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1. What do YOU do to make your life and living work. You're the expert there but maybe 2. will shed light:
2. What does the PLANET do to make its ecology and economy work?

2. You've never reacted to my promotion of government by people as a check and balance to government by representatives, tho I've talked to you about it since we first met. But consider that Congressman Jared Polis, who I connected you with when he sought a meditation teacher, has distinguished his political career (which did more to turn Colorado Democratic than anyone's) by sponsoring two popular ballot initiatives. 2000's Amendment 23 has raised K-12 school funding 10% plus inflation; 2006's Amendment 41 is the country's strongest prohibition on lobbyists giving legislators "gifts." (His initiative for election-day voter registration failed.) In December he promised on KGNU to introduce a bill to give citizens NATIONAL ballot initiatives: http://spryeye.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-congressma… Jared is NOT afraid of Prop. 8 or other anti-gay ballot initiatives; he IS gay. He knows about the Newsweek poll showing a "surge in support for gay marriage" just a month after Prop. 8 passed: http://www.newsweek.com/id/172399 And that gay marriage opponents are "losing ground at a rate of slightly less than 2% a year": http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/04/will-iowan… Jared, having been on the Colorado Board of Education, understands that ballot initiatives are an educational process, putting "issues" on the biggest "table": the ballot. Things take time: "By going wrong, all things come right." Unless most power is in a few hands…

Jared funded me to start a talk show in 2004. I blew it by attempting documentary as well as talk, and cut our losses after videoing one show at the old Channel 54 at the Dairy. Now with cheap vodcasting it's WAY easier and cheaper. Joanna's right: your show should be on the website; maybe real TV would follow.

I like her subject ideas. But to get more than the 12-35 set, do segments also about green, yoga, buddism, philosophy, etc. Jumping back and forth would stretch minds of all ages.

"Crowd-source" your shows: Let your audience suggest and vote on guests for your show. Maybe do what Maher did years ago, and have a few "citizen" panelists along with the celebs.

ALL of this is about giving people what they want: in entertainment, in commerce, in government. Of course, popularity is balanced by what the entertainer, the businessperson, the representative wants.

In each of these, if the people are ignored, bad things happen. That's disaster for the entertainer's career, the businessperson's business, and the PLANET, in the case of those with absolute national legislative power, Congress. It's because of their monopoly, more than anything, that the economy and the ecology are haywire, among other things.

If your show was run with popular input (and promoted popular politics, I would also hope) it could be a winner. Maybe Jared would give you start-up funding. I'd help.

Right now I'm trying to water the tree on the hill, and hope that the blessing runs down and waters everyone else. Last year I was playing with Abilene at a park in Niwot and a man came out of a tree to tell me that. There was a small geyser spurting out of the tree (at the crest of a hill) at the time. Tall, old man, white beard, white clothes. I think my family thinks I'm crazy, and because of that I could just try to forget about it, but hey, it actually happened!
I was scared to tell anyone about it, so then I just went and told everyone here:
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2009/01/cuffs-for-…

Here's a little Talking Heads~

"And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful
wife!

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the moneys gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

Same as it ever was…same as it ever was…same as it ever was…
Same as it ever was…same as it ever was…same as it ever was…
Same as it ever was…same as it ever was…

Water dissolving…and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Carry the water at the bottom of the ocean
Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean!

…Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground."