December 22, 2009
Who’s the Government? Who’s the God?
La Navidad misma nos da razones para nuestro activismo.La historia de la Navidad is indigenista, panteista y es tambien radical. Animales de mirada inteligente alrededor de un recien nacido cuya madre hizo el amor con el poder que todos tenemos Esto no es para salir de compras. Esta es la aportunidad de comenzar de nuevo a rehacer nuestra cultura. Desde ese mismo y milagroso momento llamado nacimiento, ese luminoso relumbrón en el establo…este no es el momento de arrodillarse ante los mismos obsoletos lideres y sus “bunkers” y sus jets. Este es el solsticio cuando la luz y el calor crecen con el dia. Es la promesa del cambio y la vida silvestre y verde de la primavera.
I’ll admit - the back room deals of Copenhagen cast a pall on efforts to change the world for the better. Obama and the Chinese have recast an old Cold War conflict, with the two world powers forcing agreements from their pre-eminent position. This is the exclusive top-down approach in which world-wide chaos – wars, hunger, disease, sweatshops – is an acceptable expense for the corporate boards. Consumerism and Militarism are supposed to continue as the reigning systems. But the force of heat and light begins to grow this week. The longest night will burn away! Amen?
Debo admitirlo, las trampas y manipulaciones que ocurrieron en Copenhagen son un revés para los esfuerzos por mejorar el mundo. Obama y los dirigentes chinos han vuelto a poner el mundo en una situación como las del tiempo de la Guerra fria, con los dos superpoderes forzando acuerdos desde su privilegiada posición. Esta es la inflexible politica verticalista en la cual el caos global, las guerras, el hambre la enfermedad y los “sweatshops” no es un gasto que el Directorio de las corporaciones acepte. El Consumismo y el Militarismo deben continuar siendo los sistemas imperantes.Pero la fuerza del calor y la luz comienzan a aumentar esta semana. La mas larga de las noches ardera para siempre en los colores del alba! Amen?
We didn’t have the money to fly to Copenhagen from New York. (And they haven’t invented a veggie-fueled jet yet, either.) But as people return we hear vivid accounts of new relationships, movements, alliances between the global south and north. All the culture that Obama and Clinton did not acknowledge does in fact exist – is born and growing. The secrecy and isolation of the Chinese/Obama meetings says it all. The rest of us are waiting outside, with the rising seas, the fires and droughts and freak storms. It is dawning on us that the Earth is the only government and the only god.
Nosotros no tuvimos dinero para volar de Nueva York a Copenhagen. ( y todavia no han inventado el avion alimentado a combustible vegetal) Pero a medida que los que fueron retornan, oímos vívidos relatos de nuevos movimientos vínculos y alianzas globales entre el sur y el norte. Toda esa cultura que Obama y Clinton prefirieron ignorar, es concreta y real , existe. Ha nacido y está creciendo. El secreto y el aislamiento de las reuniones entre Obama y los chinos , lo dice todo. Nosotros,el resto del mundo estamos afuera esperando, con las mareas en levante, y los incendios y las sequías y las tormentas del calentamiento. Está empezando a amanecer en nuestra conciencia colectiva, la claridad de una idea: la Tierra es nuestro único dios y gobierno.
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We just received this letter on Christmas Eve.
Hello! We as a family saw
We as a family saw "What Would Jesus Buy" two years ago. I loved the movie, and have continued to think in terms of doing less and less. My children know me as an avid recycler, and have taken to finding 'gifts' on the roadside or in thrift stores. This year, my seventeen-year-old daughter said, "I KNOW you're going to say, 'just MAKE me something', but I BOUGHT you something, so don't get mad!"
I laughed, but I knew something had sunk in over the years. Yes, we still BUY at the holidays, but my credit score is so horrible I don't have the opportunity to incur holiday debt! The children leave suggestions now, but also understand because they are older, that less is more. The 'less' is also more expensive. Overall, all the children have been pretty good at accepting gifts which may be second hand or have cost very little.
So, Billy, over the course of the last two years our family has made small, gradual changes in our habits of consuming. My new husband and I got married on December 12 after four years of being together. Between us, we have eight children and two grandchildren, and his mother now lives with us. However, we asked for no gifts or recycled gifts for the wedding, and people LISTENED! Out of approximately 100-ish people who attended, we received less than twenty gifts, and those were mostly recycled books, small appliances, homemade jams and jellies, or wine.
I am proud to say, even after all that, we CAN do better. My goal in 2010 is to move continually in the direction of accumulating less, while increasing time with family and friends.
I thank you for all you do to help people make better decisions.
Have a blessed holiday season!
May Kirby
What Would Jesus Buy?
The Spiritual Vacuum
Thank you.
John
Dear John
Bless you all!!!
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