Randi on stage @ 1444 Market Street 1997

Randi on stage @ 1444 Market Street  1997
Randi on Stage 1997 at 1444 Market Street, SF, CA

Jack and yours truly today

Jack and yours truly today
Randi and Jack on the "Cadillac Campsite Tour"
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Welcome To Fifty Five Is The New!

Hello out there!
What's it to you, turning the age of Fifty-five? You don't have to be turning it tomorrow, you could have already turned that corner a while back. That part doesn't matter so much.
While it's important what one feels, what matters most of all that one feels, that one feels anything at all.
So, as an exercise in self-examination and a way of getting over an incredible writer's block, I submit this blog to the World Wide Web, and I submit myself to a bit of mirror gazing.
Inspired by the movie "Julie & Julia," I will blog for one year, which will include my turning fifty-five, and see what I find.
Who knows? Maybe fifty-five will be something fantastic...like the New Me.

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Monday, March 14, 2011

Japan and the world

Rough Road Sign - "You Drive"
We sit in utter horror after utter horror over the past several days; watching as Japan is laid siege under the forces of nature and their consequences.

Latest reports are that the earthquake registered 9.0, the earth shifted 10 cm on its axis, a very wide and deep trench opened up in the earth near Japan, minimal 10,000 people died in the tsunami alone, and their nuclear power plants are in failure.

At this point, a nuclear melt down is just about eminent after loosing power to the cooling mechanisms were destroyed in the tsunami following the earthquake.

We are, as a planet, dangling by a thin, thin thread.

Prayer is a good thing.

It helps keep some of us going when all else is madness and terror.
I pray for comfort, help, hope and peace for those people in Japan.....that their troubles lessen and that the meltdown can be averted or at least kept to a minimum level of damage.

I pray that we as a species learn to treat each other right; stop using politics as a means to deny personal responsibility and that we help one another through the difficult times ahead.  For indeed there are difficult times ahead as planetary changes take place.

We can live in denial a long, long time....humans are actually pretty good at it!  One of our best talents.  But sometimes it's just not the right thing to do.

Preparation is important. Anybody who doesn't know what to do can go to places like 72hours.com for what to do....check local areas for something like NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team), and just plain get out and get to know your neighbors....someday you-all are gonna have a lot in common-like survival.  Might not hurt to say "howdy" now and then, eh?

This isn't just about earthquakes and tsunamis.....it's abut any disasters, natural or otherwise, and how to stay alive 'til the dust settles.

For now, we sit on the head of a pin as revolution and planetary revolt hold court....watching and wondering what's next.

So at the moment Fifty Five Is The New Japan and the world, because nothing is ever going to be the same now....

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