OK I have made a commitment to journal so the blog here is going to get more attention. Yeah!

Today I blog about hunger, spiritual hunger, emotional hunger, physical hunger, cultural hunger.  Many people in our modern society, especially in America and  Europe, are obese. Among those some of these are dangerously close to death by their own hand, a form of suicide.  Yes indeed, you heard me, chronic overeating is a form of suicide.  Yet it also is a disease.

How many times have we been thwarted in love, in business, in one of a million ways in which our plans gang aft agley, only to console ourselves at the local pasta palace, pizzaria or mom's chocolate cake - consolation with two to four times the amount needed to sustain life and fill the belly?  Everybody seeks consolation from food and drink, as is proper and natural, God's gifts are given for such purposes. And indeed feasting at weddings or Christmastime, or other truly special occasions is part of the largesse, the bounty, the joy of the occasion.  But to chronically overeat, this is something which hovers dangerously close to the ancient sin the early Church called Gluttony. 
Actually the Church still calls it that.

A good medicine for this is to fast awhile, and restrict types of food (going vegetarian, or vegan, either permanently or for a prescribed spell) and also to feed your spirit through prayer and meditation and communion with others.  A real steak kind of guy? Try making sure your meat comes from local farmers who treat their animals humanely and feed them only grass, allow plenty of time free roaming out  in the sunlight and cetify they are raised organically and humanely.  Good karma!

Hungry all the time? Try feeding one of the other hungers, and see if you don't lose the ravening wolf within, or maybe have him become a docile pet huskie...

A problem is a chance to do your best - Duke Ellington.

It's a very curious phenomenon that each adversity carries with it the seed of a benefit equal to or even greater than the potencey of the current adversity.  Our sins and failings, our weak spots if you will, are the very things that will earn us our greatest reward whn conquered or at least tamed.  It is beyond our own strength to tame these lions byourselves ,we must call in what AA  calls our "higher power". 

All the things that most people would banish forever, if only we could - addictions, depression, fear, sadness, death, heart stopping emergencies,pain, guilt, grudges and resentment are all sources of future wisdom and even sanctity.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their worst mistakes.  - Oscar Wilde

On Sunday our youngest child graduates high school. The requisite parties have begun, her dad and I just returned from one we had also been invited to.  How happy, how eager, how full of hope and sorrow at going separate ways - how dramatic and how very sober and how very very sweet and happy it all is.

This night I wish all the new high school graduates in the entire world peace, and love and the success of fulfilling their highest destiny.  God bless you. May the greenest of green hopes fill your days.

Must see video, "here's to the crazy ones"

I guess the impossible has happened - I am writing about Paris Hilton.  Why?  Because the following story - if genuine - is proof that sometimes good things happen to poor little rich girls who everybody loves to hate. 

Paris, continue to not care what you look like on the outside,  but rather what your soul looks like.....please use your fame for good.

God bless & good luck.  I believe you.

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Hilton Calls Barbara Walters From Jail -- 'God Has Released Me'

She 'Was Severely Depressed and Felt as If I Was in a Cage,' but now Has 'New Chance'
By BARBARA WALTERS
June 11, 2007

On Sunday at 3 p.m., Paris Hilton phoned me collect from jail. Prisoners must call collect.

DRAB habitation of whom?
Tabernacle or tomb,
Or dome of worm,
Or porch of gnome,
Or some elf’s catacomb?

by Emily Dickinson, (Sent with a cocoon to her little nephew.)

Most of what we know we know through out five senses. Our dim intuition and ancient forbear's antenna (all but silent now) are so atrophied that oft their stirrings are mistaken for neuroses or worse.

In our postmodern hurry up world, many say, if I can't see it, smell it, taste it, feel it, or hear it, fuhgedda boudit!   But even in the physical world we are surrounded night and day by thousands of messages, songs, poems, things being born, things 'a dying, images, icons all around us. All the time.

Just in the physical world, think about this: TV transmissions, radio, microwave towers, cellphones,CB,radar, walkie-talkies,X rays from nature and from countless clinics and dentists across theland, gammaa rays, cosmic rays...etc. etc. etc.............

Waaay more than meets the eye.

I don't know about you, but when I find a caterpiller or a cocoon, or see a butterfly, I think about "death" and "birth" and which is which....do we really know?

From AntiWar.com a relentlessly wry look at the Scooter Libby case from a master editorialist, Justin Raimondo.  One more way to say the obvious: Earth to neocons...these new Pharisees wish to hold the entire world to a different standard than the one they play by, and are amazed -  even astounded! when they are held to the rule of law.  In their little world, they should be allowed to do as they wish, no matter who gets hurt or how high the cost.

Scooter's Fate:
I Say Torture Him
How to get the truth about Plame-gate out of Scooter Libby

Actually, my candidate went to Kansas City. I couldn't make it (had late after noon and early a.m. committments here) but here is an excellent post from one who did. Food for thought
here in things political...

Ron Paul in Kansas City  by Rojas
Just got back from the Ron Paul event. My impressions of it are numerous and mostly favorable. I wasn't able to stick around and meet him afterwards, but it was certainly a pleasure to see the man live and in front of a receptive audience, and to hear the gospel of liberty preached from the prophet's own lips.

QUOTE  Now, it's dangerous to your bottom line to assume anything about your typical organic consumer, because there's hardly a typical organic consumer anymore.UNQUOTE

Think organics are for aging hippies and yuppie whitebread types, mainly? Think again.  Asians, Hispanics and African-Americans are the new organics demographic. 

I find this good news, no matter who is buying organics, in that every organic purchase represents, on some level, a good steward attitude  towards the planet and the animals and plant life we share it with.  Not caring whether the produce is doused with toxic chemicals to kills bugs (and that give people cancer) or whether the animals laying eggs, or giving milk or giving their lives for our meats were treated well & humanely (or suffered unnecessarily) seems to be waning somewhat. Caring may be on the rise!  As we said, back in the day, people's consciousness is raising on these issues. Even the foodies are waking up and smeling the (fair trade, organic) coffee on this one...

enjoy your summer.....

Deb Calm Eagle

From Lew Rockwell.com, the Ron Paul Revolution Halftime Report by James Ostrowski

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What makes an earthquake is pent-up energy suddenly unleashed with tremendous force. A lot of problems that can only be addressed in a Jeffersonian framework of peace and freedom have been festering for too long in Hamiltonian America. A lot of people have been waiting a long time for a Jeffersonian to run for president and they're going to make the most of it.  UNQUOTE

Well I'll be, there is something new under the sun after all. Can it be that those wishing the squelch the affections and inspirations of the people and their devotion to truth-tellers are instead invoking the polar opposite? Whaaaaaat? 

This,  my friends, is The Anuzis Effect. Brilliant. Brilliant. Freakin'brilliant.


Iowa Presidential Debate Schedulers Learning that
Ron Paul Supporters
Are Here, It is Clear, and not Running Like Deer.
(They need a Beer....)

What are they thinking?

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"A Bayville couple could face jail time because angry neighbors claim their daughters play too loudly in their backyard.

William and Rachel Poczatek must enter a plea in village court today after their neighbors complained to the village that the Poczateks' two daughters, aged 5 and 11, were making too much noise around the family's pool.

"I don't know what kind of solution there is," said Rachel Poczatek, 43. "Should I muzzle my children?"

The couple is charged with violating a noise code aimed at "the shouting and crying of peddlers, hawkers and vendors which disturbs the peace and quiet of the neighborhood."

If convicted, the couple could face a $250 fine, a 15-day jail sentence, or both for each day that the offense continued, according to the village code."
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Many parents have been quietly waging their own battles against the demise of unstructured outdoor time, while apparently others have been waging war against it.

KIDS NEED TO PLAY! If you don't like hearing kids play in the pool, go live in an adults-only community!!!
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"The Poczateks' attorney, Andrew J. Campanelli of Mineola, said he thought the charge was "unconstitutional."  "

Ron Paul 2008!

Brief overview of Ron Paul's record:

He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.

He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.

New video on You Tube "Yell Fire" 

Sometimes the truth is found in all places, the words of an online comedian swami.
Swami Beyondananda says

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Beyonda News Swami Beyondananda's 2007 State of the Universe Address Humanifest Destiny From Survival of the Fittest to Thrival of the Fittingest Note. This year, the Swami insisted on delivering the State of the Universe Address on February 2nd, Ground Hog Day because "it's the closest anyone comes to seeing their shadow all year." Said the Swami, "Look at us. America is the most heavily armed country in the world, and still we're afraid of our own shadow. We seem stuck in a state of emergency, so we must declare a state of ‘emerge ‘n see' instead. Like the ground hog, we must emerge from our separate little holes and see we are all in this together. And we must see our shadow -- otherwise, we're in for another long season of darkness. We must laugh at the shadow as well. I call on everyone to shine the light of laughter on the endarkened corridors of power, because there's definitely something funny going on. May we wake up laughing and leave laughter in our wake." Another earth year has passed, and for what it is worth I am happy to report that once again the universe is doing just great, thank you, purring with perfection, ever-changing same as always. Light is still cruising along at 186,000 miles per second, and the expanding universe shows no signs of contracting. At this rate, it won't be long before they'll have to let the photon belt out another notch. Meanwhile back here on our own little center of the universe, the human race seems to be racing against time. Those Concerned Scientists have just moved the Doomsday clock up to five minutes till midnight, and even some of the unconcerned scientists are getting concerned. With all due respect to Wilson Pickett, if this midnight hour ever comes it won't be love that comes tumblin' down. Well, maybe tough love. The good news is, the alarm is getting louder, making it more difficult to hit snooze. The Chinese say crisis means opportunity, and opportunity sure seems to be knocking. If it knocks any harder, it's going to knock down the door. The polar ice caps are melting -- north and south -- which means on top of everything else this crazy world now officially has bipolar disorder. No wonder the penguins are flocking to Hollywood. The polar bears are now on the Endangered Species List, right up there with us. We humans do seem to have the Endangering Species List pretty much to ourselves, though. An Evolutionary Upwising! Fortunately, people are waking up and wising up. An evolutionary upwising is gathering esteem all across America, and not a moment too soon. Confidence in the powers that be in power hit Iraq bottom last year, and once again -- thanks to the Daily Show and Colbert Report -- fake news was the greatest source of truth. The "we're-going-to-heaven-and-everyone-else-can-go-to-hell" crowd continued to expose itself -- in more ways than one -- and more and more Americans awoke to the realization that the real abomination is to bomb a nation. UNQUOTE read entire article