STILL HERE

I am not very good at seeing my blogging future. I thought I would be blogging three times a week long since.

I finished my fifteen weeks of Radiation and Chemotherapy September 7^th and we moved here on the 9^th. I was warned that I would feel worse the two or three weeks after the treatment stopped. I wasn't prepared for the ups and downs; feeling great for a couple days then crashing into an incredible weak state. I am told by my Docs I am doing great and these events are to be expected considering the intense degree of radiation. It has made my return to full time blogging difficult. I am getting much better and several times I planned to blog and something came up. I don't dare make any more predictions yet.

I have yet to walk the outside perimeter of my house. I don't know where my fuse box is. Well, I guess it is a breaker box now. I am just beginning to familiarize myself with my surroundings. When I first moved in I would see the full moon shining through the bedroom window curtains. I don't know how many nights passed before I realized that can't be the moon. I spread the curtains and saw that it was big light hanging from a pole quite a ways a way. I am just getting to the place where I am able to explore my environs.

I have been so turned off by the news lately. Ahhhhhhhhh it is awful! The divisiveness! Everybody stuck in their little camps ready to through their poop at the folks in the next camp. The vileness of the political Ads has reached the lowest level I have seen in my lifetime.

What happened to Oneness. Where has our connection gone? It seems hopeless, yet I talk to folks and everything seems fine. Everyone I meet is friendly, loving and I see no reflection of the craziness that comes out of the idiot box.

What can we do to counter the insane media? We should declare a media free holiday. I can't think of what to call it. For one day a week, Saturday maybe, we become media free and get to know our neighbors. In Summer, groups of families could meet for cookouts. In Winter we could meet in each other's houses. Occasionally, we could meet once a week in larger gatherings. In most communities there are places available. Many pastors will let people use their church, sometimes schools are available. I have spent the last 43 years in a rural community. I have heard some of the best music, seen some of the best plays and have been entertained all around by the folks I live with.

It is amazing the talent that exist in every community. We don't have to depend on the idiot box to be entertained. We certainly don't need them to tell us how to think.

We need to get back to valuing our togetherness. We will discover those differences espoused by the media do not reflect who we are. Most people are searching, in innocence, for some kind of happiness and sanity. Of course, many of us are way off base, but when you look past the error in thinking, we know them.

Love and Light is our only reality. All else, is painfully created ego illusion.

Love and Peace, Gregg