Choose your
Merry Christmas 2002 well
May you and your loved ones have good health. That’s the best Christmas gift wish able. May you and yours be blessed with it.
The other reasons I pen my Christmas letter are less important but
simple. As the days and months dart by
more quickly, it becomes more difficult to stay in touch with all the wonderful
people that have touched my life. As
the years add up, I become even less adept at differentiating what happened
when. My sister reminds friends that I
have difficulty remembering my own birthday, let alone hers, Mom and
Dad’s. So, there are two additional
reasons above and beyond my good health wishes that I write – my Xmas letter is
becoming the string around my finger of life.
How else will I remember what I did when, without tying it to my wishes
for you?
My sister toughed out another
painful year. She jokes that next year
her Christmas card will say, “is it over yet.?” Her sharkey (disintegrating) right ankle, which had had for a
number of years a steel rod in her calf above to support her increasingly
hunched walking, continued causing a
worsening infection in leg and heel.
The condition confined her to a wheel chair for part of the year. After many meetings with a variety of
doctors, my sister resigned herself to amputation below the knee. In her inimitable toughness, she refused to
be sedated through the operation. The
operation went well. Hopefully, she will
soon be fitted for a prosthetic and sometime this year be walking. Prior to her operation, she returned to
another of her infamous Parma, Ohio grade school reunions, where she
raved about the “bestest time” she had and “my great friends.” She promised them that she’d walk into the
next reunion.
Last Christmas found me in Fiji finishing a Habitat
for Humanity House for a Hindi family (Some
Fiji 2002 pictures). Habitat
and the Peace Corps are two of the most meaningful ways to attack the root
causes of the terrorism that plagues the world today. (Enlarged Peace Corps could) Do Habitat, if
you can, and I think just about everyone who gets this can. It gives insights
into how the poor of the world and the poor in our country must live. It pays back with a wonderful feeling and
can erase some pent-up resentment.
After Habitat I spent time down-under
looking for that Crocodile Dundee guy, so I could learn first-had what “a real
knife” is. Luckily for me, I didn’t
need much of his protection around Sydney’s big, beautiful harbor and on its
trains and social circuit.
My hiatus from Northern California
came with a couple trips to Rubelia where everybody’s loved and admired Michael
is having eye problems resulting from all the poorly protected arc welding he
did in building the world’s most unique and incomprehensible Rubel Castle.
Michael’s eye problem is a type of “macular degeneration” but in
Michael’s inimitable way is referred to as his “immaculate deception.” There
aren’t many Michaels in the world and all of us legions who admire him are
sending prayers that he continues taking every telephone poll, boulder, pile of
junk, broken bottles or other obstacles and throwaways placed in his way and
turns them into another castle. Click
here if you want essential answers to FAQs about
Rubelia.
My other away trips dealt with
launching the National Initiative for Democracy (NI4D) campaign. After a the Ed & Joyce Koupal Memorial
Conference hosted over a dozen Constitutional
and political scholars in Williamsburg,Virginia, where they vetted the Direct
Democracy Constitutional Amendment and Direct Democracy Act, the vote gathering
stage of the campaign was launched in the state of Maine from late September
through late November 02, with much unfortunate litigation wrapped around those
dates. Following the mantra, “As Maine
goes, so goes the nation,” a few of us lead by former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel
(D-Alaska 1969-81) started the educational election campaign to see if 52+
million Americans want to vote to enact a non-partisan national initiative
process. Do today’s Americans believe
in the1780’s First Principles upon which our Founding Father’s founded this
nation? Are they civically mature
enough to want to have a non-partisan process that allows them to write some of
the laws that run the nation? Big
campaign for a fledgling group to undertake.
I hope you’ll give it some consideration and support. http://peopleslobby.org/
http://nationalinitiative.us/
Still catching water run-off for
the garden, chasing round-balls, stretching out work-out aches, often enjoying
Belgian chocolates and trying to get organized.
To my Excel customers bucking the
conglomeratization trend, thank you for using the small business peoples’
competitive telecommunication services.
If you have friends who would like to do the same, send them to my or
Peoples Lobby’s web site or call.
Good health and peace be with you,
Dwayne
Peoples Lobby / National Initiative for Democracy
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Good choice!