My Life Art In 2010

Linda and I are today celebrating our 11 year anniversary of our commitment to our life partnership. It is the best art of my life. This love is the basis of all I do and all I care about. Linda is my equal and my most beloved.

Weigh in at the OSF Weight Loss Challenge resulted in 255.5#. Very good. Tonight I weigh in at my weekly Weight Watchers right before we leave town for our dinner celebration at Alexander's Steak House in Peoria. Wednesday it's my bff Patty's and mine weekly Canasta Blasta. Then on Thursday Linda, me, Patty, Mom, Virginia (Linda's Mom), Matilda and Maryanne are going to The Packinghouse for my Birthday celebration dinner. Oh, the weight loss will suffer but the good times will roll.

I don't care to go to politics much in my art life but somethings I am compelled to mention to help sculpt our composite art.
Small memo to all "important" people. President Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Hilary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Our Pope, Bill Gates, Diane Sawyer, Barbra Walters, Dean Trantalis, and all of those (allot) I fail to mention.
Cease all major sports activities for 10 years. All monies to education. Up pay of the teachers. Hire more teachers don't lay off. National focus on teaching children values, morals and general knowledge.
Allow each person with a social security number a voting button. Each person votes on issues as presented to Congress. ALL voting takes place in this manner. From elections to laws. Senators and "representatives" no longer vote. The merely present issues in the walls of Congress, and we the TAXPAYERS vote.
All Federal prisoners are shuttled to the moon where we have built a prison. Offenders stay there. The guards are the second highest paid persons in our society - second to teachers.
The IRS is disbanded. Flat tax. It will never happen as long as our "LEADERS" are millionaires. There is not a Congress person who is not a millionaire.
Somehow we need to take things back.
I think this will make a difference.
President Obama is doing a great thing with trying to fix healthcare. He's right. If you worked in a hospital as I do you would see that much of what goes on is not right. One instance. Room #1 there is a woman who has a terminal disease but her insurance refuses to pay any longer for whatever reason. Luckily I work at a place where everyone gets care. In Room #2 there is a 20 year old girl who has a headache, no insurance, and is on her phone playing a game to pass time. Who is paying for here? Me and you. This goes on all of the time. I know that the system needs work to make it right . I know that all of this " excess" and "unnecessary" situations are my job security. But I feel it worth it for me to have a disrupution in my lovely life somehow to make the broken system work.
Dear Jesus, hear my prayer...