Kidnapped

Last Saturday after work I was accosted by three pirates on my front deck.

Kidnapped really.

One case of PINOT EVIL, YArrgghh!

We were whisked away through winding roads and landed in a field near the end of the world.

Pirate, drinking, dancing, debauchery all around.


Sunday morning, head ache.

Sunday afternoon, jumping naked into the rapidly rushing forty-five degree-frigid- freaking river.(actually I had my SuperGirl panties on)

Save the ship, save the Pinot Evil. Yaarrrghhh!


All week long, looking for that lost piece of my brain.

Pirates, yarrgghh, please not tonight. We're scared to go home.

MBT's

I am on a massage table. There is a sumo wrestler sized woman on my back, she is pinning me down. In her massive hand she has two gigantic syringes. She injects them into the vertebrae in my neck. I wake up unable to move. Unable to get back to sleep, the pain is excruciating.

And this has been the drama for several years now. It's no wonder really after the leap off the bridge, forty feet down and sober. Idiot!

After years, fifteen or more, concrete floors: Bakery shops, hair salons, grocery store check-out, fifteen years.

The car accident, the situation with the spinal meninges which we are forbidden to discuss; if we do we must face involuntary commitment and not to a man or anything as pleasant as that.

I saw my chiropractor in town a few weeks ago. I told her that I had recently returned to full time on my feet work and that I should have been realigned first, but I've not had alot of time lately.

She said I need the shoes that rock. She forgot what they were called.

Friends, listen up.

If you have chronic neck pain, back pain or pain haunts your every thought as it did mine up until last Monday, I have three letters of advice (and I am not getting any kick backs, I just love them and you too):

MBT

Shoes that rock! Not kidding!

Yes they cost as much as my son's new car(seriously).

Yes the shoe salesperson comes out of the back room with a pair in your size in one hand and a hand saw in the other to collect the fee of an arm and a leg, but so worth it.

http://www.footwearetc.com/static_links/WALK_ORANGE.html

Miss Pan

I am flying over rivers;

My father walking down below.

"How did you learn to fly?" he and his companions ask.

"I practiced in a dream" and I recall the dream while in a dream.

I swoop and spin, it's so much fun to fly through the trees, over high wires.

"Stace, it's dangerous, I wish you wouldn't." My father shouts from the ground as he falls into the river, sinking.

"Don't say it. Don't tell me I can't fly. If I believe you, I will fall"

Descending slowly, tuning him out.

Determined to rise again.

Code Pink Slip

I can't make this assignment, I wish I could. If anyone out there, men included could take my place, I'd be grateful. Please let me know if you will go and then where you were so I can find you in the historical photo.



CODEPINK has been calling for a "pink slip" to Bush and Cheney for years- and now's the time to do it! Join CODEPINK DC, A28 Coalition, World Can't Wait and many others as we participate in a nationwide message to IMPEACH (Bush, Cheney, the lot of them). We will be joining on the Mall to use our bodies to spell out the word that has been on all of our minds and lips! CODEPINK has offered to take the "C" in IMPEACH and pink it up!

On April 28, in major actions across the country, CODEPINKers will be lying in "C" formation. Aerial photos of our human mural will be taken from the top of the Washington Monument. So bring your pink slip (or even better, wear it!) and your friends to the Mall this Saturday for an Impeachment Picnic!

When: Saturday, April 28th 10:30 am-1:00 pm. Photo is at noon, so please show up by 11:30am at the latest!
Where: The Mall between 14th and 15th St., just east of the foot of the Washington Monument. Smithsonian Metro stop (orange/blue line).
CODEPINK Meet Up will be on the North side of the area, just look for the big pink sign!
What to bring: Wear your pink, a blanket or two, a picnic, some sunscreen/sunglasses/hat and water.

Check out our Impeach page! http://www.codepinkalert.org/section.php?id=24

Open Door

"This being human is a guest house.

Every morning
a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and attend them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture, still,
treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond..."
Mevlana Jelalu'ddin Rumi : Persian sufi mystic
Mevlana Rumi (1207 - 1273)

Sell Out

I am incredibly far behind in my paper world. I get tired of paying all those bills. I would rather go shopping. I am Goldie Hawn as Private Benjamin, "I want to go to lunch." I am Bartleby the Scrivener to the Nth degree, "I'd prefer not to".

I plow through the unopened bills and reports and enter them into the computer anyway.

As a child of the seventies I never thought I would say this:

Happiness is. . .putting a yellow address label on your quarterly 940 tax report.

I love money and money loves me!

I am such a sell out!

Blind Love Assassin

I am curled up in a fetal position on my death bed.
My mother; not the one who loved me, but the one who gave birth to me

comes to my side.

"I don't want to die; I am afraid" I cry.

Again, she says

"You're alright."

She cannot be bothered.

Blind Assassin