This is what today is about.........

Not AT them

Not OVER them

WITH them.

You'll be better for it!

"Every moment of your life
is infinitely creative

And the universe
is endlessly bountiful.

Just put forth
a clear enough request,
and everything your heart desires
must come to you"


(Shakti Gawain)

Why I care......

"How the One Child Policy came about:

In the 1950s, Mao Tse-Tung urged his people to have lots of children to strengthen the country.

The population growth from this edict led the government in the 1970s to be worried that China would be unable to feed her citizens. So, the Chinese government implemented the One Child Policy in 1979.

The goal of this policy was to keep China’s population below 1.3 billion by the year 2000. Today, China is home to over 1.2 billion people. Couples who violate the One Child Policy are subject to fines (equal to three years’ salary!), community ostracism, and even jail time.

Baby boys are more valued in Chinese society than are baby girls because boys carry on the ancestral name, inheritance laws pass property on to sons, and sons are responsible for taking care of aged parents. Because of this many couples will abandon baby girls. A heartbreakingly cruel choice, yes, and an event that happens all too often – hundreds of thousands of baby girls are abandoned every year in China. The babies are abandoned in public places (such as busy streets, railway stations, and in front of public buildings) so they will be found quickly. The babies are abandoned as infants – usually when they are only a few days old. In addition to little girls, handicapped babies and sick babies (both boys and girls) are also abandoned because most parents in China don’t have the money to provide for their special needs.

Once found, the abandoned babies are given a medical exam and then taken to orphanages."
(http://www.china.adoption.com/)

The Future of China's One Child Law China's eleventh Five-Year Plan Period is from 2006 to 2010. Minister of the State Commission of Population and Family Planning Zhang Weiqing confirmed in early 2006 that China's one child policy is consistent with the nation's plan for population growth and would continue indefinitely. He denied rumors that the policy become less stringent to permit a second child.

(http://www.geography.com/)

Wowser. Gotta be somethin in the water.

Oh perhaps not, WATER RESTRICTIONS STAGE 4. I tried to scan it all official like but scanner not happy. (OK something in the WINE !! :)

I'm used to it. This here no water.

I think nothing of catching the shower water before it warms up to water my herbs.

Or catching the rinse water from the washing machine to add to the next load.

And the wash water to do such gross things as wash out the kitty litter box.

WHO LOVES BUCKETS? I LOVE BUCKETS!

I have a tiny-ish tupperware in my sink to minimise dish water and God forbid (Imean literally GOD FORBID I have a dishwasher)

I think this drought's been going EIGHT years. (Amendment- it's actually roughly 11)

I found a cool thing today. My Man threw a blown up balloon at me while I was showering and HELL YEAH IT SOUNDS LIKE RAIN!!!!!!!!!!!

So i have a psychosomatic solution.

That's all any of us need really.

Soundtrack - Tori Amos, Tom Waits, no rain

Climate - Loving and dusty

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEIRDRE xxx

Ohhhh. I've gone and crossed two worlds. I'm this hip, weird, chick all about literaturistic (my new word) quotes and random shiznizzle. But now I've admitted it. And I'm readin' what I affectionately term "My Chinese Baby Blogs" with new eyes.

And those eyes go right to my stomach and then my soul.

Will it be me?

Once upon a time it was all good.

Now I can't be single.
Or on medication.

I have a partner, that's all cool, but he's not old enough yet.

And meds, heh.

I feel different.

But I can still see her.

Since I was a teen I preached on about having children when there are so many already that need lurve, lurve, lurve.

Let's see shall we.

Let's see.

You don't know how much thanks.....

Where do i start? It's 4am and clearly I'm not in bed. this is not my journal but for some reason this morning it is. I did something I now class as stupid. I read my archives. In order. Which if you do, you'll see the winds of change kinda like me or i go with em, something.

I started off hours ago thinkin , "I'll write a post about my brother" he never gets enough credit and he is a rockin dude. i got sidetracked. story of me life.

i guess what i've never said this whole time is word,props, and thankyou to the adoption families.

i know when bubs is a number in months. i follow that to eventually a photo of a damn sad child. and then i read as you crazy cats become mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers and i see those little faces get plumper and rosier and those little eyes get brighter and seriously guys, it makes my day. all that minutiae. i totally care.

My favourite is and always has been Ruby In Her Own Time by the fabulous Amyla. Simply because she's fab (Not to mention single and hilarious and just kinda like I like em) and Ruby's following suit.

Anyway i feed on your family photos and silly anecdotes. it makes me happy.

i know they're there. The kids. (Not yours, the other countless) i've been thinkin about them for years, til i was old enough, then Hague changed. But I'm still holdin out. It seems right. I like right. I like true. I like my chances. I just never said THANKYOU.

Thankyou for doing it, writing about it and being either brave, naive, proud, humble or kind enough to let me read about it.

Read mine when it happens ay.

Bless you.

Have a lovely day.

And GREAT BIG LOVE.

EE
xxxx

And for the re(d)cord dudes I saw hundreds of ladybirds(bugs) yesterday. Think he's tellin me something?

Ah, sister, could this be a vague plea???? Uh HUH

I Love My Buddy

Things I learnt today.....

• The leaves of coriander are called cilantro


• Silverbeet is also called chard


• I never doubted "that all things are possible" but hey I flagged a little there for awhile.

Today I got me a healthy dose of reassurance.(Go the U.S, I knew you had it in ya)

And,

And,

• I enrolled at Uni !!!!!!!!!

Watch out World, freedom fighters with brains on the loose.

And Welcome guys, - "we got ourselves a reader"(s)

Bill Hicks would be so proud. Of all of it. Well actually he might not care about the gardening facts, but meh, I like em.

Climate - Peace, Love and sense on the rise.

How high's the water Johnny? Five feet high and rising.

YIPPEE

Now if it would just rain.......