genties & ladlemen,

do you remember where you were when the BP Deepwater Horizon went down?

Do you remember how you felt?  The rage and/or sadness and/or feeling of injustice?

Do you remember how you reacted to the pictures of the oil slicks?  Do you remember the pictures of the oil-soaked wildlife?

Ok.  Now, after it has been capped...where is the oil?

I like looking.

Like when I look at myself from my cat's point of view.  Or my Cabin in the Mists from a stranger's point of view.  Or the day's date from another calender's point of view.

So, here we go, with another point of view.

Here is a satellite picture of the birthplace of a lot of WCers belief systems.

Look at it.  No borders at all.  No divisions.  The sky is part of the land is part of the waters...

Dear Cancer,

I HATE YOU.
 

Genties & ladlemen,

Remember this moment?  Speaking without institutionalized Christian guilt & shame & nihilism, being proud of the human experience, at taking a hold of our imperfect knowledge and going "YES WE CAN!"

"I and my Father are one.
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; Lev. 24.16 and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods Ps. 82.6 ?
If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken;

I GOT THE JOB!!!

Some backstory.

I grew up in a rather communal setting.  The type where I didn't find out aboot things like 'religion' or 'philosophy' or 'race' until I was an adult.  That didn't mean we didn't have hangups -- to this day, I still feel uncomfortable aboot MONEY.  The root of and all that jazz.

So, I've been living comfortably at the Canadian poverty line.

Then I got married.  And that...(understatement alert) changed things.

This is for discussion of the Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah" as sung in the 2010 Olympics as a thread-spawn from the Olympic Fever thread in Social.

I will note that there are more than one version of the song (with different lyrics).  So it may behoove one of you to state which lyrics were used.  And then on with the discussion! :3

Let me tell you my Haiti story.
 

My teacher is a beautiful man originally from Trinidad.  He's the type of teacher that not just imparts information, but one of those who is on your side, who enjoys teaching and who inspires.  He speaks in such precise tones, necessary because we are transcribing dictation.
 

Sometime during the week after the Haiti earthquake he tells us a story.