"And We Have Walked Ten Thousand Miles... er... Posts"
And so, here we are, at the official #10,000 on the blog post meter, reached in barely more than three years (and probably reached back in December, based on how many posts Blogger can eat on a hungry day).
Let me suggest to each of you a plan:
Practice random acts:
- of leadership
- of questioning authority
- of speaking up and out and over the top of those who would silence you
- of refusing to believe when someone tells you that you cannot do something
- of holding your elected representatives responsible for their votes that are not just against your best interests but the best interests of the globe
- of holding yourself accountable
- of demanding more and NOT accepting less
- of patriotism since American patriotism was NEVER (before Bush arrived) about sitting back, shutting up, and taking it like a peon
And, should you decide you happen to like the results you get (and trust me, I say from experience that you won't always), then practice one or more or ALL of these acts without randomness.
These were the tenets I made myself agree to when I decided to start this blog right after Christmas 2003, recovering from a serious illness that really should have killed me, and when I decided that, since I remained alive, I had to stop being such a scaredy cat.
Yes, I have suffered for my outspokenness. But - as much as I sometimes wish I could turn back the clock and NOT take this path - this is what I feel I must do for myself, my family, my community, my country, and my world. And, somehow, here I still am. Bruised but not exactly broken.
Good luck, my friends. It's worth it.
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