A Truly Powerful Blogger Mom

I am ashamed to call myself a writer.
I have seen the power of a mom blog, and she is awesome.

YOU need to see this as well, over at: http://buggydoo.blogspot.com/2006/03/letter-to-alex-and-chris-twelve-years.html

She wrote an "open letter" into the future for her 2 boys. My son is 12, and I am having him read it tonight. He can learn from this. He is ready. And teaching our children early on-repeatedly- about the kind of people we expect them to be, hope they will be, and want to see them become is important.
Saying I love you everyday is important.
Saying I believe in you every day is important.
Trying to remember everything we want from ourselves for our kids is often impossible, and one reason that mom guilt is more prevelent than episiotomies in America. We have a LOT to put into these few short years. The recipe changes with the day, with the situation, with the memories we can pull up on any given occassion. Heavy on the love one day, hard on the cleaning another, throwing in the reminders for pet care and responsibility and joy in between the lessons on how mommy screams when she is really tired and her anitdepressants aren't working and she can't find any chocolate.


So, often times, I am hoping that I just haven't failed miserably. Then I read something as perfetly perfect as buggydoo, and all my years as a writer, all the years as a mom, seem like I have forgotten how much there is to learn. I have told my boy what I want him to grow up to be, and hope I said it just HALF as well as she did.
There are so many things to say to them, and just no space to get it all in the bowl.

Respect, justice, healthy eathing, dental care, reading, friendship, karate, cleaning under the beds, kindness, dishwashing, citizenship, empathy, sex, organizational skills, driving, pet care, strangers and safety and responsiblity and shaving and bedmaking and evaluating advertisers and respecting space and dancing and piano and baseball....endless things. Picasso. History. Candlemaking.

Being a good role model might be the hardest. None of us is perfect, and we all have places in our lives we wish we had done better with, especially when it comes to raising our kids. I do think, however, that all the moms I know hope their boys turn out as well as buggydoo's ideals.

We all are out here, everyday. We get dressed, get the kids off to school (or fed and set for morning play), and in between the chores and the meals we raise children that will someday rule the world. We raise the people who will come to hold us as we age.
I hope my son learns those lessons. I wish I could have said it as eloquently as she did.
This is the sound of cyber clapping.
Congratulations mom.

Blatant Plagerisim

A blogger on line has a BIG Headder on his Blog- I have no idea how he created it, but the line under it is priceless:

"in which i write about pornography, sexual deviance, politics and drugs just often enough to get picked up by search engines everywhere."

I gotta figure out a way to do that box thing- and please send him Kudos on his way with words.

America is about our media. Our political leaders are mediocre, our innovations are no longer unique or unequaled, our products are no longer the best and the most well made, and our exports are, with the exception of our media, middlin.

But damn- we lead the world in media. And at the top of the heap are the movies.
We aspire to be like the people in them, we coddle the people who make them like our royalty, and we hold them up as our heros.

Good for us. This year's Academy awards showcased NOT the movies that made the most money and were the easiest to export, market, write, or explain. They were about REAL life, and the way we in America have taken our ideals and run from them as fast as possible, trying desperately to not worry about things, not deal with issues, and not do anything other than superficial image repair.

They were not movies that were supported by the current political leaders, the larger religious leaders, or the people with money. We watched some of the most searing social issues, from race relations and our feelings about intimidation in "Crash", through our feelings and social reactions to artistic leaders in "Capote", our failure to continue to hold our media to higher morals represented in "Good night and Good Luck", through the real, painful, and serious adult views about who we love, how we love, and what the hell we do about it in "Brokeback Mountain".
They were damned good movies.
They should give closed minded people pause.
Hollywood and the "liberal media" are not out of touch- but our enemies would like to repeat that lie often enough to brainwash a million americans that want safe, easy, simple lives with clear cut answers.

That ain't now, and it ain't here.