IF I WERE TO EMAIL CAROL ...

2009-05-06 - wed
Carol,
HAPPY SWINE FLU DAY
2 things I heard, and would like to remember ( I heard them in
interviews that Amy Goodman had on democracynow.org ) ... I
will try and paraphrase -
Ahem ...
Pete Seeger imagines masses vs controllers as boxes of sand on
a see saw.
The c side is full & heavy & sittin' down on the ground.
The m's side is up in the air & leaks & the ms keep putting in
sand, but with teaspoons. And their sand leaks out almost
as fast as it is put in. If they stop spoonin' sand, nothin' will
get better, 'cause all the sand will leak out then. So they
keep spoonin' sand, though it's still gonna take forever.

"Augusto Boal, the legendary Brazilian political playwright and popular
educator.... He was the founder of the Theater of the Oppressed, a
popular international movement for a participatory form of theater
as a means of promoting knowledge, democratic forms of interaction,
and transformation. "
After a performance in which the actors/peasants said they had to
give their blood for land, some peasants asked him to do just that.
He declined - he was an artist.
That's when he figured out something important.

It's raining. Do you believe it ?! Our weather is wetter
than yours.
It's been so gray & soggy of late that even my happy light
doesn't help ( I see that someplace is selling Happy Lights
now ). Anyway, mine does not help the computer at all.
And nothing is worse than a depressed 'puter.
I've even started taping pictures of the sun on the walls
and ceilings. No help.
Next week I'll sign up for the Sun Seminars that the
state gov't is giving for 9.95. ( they do that so people will
stay up here. )
If that doesn't help, I'll take a course at the local college.
Or maybe I'll invent a solar panel the stores up energy and
makes artificial sunlight to be used on cloudy days.
I can be really tan. ( I just hope nobody thinks of it first. )
Connie is reading Gillian Roberts mysteries ( her books
have punny titles. )
I finished one of the books I started last summer and I'm
more then half-way through the other ( Christopher Moore's
COYOTE BLUE ) ... soon ... soon.