tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569200156065234506.post8891725587117588087..comments2023-06-02T01:26:26.500-07:00Comments on The Note: A White ChristmasAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04217263100811863552noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569200156065234506.post-30899523866488133452011-12-28T13:36:18.722-08:002011-12-28T13:36:18.722-08:00Hello Mr. TB ohhhh it has been so long and thank y...Hello Mr. TB ohhhh it has been so long and thank you for that message!!! May 2012 be rich and full of adventures and love and joy!<br /><br />It is a big subject and one I want to keep exploring not to weaken our resolve but to strengthen and create more awareness as we filter through the 2012 political landscape. This election is exposing the ugliness of America and where she needs some work and where we have all but calcified in our prejudices and I mean all of us. In the African American community we could resist the temptations and beware the traps that have lead to so much pain. Yes we are all interrelated isn't that what it means to be enlightened when we realize our connectedness?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04217263100811863552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2569200156065234506.post-65412081536550603692011-12-26T22:13:46.857-08:002011-12-26T22:13:46.857-08:00What's up, doll; long time, no visit (please f...What's up, doll; long time, no visit (please forgive me). About some 15 years ago, I swore off the rather "capitalistic" (or better put, wholly materialistic) style of celebrating Christmas; asking that others not purchase and give me gifts and with my not offering nor giving gifts --- to anyone. I must say that it's been a tough position to take; particularly in the face of an increasingly selfish western culture. Folks just don't seem to grasp my position that "I (and my Love and loving actions) am your gift; all year long". However, with each passing year, the position that I some years ago adopted has grown stronger; and it's strengthened me to be able to give more of myself to life, on a daily basis.<br /><br />As I'm currently based out of Copenhagen, having moved there around this time last year, I've had reason to study the "isms" of European culture; whilst gaining the opportunity to view the intrinsic racism of American culture from a vantage point of some remove. I've found so far that neither the answers to the issues you pose (nor the issues themselves) are at all clear-cut; at least not until one jumps a bit outside the "material" box. <br /><br />Until we recognize that there is no distinction between "my pain" and "your pain", we shall each suffer. As the world continues to become "smaller and smaller", it's still not evident to most that the only thing that prevents "my problem" from being "your problem" is time itself --- countless wars, epidemics and the like bearing out such reasoning.<br /><br />Perhaps one day, we'll become clued in; there remains Hope. May you be blessed to enter the coming year (2012) with renewed vigor; and a thirst to Love. :o)Tony Bunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16537596201524812466noreply@blogger.com