8o's legacy (happy Independence) Don't blame the GWB administration, it was Reagan and his merry crew. Though we protested in the post-Vietnam 70's hot and sure about every error the point is, we had that luxury. Yes, there was hardship, discrimination, individual need; but really no one need go hungry for lack of a job, there was real community spirit, especially on the lower rungs, but philanthropy as well. There was a strong foundation that made sense and could be reasoned with. The 80's brought in a different worldview, more wide and wild. Days of cocaine, champagne, glamour and celebration for sweet deregulation, when every dreamer could believe the capitalist vision of wealth unbound. Before it was found that poisonous as plutonium in the gleeful arms of the truly greedy, just what we were free to become. Since then it's been spinning our balance to bits of blast-warped brains. Such unbridled hatred and spitting disdain. Psychic Cassandras said at the time, his numbers are 666. A man possessed by Hollywood fantasies of what we all should be, folie a deux with the nation. And here are those snowy yesteryears roosting in our rafters, laying out the macabre future of their disaffected dreams. Who are we, really? Distanced from our history, believing convenient lies, what are our chances for recovery? July 4, 2010 interdependence Q & A I need you, out there, to ask the questions, feed my liminal factory -- imaginal machinery set to engineer exquisite ideas in shrink-wrapped phrases. Tell me your shame-held secrets, fears that track you in the night. Let me meld them with trenchant fairytales, legends that recapitulate on cable news, vibrant stylings of the Blues, surreal cartoons rendered by Nietzschean travails. Let me take this mess, sprinkle with inchoate memories, bake well at near 99 degrees until the odor overtakes the air. Now, open wide and taste enchantment, if your questions and my answers meet and satisfy each other's needs. July 4, 2010
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Impact and legacy is everything. These inspirational quotes about leaving a legacy are a powerful challenge for us to make every day count. They call us to consider the ways we are currently living our life and whether or not we need to reorient our priorities. These quotes may help inspire you to consider the impact of your life and to live each day with immense intentionality and purpose: Peter Strople: “Legacy is not leaving something behind for other people. It’s leaving something behind in other people.” Maya Angelou: “If you’re going to live, leave behind a legacy. Make an impact on the world that can never be erased.” William James: “The greatest purpose of life is to live it for something that will last longer than you.” Greg Plitt: “You only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough my friend.” Shannon L. Alder: “It doesn’t really matter to me if people forget me. My life and impact weren’t about me. They were about everything I could do for someone else. When that sinks in, you start to try a little harder. Your dreams get bigger. Your heart stretches to a bigger size and you find that you can’t return to the old size and make your new heart fit. You become a person with ideas, and you seek out your own kind. And then it happens: One day you learn that staying the same is the scary part, and changing is now your new home.” Rosa Parks: “I am leaving this legacy behind to all of you… to bring unity, equality, love, and a realization of how our lives should be. Without a vision, the people will fall, and without bravery and inspiration, dreams will die - the dream of freedom and peace.” Tavis Smiley: “Our choices about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.”
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