’s History of the United States, which offered an entirely new perspective on American history, has been widely translated, serialized, and adapted to multiple editions for various audiences, including young readers. More recently Zinn's appearances on stage with such figures as Kurt Vonnegut, Viggo Mortensen, Alice Walker, Danny Glover, Marisa Tomei, and others have brought his Voices of the People's History (edited with Anthony Arnove) to many new audiences internationally.

“Uncommon Sense from the Writings of Howard Zinn is a treasure! As a historian and social philosopher, Zinn is a legendary interpreter of America’s heritage. Uncommon Sense presents extraordinary insights and reflections about the true meaning of democracy selected from Zinn’s massive body of work over his incredibly productive career. Zinn’s statements provide a deeper, richer appreciation for the struggles that contributed to the freedoms we have achieved. Uncommon Sense is inspirational and essential as a brilliant work of moral philosophy and social history.”

—Manning Marable, Columbia University

Film: The People Speak

If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass

Happy 90th Bday Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger: Wikipedia

Purity is Opposite of Integrity...

"Purity is the opposite of integrity. The cruelest thing you can do to a person is make her ashamed of her own complexity. The stories of our lives have no morals. Any single conclusion drawn would be false; the episodes, taken together, are untranslatable, incomparable. If we are to conclude at all, we can only conclude against conclusions." -an excerpt from Fighting For Our Lives

Photo of little girl taken at Austin City Arts Festival

Pyramid of Capitalist System. Not for long!