| Am I Alone in This? Bill Bottrell in the January 2001 New Settler |
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months. And those who can and will climb out of things and live up to the new millennium, will. In other words, it's splitting. And I've experienced this year lots of bad energy - even around all the wonderful things that have been going on - enough for me to wonder,What is going on? These things keep happening! It's been almost monthly: something major and very disappointing to me. Or hurtful. And I think that's what is going on, maybe: people are going to their corners. And that is why you see this wonderful Ralph Nader upsurge. The Nader benefit at the house was a wonderful energy. it was local! The cover story was 'Ralph Nader Fundraiser'. But everybody just went with where it went and it was a local celebration of like-minded folk, and because of that, a lot was accomplished. That sort of feeling is |
happening. With Seattle, the students finally -finally! - kicking in. We've been waiting - what? - thirty years . . . . Thomas Jefferson said it takes a revolution to percolate, thirty years. BILL: For me - at the age I was at, cause I wasn't more than a kid in the Sixties, it was Damn it! When's it coming? Well it's here. And it's great. · |