Pushing Off from the Deep!

Andrea here, launching my first Blogger post.

Finding voice and making contact through these words, saying "Hello out there!"

Always thinking, sometimes a little cranky, enthusiastically searching for ways to participate now toward a tomorrow that breathes freely, deeply and without cost to myself or to others.

I'm a Nurse Psychotherapist - a wife - dwelling in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Justice and antioppression are passions of mine, together with a longing belief that surely there's enough for everyone to be well, happy and peaceful. Too often I rail against the reality that presses my face to poverty, injustice and pestilence that our nation seems to grow in full bounty, and then to wield against those who modestly eke their daily fruits.

Listening to the words today of Hugo Chavez at the U.N., it's impossible to stifle my grinning agreement that our president surely appears as "the devil" who leaves the stench of sulfur where he walks. Only "the devil" would have the audacity to declare that others are "evil" and then decimate entire nations, espousing the delivery of democracy on platters of war.

Eternally hopeful for regime change from within our own wonderful nation, I believe as did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

Thanks for reading - I'm eager to have company on this journey.