America: Where are YOU

We Americans desperately need to acknowledge the facts, to open our eyes to the corruption and hear the truth behind the lies of our political heads of state. Then, it may be that we can do what needs doing (and that certainly isn’t supporting the rich or insisting that our neighbors keep their yards the same way we do ours). Enough is enough and now is the time to say NO to government intervention!

Government spending is so far out of control that God only knows how many generations will suffer because of it. Huge waves of illegal immigration, constant waging of war, and incongruous monetary policy, threaten worldwide well-being and security….our individual rights, our personal freedoms, and our American identity.

We must stop looking to Washington for some mystical “quick fix” to what ails US and the world because this political Gargantuan seeks only to have more control and more power. It howls about promulgating democracy and personal liberties, screams to the world “follow me, for my way is best” then whimsically threatens to kick the neighbors’ butts to prove it. These are hardly methods of promoting democracy; they are ways of demanding obedience. Government is a beast with an insatiable appetite of greed, gorging itself at the expense of individual liberties and it will stop at nothing to satisfy itself.

As an American, I cherish the ideals that motivated the Founding Fathers and caused them to put their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor on the line. I made every effort to follow their example; even went so far as to put my very life on the line in support of them. However, today the American Dream has experienced a shameful metamorphosis, going from principles to materialism and all the fault of that behemoth two-faced giant…government. WE need to come together-slay the cursed beast and give America back to the people.

Make NO mistake about it: The American Dream is a great deal more than mere materiality. Material gain is a single fruit of freedom, not its root; individual freedom is the foundation of American greatness, not governmental policy. Collectively, American citizens have the power to defeat this monster and instill in its place…leadership that is capable of upholding and sustaining the very principles politics has excused.

© September 2008 by Tuttimal

Today One More Time

Today is More than Just Another Day:

Today, comes to each singularly and just once in a life-time. Come tomorrow, today will be gone…and it will be gone forever more. In its stead will be something left behind…another yesterday.

Today is allocated the exact amount of time that yesterday was, however do not assume that for any one of us this holds true; for none of us knows how much of today is meant for them. Instead of contemplating what you should do or can do, make the most of what it offers by doing something you consider worthwhile, however insignificant or consequential you assume others think it to be. Today we are exchanging a day of our life for a memory.

Why not make it special?

Anyone Can Quit

In any situation, quitting, giving up that is…is easy, anyone can do it; however, it merely creates a false solution that serves only to augment and postpone closure.

Life is such that accomplishing easy goals is not nearly as satisfying as experiencing the trials and tribulations associated with the more difficult and as is sometimes the case, seemingly impossible situations that come our way. That’s why it’s imperative that we trudge past our failures, chock them up as lessons learned, and using every means at our disposal get back on our feet and try again.

Failure, as much–if not more than success is the apprentice to wisdom, for wisdom comes not from age (as so many think). Rather, it comes from experience (living life). We do grow wiser as the years accumulate, not because we have grown older, but because we have had time to experience more.

My point is simple: live all you can all the time…let no thing, no person, and no excuse keep you from being YOU…for it is the YOU in every one of us that makes each of us special, not how many toys we own, how popular we are, or how we look dressed up. It is only from professing the uniqueness of self, that we can discover contentment and wisdom…there is no other way.

The Magic Of Words

I have, and more than occasionally, been asked to digest this common tidbit of career advice: “do what you love.” Common conjecture supposes that if we choose to do that which we love in making a livelihood, then we would be more apt to attain lasting happiness, be healthier, wealthier, more content, and eventually reap the rewards of a fulfilled life. Proven true to theory by study after study, this is unquestionably, excellent advice…advice only a fool or inept individual would fail to heed. I think it safe to assume that everyone desires to live a healthy life, filled with financial freedom and accented by complete success of all they dare venture.

Fact is: I am doing one of the things I do and just for the love of doing it…right now; and that is writing. A goodly number of us, consider the act of putting words together truly artful, while others claim it is natural, and some even insist that writers are gifted-being inspired by who knows what. Regardless as to the origin and no matter how they come out, words are one of the most effective ways of communicating and when written they are indubitable the finest method available for disclosing whatever it is you have desire to share. The thing is, I don’t make a living at it, in fact I don’t get paid at all; and it certainly doesn’t contribute to my physical health for it forces me to stay for a time too long at this temperamental computer…in one somewhat unflattering position too (that’s the sitting position–which accentuates my aging midsection and widening bottom). In terms of mental health however, it is most often a plus for when I learn that someone has put a special meaning to my words…more than being ingratiated, I am thrilled.

As a child, before attaining school age even, I would sit on Mom’s lap and drift away into the land of imagination, envisioning each tale as she read. In looking back I can honestly say, “Mom was my very first reading and writing teacher”. Perhaps she, was the reason I fell in love with words. Every single word in any particular story has it’s own meaning, and that meaning changes with each reader’s interpretation. Awesome when you think about it! A single tale or point of view, once written, becomes a thousand times a thousand stories and creates a multitude of opinions. Words have the power to enhance emotion, exhilarate a debate, suggest a situation, define a circumstance, and create dominant images for our minds to contemplate. Good writing combines them all in the same instant.

It is said: “A picture says more than a thousand words” and sure, pictures are a great and simplified way to express our feelings or mood…but it is words that are omnipresent in our lives. We think in words, we use words to name our feelings, people, places, and things that are dear to us. Ever since humans mastered the complex skills of thinking and speaking, we have done so by means of words.Through words we have means to share our inner most thoughts and dreams (something few, if any pictures are capable of doing because they mostly “suggest”) and I for one, believe that words do indeed have significant and mysterious power; and in fact, right now…My MIND is having lots of FUN; its’ the rest of me that gets frustrated.

Happy Fourth of July America

Founded on July 4th, 1776 with the signing of the Declaration of Independence was an independent America.

On “Independence Day,” July Fourth of this year, Americans are expected to celebrate the 232th Birthday of what was for nearly 200 years; the greatest country on this earth.

For over 2 centuries, Americans enjoyed the finest of ideological societies…that is to say, that Americans and the rest of the world assumed they did. Today everyone clearly sees the other side to the story.

Something “bad” has happened to America. It seems to have gone the way of the poison barb and the whole of the earth’s people see it as a vulgar, violent, and forsaken country…a nation of “freakish bullying hogs” that will stop at nothing to fatten already over stuffed “pigs.”

Overseas we have been waging impunity’s war for more than 60 years; and on our very own shores, the weak, the impoverished, the old, and up and coming generations are being victimized by corrupt political leadership and conglomerate powers as they combine and re-stage “bogus reality” for titillation of the masses. From a controlled media, we as ordinary citizens, are blatantly exposed to brazen and obvious untruths daily to sustain this monster pig’s voracious appetite.

In the world’s eye, we are a nation of lazy, indifferent, apathetic puppets who live a life of luxury. We Americans, most assuredly, have been given an outstanding gift. There was a time when I felt undeniably proud to be an American and celebrated whole heartily on the 4th of July. I am not anti-America, I am disgusted, disillusioned, tired of being lied to, and damn well pissed off. There is no economical reason why any working American can’t sustain a living, yet as it stands today, the ordinary citizen has to struggle every single day just to feed his family. He is an overused and abused mule that is on it’s last leg. The goose that lay golden eggs is fast becoming barren, an endangered species that is going the way of the DODO bird.

So this Fourth of July, when you sing the National Anthem, or wave the flag; whether you enjoy a fireworks display or participate in a family barbecue in celebration of our country’s birthday, realize this one thing: we are enslaving ourselves by our own appetites.

Our health care system, our national debt, our reputation as humanitarians, our quality of life, and our God given rights to pursue happiness is at stake. In today’s world of politics and publicity our representatives and lawmakers have sold out every single American and they have distorted the very principals this great nation was founded upon. Freedom is now but an instrument blasting a sour tune of materialistic nothingness. America the Beautiful has become a nation that embraces things instead of integrity. It’s purple mountain majesty is no longer colored in Liberty. Whereas our Founding Fathers cherished freedom, today’s Senate, Congress, Supreme Court, and political representatives (from the local mayor all the way up to the President) favor self. We, the American people are no longer represented, instead we are directed. One can only guess how long this trend will last before we have lost all that America was meant to be.