FRIDAY

I just started blogging and I already missed a day. I really intended to blog everyday but forgot every other Thursday is cleaning lady day and we go out for breakfast and then do our shopping in Cambridge or Princeton where ever we end up.

I finished my morning chores and my dishes are soaking, now if my mind works I will write something. The upheavals continue on the economic front. This is not a favorite topic of conversation for me because I am not a prophet and cannot see how close we are to the end of this madness. We have been teetering for a long, long time. I don't believe the present situation is sustainable and there is no reason to believe there is a way out of this depression. In order for the economy to grow the government would have to get the money in to the hands of the people one way or another. The political climate is hostile to this approach and reject any kind of Roseveltian solution. At this point only mass debt forgiveness will do anything to improve things.

I believe we need to accept that the economy as we know it is over. This is not a bad thing. In fact it is a reason for celebration. Sure there will be some transition angst but there is a promise of a new way of living where money is no longer a power that is held over the heads of those who don't have it. It is our final civil rights struggle. Their are many people involved in creating sustainable, local economies where the goods needed to live a life of joy and even elegance are produced a few miles from their homes. Don't think that this is a distant dream or something that can't happen in your lifetime. I am in my 77th year and I expect it to happen in my lifetime. So let us not dwell on the inevitable collapse but let us look forward to a new society where everyone enjoys a sense of value and sovereignty.

We have talked about Love and Compassion as if they are values that we hold high. But if you look around you it is greed, competitiveness, power, money etc. that we have held high. That is the Old World. Our new world will be one of Love and Compassion. Start imagining it.

I need to do my dishes and then go to the feed store. I hope to talk to you tomorrow.

Peace, Gregg