Protests and occupying have my head spinning. The news is flooded with comments from every side, the streets are angry with signs bobbing and words shouting. I am still trying to figure out what is being accomplished, other than placing blame. I live each day with family and friends who support me, a home to keep me warm and the right to write this blog. But I wake up each morning with a choice: to be my own opportunity or my own enemy. If we believe in something, we are allowed to tell everyone from City Hall to the cat next door. But what is even more powerful is if we live our truth. Yelling a cause only makes noise and disruption only adds to the anger. We live in a turbulent time globally and nationally, economically and politically, with everyone pointing the finger at someone else. We need hope. Each one of us has the power to contribute. Enough talking. Let's leave the road blocks for the Thanksgiving Day Parade.
"At the end of the day - whether you are a president, senator, mayor or on the steering committee of your local Occupy Wall Street- someone needs to meld those ideas into a vision of how to move forward, sculpt them into policies that can make difference in peoples' lives and then build a majority to deliver on them. Those are called leaders. And, today, across the globe and across all political systems, leader are in dangerously short supply." - Tom Friedman for The New York Times, read the full column here.
