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Kamala Harris

“No Women No Cry !”

Racism is real – I have experienced it firsthand. Global warming is real – we are experiencing it. The Pandemic is real – it’s not a hoax. Science is real – it’s not fake news; Data is real – facts don’t lie. Violence & Divsion are real – we need to overcome them. Having worked in Congressional district office as an intern while at Cal, I cannot be more thrilled to see someone so REAL. Finally, someone we can get excited about ! Someone of humble origin who understands the realities of regular folks ! Someone not corrupted by material greed and hate!

Someone … intelligent !

Before all the quotes and soundbites of politics, I focus on the ordinary beauty of this human being …quotes of Kamala Harris:

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother’s kitchen. If I don’t have time to cook, I’ll just read a cookbook.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

Upon being elected, I will give the United States Congress a hundred days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun safety laws. If they fail to do it, then I will take executive action.

Finally, Sanity & Integrity …

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

& Empathy !

I learned that Kamala means … LOTUS and we know how lotus blooms, in spite of the mud. Many of us may feel we are mired in and stuck in the mud, but … there’s hope, there’s light at the end of the tunnel.

May we bloom like the lotus, at home in muddy waters.

Buddha
Everything’s going to be alright !

I put this link posted on YouTube, a concert at Harvard Square which would have been packed had it not been restricted to only take place during the day. Apparently relegated to daytime event rather than the usual evening concert due to fears that his concert would bring down the house. His concerts would NORMALLY be FULL PACKED and would have brought down the house – Just like what’s happening now – The convention would normally be packed but not this time. STILL, still the message … can virtually bring down the house.

“It’s a conscious time NOW …Everyone has the answer.”

Bob Marley
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Oakland

Most homes here have the Black Lives Matter signs … And, I want to say that while many get angry over rather insensitive people retorting back – All Lives Matter – a bit of education is needed to oversome the divisions. Maybe they are not only insensitive but they just DON’T GET IT because so untouched, so entitled and priviledged, they never experienced it .. racism… lucky for them, they never experienced being treated “less than” or humuliated due soley to the color of their skin.

For those, who require more education, I would have a sign that says Black Lives Matter BECAUSE All Lives Matter. Get it? All Lives are indeed supposed to matter BUT in reality and even today, that’s not shown to be the case, SOOOO that’s why the sign says Black Lives Matter. It’s not a statement that black lives matter MORE or less. It’s not about that. It is all about All lives matter. The question is, IF ALL lives matter, THEN, oh, then, how come not blacks’? How come there’s insidious rascism that does not value ALL lives, black, brown, yellow, red, I don’t know is there green?, white – all LIVES whatever the color should matter. And yet, that’s not the case – why?THAT’S the question. That’s the meaning of the sign. Black Lives matter BECAUSE all lives mattter. Even an unschooled child knows this, not the enablers, not some greedy power-fixated solely profit driven adults, but a child … wide-eyed, uncorrupted, beautiful pure consciousness.

So PLEASE do not rebut All Lives Matter – we know that – All Lives indeed matter, Yeaah, All lives should matter. Yes, on that, we are in agreement. It’s a given and it’s obvious. SO that’s why the sign, that’s the injustice. That’s why there is anger and rage and I am glad people on the side of fairness and decency is on the side of humanity.

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“We can B better”

The chalk writing on the street says – we can be better. Agree.

By the way,

We can DO better too.

And I know that’s not very yogic maybe as in many yoga classes, yoga instructor will say stuff like “Just BE” “Just Breathe” ” Just be present” to negate our constant pressure to do to feel validated or to be accepted or … we have been taught from an early age – so to negate that constant obsession to seek self-worth by being busy, yoga instructor may focus on the BE. BE You; Just Be … Be One … Just be & meditate on that …

Ahhhhhhhhhh PLEEEEEASE I have been guilty too.

“Just BE” … just be the true source, not striving or doing – not busy but just BE … sometimes all that BEING is done on the MAT, we still have to get off that mat of self-care, self-soothing, self-focus, self-love, self-realization, self-affirmation to … Do. Roll off that may guys – and – off into the world and do practice peace and do show up.

I DO me. You do you. We can be that. Sure. Still.

We can not only be better but … we have to actually take action.

We can DO better.

DO DO DO DO DO DO DO DO

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