23:13 - 01.08.06
matters
It has cooled down to seasonal values here, so I've been catching up on things like laundry. Boring I know, but it's nice to have clean linens and clothes to choose from. Had to pick up the side yard once again. That bag of the neighbour's garbage was physically placed in my yard and tipped over for the third time in a row. I don't know what's wrong with those people. My oldest son is of the opinion that they are bullying, because of that landlord who wants my property, but also because they think that, as a single female, I won't be able to fight back. He thinks I should call in the police, but it is difficult to prove that any of the actions singly are intentional and it is also hard to waste the officers' time when each individual act on its own doesn't seem all that serious. It is the cumulative effect and the threat or intimidation that is being conveyed that is the problem.
Truth is I don't want to fight at all. I have better things to do with my time. I also don't want to become anything like them. Have to think on that. There is a new centre being created in Vancouver by supporters of the Dalai Lama that might offer some solutions. The saddest part is the fact that the neighbours have several young children who are all showing definite signs of the same behaviour. I've heard the parents encourage them too. The most frustrating part is the amount of lying the children will do with respect to some of their playmates' actions. Being physically abusive, then demanding their parents discipline the other child when those victims try to protect themselves. It is obvious that they are learning how to make it so others take the blame and punishment for their deeds with their parent's complicity. That's the other reason I don't think responding to the adults' attempts to provoke a confrontation with me is a wise choice. Those adults probably have similar strategies in mind. Sort of like the global conditions right now I think.
A lot of fallout still about health care issues. After the incident last week, most people hastened to note that individual nurses and doctors - all hospital staff - are not the source of the problem. In fact, in a lot of ways, those people are going to heroic measures in order to try and help patients despite and in defiance of the current systemic abuse of patients. There are many sides to that systemic abuse too. From outright neglect and withholding of care to forcing inappropriate treatments on people who would benefit from many alternative strategies that have very long histories of being effective. There is also the biggest issue; which is refusing to address root causes. For example, this weekend was a big push to raise funds for breast cancer treatment. Even though the scientific research indicates that it is environmental pollution that is causing exponential increase in the number of women diagnosed and dying from more aggressive forms of the disease there wasn't a whisper about holding polluters and pharmaceutical companies complicit in the damage, accountable for their actions. Several stories released this week also indicate that as the boomers age the damage to their heart and lungs from the same pollution is going to become the biggest burden on the health care systems. Why aren't the various charities like the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cancer society banding together to jointly demand that environmental issues be addressed and the quiet, vicious carnage stopped. It shouldn't be a serious risk to go outdoors - for golfing, exercise or any other leisure activity for toddlers and seniors (thanks astrofish). It also shouldn't be dangerous for people with respiratory problems to walk to the grocery store. During the daytime it can be. Right now though it is time to change litter boxes and take out the garbage. Those cats have very high expectations you know.
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