blue november

happy sunday funday

~ m

she's got the look

a few gorgeous things 

to compliment your inner fire

muah ~ m

looks found here 

morning joe

happy 11.11.11

it's a cool crisp friday in november

one of those aww-yeah kind o days.

so it's with a cup of joe in my hands

and some resolutions in mind 

that i sit down to change my world.

because today i am

enjoy all the moments 

this weekend brings your way.

m

bad to the b

i'm pretty sure i was a bad girl in a previous life

not a bad girl wanna be

but an honest to god 

thrill seeking

dreadlock rockin

tattoo flashing

bad boy loving

party going

catch me if you can

 bad girl.

now a days
this is about as bad as it gets 

but i still like knowing she's in there

just looking for the right moment 

to reappear....

xxxx~ mrs m

all kinds of bad girls found
here 

the business of a better world

with decreasing income and rising prices, with foreclosures and joblessness, environmental disasters and global warming.... it can be difficult to hold on to the optimism of a better world.

but this past week i had a rare glimpse into what a better world might actually look like. at a conference under the auspices of Business Social Responsibility: RedefiningLeadership, i witnessed 1000 + companies attempting and in many cases succeeding, in leveraging their enormous spheres of influence and powerful brands to bring about social change. the fact that i was skeptical of the likes of pepsi and GE, chevron and microsoft as they sat there describing clean water initiatives in africa and communication inroads in india, is a testimate to just how dire our situation has become. we have lost our faith in government and are desperately looking for a leader. the irony that such a leader might turn out to be one of the very beasts that got us here in the first place...wasn't lost.

so is there a magic pill?

or is this just a massive ploy by c-level execs to preemptively greenwash the future while hoping we forget about a past riddled by decades of unrestrained consumption and greed? it remains to be seen. but whatever the true motive, it has us talking and the change is positive.

so what does this better world look like? it looks like a world where companies don't just take from the people's and communities where they operate but give back as well. it looks like a world where corporations refuse to turn a blind eye on issues like modern day slavery, unsafe working conditions and fair wages but acknowledge the very success of their business is inherently tied to the people bringing their products to fruition. it looks like a world with clean air, green forests, fresh water and blue oceans and one in which corporations understand that their survival is tenuously tied to this place we call home not only today but also tomorrow.

it seems it is no longer enough to do good on our own time but return to work and think only of profit and shareholder value. it is necessary that we urge our corporations to be better leaders and stewards of responsibility. and in doing so, corporations aren't just throwing money away or frivolously focusing attention on issues not relevant to their business...in this age of hyper-transparency acts of social responsibility serve to protect brands, attract greater talent, retain innovative employees and improving supply chains operations. and what CEO doesn't like a win-win?

hugs ~ mrs m

images found here

on and on and on

so let's see

my last post.....about idiots...

crickets

my posts however about pretty shoes, trips and music,

oh and things like throw pillows and

cool homes that most of us will never be able to afford

those...

those people like.

so as to not alienate 95% of the people who chose to spend a few moments on my blog

...i know i should keep the pie hole shut.

to those i say, fare ye well and a sincere thanks for visiting.

perhaps i can pin some of the blame on steve jobs, no?

after all i have this handy dandy little device that follows me everywhere

...all the time

and has the ability to feed me such an obnoxious amount of news

it makes my head spin.

perhaps i should blame part of it on the politicians?

 after all it's in large part because of their bickering and finger pointing,

their spin-doctoring and their self preservation
that we have a fucked society of overly medicated, under employed individuals

protesting the sheer inequality and the unfairness of it all.

but i should probably just own it and blame it on the crack

because before the damn crack,

 i really wouldn't have cared this much.

before the crack

the fact that 50 exotic animals, many on the endangered list

and many of which were actually de-clawed and had in fact been hand fed since birth

...were mowed down by some heehaw, hillbilly police force

who must have felt they hit redneck hunting pay dirt when they took to the woods

to "defend the citizens" armed with high powered rifles....

before the crack, this might not have
absolutely blown my mind with sadness.

before the crack

the fact that entire groups of people protest against

and make people feel bad for using birth control,

who have the nerve to tell them it blocks gods grace.

who then from the security of their own cushy homes tell people it's murder

...and yet remain conspicuously absent when it comes time for

"those people" to figure out how to feed, cloth and educate their babies.

 maybe before the crack
the self righteousness and arrogance of it all

wouldn't have made me see red.

before the crack

the fact that companies can actually stop delivering replacement water

to the very residents whose drinking wells they tainted with methane....

maybe
that wouldn't have seemed so very wrong.

but it does.

 it really does.

at times it seems the crack has made much of the world feel

 overwhelmingly, depressingly, heart wrenchingly

hopeless.

thoughts on this:

if you want to shoot something ...fine, have at it....
but at least shoot your own foot or
something.

don't casually put a bullet in something that makes you uncomfortable.

if you want to have 20 babies and can take care of them...god bless..get it on.

don't make others feel less for taking responsibility for their life and body.

if you make a mistake...clean it up.

don't go taking an big elephant sized dump one someone else

and expect to walk away scott free.

it seems pretty darn simple...

kind of golden rule-ish and shit right?

so happy friday....

go have fun and for goodness sake...

be nice and mind your own bees-nas.

and hey, wear some hot shoes while your at it.
m

wednesdays rant: idiots

i had the greatest of intentions.

really i did.

i sat down hoping that despite the news

some touchy ~ feely ~

life is beautiful ~granola crunchy prose

was going to salsa dance off my fingers and onto the screen.

as it turns out

my mind had other things...on it's mind. 

like

seriously...

idiots.

i mean....really people

must we go through this again?

and if we have to suffer birds drenched in gobs of oozy oil

and beaches slick with gunk

should the captain really be released on bail???

and what about all this greed?

for a significant chunk of the american population,

life is not getting better and hasn't been for a long time.

the economic crisis is even crushing the hopes of the younger generation.

astonishingly, people in their early twenties

face an unemployment rate similar to high-school dropouts.
and salaries...best to not even start ...

and it just keeps rolling downhill

republicans...

i have been fighting to hang on to

any shread of sanity about your party.

i have listened to your debates.

i have been open minded.

i have even at times, defended you.

but it seems you are going to great lengths

to make it impossible for any rational person to find 

ANYTHING

positive in your defense.

i mean first of all

there's palin and bachmann
?

BUT

no to the jobs bill?

no to soldiers who want to give their life for this country?

no to normal and reasonable taxes on millionaires?

and my personal favorite

rep. ritch workman (r) of fl who has decided that

the best use of his time is to not working with homeless

or helping create jobs in his community

but throwing his time, effort and resources into repealing

 dwarf tossing

we definitely have an existential country wide

question on our hands....

it's time to figure out who do we want to be

and

what are we going to do about

all the idiots?

 and she's off

her soapbox that is

 ~ mrs m