Eclectic Recovery: Violence does not work

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Violence does not work

Violence does not work
Except for the man
Who pays your salary
Who knows
If you could still weep
You would not take the job.

Alice Walker

I had a dream last night and awoke remembering this quote. I'm pondering the lives of women and men for whom this is a reality (wondering if I'm included in their numbers) and how this relates to addiction. Life can be so complicated; is it any wonder some of us get lost in our relief?

2 comments:

John Eaton said...: Amen, Angela.

Just today I got one of those "we've chosen another candidate" phonecalls.

I've been on both sides of that one over the years.

Gonna' go write some more, and dream,

John; 8/29/2007 04:36:00 PM
Angela said...: Too bad we all can't be independently wealthy, huh?

As always, thanks for visiting.; 8/29/2007 08:10:00 PM

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Hi. I'm Angela. Eclectic Recovery is my blog and I welcome you to its pages.

ER began as an exploration into my ongoing issues with addiction/mental illness and the solutions I employed and experiences I went through attempting to navigate a course to health. Mostly they have been unsuccessful and ridiculous. Such, I find, is much of life.

My own problems with addiction have led me to catch onto the fact that virtually the entire world is addicted and that a forced detox is imminent. Peak oil, climate change & continued destruction, imperialism, corruption, global financial and food insecurity - these things will not go away just because we don't look.

My recent intense self-education into these issues still feels way behind the curve. At the same time, I realize that the majority of folks still can't stomach the topics and are in deep denial of our dilemma. But becoming informed and taking action, accepting responsbility and stepping up to the plate are going to, at the very least, make it much easier when you release that last breath. At best, you could get to be part of a revolution for change that will move us from an oiil-based, patriarchally defined way of life towards a reverence based society wherein all life is honored and we become, again, just another part of that life.

There's a lot of information out there and I believe I've gotten pretty good at separating the wheat from the chaff. I am called to provide anyone who happens to visit ER the good information I'm finding and attempt to engage them in action.

Peacefully. Respectfully.

ER is no longer just a personal blog. It's political, too.

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