Tingles in silly places

"be more open to the mystery of LIFE and be open to thinking the mystery IS where you'll find love AND peace."

Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look will easily unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

[ee cummings]

My Sister, My Angel.

21, that's how how old you would've been today. I miss you. I miss the 2 and a half year old sister I had running around, calling my name, singing my songs, repeating 'bad' words. What would life have given you had it not been taken away? I wonder, but it's impossible to imagine. You look down and see what life has given us so far, and I'm sure you're smiling. Sometimes I wonder why it is that those who have lost so much are still able to smile and why is it that those who have been given so much are unable to.

I smile, a lot. Most of the time. I am thankful and I have peace in my heart for the most part. But we wouldn't be human if we didn't lose ourselves on occasion. It's in the weak, vulnerable moments that we are truly reminded of how fragile we can be, it is also in those moments that we are reminded of our strengths. Thanks to you I am strong and I've learned to see life for the beauty it has - even when that beauty is on occasion clouded with smoke. You have given me a life's lesson that has changed me and bettered me for ever. Your death has thought me how to truly love. Fair trade? Afraid not, however the greatest gift I've ever been given.

I miss you and I carry you in my heart, always, my little Chicca.
TVB

The Call

I have heard it all my life,
A voice calling a name I recognized as my own.

Sometimes it comes as a soft-bellied whisper.
Sometimes it holds an edge of urgency.

But always it says:
Wake up my love. You are walking asleep.
There's no safety in that!

Remember what you are
and let this knowing take you home to the Beloved with every breath.
Hold tenderly who you are
and let a deeper knowing colour the shape of your humanness.

There is no where to go.

What you are looking for is right here.

Open the fist clenched in wanting and see what you already hold in your hand.

There is no waiting for something to happen, no point in the future to get to.

All you have ever longed for is here in this moment, right now.

You are wearing yourself out with all this searching.

Come home and rest.
How much longer can you live like this?
Your hungry spirit is gaunt, your heart stumbles.
All this trying. Give it up!

Let yourself be one of the God-mad,
faithful only to the Beauty you are.

Let the Lover pull you to your feet and hold you close, dancing even when fear urges you to sit this one out.

Remember- there is one word you are here to say with your whole being.

When it finds you, give your life to it.

Don't be tight-lipped and stingy.

Spend yourself completely on the saying.

Be one word in this great love poem we are writing together.

© Oriah Mountain Dreamer, from 'The Call', 2003

[Thanks to Jon for introducing me to this brilliant brilliant author]

"Children are always a good thing, devoutly to be wished for and fiercely to be fought for."

Pray tell, my brother,

Why do dictators kill

and make war?

Is it for glory; for things,

for beliefs, for hatred,

for power?

Yes, but more,

because they can.

INFANTICIDE:
In law, the killing of a child under 12 months old, and more generally, any killing of a newborn child. It is often seen as a method of population control, especially among hunter-gatherers and nomadic societies where it may be impossible for a mother to carry around more than one small child and still perform the tasks necessary for survival.

In some societies, especially in India and China, more girls are killed than boys because of the higher value placed on male offspring. It is estimated that more than one million children worldwide are killed each year because they are born female. Infanticide may also be practiced on deformed or sick infants or for religious or ritual purposes; in some African societies twin births are thought to be supernatural and the twins are left to die. Although relatively rare, cases of infanticide today receive wide media coverage. The number of children killed by their parents is probably much higher than statistics suggest, however, as many infant deaths are never officially recognized as infanticide. Women offenders are usually perceived as being psychologically unstable and receive non-custodial or psychiatric sentences, while men almost always receive prison sentences.

In China it is important to have boys, as only boys can carry on the family name and honour the ancestors. This preference for male children has led to approximately 10,000 female infants being killed in China each year (1996), and along with the abortion of female fetuses has resulted in a sex ratio of 131 males to 100 females (1997); worldwide the ratio is 105 males to 100 females. In rural areas of China it is even higher; in one county, the ratio of live male births to female in 1995 was 316 to 100. In China, couples are permitted one, at most two, children. Too frequently a girl is a disappointment. But Chinese society is throwing away its little girls at an astounding rate. For every 100 girls registered at birth, there are now 118 little boys - in other words, nearly one seventh of Chinese girl babies are going missing. "Some of those girls are alive, they are just not registered," says Professor Zhai Zhenwu, of Beijing's People's University. "Some are abandoned, but many are aborted when the parents find out the fetus is a girl. Stop the quiet killing spree in India, China, and other countries that practice female infanticide and feticide.

The following photos are heart breaking but I feel it is important to show that such barbaric, savage, inhuman events take place nearly every day and it would be too convenient and too easy neglecting them. The world needs to see, and people need to be informed of the atrocities that take place. Is this how we value human life?

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fg-women2jan02,1,2391876.story?track=rss

vergognoso!!!!


OGNI COMMENTO E' SUPERFLUO!!!!

Le immagini che seguono sono estremamente dure, però riteniamo doveroso mostrarle, perché fatti così gravi non devono passare inosservati. Il mondo deve sapere, la gente deve essere informata di quanto accade in Cina, di come possa disumanamente divenire normalità il disprezzo per la vita.

Una bimba appena nata giace morta sotto il bordo del marciapiedi, nella totale indifferenza di coloro che passano.
La piccina è solo un'altra vittima della politica crudele del governo cinese che pone il limite massimo di un solo figlio nelle città (due nelle zone rurali), con aborto obbligatorio.
Nel corso della giornata, la gente passa ignorando il bebè.
Automobili e biciclette passano schizzando fango sul cadaverino.

Di quelli che passano, solo pochi prestano attenzione.

La neonata fa parte delle oltre 1000 bambine abbandonate appena nate ogni anno, in conseguenza della politica del governo cinese.
L'unica persona che ha cercato di aiutare questa bambina ha dichiarato:
'Credo che stesse già per morire, tuttavia era ancora calda e perdeva sangue dalle narici'.
Questa signora ha chiamato l'Emergenza però non è arrivato nessuno.

'Il bebè stava vicino agli uffici fiscali del governo e molte persone passavano ma nessuno faceva nulla... Ho scattato queste foto perché era una cosa terribile...'
'I poliziotti, quando sono arrivati, sembravano preoccuparsi più per le mie foto che non per la piccina...'

In Cina, molti ritengono che le bambine siano spazzatura.
Il governo della Cina, il paese più popoloso del mondo con 1,3 miliardi di persone, ha imposto la sua politica di restrizione della natalità nel 1979.
I metodi usati però causano orrore e sofferenza: i cittadini, per il terrore di essere scoperti dal governo, uccidono o abbandonano i propri neonati.
Ufficialmente, il governo condanna l'uso della forza e della crudeltà per controllare le nascite; però, nella pratica quotidiana, gli incaricati del controllo subiscono tali pressioni allo scopo di limitare la natalità, che formano dei veri e propri 'squadroni dell'aborto'. Questi squadroni catturano le donne 'illegalmente incinte' e le tengono in carcere finché non si rassegnano a sottoporsi all'aborto.

In caso contrario, i figli 'nati illegalmente' non hanno diritto alle cure mediche, all'istruzione, né ad alcuna altra assistenza sociale. Molti padri vendono i propri 'figli illegali' ad altre coppie, per evitare il castigo del governo cinese.
Essendo di gran lunga preferito il figlio maschio, le bambine rappresentano le principali vittime della limitazione delle nascite.

Normalmente le ragazze continuano a vivere con la famiglia dopo del matrimonio e ciò le rende un vero e proprio un peso.

Nelle regioni rurali si permette un secondo figlio, ma se anche il secondo è una femmina, la cosa rappresenta un disastro per la famiglia.
Secondo i dati delle statistiche ufficiali, il 97,5% degli aborti è rappresentato da feti femminili.
Il risultato è un forte squilibrio di proporzioni fra popolazione masch ile e femminile. Milioni di uomini non possono sposarsi, da ciò consegue il traffico di donne.
L'aborto selezionato per sesso sarebbe proibito dalla legge, però è prassi comune corrompere gli addetti per ottenere un'ecografia dalla quale conoscere il sesso del nascituro.
Le bambine che sopravvivono finiscono in precari orfanatrofi.
Il governo cinese insiste con la sua politica di limitare le nascite e ignora il problema della discriminazione contro le bambine.

Alla fine, un uomo raccolse il corpo della bambina, lo mise in una scatola e lo gettò nel bidone della spazzatura.