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If the Earth
were only a few feet in
diameter, floating a few feet above
a field somewhere, people would come
from everywhere to marvel at it. People would
walk around it marveling at its big pools of water,
its little pools and the water flowing between the pools.
People would marvel at the very thin layer of gas surrounding
it and the water suspended in the gas. The people would
marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of the
ball, and at the creatures in the water.
The people would declare it as sacred because
it was the only one, and they would protect it so that it would not hurt. The ball would be the
greatest wonder known, and people would come to
pray to it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know
beauty and to wonder how it could be. People
would love it, and defend it with their lives
because they would somehow know that
their lives, their own roundness, could
be nothing without it. If the
Earth were only a few
feet in diameter.
-author unknown

change from time to time…
I consider this a necessary consequence of having an open mind.
This weblog is intended to provide a semi-permanent point in
time snapshot and manifestation of the various memes running
around my brain, and as such any thoughts and opinions expressed
within out-of-date posts may not the same, nor even similar,
to those I may hold today.

So today I was forced by my gf to watch the show called "Real Housewives of New Jersey."

I cringed every ten seconds.

Granted, I've seen the other installments of this show. I've come to the conclusion that it's all a bunch of bullshit.

These women are supposed to be the creme of the crop. Well educated women with providing husbands and have been given an opportunity to live the lavish life.

Class, poise, something to inspire to......wrong.

This women proved to be nothing but gossiping, bickering women with nothing else better to do with their lives.

What really do they have to say to for themselves? What sets them apart from the average hoodrat or trailer trash bimbo? Nothing apparently but a little glitter here and there.

Guess the old saying is true, "Everything that glitters, ain't gold."

Why would we as women allow television to show us in this light? To play right into the stereotypes that women are nothing but gossips who stir up drama?

I've said this before, and I'll say it again. We really have to do better. What are we leaving as a legacy for our children? When they look back in the history books, what will they see?

If we continue down this path and not try to reverse the damage, it won't be a pretty picture.

Come on world, let's pick our pen, pencils, and erasers. Let's give our future a real story!

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