9.9.13

Isabel's owl

Been listening to Isabel,
she's just turned 80.
She collects owls.
In fact, she is one.
At the age of seven she decided 
it was unfair that the people in 
the other waiting room 
across the way from her
saw the doctor quicker.
From that day she wanted to stand up for people.
And now I'm listening to her incredible stories.
Gathering her wisdom.

6.9.13

Written in 1802...

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered...I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."              
                                                                                                                                                         Thomas Jefferson

Two hundred years later...a generation is becoming homeless.