January 6, 2008

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Women’s rights are human rights? Stephen Henry Lewis, United Nations’ envoy for HIV AIDS in Africa, 2006, said: “[Women's rights have] never been made real, and so long as men control the levers and bastions of power… it never will be real. The demeaning diminution of women is everywhere evident… freedom from sexual violence, the right to sexual autonomy, to sexual and reproductive health, social and economic independence, and even the whiff of gender equality are barely approximated. It’s a ghastly, deadly business, this untrammeled oppression of women in so many countries on the planet.” » Subscribe to Albeit or to unsubscribe. » Send Lynne a message!

Behind the 08 Ball

Greetings to all in our new year 2008! Here’s hoping that your consciousness is as fresh, and you’re ready to direct your life in the way you should go—whatever that may be for you. In total what it means is there are 6.6 billion paths which will lead humanity through the remaining 360 days of this New Year. (Leap year with an extra day, February 29.)

My new e-book, Cinderella’s Coffin: How men control the fate of women and girls, and what women can do about it barely made it into Santa’s sack before the 2007 holiday. If you haven’t already ordered your copy, you can read all about it on my Web site after finishing this first 2008 issue of Albeit.

Resolution for Peace

Solute is a dissolved substance, just as peace has been dissolved for us by leaders and wantons of war. Even religions are on the warrior’s path nowadays, leaving women and children behind as always.

Violence is bred by inequality, non-violence by equality.
~Gandhi

The male rhetoric says it’s for our own good, or for freedom’s sake, but we wise women have finally begun to question the intelligence of war, killing, fighting, and constant conflict that seems to disrupt only the lives of those who care about others. The Good Old Boys are insulated by our loyalty to their causes, ‘cause they said we should be.

Solution to War

Solution is an action or process of solving a problem. War is definitely a problem, robbing millions of their well-being, not to mention their lives. According to statistics, World War II was the costliest of all. Seventy-three million people died over the course of eight years, and two-thirds of those were civilians, i.e., two innocents for every warrior.

What if those two were you and me? Would we, albeit dead, have retained enough consciousness in a supposed hereafter to say, “It was worth it.”? I don’t think so. Solution is a bringing or coming to an end or into a state of discontinuity. In this case, a solution to war would be to discontinue warring. Too simple to understand? Evidently.

Resolution to Re-solve

Resolution is a firmness of resolve (to re-solve a previous solution that went awry). To resolve is to change from dissonance to consonance…from discord to harmony…from sour to sweet…from sad to happy…from death to life. Instead of making resolutions to diet or floss or serve or de-clutter, won’t you join me and millions of others to re-solve conflict with peace? Everything else we want to do to be better in 2008 will fit right in this simply stated goal, and without peace for ourselves and our sisters and brothers, how can any thing be fully enjoyed?

For whatever reason, you and I are selects—we are alive and others are not. We are writing and reading and others are not. We are warm and fed and others are not. We are capable and competent and others are not. Let us employ our gifts, our consciousness, our caring to dissolve hatred, greed, and games of exclusion. Leap at every opportunity to be peace. Let us aim our 08 ball toward the highest good for all people before our human family is discontinued against our wills. Re-solve is easily accomplished when replaced with re-loves.
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