ilovemylife: FEELING SLIMED BY McCAIN AND PALIN

YOU ARE IN MY WORLD and IT DOESN'T FEEL GOOD
...John McCain and Sarah Palin

John McCain said tonight at Columbia University on the forum on Service that this campaign wouldn't have had to be negative if Barack Obama had just done what he wanted him to do.
Sounded like a dodge to me to the question he was asked. And how about taking responsibility for his negative and thoroughly deceitful ads that he approved and paid for?

It is rough now with the media coverage of the USA Presidential campaign and the ugly way campaigning goes every time we have a new election. I feel slimed by McCain-Palin. Really. I admit I am avidly for Barack Obama and Joe Biden to lead this nation. As a first time volunteer in a Presidential campaign during the primary season this year, I have watched how Barack has run his volunteers. He has instructed us as volunteers to always be respectful when we are out representing him. Barack has tried to campaign and not put-down his opponents negatively. I have never understood the Hillary Clinton supporters who hold that Barack treated Hillary with disrepect. When I volunteered in the New Hampshire primary I did witness the dirt being done by the Hillary Clinton campaign toward Barack.

Personally, having President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden in my future calms me.

Taking a time out and nurturing myself, here is a twist to my post today...

People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

From Kahlil Gibran's writing on Beauty in the book The Prophet

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Kahlil Gibran on Love

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams
as the north wind lays waste the garden.

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.

When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God."
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.