regarding a morning interaction concerning obamacare and corporate welfare

It is easy to be mad at a person.  We can be mad at a person who to our eyes is gaming the system, who is getting something they may not deserve, who we think it stealing from us, or who did us wrong/harm/dirty.  We know people; we are mad at them all the time; they pay no attention to us being mad; we can be mad without consequence..

It is easy to be mad at a corporation.  We can be mad at a corporation who to our eyes is gaming the system, who is taking something they may not deserve, who we think is stealing from us, or who did us wrong/harm/dirty.  We don't know them; they are far away; they pay no attention to us being mad; we can be mad without consequence.

Neither of those things require more of us than posting a facebook meme.  A big response to either would be to march on DC (whether you are the million men or the promise keepers, whether you are pro- or anti-Roe v. Wade, whether you are OWS, Appalachian Rising, or restoring honor), or locally to stand in front of the federal building holding a sign.

Mad is just being mad and that is all.  Useless.  It happens.  But nothing else does until you get past it.

And protesting is the same as being mad.  Nothing.  Empty.  Whiney & complainy.

It takes a lot more than being mad and enraged (or whiney and complainy) at a person or at a corporation or at a system to, as Gandhi put it, be the change.  It takes doing something.  It takes doing something today.  And tomorrow.  And the next day.

Like quitting smoking is not one decision but every time you want a cigarette.  Or losing weight is every bite and every choice to walk instead of ride.  Or milking is every.dang.day.no.matter.what.  Although "being the change" is probably more forgiving than milking.  But you can whine and complain while milking because the cow will not care.  The chickens might fall over dead but the cow will not care.  "Being the change" might could skip a day.  But like the garden, skip too many in a row and it will run to rack and ruin.

And that is in all realms:  personal, family, community, local, global.  And it ain't straight line and they'll conflict and just exactly like always there are three steps forward, two steps back.  But it is walk.  Walk.  Walk. 

Sometimes blind.  Walk.  Sometimes listen.  Walk.  Sometimes preach. Walk.  Sometimes be guided.  Walk.  Sometimes in step, sometimes out of step.  Walk.  Sometimes falling.  Fall.

Because:  Today.  For:  Love.  When:  Now.  Where:  Here.  About:  Us.