A Mama's Rant

Do You! this Summer

In Russell Simmon's Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success he writes that he believes in the power of meditation. Russell says that the most important message in his book is to get people to meditate and do yoga, something he does on a daily basis. As Russell told the New York Times, meditation helps him get closer to God:

To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God.

I've been experimenting with meditation and yoga this summer but on a less spiritual level. I'm taking a yoga class and getting massages to make my back and hips feel better and have downloaded meditation podcasts on my iPod to help me sleep better. In my case it's less about getting close to God and more about shutting off the noise in my mind and the pain in my body.

Yet I appreciate Russell's take on getting your mind fit before working on your body, relationships, or the way you make a living. You can't get your life in order without getting your mind in order. And that's what I'm trying to do this summer with my writing, getting fit and losing weight, and trying improving my health.

So it's been a summer of reading inspirational books like Do You! and Doing Me. I hope Russell inspires you to Do You! this summer, too.

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TOLERANCE = HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA

(I type this as Boo Girl sits on my bed drinking a bottle and watching SpongeBob on TV.)

Oh, so SpongeBob isn't gay after all. He's just teaches tolerance and diversity, which according to the conservative Family Research Council, is "coded language that is regularly used by the homosexual community." Oh geez louise, these people see a homosexual behind every door, hiding in the bushes, just waiting to pounce on our kids.

Who's next, Mr. Rogers? After all, a man wearing a cardigan looks a little fey. And what about Bert and Ernie, two single males who've been living together for decades?

Needless to say the media is having a lot of fun with this because it makes Dr. James Dobson, Focus on the Family and similar groups look as ridiculous and petty as they truly are - see the editorial from the Los Angeles Times, Yellow and porous and outed, and the extremely funny Queer Eye for the Straight Cartoon Guy by Jill Rachel Jacobs of the Common Dreams News Center.

On today's gay agenda:  In order to show support for diversity, tolerance, and picked on cartoon characters, convince American parents to go to Target and buy SpongeBob t-shirts for their families. We're loud, we're proud, and we dig SpongeBob!