For the holidays, John got me this really cool navy blue cloak with a dusty turquoise flannel lining. It's my 'everyday wear' cloak - LOL. It's funny - I've found that I hold myself differently when wearing a cloak then when wearing a regular jacket. It's more fun, more regal - more 'presence'. It's no WONDER Darth Vader looks so intimidating in his long black cape! YOU wear a long black cape or cloak for just a few minutes, walk down a hall or around outside for a bit, and see how powerful YOU feel! LOL. You know, cloaks aren't just for renaissance faires anymore, but you probably won't find them in THE GAP. *grin* (John found mine from "Designs by Kate" at www.faireware.com.)
When I wake up in the morning in a bad mood it's one of two things - either I'm becoming aware of something that has been trying to move its way up into my conscious brain OR when I wake up I find myself pushed into an annoying linear or rational state of mind in stark contrast to the open and connected state of mind I was in during my sleep. Today, I think it's a little of each.
Thinking more on this Yahoo/France thing - if it's an AUCTION house, then wouldn't the INDIVIDUAL simply be the responsible part then for selling Nazi memorabilia to French citizens? Even without the internet a person could send some Nazi stuff to France - should that mean that the telephone companies are responsible for making sure they don't make arrangements that way? I guess this is really what the whole Napster thing is about too. Napster lets people exchange music files. SOME people will use it to exchange illegally copied files. Is Napster responsible for monitoring? Is the post office responsible for making sure each package ISN'T illegal? Or are these ideas just a new twist on the idea of being guilty until proven innocent? Hmmm!
What I'd like to see is simply individuals taking responsibility for themselves. I would also like to see people putting more focus on what they WOULD LIKE to see instead of stopping this or that that's already OUT THERE. Like the guys with the bumper stickers in yesterday's post - they are spending a LOT of time focusing energy in 'creating' SUVs in their reality to tag. What if they put that energy and creativity into imagining the ALTERNATIVES to having all those SUVS out there that they hate? Resistance really IS futile, but choosing another focus/probability certainly isn't - and I'd like to see people understanding that subtle difference.
I'm feeling better now - seem to be getting the worst of my head congestion out of the way and am feeling a little more energized too. The symptoms of this cold weren't actually too bad, I just had to take it easy for a while. It gave me the opportunity to realize how much I subtly and not so subtly pressure myself into thinking about all the things that 'need' to be done all the time. Since I don't have a 9-5 job, and John's hours aren't usual, we don't have 'weekends off' like other people and so often we don't ever really shift out of that mode for any length of time. Having John home sick - both of us at the same time - has almost been like a little relaxing vacation for both of us. Almost.
French Courts are telling Yahoo that it's their responsibility to block access from French people buying Nazi memorabilia on their web auctions because it's illegal in France to buy it. It seems to me that it's not Yahoo's responsibility to block anyone from ACCESSING it, but it seems that if it is being delivered to someone with a French address that just might be breaking international trade laws? If I was Yahoo, I'd just put in a line of code for the country France that says, "Oh, sorry - can't do it - didn't know you lived in France." Of course, I don't know what France has told Yahoo to actually do, whether it was to block French citizens from even SEEING the stuff or what, but Yahoo's protesting, naturally. Maybe Yahoo, since it's acquisition of Geocities, and WebRing, and eGroups, has simply forgotten that there are still ACTUAL boundaries in the real world? *grin*
I just glanced through this article about two guys in the San Francisco Bay area gluing bumber stickers that read, "I'm changing the environment. Ask me how" onto SUVs as a sarcastic way of punishing the owners for the vehicles' horrible fuel economy and that the owners are buying them for status reasons only. They were described in the article as wearing leather jackets with pockets stuffed with stickers and often they'd sneak up on SUVs while in traffic and the drivers wouldn't even know. I have this really funny picture of them doing that while a militant evironmentalist (who believes that clearing the rainforest for cattle grazing land is ruining the environment and the ozone hole by subtracting trees and adding extra methane) sneaks up behind THEM and glues the exact same sticker on their leather jackets. I'm terrible, I know. *grin*
My energy is... elsewhere. I can still function, but most of my energy and attention is elsewhere. Where? Well, my current theory is that it has been diverted into the changes I've been intending to make in my life. Over the last few days especially, I've noticed that I haven't been focusing much conscious attention on the things around me and the environment, although I've been able to function just fine. There's just a difference in feel between being fully HERE and not being. When you're driving your car and you're going straight, your energy is pointed right out in front of you. When you turn a corner though, your energy curves to the right or left. That's supposed to be some kind of relevant analogy. Oh well, I TOLD you I wasn't all here. LOL.
So many movies and cartoons always have the bad guy saying something like, "Evil will always have the edge because it's easy to get the best of someone when they care about each other." And, inevitably, the evil guy loses. Now, wouldn't it make sense to assume that the 'evil' guys have as much access to these cartoons and movies as the 'good' guys? Do they just consider it propaganda for the weak? Are they TRYING to come up with other angles but failing miserably? What's the deal? INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW! *grin*
tom posted a great story about the wine in his cupboard changing to the one he wanted instead of the only one the store had... and that reminded me of a shift I made in the grocery store the other day. I was looking for motzarella cheese. Now, we've just about given up on finding whole-milk motzarella, so we usually get part skim, particularly in this one brand all the stores seem to be overly fond of. I picked up the part-skim, and then suddenly looked to my left and where there hadn't been any before, there were suddenly WHOLE MILK motzarellas AND whole milk ricotta - with a blue spot on the label where the other one was green. Did I not see them at first because I didn't expect them to be there or did I create them because that's what I REALLY wanted? Doesn't really matter how we describe it - in the end we're going to have a kick-ass baked ziti and that's what I wanted. *grin* Merry Christmas Eve!
