no Democrat or Republican would hear my union songs

I wonder if they care what I saw in my 24 short years

If they respected my quarter century here

on this long island I was born they call New York

All my hard work

I heard late in the night the President I voted for extended the Patriot Act

can’t say I agree with that

what’s my freedom worth?

A million questions

I was imagining being in the middle of a Senate session

[[soundtrack to my thoughts]]

]]> http://thomasthoughts.com/2010/02/28/i-was-imagining-being-in-the-middle-of-a-senate-session/feed/ 0 thomas http://thomasthoughts.com/2010/02/12/let-me-tell-you-a-little-bit-about-myself/ http://thomasthoughts.com/2010/02/12/let-me-tell-you-a-little-bit-about-myself/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:30:37 +0000 thomas http://thomasthoughts.com/?p=287 ]]> while I listen to Sade “Soldier of Love” album that I just got on iTunes…

Sometimes I feel like my energy is unparalleled

I got 2 hours of sleep last night

I rarely get more than 4 or 5

I woke up 6AM

It’s 2.11.10 – I am 24 years old.

In 4 months from this day on 6.11.10 I will be 25 years old

I was born in 1985 in Queens

I think 1985 was the best year to be born

naturally

In 1995 my family moved to Staten, a town called Great Kills

Kills is the dutch word for rivers or streams

When I was a kid they used to call me Number 3

I have two older brothers who are twins

We are less than a year apart

(11 months and 2 weeks,  for 2 weeks all 3 of us same age)

they call that “Irish Twins”

I am a Gemini I am THE Gemini

I’ve seen a lot but only because my eyes are open

In 2006 I moved to Brooklyn

I am rigging grip

International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees

Local 52 Motion Picture Mechanic

I don’t use a computer at work.

I use tools

I love my job, but I want my life

I am a ♫listener by life

I am a lover by living

peace

shine on

t

ps- this Sade album is really good

#1 Japan 82.6

#38 United States 78.2 (In 2000 the life expectancy of New Yorkers surpassed that of the United States national average.)

#149 – Haiti 60.9

#188 – Afghanistan 43.8

Full Wikipedia list

crazy. the raw numbers.

blessed. alive. thanks.

peace love & light

t

from 7/09

[2nd verse in particular....]

sorry kid there’s no room to spare

no more buttons to press

i’m pushed to my limits of expression

never scared, no more running there is no unless

no exceptions, here is everywhere

One is All, no difference from creeds and the 10 commandments

I’ve seen Ready to Die, strength & weakness in the hearts of men

this is why I read the news,  and I saw who remember

and I saw who we forget

it’s no surprise to see no honor for those left anonymous

Doesn’t every life deserve more than a blurb?

Say the word and I’ll do more than log-in and blog

give me your blessings I’ll put my high beams to the fog

Let there be Light! Though I never claim to be God

I figured out how to get those switches on

I make sure the listener is always right a long

by my side together with my pen how we’re heavily armed

You could never count the amount of pieces in a whole, but you could never have the whole without every piece.

All is one, one is all. Believe that while a countless number struggle to see another day in Haiti.

PEACE

pray

donate

whatever you do

do SOMETHING

everything is in play

peace

t

and keep sending in those texts to 501501 … YELE

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT THAT WASN’T FORCED TO BE GIVEN

THANK YOU FOR BEING HUMAN BEINGS WHO SEE ALL AS BROTHER & SISTER

THANK YOU FOR YOUR MUSIC

THANK YOU FOR YOUR THOUGHTS

THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORDS

THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE FOR A COUNTRY THAT NEEDS THE WORLD

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMPASSION

THANK YOU FOR YOUR LIFE

TO ALL OF YOU READING THIS

IF YOU ARE I KNOW YOU’VE DONE SOMETHING FOR OUR WORLD THAT YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO

THANK YOU

YOUR SPIRIT IS EMPOWERING ME

ALL OF YOU

THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE

THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORTS

KEEP GOING

HAITI NEEDS YOU

THE WORLD NEEDS YOU

You know so much of the time we’re just lost, we say please God, tell us what is right, tell us what is true. And there is no justice, the rich win, the poor are powerless. We become tired of hearing people lie. And after a time we become dead. Little dead we think of ourselves as victims. And we become victims. We become weak. We doubt ourselves. We doubt our beliefs. We doubt our institutions. And we doubt the law, but today you are the law…

You are the law. Not some book. Not the lawyers, not the marble statue. Or the trappings of the court. Those are just symbols of our desire to be just. They are in fact a prayer, a fervent and a frightened prayer. In my religion they say “act is if ye had faith, faith will be given to you”… If.. If we are to have faith in justice we need only to believe in ourselves, and act with justice. See I believe there is justice in our hearts.

PEACE

TO OUR WORLD

ACT WITH JUSTICE

PLEASE DONATE AGAIN IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY TO THE HAITI RELIEF EFFORT

‘YELE’ TO 501501 HTTP://YELE.ORG

OR ‘HAITI’ TO 90999 RED CROSS

WE ARE ONE WORLD

ONE LOVE

I graduated from Staten Island Technical HS in 2003. It’s like Bronx tech or BK tech there is a limited acceptance. MY zoned school was New Dorp HS. New Dorp HS at the time had a dropout rate of like 60%. Both of my brothers went to New Dorp. Now both of my brothers got GED’s. I was lucky to go to the other school. I still never went. At the end of the 4 years I had 196 absences total. I think there are 180 days in a school year. I used to figure out what days I would be absent by only showing up for the ‘review’ day before the test. I never did homework I only did the necessary projects. I had cutting school down to a science. I worked harder avoiding school than I would have if I’d have just went.

I was doing fine until my senior year first semester. My 1st two classes were Gym and English. I don’t need to walk laps around the track. I was playing handball every day. As a 17 year old kid I was as fit as I could be. English – I love english, obviously I write all the time, I HATED the class. SO BORING. They would dictate chapters of books I’d finished reading in 2 nights. And here I am in this so called special acceptence ’smart’ school bored out of my mind because this shit is so simple. So I failed those two classes. Now the 2nd semester comes around and I have to make up for it.

The guidance counselor who was a very nice woman and I’m pissed I can’t remember her name came up with the idea that there are night school HS classes at the school and I could finish my last semester there. I had TWO gym classes and one english class. That was my last semester of high school. Because it’s a technical school with extra curriculum built-in I already had all the other required reagents and credits to graduate except for the 2 gym and 1 english. So off I am in night school. I show up at my graduation and not one of the kids in my graduating class had seen me for 6 months.

HOW’D YOU DO THAT?

I like to do things my own way. Common sense & experience have treated me very well and I’ve learned to trust them over data forced down peoples throats.

I’ll save my one and only year at SUNY Old Westbury for another blog. Ha. I haven’t been in a classroom in 6 years. I never stopped learning!

I was thinking about this.

Do I want to be called a member of the Greatest Generation? I do.

I can’t?

Because I haven’t fought a war?

Because I haven’t killed anyone?

Well…

They are the Greatest Generation. I acknowledge and honor all veterans who’ve fought. The women who stepped up and supported them. The children, the innocent ones lost. Whether they were wrong or right they died. Anyone and everyone. But I want us to be known as the Greatest Generation. How can we top reuniting and rebuilding a world after a war?

We can top that by uniting and building a world WITHOUT war.

That would make us the greatest generation. That would have people speaking(and tweeting?) of us as the ones who collectively decided that enough was enough. The tools for such communication were never in place. The wealth of common knowledge has never been more accessible. I’m not on some crazy biblical the light is gonna shine down and all will be granted heaven-ish. I’m saying “the people united will never be defeated”. That’s a protest slogan I’ve heard. It’s true but how could the people of the 60’s be truly united when they were small groups of people limited by physical mail and telephone for communication? That’s only 50 years ago. We’ve been “modern humans” for thousands of years. Now look what we’ve come into just in our lifetime(every single person who will read this).

These are not toys we’ve been given they are tools. Let’s use them.

Happy New Year

I said to my friends & fam I hope we all get JUICY

I say the same to you

PEACE for 20-10

t