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Anthony Gonzalez
Washington Heights, New York City

Let Us Bray

My wife has been lighting candles daily at a West Side church to help Kerry win. On our kitchen bulletin board there hangs a photo of George W. Bush standing next to Dick Cheney. Each night before my daughter goes to bed we perform a little ritual to cheer us, and give us hope. We each take a push pin, recite a short incantation, then thrust the points of our push pins into the pair of heads in the photo. We alternate heads nightly.

Happy Halloween

Renee Watabe
Verona, New Jersey

Monster Me

I have been thinking about rascism; lately, and for my entire life, really.
I always thought I was exempt. After all, I AM a “happa howlie” (half white)
“Eurasian” , Mixed Race, product of an “International Marriage,” “la, dee-da!”
When the kids spit at me and called me Chink Eyes in the schoolyard, I forgave them, naturally, like a good Christian.
I got a clue of the monster within, (using Anthony’s vocabulary) when I was immersed in an asian culture, different from that of my father’s. First those irritatated feelings popped up, impatience with others’ different ways and thought patterns, methods of eating, ways of expression. Then there were…gasp! droplets of hate seeping into my heart for all the communications that were musunderstood. Nonetheless, I try to think things through, I make conscious effort to open my mind. At home, we talk about Martin Luther King, Jr, we talk about how we are all brothers and sisters, how all the different races make a beautiful rainbow. Really, we do.

The other day, my youngest child said to me, out of the blue,” Mommy, we don’t know any white people, do we? Aren’;t they all dead or in jail? You know, for all the bad things they have done? “

Hm, I thought. What’s this? I was frozen, fascinated, that my child, whose grandma is “white” , who is surrounded primarily by “white” individuals, in school, in town, and in the neighborhood, could formulate the above sentence, making the “Great Mythic White Person” sound like the Legendary Evil Bigfoot.

The only conclusion I can reach about all this so far is that we need an entirely new way to describe one another, to describe ourselves, a whole new box of crayons, so to speak.
I, and my Monster Rascist Self are still thinking about it.

Rosa Naparstek
Washington Heights, New York City

Measure for Measure

What's on my mind right now is how much I have missed being part of this on line community in the last few weeks and the challenge of inhabiting my deeper self. Even though I believe that if I can truly take care of myself at a profound level, I contribute to healing the world, I find it difficult to do so. I have heard that Socrates' injunction to "know thyself", was actually "take care of yourself". Fundamentally they are the same thing. We can not take care unless we know who we are, and we can't know who we are unless we take care. This is not selfishness, it's balance, otherwise we feed delusions and masks.

PP
New York City

BEAT Bush

After serving as director of the CIA, back in 1977, George Bush Sr. served as CEO of the Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Co. The majority stockholder at the time was former V.P. Dan Quayle's family.

and

Under the Bush administration, big business is both the player and the referee, having finally won its decades-long campaign to eliminate the boundary between executive suite and public office. No longer does the private-profit motive compete in the legislative process with public good; profit now owns the process, and the middle class is left to the vultures. - David J. Sirota
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Blah blah blah, I wish it was Wednesday morning, already.

Peggy Braun
Lennox, Massachussetts

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What else could be on anyone's mind but the election. Dear God; dear Allah; dear
cosmic guardians; dear guardian angels; dear ancesters; dear Greek Gods; whoever takes care of all this stuff: puulleasse see that Kerry gets elected. There's nothing else going on that comes anywhere near this one and there ain't no complications or subtley or nuance to this wish. For once, I'm one-pointed.

Tatiana Ivanovna
New York City

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here it is the eve of the election and what is most on my mind...
boys.

am i being selfish, would cat stevens be thinking about such frivolous things
at such a time?

maaaayyybe.

Peter Ferko
Washington Heights, New York City

Collages Concrete:
-My Seat
-Through the Window

I know we live in a post-modern society and expect my creations to be subject to that condition. But on WNYC's "Leonard Lopate Show" today, I heard this assessment from Eric Alterman, writer of the "Liberal Media Column" of Nation magazine and author of When Presidents Lie, Viking Press:

"We live in a post-truth society."

Since anything might erupt as truth from the media this week, I am giddy that three October surprises benefit Kerry:

1. The top Army Corps of Engineers contract official has blown the whistle on the improper award of the $7 billion no-compete Halliburton contract including claims that she was threatened with demotion if she went public.

2. The 250 thousand tons of HMX explosives stolen from Al Qaqaa may have been taken under the U.S. watch.

3. Osama Bin Laden clarified for voters that he is not Saddam Hussein in a new video:

"Although we are ushering the fourth year after 9/11, Bush is still exercising confusion and misleading you and not telling you the true reason. Therefore, the motivations are still there for what happened to be repeated."

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