Pd got me started I think.

I often find myself reacting to another's blog. I have numerous RSS feed's which go straight into my home page, so that I can keep up with those who's blog's I read.

It's a nice feature.

I sometimes get fired up. Sometimes cry. Sometimes comment. Sometimes think.

I like PD's blog because it can evoke all of the above in the same blog. LOL. So can Surrogate. This makes for good blogging.

I like blogging. I like reading other's blogs as well. And, LOL, I absolutely LOVE a good argument.

This whole Obama/Clinton/McCain presidential race has woken up the old dissident hippie that gave birth to what/who I am today.

How weird is it that a 13 year old girl who protested the Vietnam war, was put on the FBI's list of dissidents, was a 'known' (by the police department) protester in Honolulu in 1968 would grow up to be a (take your choice here) conservative democrat or liberal republican?

College gave me an education and a mind capable of logical thought. The two do NOT go hand in hand.

Life gave me the seasoning to take what education had offered me and turn it into my personal belief system.

These are some things I now use in everyday situations. They have been worked on through years and years of learning.

I guess, this would be Dawn's Credo, if I was stupid enough to think I knew it all, and vain enough to want followers, neither of which describes me.

  1. Never be in the company of someone you wouldn't want to die with. (translation – don't waste time on spending your time with those who do not matter. Empty friends are like empty cups. Empty.)

  2. Bad things happen to good people. Move on.

  3. You can let life control you, or you can control your life. Your choice. Make it and shut the fuck up about it.

  4. Jealousy is a total waste of time and makes you look like an ass.

  5. God is real. I have had it proven to me. You don't have to believe it and I don't really care either way.

  6. People who talk too much have way too little to say.

  7. Children may be the wisest life form on Earth.

  8. I believe in the death penalty. Maybe because I believe in God. I don't think death is the end. But it IS the beginning. And some people need judgment. I don't believe I am capable of doing the judging, but God is. The death penalty gets them to God faster so they can't hurt anyone anymore. Doesn't have to make sense. It's just the way I believe.

  9. Excuses are your way of justifying something you did that is incredibly stupid. Stand up to the plate. Just say, Wow!! That was really stupid. What can I do to fix it. How hard it that to do?

  10. Sometimes, Love is just simply NOT enough.

  11. Consequences are what happens when you don't think your way through something.

  12. Sometimes, consequences go on and on, even after you have seen the error of your ways. This is called life. Even after you have seen that you were wrong in your actions, you may still have to pay the price for what you did.

  13. Every single day, every single choice you make, can have the potential to alter millions of people's lives. It may not seem like a huge thing to you, but YOU won't know. For instance, Adolph Hitler's mother could have chosen to NOT have sex with his father. Little choice for her, BIG choice for millions of people.

  14. Life. It is not like the brochure. Quit expecting it to be something that will fall into your lap. Life is what you make of it.

Okay. Off the soapbox now and returning to human condition.

Have a nice day folks. It's a beautiful sunny and not warm day with snow on the ground, but it IS the first day of Spring and I am loving it!!