my enthralling epiphanies

I find all religions have great lessons and ethics to live by. Mine is Wicca and here are some I reread recently that I really think are good universal ones as well.

HONOR all as everything you do good or bad comes back to you three times.

HONOR Deity always, both as Goddess and as God. Revere the sacred spark of life, which is within you and within all things. Revere also the sacred dance of life, which is manifest as the physical world.

HONOR the Earth, Nature, and Her processes. All life is sacred, and the entire Universe is one Being, Whose soul is Gaia. All, which exists, is eternally and inseparably connected through the Spirit of the Goddess and the Dance of the God.

HONOR the Divinity within you. Do not pollute your sacredness with hatred, nor with falsehood. Be honorable, fair, and truthful in all things. Strive always to act from your Higher Self, in Perfect Love and Perfect Trust.

HONOR the Divinity within others. We are all sacred, all manifestations of Deity. Therefore follow always the Wiccan Rede: "Do as you will, but harm none."

So while visiting my parents in South Florida I happen to know my dad really likes Bela Fleck. He is a banjo player that for awhile was in a band called "Bela Fleck and the Fleckstones".

So I noticed Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer (incredible bass player) and Zakir Hussain (incredible tabla player) were playing in Miami.

Not knowing what to expect we walked in and heard beautiful music. Who would have thought such instruments worked SO well together! I downloaded the album just now but it does the live performance near no justice.

Here is a video I found of Bela and Edgar, incredible what they can do with these instruments.



Here is all three of them together although this is a rogue recording

she has to have hope
so she can cope
she has to believe that pain
is worth the gain
inside the dark tunnel
she imagines a small funnel
to make just a little light
even this small amount is a beautiful sight

So as I was leaving work today, across the street from my work is a big corporate office for a major Health Insurance company.

I turn the usual corner and there are people on the streets with barely legible signs and a guy with a bullhorn saying something.

I put my window down but as it's a busy intersection did not hear what he was saying. One sign said something about 83% of people would pick the public option.

I couldn't tell if it was employees of the company or people protesting against the company.

So thanks to the Internet I looked it up when I got home and turns out they were protesting as health care lobbyists are spending mass amounts of money to do anything to sway government away from a Public Health Care plan.

Their protest site says:
"Health insurer lobbyists are spending nearly $700,000 day in opposition to public option health care."
'Big Insurance: Sick of It' Rally

I thought maybe they were making sensationalist claims but then I find this about our Speaker Of the House, Nancy Pelosi and how she is all the sudden 'changing' her tune a little bit.

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/09/lobbyist-fundraiser-pelosi/

I hope the public option comes out and is finally some competition for the overpriced health care system we have today in the USA.