Drishti Of The Day Archived Today:

"What I have always wanted to hear, e.g., Journalists & leaders on a national level, say, albeit in direct response to what I've been reporting for years, namely about experiences in this country, most interestingly in my own hometown, and my own home state, of Dubuque, and Iowa, was what I finally got to hear last night, in response to what is happening right now in the Iowa Caucus...I think a direct quote is, 'There is just something OFF there...' No one, who has maintained the high watch for me, associated with Love Yoga: The Movement, especially, is likely surprised about this 'debacle,' as the key factors in its creation have been looking to either kick me out or take me out, for years. The lack of Diversity, maintained suppression or rejection of it, unexplained improper usage of their own talent(, a.k.a. their own kids), who do return to the area, after they literally ran a campaign in Dubuque to do just that--Get their gifted kids to care about Dubuque, as adults, & 'come home' to contribute, lack of 'big' anything, including companies, expectations, ability, or Grace under fire, Project Management or Business acumen, unless it's about Agriculture, specifically IT...I have been sick twice now, since the holidays, from overexposure to the public in 3, going on, 4 jobs, for lack of even 1 'real' one that any community I've lived in in the country has been able to produce, where even complete strangers, much less people who are aware of who I am, or what people have always known my capability level was, look at me, while I'm doing them, like they're apologizing with their eyes...Note: I am the type of person who isn't sick often. The hilarity of actually being one of the members of the generation that spawned, or looked to jump into, dot.coms, was recruited into the 2000-2001 Recession & Crash of IT, as the starting gates to the 'real world,' but whose resume was instantly spit out by, e.g., IBM, who came in, stroked some high-level egos in this area, but destroyed the lives of pretty much everyone who matters, including the good local landlords we do have, local pricing, rightful distribution of wealth, etc., is that I'm sitting there watching this unfold last night, on CNN, coughing(, since laughing turns into coughing, as of Saturday), & I don't know what was funnier--that it was actually happening, that anyone as intelligent as the people on those networks would be shocked that it was, or that, as of about 24 hours before this all happened, in full realization of how f'd up this place truly is, nothing will change, when I look around Eastern Iowa, and the Midwest, in which I was raised, that these people are still home to me. They're still 'my people,' in a way that could not be replaced, possibly, the way the same could be said about those of my Race & Ethnicity. It's a big world out there, Great State of Iowa. If you want to play with the Big Dogs, you've got to raise your bars. And that means embracing your naturally derived High Bar Holders, not disowning them for coming home to Protect and Defend you--from yourselves, it seems." -AJS