Hells Yeah!

 My doctor suggested that I take a Myers-Briggs Personality Test: the goal being to see what my dominant personality traits are and how they would match up with employment. Ok, no problem. So I wait a couple years and finally take one online about two months ago.

A Loving Note to My Mother: Mom, No one who has spent more than an hour alone with me is surprised that I am seeing a head doctor.  In fact, they are all relieved.

I’m an ENFP (I retook the damn thing to confirm it.) My most suitable profession would be that of a journalist or an entertainer. Therefore, my ideal career is of a news anchorman. Ta-Dah!

I must say I have always felt the need to entertain. And, I am rather a know-it all; I love telling people things they haven’t heard before. So the test rang true and got me to thinkin’: Hmmmmmm. I must say I find me fascinating. I am just an ever unfolding mystery. Like the horizon, I have no beginning and no end. Unfortunately for you, unlike the horizon, my beauty and mystery can not be grasped with a mere glance. No, fare blog reader. To know my mind is to discover what I am passionate about. And since I’m curious about my mysterious self, I’d like to explore my passions. Hence, a blog is born. Ta-DAh!



So, what’s on my mind?
Besides the Middle East and our war in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, I’m concerned and what to explore the following broad areas:

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  The high infant and female mortality rate in the United States of America.

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  The intersection of food, power, and politics in this country and around the world.

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  How female oppression plays a role in our biggest and most challenging problems: poverty, AIDS, and global economic status of nations.

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  Coastal Erosion and Water resource management.

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  How do the prevalence of child abuse influence larger societal views of justice, war, and peace?

You see, I’m a thinker. But I’m smack dab in the middle between abstract theory and practice. Maybe this comes from watching the news at a tender age, but what are the problems and why haven’t we fixed ‘um yet people. As the song says Hey, what’s going on?

I’m also an idealist. I happen to think we should have some of this bullshit fixed by now. Or at the very least it should be common knowledge why shit hasn’t been fixed yet.

That’s why I paid attention in class. I thought the sum total of my education would naturally take me to solving, reducing, alleviating, and eradicating something. You know change the world; make it a better place. Now I feel like that was just a tremendous amount of bullshit designed to keep me in my damn seat and racking up thousands of dollars in debt. [tbc]

Guess the movie from the quote:

Am I angry? Hells yeah! I’m so angry. I want to:

“…go to the window; open the window; stick my head out and scream! ‘I’m Mad As Hell and I’m not going to Take It Anymore.”

American Hero

Woke up this morning And I got myself a gun.
Remember that from the Soprano's?  I often think in terms of song lyrics.  It is a quirk of mine; to think of the best song that captures my emotions.  I will often sing it rather than try to explain my feelings.  Pretty much no one understands this. (lol)  Everyone thinks I'm just crazy and sing way too much.  Gradually, friends that see me daily, start to notice the relationship between the song or tune I'm singing and maybe how they might be feeling.  Then they start to get it a little.

That song is on my mind because I awoke with a definate purpose.  That doesn't happen alot.  Mostly I awake and start to worry or just mindlessly go about my morning routine.  But this morning, I woke up with my fire.

I got on the internet and decieded to cut and paste the contact information of Muslim groups and interfaith organizations located in the city of Los Angeles.  You don't know this, but my primary obsession has been peace in the Middle East and America's war on terrorism.  Most days, I spend sometime thinking about this subject on and off.

To what end?  I am convinced that the way to combat terror or religous extermeism is through education: building privately funded schools open to all children, especially girls.  After that, I realize that so few people are making a concerted effort to accomplish this goal. 

Links to American Individuals and Organizations doing humanitarian work in Afghanistan and Pakistan

http://www.roomtoread.org/   http://www.ikat.org/  and http://www.spiritofamerica.net/ 

 You may not know this, but I do.  There are literally hundreds of individual Americans working to build schools, libraries, and other educational facilities in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.  But what gets to me is that they are not working together.  And they are not promoting the idea that educational opportunities can transform lives the way I would like to see it done: i.e. as the only honest answer to extermist muslim terror groups.


Remember the Peace Corp?  An organization founded by the President of the United States with the mission to do good work on an international scale.  Remember CARE packages?  CARE packages were sent to European families after WWII so that people wouldn't starve.  The humble Care package solidified the international reputation that America has for doing humanitarian good.  Where are the CARE packages to Iraq?

Why are we not empowered to work as a large-scale, grassroots, human rights movement to fight for peace, change, and equality?  When are we going to start making friends and being friends to all the people that are left at the mercy of angry, power grabbers with an ax to grind?