engage....

My mother cared deeply about America

She was a patriot

And she had me right next to her, even as a young child, for every political debate

Without knowing her own spirituality she knew and felt to her core the injustices 

that could befall one of us could befall any one of us

She was a proud voter

She was emotionally and intellectually involved, invested in what happened in America

She was political

she was a politician

she hooked me in

without lecture or force

I am political

I am a politician

I know there are people reading this who would prefer there were no politics here

but Cowbird declares this place as a library of human experience

and none of us can avoid the experience of the political climate in this world

to ignore the politics of global warming, the Trans Pacific Partnership, racism, hunger and homelessness, perpetual war, gerrymandering.....the list can go on and on...

something for everyone...

to ignore politics is to do so at our peril

I hear people say...I'll leave the politics to the politicians...

but to be a politician can simply mean you are engaged

To not be engaged...to leave it up to the politicians, has led to a ruling class...

and a disengaged populace...

leaving it up to them

only 53.6 % of us voted in the last presidential election...

that fact feels immoral to me

when we aren't in our humanity the world misses us

this is America

called a democracy...

run for and by the people

when we don't engage

what we have

this ruling class

is not a democracy...

as Thom Hartmann says...

Democracy is not a spectator sport...

tag...you're it...