Wordless Wednesday:
"November 16th, 2009
Monday edition."
Monday
Saturday
Random Tuesday Thoughts
prompted by
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2009
Random Tuesday Thoughts
at the Un Mom blog
okay, so how does this work?
my first Random Tuesday Thoughts.
hmmmmmmm
i'm supposed to be working on something else
but i'm doing this instead,
and its not even Tuesday.
wanna watch the first season of Allie McBeal . . .
rather have some grilled chicken, but
since its already kinda late gonna
have to settle for cheerios
then theres L,
we have a party next week and she's gonna be there.
she's way too young for me,
not that i mind so much
its just that she has the IQ of a gnat
and the maturity of a fifteen year old.
but boy! she'll never drown that's for sure, so okay
one more time, just one and i'll make it last.
and tomorrow i gotta touch base with the family,
early in the morning cause chores beckon.
o'course then i'll practice for my presentation,
and email the ladies who probably
think that i'm not ready for monday and they'd be right.
so there, random enough?
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.ero
Thematic Photographic 74 - Red
prompted by
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Thematic Photographic 74 - Red
[click to enlarge]
{RED CRANE by O'Dasor De, LAM}
this red thing is a crane working at The Pit (aka Ground Zero)
where something called "FreedomTowers" has been under
construction, at cost overruns, for close to a decade.
when completed, if ever,
it will stand as a testament to the Private Sectors'
ability to do things more efficiently, and more cheaply,
than Government by the People, of the People, and for the People.
so far, we are awed by the power of the "Invi$ible Hand"
of the Market Place to make profit out of disaster.
Go and check out more
Thematic Photographic images at the Written Inc Site!
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.O'Dasor De
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.ero
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Thursday
Thematic Photographic 74 - Red
prompted by
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Thematic Photographic 74 - Red
there it was.
not a half block away from Ground Zero;
just laying on the sidewalk and it reads . . . NO STANDING.
what else could we do?
we snapped a picture, then two.
wouldn't you?
Go and check out more
Thematic Photographic images at the Written inc. site
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Thematic Photographic 74 - Red
there it was.
not a half block away from Ground Zero;
just laying on the sidewalk and it reads . . . NO STANDING.
what else could we do?
we snapped a picture, then two.
wouldn't you?
Go and check out more
Thematic Photographic images at the Written inc. site
Sunday
helping people came naturally
"Since I had the inclinatation and the training, helping people came naturally. I wasn't thinking in terms of organizing members, but just a duty that I had to do. That goes back to my mother's training. It was not until later that I realized that this was a good organizing tool, although maybe unconsciously, I was already beggining to understand.
But I was used by people for a long time until I wised up. It wasn't that they wanted to do it, but that I was not prepared or able to tell them what to do in return. My work was just another war on poverty gimick, which is what happens when people are given everything and don't give anything in return. you can't mold them into any action.
Well, one night it just hit me. Once you helped people, most became very loyal. The people who helped us back when we wanted volunteers were the people we had helped. So I began to get a group of those people around me.
Once I realized helping people was an organizing technique, I increased that work. I was willing to work all day and night and go to hell and back for people- provided they also did something for the CSO in return. I never felt bad asking for that. It didn't contradict my parents' teachings, because I wasn't asking for something for myself.
For a long time we didn't know how to put that work together into an organization. But we learned after a while- we learned how to help people by making them responsible. Today it's the same principle with the Union. And it works. We don't get everybody, but we get enough to get that nucleus. I think solving problems for people is the only way to build solid groups."
— Cesar Chavez
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But I was used by people for a long time until I wised up. It wasn't that they wanted to do it, but that I was not prepared or able to tell them what to do in return. My work was just another war on poverty gimick, which is what happens when people are given everything and don't give anything in return. you can't mold them into any action.
Well, one night it just hit me. Once you helped people, most became very loyal. The people who helped us back when we wanted volunteers were the people we had helped. So I began to get a group of those people around me.
Once I realized helping people was an organizing technique, I increased that work. I was willing to work all day and night and go to hell and back for people- provided they also did something for the CSO in return. I never felt bad asking for that. It didn't contradict my parents' teachings, because I wasn't asking for something for myself.
For a long time we didn't know how to put that work together into an organization. But we learned after a while- we learned how to help people by making them responsible. Today it's the same principle with the Union. And it works. We don't get everybody, but we get enough to get that nucleus. I think solving problems for people is the only way to build solid groups."
— Cesar Chavez
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