A McDonald’s history lesson

Here’s the spirit. It’s a previous Delight. We start with food, shelter, education, and health care for every human being on earth. That would create the playing field. Here are the merits of UBI in my program to introduce it in L.A. when hardly anyone knew what UBI was.
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Next, we’d need the attitude. Equalize the world and then gentle it. We could use a worldwide campaign to make the world a kinder place. I am working on this: https://www.kindnessminute.net. It isn’t public yet. For one minute a day, we want millions of people at the same time in every time zone to focus on kindness. The launch is scheduled for the equinox in March.

I’m hustling for an ad hoc Wisdom Council. One power person could call others to work out what they would do if they ran the world. I bet the world would listen. A billionaire could get people who have so much money to switch from the pleasure of acquiring to the joy of giving, or a committee could call other thought-shapers to the table – rabble rousers like Michael Moore, Robert Reich, Oprah, Greg Palast, Marianne Williamson. They could raise a flag for other luminaries to rally round.

Being isolated from each other is counter to the essence of being human. And even when we’re free to mingle, there’s lots of loneliness and separation. But, instead of the only recourse being to talk to a therapist, I’d have everyone in an 8-person Circle of Trust where people listen to and help each other.

And even now we could make a leap by moving to the life-giving Norwegian prison system.

With this being the last of Round One of A DELIGHT A DAY, the time I’ve spent with what’s wonderful about humanity as I’ve collected our Delights has been uplifting. And, I’m still on the directive I got from some automatic writing I did in 1989 telling me to charm the world. Stay tuned for Round Two of our Delights being uplifting and inspirational to us all!

What could possibly, in one fell swoop, create a massive transformation? Everyone would agree that aliens – or crop circles — on the Whitehouse lawn would do it. When the evidence from science labs indicated we could not be making these beautiful imprints in crop fields, I got interested enough to make a documentary that got a good review in The New York Times. Here’s a trailer for it. The whole film is free if you have Amazon Prime and $2 on Vimeo.

I take my deepest beliefs about reality from my favorite book – and my favorite author who is as wonderful as his book is. I’m up to some 2,000 copies I’ve bought – if you are my friend I’ve given you a book, and if I ran the world I’d make it required reading. You can see Brian in action on a visit he paid to L.A. a few years ago – first at a little brunch at my house and then in excerpts of the event that had brought him to L.A.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was an actress. When I got married, making commercials worked best because it didn’t take me away for too long from my main job, in the olden days, of being a housewife/mom. The commercials aren’t in a produced reel — just a stringing together of footage that got old before it went online. And what a difference a few decades makes. It’s a bit of a snapshot of the arc of humanity for how fast-paced life has become.

The other reel was a birthday present from a good friend who went online and found some gigs in TV shows and movies I’d done before I made a decision to stop painting pictures and acting in commercials and I struck out to see how I could help the world.