So Glad You are Here!
Yes! YES! YES!
Obama
FOUR more years! YES …
Great
choices for the Senate. YES …
Amazing wins on mandates throughout America. YES!
It is an
exciting time.
I am
happy to be alive!
So, now
what?
What’s
next?
For me,
it’s a dead bird.
More
precisely, it’s a dead turkey in my big grocery store.
In the
next week I must decide whether to pick up a free dead turkey from my grocery store,
since I have earned my points, by
being a loyal customer … or not!
It’s a
real dilemma.
That
turkey is valued at $12.99. That turkey
has suffered every minute of its miserable life.
I want another turkey. The turkey I want instead, lives up on the farm,
over the hill, not far
from my house.
THAT turkey has lived a
really good life. THAT turkey cost
$29.99.
Here is
the dilemma. If I accept the tortured turkey
I save $42.98. (WOW!) Yet, if I accept the tortured turkey, the
store will torture another turkey for my family for next Thanksgiving
and the
farmer up the hill, not far from my house, may call it quits.
It’s a
chain reaction.
My
action, no matter how small, has a re-action.
All of our combined actions have HUGE re-actions.
When my actions, combine with your actions and our neighbors' actions ....
CHANGE happens.
Change
happens because WE change.
Now I’ll
tie the dead turkey-dilemma to Obama’s re-election.
(See,
this blog DOES have to do with the election after all!)
We voted for CHANGE ..... forward.
Yet a single man cannot CHANGE a nation.
Only a nation
can change a nation.
That
means you and me and millions upon millions more …. mostly peeps.
Certainly
the election of President Obama is HUGE.
It is
WONDERFUL
and
AMAZING
and
EMPOWERING,
BUT
it does NOT guarantee change.
I realize
the top issues on our minds are jobs and the deficit.
Yes, those
are BIG issues to be addressed largely by our elected officials.
Yet, that
is only the beginning.
Obama can
walk with all his vision and intelligence and style, but unless we follow,
there is NO
change.
If
I accept that tortured turkey from my grocery store, instead of buying a happy
one
from my local farmer,
I STOP change.
If
I know the earth’s temperature keeps rising, but I don’t turn off that lamp, TV
or air-conditioned when I don’t need them,
I
STOP change.
If
I know America is becoming fatter and sicker, but I continue to feed our kids
junk,
I
STOP change.
If
I know the name of every single Super PAC, but don’t send a letter to my
congress person
to stop future election insanity,
I
STOP change.
If
I keep eating out of styrofoam plates at local restaurants and church picnics,
and don’t
open my mouth to suggest an alternative,
I
STOP change.
If
I know we are suffocating from garbage dumps full of plastic, but keep
forgetting my reusable shopping bags,
I
STOP change.
If
I know I could be one of the millions of decent, hard working Americans
struggling with cancer, with crappy health insurance, but don’t send a note of
encouragement to my senator to keep improving Obamacare,
I
STOP change.
If
I keep buying massive junk to fill my drawers and garage and basement, rather
than buy less with more style,
I
STOP change.
If
I keep buying gas guzzlers, and complain about the price of gas,
I
STOP change.
If
I keep buying apples from across the globe, rather then take my kids
to our local
farmers market,
I
STOP change.
Change
only happens when we change.
Having
an amazing leader is a start.
The
rest is up to me and you and millions upon millions more …. mostly peeps.
Let's do it!
Yours
truly, Bena
All
right, that was my last bog on Peep and the Parade.
I
will end by saying THANK YOU.
Thank
you for taking the time to check in periodically.
Thank
you for your phone calls and e-mails and blog comments with encouragement.
Thank
you for your hope,
and
courage,
and
your belief that things CAN be better.
May
we all keep marching.
Here
are five peep ideas to take along.
Yours truly, Bena