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POTUS

Today I stood within 2 blocks of The President of the United States. I saw the sirens. I saw the crowds. I saw the line of black SUVs. And I should have been excited... I wanted to be excited. But somehow I didn't care.

I've been disappointed in government recently - more so than usual. Disappointed in the decision not to take the time to vote on gay marriage. Disappointed in the Broadway show Obama chose to see (of all the great theatre here right now!). So instead of being in awe that POTUS and I were mere blocks from each other, I was just annoyed at the traffic jam of people.

Perhaps New York is getting to me.

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

A good laugh for the day :)

(In case you can't read the caption - it's small! - it says: "I got this for the spelling bee. Read the text carefully and you'll see why I posted this.")

TITANIC ANALOGY

When you're faced with an overwhelming, life-threatening crisis as in the Titanic being hit by an iceberg, and you happen to be aware before anybody else is that the ship is going to sink and that there aren't enough lifeboats, and you know how to build lifeboats, and you try to deal with that in however long the Titanic had before it went down — you're likely to run across three types of passengers.

You'll run across a type that is basically deer in the headlights: "Ship's been hit! What does that mean? What do I do? I don't know what to do. I don't know where to go. Should I do that? I don't know." That's one group.

There's another group that says "We get that the ship's going to sink. We get that we're all going to die unless we make some lifeboats, and do it fast. Show us what to do."

And then you have a third group that says: "This is the Titanic. It's absolutely unsinkable. So we're going back to the bar for a drink and all you doomsday sayers can just take a hike."

Now if you're the one who knows how to build the lifeboats, which group of people are you going to help?

-Michael C. Ruppert, COLLAPSE

EVEN SUPERHEROS NEED THEIR CELL PHONES

SAVE YOU

"Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes
those terrible things - they save you."
- Chuck Palahniuk

IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR LIFE

IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR LIFE
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD
THAT YOU'RE TRAVELING UPON

IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR LIFE
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN
WHAT YOU FEAR IS MOVING BACK
MAY WELL BE MOVING ON

As I watched a run through of this new musical, these repeated words - a palette for the show as well as for my life (maybe all of our lives) - struck me with that strange feeling of happy sadness... hit me right in the solar plexus, an arrow to my heart (or perhaps more accurately, my gut). I love it when something I've read before or heard before suddenly seems new... and more meaningful.

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

The essentials for today: wallet, sun glasses, book.