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November 25th, 2004

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Thursday, November 25th, 2004 02:24 pm
Just simply rocks. Oh yes.

I'm nearly finished with the second CD in the 2-CD set of their Live recording.

Oh yes. I just adore their music. Ecstatic Drums is a nearly 9 minute wonder.
Cruel Sun blows me away. Food and Creating Love is HOT.

Oh yes.
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Thursday, November 25th, 2004 06:28 pm
To forgive is defined by dictionary.com as
1. To excuse for a fault or an offense; pardon.
2. To renounce anger or resentment against.
3. To absolve from payment of (a debt, for example).


The most common use of forgive, as evidenced by the order of the definitions, has us excusing an offense. I think this is the least useful aspect of forgiving.

I am more more interested in the second definition. Peter Sandhill, a Human Awareness Institute facilitator, says, "forgiveness is giving up all hope of a better yesterday." And in giving up that hope, we can create a future that isn't just more of our past.

To give up the "right" to be pissed at what someone has done to us, we can move passed the upset and STILL hold the offender responsible for reparations.

To require punishment before being willing to forgive isn't forgiveness. It's revenge. Requiring a penalty for an offense, sin, or fault might seem like a way to get closure, but closure comes only from within. And it arrives only when one is willing to forgive from definition 2.

I watch the drama that comes and goes in my communities. I see people who don't hold a grudge and others who won't let go of one. And it is clear which group has a greater level of peace of mind and general happiness. It is a matter of forgiveness -- the act of letting go of the anger or resentment.

And the offender can still be held to account for the offense. For those who forgive, though, punishment is generally not the what is sought. Some sort of reparations is the goal. Those who are willing to forgive lean more heavily toward Restorative Justice than they do to Retributive Justice. And that, by my philosophy, is a very good thing.

Read more about Restorative Justice .
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Thursday, November 25th, 2004 06:30 pm
I just figured out what I could have as a tattoo!

I could "No extraordinary measures" tattooed on my chest. Wouldn't that surprise a paramedic!
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Thursday, November 25th, 2004 08:35 pm
There always seems to be one, doesn't there. It doesn't seem to get through a day without at least one issue of significance with at least one person we are close to. Where do they come from, those issues?
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Thursday, November 25th, 2004 09:43 pm
One of the great things about finally buying a new stereo is that I get to listen to my CDs again. Right now I'm listening to CD 1 of Randy Newman's Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman.

Some of the songs are beautiful, romantic tunes that really describe how I feel about several of the people in my life. Other songs are just rowdy indictments US culture. I love them.

I think there are a dozen of so in this set that would be great songs to play before RHPS. Songs like Rednecks, Davy the Fat Boy, Political Science, God's Song and Short People. I think I might make a list -- and maybe a CD for that very purpose. :)

I'm having a really good day. Really good. Accomplished nothing, but a good day, nonetheless. Well, I did fix a bug in the sponsors script. Someone tried to call the script incorrectly and it broke. Can't have that. Bad input shouldn't cause a failure, just a default behavior. :) Maybe I can have it send an Up Yours Page.

I feel like a prankster tonight. I think it's the Newman influence.

I'm also thinking that the activism I want to get into is Restorative Justice promotion. I have to do a little more local research. See who else is doing something. There is a mediation center using it and a couple of juvenile justice projects using it. I want to have it better known. I might take that on. I might even put together an organization to promote it and teach it. It seems reasonable to do. I'll talk to the peace resource center and see if they have a program. Maybe I can tack something onto their 501(c)3.
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Thursday, November 25th, 2004 09:47 pm
I think if I want to get drunk I should plan ahead. There isn't anything in the house I think is drinkable. Hmm. Maybe I'll open that last 7 Deadly Zins and drink it anyway. :) It tastes a bit like lighter fluid, but what the hell.

Edit. Hell, it's 90 minutes later and I didn't open the wine. I guess my taste buds won out.