Life?

Wow! What a refreshing exciting attitude you have!

When you wrote "But i'll take everything with my chin up and straight in the face.", it reminded me of the following lines from my poem, Either/Or:

http://my.opera.com/NonZionist/blog/show.dml/5300651
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Take away hell, and heaven would sink:
so enlighten the pain, no need to shrink.
USE this inferno, to melt the ice and hail,
BACK the joy of heaven with the courage of travail.
Yes, I think we NEED this hell, this right to learn,
this right to FACE and love the pain that we discern.
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I'd love to help you "make this thing more public" -- but first you need to tell me what you mean by "this thing". Do you mean your blog?

I also wonder what the "full-time job" is, and what form it takes.

I do revel in "positive attitudes" -- actually, I love ALL attitudes, positive AND negative, especially now that I've learned how to survive the negative attitudes and channel them into more positive territory.

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In general, every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.
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-- Emerson, "Compensation", 1844

I very much enjoy what you wrote in your blog essay -- the focus on spiritual growth, on fixing things and solving things and doing good, and the desire to dissect things and learn. In dissecting, we learn the awful truth, and that truth then sets us free -- free of our illusions, for example. I LOVE your openness!

Life is SO much fun! -- I think you have already begun to realize that.

At the same time, there is much reason to BE angry. If you read my own blog essays, you will find that my own transformative journey began 30 years ago, when I discovered that the government lies to us about its war-making. Countless people have been obliterated because of these lies.

I set out, 30 years ago, to tell my compatriots that their inculcated fear of The Enemy was unnecessary: The real threat was coming from ourselves, that is, from our own rulers and their addiction to war, and because the threat was close to home, it was a something we could deal with, a problem we could solve. We were NOT at the mercy of a foreign foe.

Well, that optimistic message is not exactly what people were waiting to hear. I then realized that I needed to improve my ability to COMMUNICATE. Necessity is the best teacher. When you find something that you NEED to write about, the words will almost write themselves.

Please feel free to read my blog essays. They all pertain to spiritual and political growth. Take whatever you can use. Enjoy, and feel free to comment.

With delight / Charlie

BE impulsive! Plunge right in. (And if you get stuck, make sure you have lots of friends who can help to extricate you.) At least you will get to lead a full life.

I'm new here too and still learning. I have met several other very interesting people here. I'm thinking we should form a support group -- a kind of spiritual family for people who have something genuine to contribute. Do you mind being introduced to others now and then?

Yes, I do want to hear about your work.

Usually, I am not interested in sports teams. However, I see you name Pittsburgh teams, and Pittsburgh IS the city where I was born and raised. I left for college in 1965, and have returned only once -- in the mid-1990s when my aunt died. I think I have a mild aversion to the city -- it's cozy, but maybe a little too cozy, a world unto itself. I found Boston more open -- a gateway to the world -- but now that I'm older, I prefer small towns.

I see that your favorite author is Hunter S. Thompson, someone I've wanted to read or know more about. I've often considered renting "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" in the video store; unfortunately it's probably not the sort of movie my wife would enjoy.

You have finished reading my blog essays ALREADY?? It has taken me about thirty years to take in that material, and you did it in thirty minutes?! What is left?

I should ask you why you apologize in advance for being "always all over the board". What if you run into somebody who LIKES people who are all over the board? What you think of as a vice may actually be a virtue!

think that there are no problems,only solutions,,it works for me.

when things get tough,i just sit down and think about it,and do not get up until i find a solution of why things are tough,then deal with it.

exactly,problems go ,and are replaced with solutions,,simple.