Pallywood

In January of 20ll the Naples Daily News published a Slippery Slope essay about To-Do-Lists and New Years resolutions. It was a very nice essay, sweet. Because of its sweet sentiment, I am posting it below. It still holds true. However, this time I am going to add a caveat with this introduction—we are no longer in sweet times. The published essay explores the power of To-Do-Lists and how a good list can conquer any obstacle, including New Year’s resolutions. In the essay I explain that around the first of each year I create the January list. It not only addresses household maintenance, birthdays, holidays, vacation trips, but it secures my goals for the coming year. What makes this list special is that it also addresses our goals. Just written on a common legal pad, it presents the possibility of reaching our dreams, it lays out the plan to conquer a problem. It outlines the steps to constructing what we need, crafting what we desire. The Naples Daily News published the essay on January 11, 2011. The week prior, The Constitution of the United States of America was read aloud on the Congressional floor during the swearing ceremony. The goal was to remind Congress of the limits of government because the new Tea Party membership thought government was too big. Funny, last week the Doomsday Clock moved closer to midnight because of our government. On that day six years ago, Congresswoman Gabby Giffords read the first amendment: freedom of speech.* I don’t know who read the…