Whatever type happens!  It's nice to think that whatever kind of weather any one of us is wishing for is happening somewhere on this globe!  :-)

I heard this video placed second at the AARP U@50 contest, though I don't know what year; fairly recently.  It's really cool the way they illustrate how we can reverse what's happening...  Enjoy!

Fanny, a friend I met here at Gaia.com, is a supporter of the DREAM ACT, which asks for legal status for kids who immigrated to this country and, having lived here for years, deserve a legal place in schools and jobs in the U.S.  Read on for more information (the text below is from Fanny's page), or visit Fanny at http://fannym.gaia.com/.  You can also read more about the DREAM Act at http://dreamactivist.org/.
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Pass the DREAM Act - Support Higher Education for All Students


The problem: Many American students graduate from college and high school each year, and face a roadblock to their dreams: they can't drive, can't work legally, can't further their education, and can't pay taxes to contribute to the economy just because they were brought to this country illegally by their parents or lost legal status along the way. It is a classic case of lost potential and broken dreams, and the permanent underclass of youth it creates is detrimental to our economy. Former Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch has said: “In short, although these children have built their lives here, they have no possibility of achieving and living the American dream. What a tremendous loss for them, and what a tremendous loss to our society.”

The solution: The federal DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act), is a bipartisan legislation that would permit these students conditional legal status and eventual citizenship granted that they meet ALL the following requirements:

–if they were brought to the United States before they turned 16, are below the age of 30,
–have lived here continuously for five years,
–graduated from a U.S.
high school or obtained a GED
–have good moral character with no criminal record and
–attend college or enlist in the military.


Why should you care? There is no other pathway to citizenship for these students. Besides the injustice of punishing children for the alleged transgressions of their parents, throwing away the talent we have invested in from K-12 and accruing losses in human and financial capital by deporting talented students is bad public policy. The Social Security Administration has recently stated that we need a net increase of 100,000 immigrants each year to ensure Social Security solvency.

Passing the DREAM Act would actually help solve the Social Security crisis by creating a larger taxable base of educated Americans that are already in the United States. It would also free some of the backlog that currently plagues the legal immigration system. Also, the DREAM Act in its latest form, does not grant in-state tuition to any student.


Endorsements: Since 2001, almost a 1000 organizations have officially endorsed the bill. Barack Obama has stated that DREAM Act beneficiaries are “American children for all intents and purposes” and has called this a top priority.


Tell President-Elect Obama to pass the DREAM Act in 2009.
See DreamActivist. org to get more involved.

The crucial aspect
is just listening
to admonitions.  Suspicions:
my, I have those; they
counsel me.  I have
an angel in cahoots
named Mathiel, and talk
with him, asking him
that action of my own will, action
as his divinity;
How should my intention prove
for only one love?  Ah, my intentions and actions,
would they coincide; my one present moment,
here.  He is angel.  Will I
allow myself
to release now?  I can always
see freely.  For, it's presently
I am seeing.  Now,
the way he does.  I move
because I am propelled.






©2000

The loose pan handle -- wobbly pan.  Fire out, spices back on the rack, soy sauce
on my fingertips.  I pick up the pan thinking perfect mushrooms on my plate. 
The pan tips, the ports  splat  on the floor, dusty.
And then the insistent burning in my diaphragm.  I stare at the stove,
the spattered sauce, recall the feelings of a dream --
anger like a monster
ripping me from sleep with a mad power.
(I had felt my cells change that night.  When I woke, my skin was scaly, my eyes red,
my soul shrunk tiny as a particle.)






©1998

beneath the fiddling  moon
a thousand fall shadows
sing to a shaking in the wind.
the moon orange, a gritty womb --
seeds and fleshy tendrils,
the scent of squash --
and silence reverberating
the way the moon
echoes soft over
and over.





©1998

Bickering vegetables:
tomatoes don't like onions
    because they're too bold and outspoken,
onions are afraid of beans
    because they come in large bushy numbers.
So, I planted them where they wouldn't fight so much,
prepared the soil,
laid down the rows,
banished all the weeds,
made sure my own house and yard were sweet enough for their characters,
nurtured them well.
Everyone was happy
until the day half the carrots disappeared.
The vegtables were in a panic, ranting about furry monsters.
So, I bought 150 feet of chicken wire,
put it around the garden,
fenced them in.  They were still attacked:
days later the rabbits and groundhog ate
just about all of the beans,
quite a few kohlrabies,
and this morning I found one of the broccoli plants gone.






©1998 by klh

That of wanting.  Implying that I often don't have quite enough for what I need.  Or want.  Which means I am often in a state of wanting.

Which implicates feelings of worthiness, worth, deserving.  Which indicates the need for nourishment.  And trust.  And letting go, or detaching.  Allowing.

A friend told me years ago I'd benefit from treating myself like I would my own child.  This is still good advice!

I can think happy thoughts about money.  I can think about what I'd do with it if I had more, how more secure I may feel, more free, more...  I can come back to thinking positively about money.  I can program my brain with affirming mantras.  I am still wanting the money to be here.

The money theme has been on the front of my stage lately.  Today, I had a book borrowed from a friend, and I opened to a page.  It said, "The experience of wanting."  I realized that for all my focus on bettering my situation, I was still wanting for it.  Which meant I'm creating more wanting, instead of what it is that I am wanting.  It said:
 

Returning to school has been motivating me in many areas. 

1.  I am following my heart in this!  This means that my inner light is becoming more and more excited and is consequently supplying me with lots of great ideas that I'm looking forward to implementing.  The Society for the Cultivation and Expansion of Love is one of these things.  Every day I get more ideas. The first wave of this plan focuses on plants, the earth, and our environment.  The second wave focuses on people.  And yet, both waves (and the ones to come) are equal in importance! 

2.  Financially.  I have to come up with a lot of money!  It is both an exercise in trust and an opportunity to change my relationship with money into something more supportive and beneficial.  I'm having fun with it, and I'm seeing it more as a game that I can be good at.  It's all in what I think!  What I feel, I make real.

And in general I have been even more motivated to just awaken already.  I am so, so glad this is what's happening! 

Everywhere!!!