Inspirational & motivational (from Jesse Kornbluth's blog)

(I scrolled down a ways before I saw this.)

1) So many of you are bummed because you see the government (or the Republican Party) as a giant that gets anything it wants. Not so. Business is much more powerful than government--in Bush's America, government is pretty much business's lackey--and anyone who creates a successful business is not only creating jobs and profit, he/she is generating personal power. "Business," said Emerson, "is divine activity." Yes, sometimes. If approached with Good Intentions. Bet you've got 'em.

2) Then there is the awesome power of the individual. As I see it, a committed person throws off more energy than a nuclear plant. Energy attracts energy. Next thing you know you've got a commnunity, then a movement. That's what happened in America from l966-l973--a handful of people wanted peace, and they got together, and after a while there were more of us than there were people who really wanted the war, and, after a very long struggle, we essentially overthrew the government. It's rare, but it does happen.

3) Finally, there is, I believe, a force in the universe that wants this human experiment to work. A friend once wrote in a poem: "How bright a light there must be/to make so dark a shadow." Hold that thought.

the blog is at

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/145/story_14546_1.html

I like that. Thanks.

I'm in such a bad mood today. But this helped!

-wildflower