Wish I could find the date of when I wrote this .. hrm .... wonder if I have a hard-copy somewhere with a date on it .. I'll look and update if I do. Regardless, this is a piece that I don't think is posted anywhere except my OKC profile :) so its here now for you to enjoy! yay! :)
---
The disabled are mislabeled
and the public is mislead
afraid to tread
on the toes
of those
they do not understand.
So come and take my hand
and I'll lead you
and feed you
the truth for your brain to see
because its plain to me
that living in this mediacracy
has eaten away at all you say
all you believe and think is real
unable to feel
alive on the inside
forced to hide
whatever scraps of yourself
you've managed to hold on to this long......
hold on ....
its gunna be alright ..
cuz the man with the plan can't stand
to see you fall down ...
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Thursday, August 2, 2012
less-than-three
"The one thing you cannot trade for your heart's desire is your heart." (Memory - by L.M. Bujold)
Monday, May 21, 2012
fear, just like anger, is not a bad thing -- its what you DO with it!
Do you ever feel like getting everything you want is scarier than struggling to get those things? I am moving in a week into the best possible future for myself and my daughter. I will be able to breathe again for the first time in a LONG time and no one can pull the ground out from under my feet -- it will be stable for as long as I want it to be. I can start to focus forward instead of always worrying about the now. I can make decisions for possibilities for tomorrow, rather than just dream them and never reach them. And I am scared!! I know how turmoil works -- I've worked it for the last decade of my life. Things have fallen from one bad scenario to the next, but I've always managed to pull us through it and I've always managed to come up for a breath of fresh air before being sucked back in. The thing is -- this next move will be nothing like the other ones and I can already almost TASTE the solid ground. How does that work? How do I let go of this "survivor" mentality that I've adopted to live my daily life, because it has been the only way possible for me? I know I will feel may way through it, I know I will learn the next dance moves just the same way as I always have; I have strength and conviction and courage -- I know I am capable. I'm just admitting the fear, turning it around and looking at it from all angles so I can be ready. Life, here I come, be ready for me, because I am going places!!!! :)
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Friday, February 10, 2012
I need friends ... can we be friends?!
... have you noticed... oddly enough ... Canadian Tire has a really lovely Home Sense section, fraught with Debbie Travis galore!!??
I'd love to saunter in there .. dressed to the teeth ... maybe snag some chairs from Seasonal ... and set up a li'l imaginary High Tea party of our own.
Game?
no?
Okay, well .. this is my other plan ... wander over to Walmart and grab a cart .. fill 'er up w/ all the stuff we'd need to go camping .. and then head to a more off-beat corner to set up our camp-site ...
better?
still no?
The last one involves other people ... besides you and I .. but I'd love to get a hold of as many friends/family/random people on the street as possible .. and plan our way ahead of time, then slowly trickle in to a Chapters/Indigo store and randomly snag books off the shelves (so they're not just all from one shelf and in order) until each person individually has an arm-load (or whatever their maximum carrying capacity may be) and then converge on a pre-arranged location -- perhaps the children section would be best .... and quickly build as much of a fort w/ our books as we can before being escorted out ......
...
I'm really not about destruction ... I'd just like to be a thorn in the corporate side ... cause a little harmless mayhem ......
are you interested yet?!@#! :)
I mean, we could always just grab a beer, or a coffee, and discuss the finer points of Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophies.
Hi .. my name is Cass (and no, this isn't a canned msg ... but then .. if it were, I'd probably say this in an attempt to throw you off ... in which case, arguing the point is moot ..... but.... c'est la vie!)
I'd love to saunter in there .. dressed to the teeth ... maybe snag some chairs from Seasonal ... and set up a li'l imaginary High Tea party of our own.
Game?
no?
Okay, well .. this is my other plan ... wander over to Walmart and grab a cart .. fill 'er up w/ all the stuff we'd need to go camping .. and then head to a more off-beat corner to set up our camp-site ...
better?
still no?
The last one involves other people ... besides you and I .. but I'd love to get a hold of as many friends/family/random people on the street as possible .. and plan our way ahead of time, then slowly trickle in to a Chapters/Indigo store and randomly snag books off the shelves (so they're not just all from one shelf and in order) until each person individually has an arm-load (or whatever their maximum carrying capacity may be) and then converge on a pre-arranged location -- perhaps the children section would be best .... and quickly build as much of a fort w/ our books as we can before being escorted out ......
...
I'm really not about destruction ... I'd just like to be a thorn in the corporate side ... cause a little harmless mayhem ......
are you interested yet?!@#! :)
I mean, we could always just grab a beer, or a coffee, and discuss the finer points of Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophies.
Hi .. my name is Cass (and no, this isn't a canned msg ... but then .. if it were, I'd probably say this in an attempt to throw you off ... in which case, arguing the point is moot ..... but.... c'est la vie!)
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
A Humantra
ORIGINAL: Janurary 24, 2012
I trust myself. I listen to my own wisdom.
I surround myself with people who encourage me in the intentions I set for myself.
I accomplish what I put my mind to because I believe in my own abilities.
I am worthy.
I respect myself.
I allow myself to take on only what I can handle at any given time.
I give myself permission to be happy.
───────────────────────────────
UPDATED: March 23, 2015
A Humantra
I
am strong.
I am capable.
I
am beautiful.
I
am intelligent.
I
trust myself.
I
listen to my own wisdom.
I
surround myself with people who encourage me
in the intentions I set
for myself.
I
accomplish what I put my mind to because
I believe in my own
abilities.
I allow myself to take on only what I can
handle at any given time.
I give myself permission to be happy.
I
respect myself.
I am worthy.
I
am enough.
I am.
.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
SOPA?
Back in early 2000 I had the fortune of providing temporary hosting for a website called daterape.org. If you google the quoted "daterape.org" you can read some of the controversy that went around the globe in discussing this site.
(for quick-access, here are two differing views:
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2000/03/34941
http://www.fitug.de/debate/0003/msg00737.html
I'd like you to take particular note of the second link)
For my part, I believed the website to be a satire.
sat·ire noun /ˈsaˌtīr/ The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues
It was SO over the top and in your face, how anyone could see it as something other than satire is mind-boggling to me. The first link up there gives you a pretty good idea of what was on the site. But it fails to mention some of the other things on the site -- like, directions to boys on their first date, including, for example, how to dismantle the inside of the car door handle so that it will open only from the outside. This one was a complete shocker to me! I had been on many internet dates, as I was twenty years old in the year 2000, but I had never in my wildest dreams conjured up the idea that I should check that the car I am getting into could be opened from the inside, after I was in -- I just assumed this was a given.
This website, from its first 500 viewers, managed to garner national and eventually global attention. What were people talking about? Several issues -- many of them were talking about the disgusting nature of the website, others were talking about freedom of speech on the internet, but one thing was being discussed that generally got very little air time: date rape.
Unfortunately, no matter the campaigns in high school, date rape is still extremely under reported, even though statistics show that it occurs frequently. According to safecity.ca a 1993 survey of female undergraduates at Canadian universities reported that "four out of five women said that they had been victims of violence in a relationship". That is 80% of the female populous, without taking into account men or same-sex partnerships.
This was just seven years before the 2000 website daterape.org came online. Who was daterape.org educating about the realities of daterape? Was it the offenders? Because with a pervasive influence such as 4 out of 5, it seems to me like the abusers already had it under control. But the victims? The victims could certainly use some widely spread information that the abusers already knew. Some insider notes, so to speak.
It is 2012 and you may be asking, why am I bringing up such an odd story from over a decade ago and how does this really relate to SOPA? This daterape.org incident is just one of many. It happens to be one I was personally involved in and so I can speak to it directly. The SOPA bill, in its transparency, fails to be simply about online piracy. Its title "To promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating the theft of U.S. property, and for other purposes." already tosses in the 'other purposes' clause. The first wave of internet censorship is not a solitary wave -- it will be followed by many more and potentially a tidal wave that cripples internet uses entirely.
If free speech and expression are no longer allowed on the internet, where will we turn?
A site like daterape.org is controversial -- but sometimes it takes a controversy to wake up the masses and get them talking about real issues. Date rape is a big issue that gets brushed under the rug far too often. Free speech on the internet is one that keeps getting set aside and its proponents are wide and varied. Some feel that free speech is just a given -- why are we fighting, we can't actually ever LOSE that right, can we? And others feel that H.R. 3261 or S. 968 are about business, they don't have anything to do with free speech.
It has been said, if you lose all your other rights, it is with free speech that you can win them back, conversely, without free speech you will lose all your other rights.
I invite people to get informed and be active about which side you are on.
(for quick-access, here are two differing views:
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2000/03/34941
http://www.fitug.de/debate/0003/msg00737.html
I'd like you to take particular note of the second link)
For my part, I believed the website to be a satire.
sat·ire noun /ˈsaˌtīr/ The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues
It was SO over the top and in your face, how anyone could see it as something other than satire is mind-boggling to me. The first link up there gives you a pretty good idea of what was on the site. But it fails to mention some of the other things on the site -- like, directions to boys on their first date, including, for example, how to dismantle the inside of the car door handle so that it will open only from the outside. This one was a complete shocker to me! I had been on many internet dates, as I was twenty years old in the year 2000, but I had never in my wildest dreams conjured up the idea that I should check that the car I am getting into could be opened from the inside, after I was in -- I just assumed this was a given.
This website, from its first 500 viewers, managed to garner national and eventually global attention. What were people talking about? Several issues -- many of them were talking about the disgusting nature of the website, others were talking about freedom of speech on the internet, but one thing was being discussed that generally got very little air time: date rape.
Unfortunately, no matter the campaigns in high school, date rape is still extremely under reported, even though statistics show that it occurs frequently. According to safecity.ca a 1993 survey of female undergraduates at Canadian universities reported that "four out of five women said that they had been victims of violence in a relationship". That is 80% of the female populous, without taking into account men or same-sex partnerships.
This was just seven years before the 2000 website daterape.org came online. Who was daterape.org educating about the realities of daterape? Was it the offenders? Because with a pervasive influence such as 4 out of 5, it seems to me like the abusers already had it under control. But the victims? The victims could certainly use some widely spread information that the abusers already knew. Some insider notes, so to speak.
It is 2012 and you may be asking, why am I bringing up such an odd story from over a decade ago and how does this really relate to SOPA? This daterape.org incident is just one of many. It happens to be one I was personally involved in and so I can speak to it directly. The SOPA bill, in its transparency, fails to be simply about online piracy. Its title "To promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating the theft of U.S. property, and for other purposes." already tosses in the 'other purposes' clause. The first wave of internet censorship is not a solitary wave -- it will be followed by many more and potentially a tidal wave that cripples internet uses entirely.
If free speech and expression are no longer allowed on the internet, where will we turn?
A site like daterape.org is controversial -- but sometimes it takes a controversy to wake up the masses and get them talking about real issues. Date rape is a big issue that gets brushed under the rug far too often. Free speech on the internet is one that keeps getting set aside and its proponents are wide and varied. Some feel that free speech is just a given -- why are we fighting, we can't actually ever LOSE that right, can we? And others feel that H.R. 3261 or S. 968 are about business, they don't have anything to do with free speech.
It has been said, if you lose all your other rights, it is with free speech that you can win them back, conversely, without free speech you will lose all your other rights.
I invite people to get informed and be active about which side you are on.
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