To the person who came to my weblog based on the following Google Search:
single childless women in their 40’s do any feel postive about their situation
Yes.
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Year: 2002
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Weblogging stuff
A couple of things popped up while I was out of touch yesterday.
First of all, my Australia friends sent me some Tim Tams! Very sweet of them and can’t wait to finally try these delectable treats. When I receive them, I’ll post my review. In addition, the Australian delegation also sent me a card (ala Mr. Delacour).
Thanks guys — you’re the best! What can I say but Australian women are very lucky!!
Secondly, there was an article about weblogging in a publication edited by someone I know. The article is Is there a Blog in your Future, and the publication is Idea Idee — a webzine geared for techie women (Canadian based, but open for all). Check it out.
In the next few weeks I’m going to be off and on with the weblog, posting erratically. Since I usually am fairly consistent with posting daily, multiple posts in a day, I just thought I would give y’all a heads up.
That’s it. Thanks.
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The Fog
Recovered from the Wayback Machine.
I was driving north on 101 when I noticed that the approach to Golden Gate Bridge was blanketed by heavy fog. Now, driving across GG is an exercise in precision in good weather; I wasn’t interested in trying it out in the fog.
I pulled into Crissy field to watch the fog and listen to the fog horns, hoping it would blow over so I could continue.
As I waited, I thought back to the news I read this morning. There was another suicide bomb in Israel, with six people dead. There was a fire in an Arab American church in Los Altos and an attack against a Jewish man in Sacramento. These last two events weren’t thousands of miles away — these were in my backyard.
Sad, bad, mad times.
What makes all of this so much more difficult is there is no clear picture about what can done in the Middle East. To say with surety that this path or that will lead us — us — out of these times is naive at best.
Sharon and others say that we can end this conflict by routing the terrorists out of the West Bank, but how? Instead of eliminating terrorism, won’t we find that the same hand that wields the sword of retribution is also the same hand that sows more seeds of terror?
Terrorism is a renewable resource.
What is the right way out of the killing in the Middle East? The racial and religious bigotry throughout the world? I don’t know anymore. I am lost in uncertainty.
With these thoughts in my mind, I look up and see that the fog still lingers at the Bridge, but decide to hell with it — if I wait for clear days I’ll never cross Golden Gate. As I start to cross, I am met with a totally unexpected view: the fog has somehow formed a tunnel over and around the Bridge, but the road itself is clear.
I have no definitive answers to the situation we’re facing throughout the world. All I can do is continue fighting racism and bigotry in my weblog and in my life. I can join peace vigils and hold hands. I can write against the Israeli incursions into Palestinian territory and write against suicide bombs and against terrorism in any form. I can stay informed, and get involved when the opportunity arises. This is the clear path I see.
And there is one other thing I can do — I can show more respect for those I don’t agree with. For all we know, I may be wrong. And if you don’t agree with me, that’s okay, too. For all we know, I may be right.
And it starts with something this small and personal…
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All back
I had a lot of fun with the Australia Day at Bb. I am also, as you can see, testing out new color schemes. Feedback requested.
Hopefully when I move to MT I’ll be able to change the template and keep this same format. I like the organization of my weblog, except I won’t mind having the MT calendar. And I was thinking of keeping my own comment system, though MT’s is rather nice.
Anyway, my thanks to those who joined me yesterday in a bit of silliness and fun!
In another bit of news, Sharon has been picked by the infamous Webring King to now head up Bloggers with Attitude. Now how did the King know that Sharon has the most attitude of all of us?
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California vigils
There’s been considerable discussion throughout weblogdom about the Berkeley protests yesterday. Personally, I thought it was one of the milder student protests I’ve seen at Berkeley.
What’s interesting is that there have been Jewish people within the pro-Palestinian side of many of these demonstrations. For instance, in yesterday’s protest, The Mercury News reported the following excerpt from the demonstration:
“Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism,” Micah Bazant, a pro-Palestinian Jewish community activist, told the crowd from the steps of Sproul Hall.
“Yes it is! Yes it is!” yelled a cluster of students, some wearing yarmulkes and holding up Israeli flags. Israel supporters booed Bazant for reading from the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead.
One thing I noticed about this demonstration and others like it is the use of Holocaust imagery. I really dislike the use of the Holocaust as a political weapon — by both sides of the Middle East conflict. Those who use the Holocaust in this manner demean the memories of all those who died. If people want to remember the victims of the concentration camps, they should do so with words of peace, not words of hate.
Though not as televised, there was another demonstration at Justin Hermann plaza just a few blocks from my home. It came about because a Jewish man, wanting to organize a vigil for peace, had put word out on the Internet to attract other people to join him. And among those that answered the call was a Palestinian born woman. Between both individuals, they had gathered a small group of people of all religions and races who held lit candles and joined hands and said silent prayers in hopes of peace.