Wisdom From Jefferey, Whizzer & Marvin on the Day Before Never.

"Hate AIDS, Love Life." Jeffrey the Movie


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"Love Everyone/Thing, Always Tell The Truth." Maharaji via Ram Via Me


Hate AIDS.  Easy to do.  Unnecessary suffering, agonies, cruelty and greed manifested in the name of AIDS.  THAT is easy to hate.  But you can't hate something away.


As The Beatles told us, ALL you need is love.  On George's anniversary of his passing yesterday, or droipping the meat puppet, as I like to say, it gives one the chance to reflect and assess from where we have come and where the hell we are going.  George "got" Krishna or Christ consciousness.  Love is the only answer.


It IS exhausting loving the unloveable. It challenges our egos, our minds.  Good.  Let it tussle with your modes of entrapement.


Here is my exercize for you.  You won't like it. But give it a shot.


Really challenge your assumptions and perceptions.


LOVE AIDS for its fierce grace in growing compassion and empathy and propelling humankind forward, in reminding us that that which affects the least of us affects all of us, for burning away the borders of class, economics and race, and for the millions of angel souls who signed up to help us just-slightly-denser-than-cement beings remember the One.




Would I prefer not to have AIDS?

Yes. 

Would I be who I am, or even alive, without AIDS?

Most probably not.


It helps me to forget about Me and remember Us.
 
Grateful for, to quote 'Falsettos', 

"the chink in the amour
The shit in the karma
The blues."


Grateful for the U in Us.


Namaste.

effort.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

At times, it seems like an uphill battle, but that only drives us on.

Thank you for joining me in the fight to end the pandemic and human suffering caused by HIV.

Love

Craig


https://www.sfaf.org/give/marathon.cfm?e=FL07&f=Craig&l=Hermes&n=5053

"Franciscooooooooo. That's fun to say..." ~Buddy the Elf.

Hello My Family and Friends from San Francisco!

Am I the non-cartoon version of 'Where's Waldo?' or what? I'm settling back into a life, striving to reduce and simplify, and in all likelihood, amassing and complicating as I go...we do our best, huh? Was laughing with my great friend Sabrina about the noble and freakishly unattainable goal of making life simpler. It came down to, 'I only want a few things, but nice, newest versions of things..." I hate the things I love and love the things I hate. Well, that's enough mental wordsmith push-ups for early morning.

I made the decision two days ago to participate in in AIDS/LifeCycle 6 this June 3 - 9, a 575-mile bike ride in support of the services and clients of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

I hope that last sentence wasn't the DELETE NOW prompt that I imagine it might be. "Uh oh, he's fundraising AGAIN, ABORT ABORT!!!!"

Wow, you're still here! Thank you for at least humoring me for another paragraph or three.

I signed up on the ride last year, but kind of assumed that with the transition and extreme debt mountain I've amassed, it wouldn't even be within the realm of the possible. (Don't worry, I PROMISE I won't say 'I'mpossible.' with requisite branding and copyright.) But I put the idea out there, and people cleared the path for me and showed me that anything you can imagine, can occur. Power of the will, the kindness of friends. It's a great thing.

This paragraph is where I should say poignant things and make you feel the need for the event. But, with this being my 12th year of participation, I've kind of said it all before. What can I say except that it's still so vitally necessary, that people need to ride bikes extraordinary distances just to keep friends and family alive. Kind people. Many of these people not normally active. It's not easy, it is commitment, drive, compassion. Your family, friends, neighbors--all connected, we are all our brother's keepers. I decided to challenge myself in a new way this year, by becoming a recurring donor at Keep a Child Alive. For $30 bucks a month, the price of just one of my 60 antiviral pills I take in a month, I am providing a month's supply of antivirals for someone in Africa. I can't give up two weeks of Biggie Diet Cokes so that a child can live? Of course I can! The extraordinary, prohibitive costs of health insurance and antiviral regimens here in the US makes this journey necessary.

So, logistics. I'd love to have your support. I wouldn't ask if it weren't necessary. I hate asking for money (did I hear eyes rolling?) but for this I get over the discomfort so that I provide you the opportunity to to be involved, without saddle sores, hemmorhoids or spider veins. Maybe just a little carpal tunnel from writing a check or, even easier, donating online! I can't guarantee you won't get grin cramps, of course.

Click here to donate securely online: https://www.aidslifecycle.org/donate/form.cfm?n=4147

Please consider joining my effort. Thanks for your time and continued presence in my life.

Namaste/Peace/Love
Craig
Rider #4147, SFAF Client, HIV+ over 12 years, Pain in the Ass far longer

Share.

We are so fortunate. What do I have to complain about? Please consider going to http://www.keepachildalive.org/donate.php and for just a dollar a day, keep a child alive. Share your love with a stranger a world away. We are all Family. One.
Thank you, Alicia and Bono for the poignant song, video, and passion to use your heart and position to make a difference.
It is our obligation.
Peace.

A World Without AIDS. WORLD AIDS DAY 2006.

Here we are 25 years later, the pandemic continues. In fact, AIDS has gone on to become the number three cause of death worldwide.

I ask you to take a moment to think of those gone from the disease. For those continuing to live with the virus. For the countless orphans in Africa, Asia, here in America, who will never know their parents.

We are extremely blessed in this country. We all have legitimate gripes and annoyances, but for the most part, we are bathed in an embarrassment of riches compared to the majority of our fellow men & women.

I ask that you follow this link to light a candle. For each click, Bristol-Myers Squibb will donate a dollar to the National AIDS Fund. There is no form to fill out, no email to input, just a click. And from that, grows hope.

https://www.lighttounite.org/

Thank you, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and thank you, my friends and family, for doing what you can to ease the pain and suffering caused by the pandemic. Just a click away.

Namaste/Peace

Craig

Hey- why not forward it to your friends as well? We are powerful beyond measure in numbers.