Went to see Coldplay again on Tuesday night - I have now seen them the same number of times I have seen U2 - I like U2 a lot more. Coldplay is a good band - Chris Martin is fun to watch and they are all incredibly musical - and that is absolutely amazing! When we were leaving we saw the Suburbans right underneath where we were walking that were waiting for the band, there were only a few people waiting and we honestly toyed with the idea of going down to meet the band. It gave me the giggles though - I can't imagine the band's response when they come out the door to go to their cars and there are a couple of old ladies waiting for them!!!!! Even so, I did have on a very cool red sequin t-shirt!
My friend Kristi wants to go into the t-shirt business - she has a graphic designer and I have the edunLIVE connection...would be so fun! I want to do Mango Tree shirts but have absolutely no artistic talent so I would need somebody creative to help me. I want to pursue it...
Went to TaiChi yesterday and had a very interesting experience! We did our movement stuff and during the meditation, our teacher mentioned a couple of things that really resonated with me. We were working with our chakras, the third chakra (I think) the heart. What stuck with me is that the heart is the middle spot between our physicalness and our spiritualness. It is through our humanity (or humanness) that we come to our spirituality! Interesting! Next Shane told us to open our hearts - to open up to being vulnerable...before I could even process the words, I said NO - no way I'm going to open myself up to vulnerability! It was really strange - the quickness of the response, the immediacy of the response. Shane told me that I should really explore that feeling - I may, I may not. I don't tend to dwell too much in the past. For me, the experiences of the past have helped me to be the person I am today - for better or worse. It is what is!
My husband came home yesterday - Wednesday. For the past 14 months he has been commuting weekly from Atlanta to Philly. He hates travel and is a constantly reminding me of how much he hates travel! I have started to get used to doing my own thing lately - living alone is an interesting experience - I have spent the last 23 years raising a family, blah, blah, blah. So, it's really challenging to learn to be alone! I've never liked being alone - always enjoy people around, not that I need to take care of others, I just like people and noise in my daily life. I have learned to occupy myself at night, developed some good friendships and really enjoyed having no restrictions - except of course for my dog who thinks she is really a rooster! The first words from my hubby: "Do we have any soup left?, geez, I didn't sleep last night at all, geez, I don't feel good." Then the clincher - I was going to a meeting last night - "what are you fixing for dinner?" You've got to be kidding!?! This may be a very interesting transition!
Went to a meeting with the CARE Global Connections group last night. Our guest speaker was Charlie Stokes - the director of the CDC Foundation. He describes his efforts as a grasstops initiative. His rolodex is amazing - he can call this person for 500 phones to help rescue and relief efforts in China and he can call that person to leverage his senator to get $1.7 billion for new buildings. It's pretty amazing! But the bottom line to creating change isn't your rolodex - it's your commitment to education and to building relationships. The CDC Foundation operates at a level I don't want to achieve. But they are able to do some good things at that level.
But the part of this discussion that stuck with me is the issue of bed nets! The CDC Foundation does some work with bed nets - they sell them for $5 and then distribute them where they are needed. CARE sells bed nets for $10 which they also distribute where needed. I think it costs about $1.50 to make a bed net. I felt like these two organizations were using lifesaving bed nets to make a profit for themselves! This reall really bothers me!
Here's the deal: We haven't had malaria in the US since World War 2. It's entirely preventable and entirely treatable. Why are people still dying? There's just no sense to me. We know how to stop malaria, we know how to prevent malaria yet - we have the technology and the ability yet people are still dying. Yet our worldwide organizations are offering a bandaid to stem the flow of malaria. If there were to be an outbreak of malaria in the US, would we rely on bed nets to save us or to control the epidemic. No, we wouldn't. I know we wouldn't. So, why is it okay for others? But what pisses me off more, I can't do a freaking thing about it. What can I do to make this stop, how can I make this stop!???
Going to yoga and then working on social entrepreneurship!
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