There's Women against Palin?

There is a blog dedicated to women who are against Palin being the vice president. They are requesting women to sign a petition to, what? overthrow her if she and Senator McCain are elected? I am not sure what their plan is.

What amazes me is the blog is littered with the history of women and how we have struggled through to time to earn the right to vote, to earn equal pay, equality in the workplace, this list goes on and on. They do not want a woman vice president. Why? I am not completely sure. She is not pro-life, is a major issue but other than that I did not come across anything but that she is VAPID.
Well most of Washington, DC is vapid, so that is a given.

But to not embrace the very thing women have been fighting for, for years, the breaking of the glass ceiling, I do not understand. Granted she does not support all of your issues, but she is a sister, mother, daughter who has finally been put in the hot seat and may actually make the move into the forbidden area.

Sure there may be other women qualified to do the job, but she has been selected, and women should rally to support her, not a party, not a position, but her as a woman because we all damn well know she is going to need it. We should be working to get her in office if we ever want to see a woman President in our lifetime.

I am NOT a millionaire.

Once again I managed to lose out on, this time, $43 million dollars. I don't understand how I can't pick the correct numbers to hit this jackpot. People do it everyday. Some people win it more than once. I had 5 entries totaling 30 numbers and only selected 2 correct numbers.

Sometimes I feel destined to remain in the place I am in. I am comfortable, but there is always something inside saying there is more. I am more, I should be doing something else, there is something greater. So daily I am in a constant battle within myself to achieve some greatness. Then I have to ask myself is greatness achieving some type of fame?

My passion has been writing. I have written since a young girl. It has been my friend, therapist and sounding board. I have run to my journals for solace and in joy. My life has been chronicled. I have pages and pages of words that flow like music to me. It is in there I feel is my greatness and I feel each of us have a greatness to give this world. I continue to strive to achieve it.

So why can't I win a jackpot of $43 million dollars? Wouldn't that make my life so much more simple. The complications of daily life would fall away with the right amount of money to solve the issues that arise. Unfortunately no amount of money will put the right words together to form a book or a collection of poetry. It's back to the keyboard and long nights.

You Gotta Start Somewhere

As I am just branching out into the blogger world, I have to begin somewhere so it might as well be the ground floor. The beginning. Work from the ground up so to speak, as they say, all those cliques. I am willing to put some effort into this, to learn the ways of the blog world, spend time writing, researching and conversing with fellow writers. I am willing to give it a try.

What amazes me is the lack of that effort in SOME of today's young adults. Please note I did not say all young adults. I know there are high achievers or just plain achievers out there, but I see more of the, I just want to get by on the least effort, than I have ever seen in my life. I wonder if it is the parents' fault. Hold on, parents, don't go to over the top yet. The reason I say this is because I am a parent of one of these adults who just does not care to do anything beyond a job here or there. He falls into my classification of young adults who feel that the world owes them something and they are going to sit back and wait for it.

He has no real dream for the future, no hope or desire for anything. He would probably tell you an entire list of material items he would love to own but not how he plans on getting them. I ask him and others like him, don't you have a dream to be a certain type of person? Live in a certain place in the world? Buy a house, car, get married, play with your children, or spend weekends on the beach? I don't get much for an answer. They want all that but don't want to work to get any of it. Work, you know like maybe getting your hands dirty and calloused. Working two jobs to make ends meet or not shopping at the mall until you save enough money to buy a reliable car.

I wonder if I gave him and his brother too much, because when as I grew up we went without and I did not want my kids to go through that life. Did my parents by default do the best thing for me and my sister? All I could tell you is that I graduated high school, started my life and have never looked back.

So I have spent a few times on the ground floor, learning the ropes and working my way up. Here I am again.