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Quote of my day

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"I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human race, as my spirit is part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family."

D.H. Lawrence

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"emerges ahead of his accomplishments"

That's my jumping off point this morning.

It's Monday, MLK day here in the states, and well...I think for the most part, for a lot of the people in America, it's either a bonus day off...Or it's a hassle because of it being a weekday off, with kids out of school...But your regular life has to march on.

The robots that I use in my work, and my OCD with things all mechanical "things"...Man's attempt to become a God on Earth...Adams Steele reinforced rib...With great gas mileage.

I like robots for that reason...

Emerges ahead of his accomplishments...

Because our greatest accomplishments...

Are made by becoming

more

organic

animal

human

rather than

a sum

of organic parts

functioning

but not living.

Living...bink, bink, bink...

Living, it's so fucking stressful

and complicated for me of late.

I have to work hard to control my impulse to

slip

fall

slide

through the

fog of my

Factory Life.

I am a Machine

a Machine

of

Love.

I operate with

the precision of something

programmed

for LIVING.

A healthy mind

in a sound body

is not easy to

create from the scraps left over

from the assemblage of stuff

my organic

existence...My bridgework trail back to the

past

present

future.

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Which brings be back to my point.

MLK day.

A Human Being Worth...Wealth...

a fine example of

an authentic

LIVING being.

An American born,

dark skinned

Human

Inspired by his

FAITH

in all of humanity...

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal."

Martin Luther King Jr

"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse. The true with the false and the false with the true."

Martin Luther King Jr

think about that for a moment...

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Being born and raised in Southern Florida...And now living in the NW, I see that slavery/race isn't a concept that has left

any of us, untouched...

Regardless of

color.

We are all economic slaves

fodder

machines

separate

small.

Dr. King...He was speaking for equality for all humans,

in America...On EARTH...

Wealth

Status

Position

Power

Apathy

that's what defines who

we are in the

ladder of life.

From the top down its all about

how much you have

not how rich you are

as a resource...

as a

machine

capable of being a human animal...An organic

combination of our ecological

evolution...

and

then...More.

As I look back over my experience being a darker skinned

grrrl, too dark to just be white, too white to

be

anything

else.

I understand from a perspective as Female...As a white female...As a white, female, human...

BEING.

Whiteness is not a color I see.

I love the color white.

I don't like it as a descriptive term...

feels like a

suit cut

wrong...And it's hard to

understand

the importance of

being

more....When everyday life can make you

feel so

small

alone

separate.

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I also have a dream.

That America really can be

a beacon of indvidualism,

commerce with conscious,

beings with

varying shades of

skin

that function

together

as a huge Machine of

Love...

Adventures, Chain Breakers of the

Highest Order

authentic

and

truly

FREE.

I reflect on how MLK would respond to

being wire tapped...What he would make of our current corrupt political system,

where we grow up and ask to be put into the system...And are controlled by the real wealthy, the ones that control what we see, feel, hear...Taste...

to take care of us, and protect ourselves from the cancer within...Wait

he was in these situation! Remember that

White Guy named

Nixon?

Yeah...History...It's funky.

My son's are coming home telling me all about

the American History, that they learn

in school.

It's not the same history

I learned in school...But it seems to me...Like the great

bibles of the world...It depends

on who is telling the tale

and who is

interpreting it.

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My point being that we learn from our mistakes...Good judgment,

comes from bad judgment.

In America today, it's not what's wrong

but what's right, that we can focus on if we so choose...We are still free in our minds, spirits and souls...That can't be taken from any sentient being...

As Marget Mead said,

"Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has."

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I am all for telling the tale...

I just hope

the

author writes

a

good ending

for this factory life

filled with

Machines

of love.

A good old fashioned,

everybody's happy at the end of 102 minutes...

American

Ending.

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Living in the moment today,

and thinking not from outside the box

but from inside

the Human,

Heather