‘Freedom’

It’s ironic that “life” is defined by walls. We are a conglomeration of minerals, salts, and acids that are held “together” by their ‘cellular walls’! That’s right, to the very CORE of each atom that has joined itself to another, it is still CONFINED.

The Egg that our Mothers carried HAD to be ‘assaulted’ by millions of helmet-headed “[HUMBODLTS]” until one, (rarely two.), found that “one” “embrace point” to pass into ANOTHER confinement . That viscous cannon shot, with its sightless “spelunkers”, waded into its captured “bliss”… only to create more “like “confinements to build a ‘HUMAN BODY’.

To “live” we find a short “freedom” from the portable nautica of the womb. The consistent “climate”, that “just right” pallette of sustenance, passed through the soon to be removed “feeding tube”/ oxygen replenisher. Escaping through an opening that, just a while ago, barely accepted the “HUMBODLTS’.

As the time added more micro “bits” to the assemblings called the body the part balanced within the epidermed calcium globe is trapping as many registrations as five collective, but disparate, sensorial entrap-tors can capture, define, then catalog for the ensuing needs OF the “confinements”.

Of all things within reach around us each has surrendered a part, or characteristic, that distracts us… or alerts us… of the shortcomings that our creative recognitions tease us about. Through the bars of want, pride,or greed. The want of being able to enact the abilities of birds… so we build cages to carry the many of us… caged “flocks”. Or of ” sister” WHALE, the ‘majestic’ mega-Mammal, centuries lived, and able to travel this orb “back-stroking” any of the seven seas. By itself, or the ageless ” friends and family” plan. Ralph Boston and Richard Fosbury envied the Flea, but Fleas jump for food. Shaolin Priests still can’t overcome the innate prowess of an infant Praying Mantis .

We are stuck with the infinitesimal smatterings of the everything of THIS world, but with the one great KEY to the PRISON DOOR that IS “LIFE” on this CELL. Because, in examining the myriad of Macro and Micro WE are the…

'WHO'...

… of the MILKY WAY, let lone the rest of the UNIVERSE. And, even though we’ve self classified as ‘ANIMAL’ I know we’re just ambulatory, sentient, SEED PODS… WAITING for the freedoms GRANTED by being reinstated to the DUST. Returning those CELLS back to their assigned ‘confines’. Letting the ENERGY of ‘US’ go back to the unfettered… RELEASED TO our FREEDOM.

 

‘His’ TRULY Myterious Ways

Even though there is no true author holding this blog together for anyone of ‘FAITH’ there ARE times when there is a THUMP from a “beyond” that demands.

Just as our “Eur-afrique” leader has attempted to gather the nations into a common understanding during his jaunts through Israel, Egypt and Germany that “call” has been bolstered by an event that has ESCAPED the overt news media of television in this country.

As this nation debates the merits of Mr. Obama choosing Sonia Sotomayor for the opening position of U.S. Supreme Court Justice it seems that a ‘higher’ court has chosen a woman that is quite close to him. If there is anything that says that there (may) be a choice “not of our power” it Is this, reported from HAARETZ.com…

Jewish World / Meet Michelle Obama’s cousin the rabbi

By Anthony Weiss, The Forward

Tags: obama, israel

While Barack Obama has struggled to capture the Jewish vote, it turns out that one of his wife’s cousins is the country’s most prominent black rabbi – a fact that has gone largely unnoticed. Michelle Obama, wife of the Democratic presidential nominee, and Rabbi Capers Funnye, spiritual leader of a mostly black synagogue on Chicago’s South Side, are first cousins once removed. Funnye’s mother, Verdelle Robinson Funnye (born Verdelle Robinson) and Michelle Obama’s paternal grandfather, Frasier Robinson Jr., were brother and sister. Funnye (pronounced fuh-NAY) is chief rabbi at the Beth Shalom B’nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation in southwest Chicago. He is well-known in Jewish circles for acting as a bridge between mainstream Jewry and the much smaller, and largely separate, world of black Jewish congregations, sometimes known as black Hebrews or Israelites. He has often urged the larger Jewish community to be more accepting of Jews who are not white. Funnye’s famous relative gives an unexpected twist to the much-analyzed relationship between Barack Obama and Jews in this presidential campaign. On the one hand, Jewish political organizers, voters and donors played an essential role in Obama’s rise to power in Chicago, including some of the city’s wealthiest and most prominent families. But the Illinois senator has struggled to overcome suspicions in some parts of the Jewish community, including skepticism about his stance on Israel and discredited but persistent rumors that he is secretly a Muslim. Funnye, who described himself as an independent, said he has not been involved with the Obama campaign but that he has donated money and was cheering it on. “I know that her grandfather and her father and my mom and all of our relatives that are now deceased would be so very, very proud of both of them,” Funnye told the Forward. Michelle Obama and the Obama campaign did not respond to requests for comment. Funnye told the Forward that he has known Michelle Obama (born Michelle Robinson) all her life. His mother and her father, Frasier Robinson III, enjoyed a close relationship, and Funnye said he saw Michelle several times a year when they were growing up, mostly at family functions and on occasional visits to her house. “Her father was like the glue of our family,” Funnye said. “He always wanted to keep the family very connected and to stay in touch with each other.” Funnye, 56, said he and Michelle, 44, were not especially close growing up, but he remembers her as “energetic and smart and very caring.” The two fell out of touch when they grew older and went their separate ways but then reconnected years later when Michelle Obama was working for the University of Chicago and Funnye was leading a local social service organization called Blue Gargoyle. Funnye also worked with Barack Obama, then a state senator, who came and spoke at events for the organization. When Barack and Michelle Obama married, Funnye and his family attended the wedding. Although Funnye’s congregation describes itself as Ethiopian Hebrew, it is not connected to the Ethiopian Jews, commonly called Beta Israel, who have immigrated to Israel en masse in recent decades. It is also separate from the Black Hebrews in Dimona, Israel, and the Hebrew Israelite black supremacist group whose incendiary street harangues have become familiar spectacles in a number of American cities. Funnye converted to Judaism and was ordained as a rabbi under the supervision of black Israelite rabbis, then went through another conversion supervised by Orthodox and Conservative rabbis. He serves on the Chicago Board of Rabbis. Funnye’s relationship with the Obama family was reported in the Chicago Jewish News in an article dated August 22. A Wall Street Journal article in April reported that the aspiring first lady had a cousin (whom the paper mistakenly referred to as a second cousin) who is a prominent black rabbi but did not mention Funnye by name. The rabbi’s familial connection with the Democratic presidential nominee is also a matter of common knowledge in Funnye’s synagogue. “He really jumped on everyone’s radar after the 2004 convention,” Funnye said. “That’s when some people said, ‘Isn’t he related to you or something?’ I said, ‘Yeah, he’s married to my cousin, and she’s making him everything that he is.’” This event happened as he was elected to the office of President of the United States and goes a “long way” to diffuse the varied remarks about his “closeness” to ISLAM, (or it should give real PAUSE to the ‘hate-filled’.). If there is ONE thing that one who practices a specific doctrine of faith must realize is that ADMINISTRATIONS OF MAN change, almost by the breath’s intervals. But those telling us what “IS TRUTH” must work that much harder to hide what is really happening in our universe. [A \"new\" Deborah ?] [Jewish Woman magazine says...] [It\'s NOT \"fried chicken soup !] Has Anyone inquired about an opinion from Liz Trotta, Rush Limbaugh or Michael Steele ? Has anyone noticed how the ends of Mr. Obama’s candles “burn”?

 

Resurrection: Our OWN

A death is when the existence of something deemed to have importance no longer does so. These influences are, more often, related to anything within the HUMAN recognition, people, their societal wishes and conclusions. Sometimes the explanations of how the workings of the “Universe” need to be clarified for those that really don’t think about it much, because they understand it by their daily deeds.

The more that humanity has grown to cover the surface of this orb the more some have warranted defusing the common senses of being that true “ONE with the UNIVERSE”. We DO need to have a behavior that allows ALL to work towards AND achieve THEIR “purpose in LIFE”, we just don’t “need” to have a few ‘handfulls’” of ‘OMNIPIT-ANTS’ holding the populations at a standstill.

There is a resurrection every second of every day in this universe, we should CELEBRATE them all. For anything to overcome the WRONG then reinstate itself as better is cause for recognition. See how many resurrections YOU can recall in your life, and how great an event it was to place you in “A BETTER PLACE”. [Raised from our own death.] There are many lessons and examples of humans being resurrected in some form or fashion everyday, [Miracles of \'resurrection\'.], some stare at us and we don’t recognize them as such… but they are.

Sometimes the "resurrection" is only the shell left behind.

 

last night’s rhyme to reason

No one has “graced” this post in quite some time so, as I have been “lazy” to post on any , I was sitting down to begin to go to sleep when the realization came that I had been JUST sitting on the edge of my “pallet” and NOT giving my ‘creator’ their PROPER DUE as I toppled over to rest.

In the search for anything to say as a recognition, or thought of assistance to another, I just “couldn’t” come up with what I thought was WORTHY. I toppled, trampolined back to erected seating with these…

I don’t have nice prayers to say to you ‘Lord’

There’s nary a word that my lips could form

that won’t make you boored.

For ‘Gospels’ were uttered by better than me

I’ve done too much wrong to force a nearer to thee.

There’s too many sins for this one man to count

And I’m far past some saving, I’m losing life’s bout.

But, if hope was the last thing left in Pandora’s box

I know that, just maybe, YOU haven’t been shocked.

So bless my Mother and Brothers, ALL my family and such

And those who’ve mistreated this world oh so much.

Because, even though I haven’t had so much to say

I THANK YOU so much for getting me through this day.

Mysterious ways… in-deed.

 

Suffer… The Little Children

Hello, this is “Om”, I oversee this plot of “thought catch” that was so deftly painted by the ever growing “Panora”. It hasn’t been recently blessed by her gently prodding words of late, but I have something that, I hope goes well with her type of penning.

I don’t know if any of you have ‘WITNESSED’ the movie ” SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE” and how the people of the nation of INDIA, (a VERY large population of SAFFRON eaters there.), viewed the movie’s representation of their life-”styles” as how the rest of us see them. As a person who was raised through the blended doctrines of five-thousand years of ancient intellects being “dismissed” for gauche societal rapings I have tried to learn about the “buildings” of those who are, now, our “lesser” kin, those that we find “exotic”, only for the fact that they don’t have a McDonald’s every six blocks. Or “Barbie” living in a nine room copy of what “Daddy” is taking “hemorrhoid medicine” for. [He dove into a \"pile\" of .... to get an autograph.], (“The number of people living in slums in India has more than doubled in the past two decades and now exceeds the entire population of Britain”, the Indian Government has announced. [Slums bigger than the Queen\'s \"home ground\".] And this is but the tip of the proverbial Iceberg, ( but THIS ONE is NOT under any surface that WE “CAN’T SEE”.), when we NOTICE the waves of homeless and PARENTLESS children on any continent of this orb. [By \"the numbers\".] And as the young stars were left to live their “art-filled” lives they were left to continue that “story book” tale until the movie focused too much light on their national “SHAME”. [They didn\'t care until there was \"GOLD\".]

There is an ‘URBAN CHALLENGE’, [Educations for a WORLD \"not of their making\".], of how we humans arrive to the challenges of thought and decision making “without” the formal feeding of information that so many of us are acquainted to, but how does the “rest of the world” survive, yet alone thrive ? [Why can\'t a \'DOCTOR\' \"KNOW\" ?] The one thing that is sure is that HOW the newly forming adult to “BE” carries EVERY LESSON GIVEN to them for the remainder of their time on this EARTH. Whether, or not, they use those lessons “FOR the GOOD” is ALL in how WE make for their good at THIS TIME. How do YOU see the near, ( it’s touching your body hairs right now !), future with the child soldiers of Africa, Asia and South America soon to claim THEIR places in the “WORKPLACES” that just may employ your children ? Gives an entirely new context to “GONE POSTAL”… doesn’t it ? We must do something about this because this world has become a neighborhood, we can travel to the other side of it in less time now than it took our great-grand parents to get from one side of Rhode Island to the state line of Connecticut.

YET, and STILL… we let the children SUFFER.

As this is 07/14/09 I update to tell you theses facts. After  all of the praise these young folks got, with Oscars and such, the Director and the Indian government allowed: 1.) The HOME/ SLUM of the young man who played the brother to be TORN DOWN. Also the young girl’s. It took over three months of INTERNATIONAL NEWS coverage to finally force these monied moon offerers to bestow their promises to the very people they’d glorified on film.

 

To the One Person Reading This

This ‘BLOG’ has not had another author to give it a LIFE since “PANORA” left to heal the world that matters most to her, and WILL stay that way until there is someone else that has the same effects of telling of their FAITH without bludgeoning the reader. This is the only reason that whoever is visiting periodically might consider putting a word or two onto this space.

THANK YOU for VISITING.

To ALL: PEACE

 

The COLDEST of Harvests

The new Winter harvestings.

Even in the most exotic of places we plant and harvest is the prospect that Ymir will serve us the taste of rotting fleshes and clays. This is that time for this blog site. The ”Tendress” of thought has moved on with the Atlantic’s tide, cold to us but where the young of Neptune receive their growth spurts and much needed sustenances. I as the field’s owner can only comply to that which I cannot control so I will not. The best that I can do is let the Earth replenish and remake HERSELF, how long will she remain fallow is only by her determination. I will wait for the future to decide if this field is to be prepared for new crops.

 

Who’s taking the dive?

Finally I have figured it out! This is the way I see things happening now and over the next month or so. But just in case keep watching and let me know if you think this is plausible?

 

In our so-called modern era we are not as racially accepting as I once thought us to be. Indeed as I watched an old movie called, “Imitation of Life” I realized how prolific the myth had been spread; what myth you wonder: “color does not matter”… that myth. In the movie it is the older white female who makes the statement to a very young woman of color, who is challenged to hide her race to accomplish the means for a better life, as she sees it. Personally I found myself angered that she is pushed to the point of forsaking her own life and thus we see an “imitation of life.” People of color are not being accepted, and are denied due respect and equality. So yes; color does matter when you’re considered to be the “wrong” color. What a gross injustice still perpetuated in this modern era!

 

So with the above in mind and the recent nastiness of the John McCain tours regarding people booing him for speaking up for Barack Obama… I have this to contemplate and share: who will riot if Obama wins? I’m noticing a “set up” here that’s rather uncomfortable. Watching videos of McCain supporters has been very sad; some of those people sound dangerous and even a few have said they’d take out Obama. How crazy is that? But just the same I am not willing to dismiss the comments on those videos. And now, inside McCain campaign head quarters, comes the thought to look for a “scapegoat” in case McCain loses… and that is Sarah Palin! The comments are outrageous when you consider that McCain had a lot of time to choose an “appropriate” vice presidential running mate. So what is going here?

 

Ah, the crux of the story comes at last: my plausible contemplation of what’s happening. If Obama wins, will there be riots by some strange folk I do not know or wish to know. Whether or not he is harmed, I have no idea, but the sheer rioting could set off the “need” for Marshall Law to be called into place. Think about that. The sitting president might be around a while longer… what a dive!

 

Now this: just for fun…

 

http://vodpod.com/watch/1012810-nader-meets-parrot

 

Dixie Copeland

 

Time is money

The old saying, “Time is money” still holds sway. Maybe more so when you consider the financial crunch that the corporate-political wheel has invented for us, the country and the world at large. Those little private summit meetings make me sick when I think how much power they yield. Those are the meetings that tell you how much of your time will equal what they want to pay you.

 

Just for fun I figured the “powers that be” show up for a few days of R&R and “who gets what” this time. I bet there’s a dart board and somebody throws five darts to see which five countries get financial ruin for the month; which five do without rain; which five have shortages of food, and so on and so on, until every country has some plight to deal with.

 

I don’t want to exclude the weapons industry in all of this power play. Some how they always seem to be left out of the news and you know that’s not true. We have wars and rumors of wars and those stockholders can’t increase their profits by anyone having peace. Why to the “militarily-industrial-corporate” conglomerate… peace is the “end of days”… the end of the great and powerful Oz of bucks and buck you’s. And these people are taking dominion seriously.

 

We can hate them, we can fight them, but the sad outcome would be that we’d become just like them. As hate arises it begets violence and we know by now where that will take us. Sometimes I feel like the national anthem should include a verse on hatred because we sure aren’t acting like “enlightened” citizens of the year 2008. Lately I find I’m surrounded by the 60-70’s music, clothes, and crazy mindset that says “we want peace” but there’s no sustenance to the rhetoric. It’s just more cheap talk; exactly like the 1960’s… but were we fooled back then… weren’t we?

 

Dixie Copeland

 

Staying in the dark: one Christian’s perspective

‘I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic (insert: Democracy?) for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all’.

 

 

In 1952 sitting President Dwight David Eisenhower added the words, “under God” to this pledge. The Christian Churches protested saying Eisenhower was adding “under God” to a pledge Christians were already admonished “not to serve”. It was expounded that man’s traditions were seeking to creep in, replacing the commandments of God; specifically the last command from Jesus the Messiah, that we “love one another”, thereby showing ourselves to be his disciples.

 

“Guard thy heart for out of it come the issues of life.” 1952 Christians wondered if crossing your heart in pledge to the flag, which represented a nation and not, The Kingdom of God was an appropriate thing for them to do. Some even feared this to be a representative type of ‘the mark of the beast’: if you chose not to observe it, would you be thought of as uncaring for the country you lived in; a traitor to those around you, who used it, or a ‘real’ Christian because you did say it? Should man’s laws take the place of God’s laws?

 

There were two sides of the coin of Caesar. Jesus interpreted this as only one coin for one nation, specifically advised his disciples to “render” to the owner what was the owner’s. He talked of mammon which has since been interpreted as money and other goods meant for ‘that’ kingdom. The Kingdom of God did not ask for your goods. Might He also have sent us a pledge; no, not that I can find in His word. But we are given a prayer and told to seek His Kingdom first. Some have equated that to mean: here, in America. Is it: are we peaceful?

 

“Man does not know the way to peace.” I read that scripture and my heart found the truth. War, war, war; we encourage it, we glory in it, we find ways to admonish and harshly judge people who ask not to be supporters of war. God who is all wise knows that man will never attain peace because he is not looking for peace. I would ask: does war bring glory to God? I decided to give God some credit for knowing what He means when he says He’s given the foolish things of the world to confound the wise (in their own eyes.) Stuff like flags and pledges will never, ever save us but we continue to think they will. Today more than ever we want to believe that the wars we start were started by others. Indeed we have been confounded. And if it takes a ‘pledging allegiance’ to an earthly kingdom then we need to be prepared to take the fall, as well, when it comes… as no democracy has ever lasted.

 

And finally… when we stopped being a true Republic I felt the pledge should have followed suit. A republic guarantees that every voice has a say and a vote. Democracy guarantees that 51% have a say and vote. That’s not the pledge of my country. That’s a false hope waiting to be ripped apart. There are now millions around the world who do not live here, but they are still allowed to vote in this country’s elections. So when Democracy came to America, we died, but we think we still live. Truthfully the only way we can live is in the Bosom of God, but that doesn’t sell like votes for candidates who ALL promise the moon but will deliver Hades.

 

Eplogue: 2008: I decided to write this due to the emails I received from “Christians” fearful that “under God” might be removed from “The Pledge of Allegiance”. Ironic, isn’t it?

 

Dixie Copeland

 

What happened to the focus?

Often I sit and read news after news story and wonder what people are thinking… really thinking? In their day to day-ness have they figured out what the main focus IS for this country… other countries…this world? Does it matter or do they even have time to sit and read, observe, learn, and participate?

 

I haven’t been particularly happy with any of the candidates of this final ballot. A friend of mine insists that it’s always been a voting for the “lesser of two evils.” Same friend justified Mr. Bush’s performance thusly: “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” Yeah… well when the person doing such an ill performance realizes his or her mistakes, does the “end justify the means” to get to total chaos? That’s almost where we’re at. Looking at the potential candidates I wonder if we’re using another means to justify the completion of “our end”.  And though I am a believer of the Creator, His son, His kingdom, I tire of ones who use His word to justify their OWN means; to clear a path they call righteous, but it’s lined with shrubbery to hide their true nature of desire for power. Some people don’t even see the wrong involved, accomplished by their actions. Hooray, I’m ready to go vote!

 

But what about that article title: “What happened to the focus?” Well gee, everyone I talk to has a religion, a race, or a creed, a doctrine or a lack of all of those, and use it to justify avoiding looking at the present… much less beyond it… and certainly foregoing a history lesson or two. So what’s the point after all? The point is: I won’t be voting. Yes and already I have “friends” who tell me, “If you don’t vote, you can’t complain.” (Never mind the complaining I’ve done beforehand trying to get things addressed.) Once again it is the “end justifying the means.” Oh well, not to worry much. Cyber Security Expert, Stephen Spoonamore predicts massive vote intrusion by hackers; inside and outside of the USA. He claims McCain/Palin will win by 51.2 % by 3 electoral votes. Yes I offer a source:   [http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/stephen-spoonamore-2008-interview-paper-ballots-please/  ] for your viewing outside of this portal please, because it involves a series of videos, you want to miss! Ironically, it won’t matter if you vote. Too bad… another election in America… what happened to the focus?

 

Sincerely: Dixie Copeland

 

Go Vote

NY ballot

 

This is going to be a huge election. And why not; it’s an exciting time with Senator Obama running. The country hasn’t had such an infusion of youth assembled in quite a long time. I am looking forward to the remainder, the outcome, the future, and the hope of this country to re-develop, re-dream, and re-build.

 

I heard about the mishap of NY Rensselaer’s Board of Elections listing Senator Obama as Senator Osama… as in “Osama” the absent terrorist! I’m guessing that the Rensselaer Board of Elections was shocked and possibly embarrassed that the typo could have occurred on their ballots? I hope they were, having had three proofreaders that missed it. I would be saddened to think this was a prank in poor taste. How insensitive to other New Yorkers… how insensitive to Senator Obama and his campaign workers… how insensitive to the rest of the country?

 

But insensitivity’s are what the presidential fight is about this time. How each candidate “reads” the American public and the needs that priority would fashion from that reading? A president who is going to have to “hit the ground running” with committees lined up to take on the many facets that have been twisted and remold them into something that works; no longer weaving policy into a dictatorship. We are “we the people” and “I the dictator” is not appreciated. It is simply outside the realm of being a Republic, which is what we are! In spite of the mass hysteria that maintains the “democracy” image, we were created freer than democracy!  Go vote and prove it.

 

Dixie Copeland