More Than This...

One of my favourite movie scenes of all times has got to be the scene in "Lost In Translation" when Scarlett Johansson does a less than great karaoke version of Roxy Music's "More Than This." It's just full of all of this passion and longing -- the way she and Bill Murray look at each other is just amazing. (By the way, I think Bill Murray was ROBBED for the Oscar last year, but that's a story for another day.)

"More than this -- there is nothing
More than this -- tell me one thing
More than this -- there is nothing"

Always a lyric that has spoken to me...

It is an interesting thing to ponder these days though.

For those of you who are finding me randomly -- though I'm not entirely sure how you could, yet...you should know that I am very into politics and I am very liberal. To quote Melissa Etheridge from an episode of "Politically Incorrect" -- "I am so liberal I bleed only from the left side."

Anyway -- I digress -- for folks like me (and I know there are a lot of us -- at least 55 million) this was a very sad week indeed. For reasons that I am still trying to unpack, this country saw fit to re-elect a man who I am pretty sure history will consider to be one of the worst presidents that this country has ever seen. I could go on and on and on about the things with which I disagree with this current administration, but I think that will be for another time as well.

But we come back to the title -- More Than This....I have been struggling for a while now (not just this week though this week has certainly brought a fuzzy picture into clearer focus) with what my role in this world should be. For those who know me well, you know this is something that I struggle with all of the time...am I good person? Am I a good friend? Am I a good daughter? Am I a good citizen? The events of this week have lead me to a place where I feel I need to begin to be more active. There was a time when I was very active in politics and issues and then I stopped. I am sure there are a lot of really "good" reasons for that but really -- it just boils down to laziness so I am vowing to not be so lazy -- at least about this. That's not to say that I didn't participate in this election at all...I did some volunteer work making phone calls for a very cool group of folks at Clean Water Action so while I am very disappointed in the results of November 2, I do feel good about some of the work that I did. But I gotta do more...again, More Than This...

So for those of you who wish to be involved too -- check this out -- I have started a Yahoo Group to help us organize and I'm going to be posting a lot of the stuff that we'll be doing here as well. Keep coming back...

Decisions are made by those who show up....