"Meine Ungeduld ist sicher noch ein kleiner Teil von mir wird immer noch ein kleines bisschen bleiben.  Doch in der Zwischenzeit, bis ich wieder geduldig bin,  werd' ich mir die Zeit mit Ungeduld vertreiben.

"My impatience is surely sill just a small part of me but a small part will always remain But in the meantime, until I am again patient, I pass the time with impatience"

(Nena, "Immer Weiter"
from the CD Willst du mit mir gehn?, 2005)

Yeah if you hadn't noticed, each one of these pages is gonna have a quote/verse or 2 from this fabulous artist.  She's far more spiritual than most people think.  I'll try to make each verse apropos to the page i question.  For example, the Indian page... well, I've got a wealth of material from which to choose. But on with the lesson.  Pay attention, class.

Me again :)

Well, I've grown up believing in all sorts of doctrines, from monotheism to polytheism to any itheism to no theism.  How I got there is a rather interesting tale.  Like I said in The Early Years, my paternal grandparents were semi-reugular attendees (and full-time members) of the Joppa Old-Regular Baptist Church of Melvin KY.   And for those unfamiliar with that particular branch of the baptist faith, it's "my way or no way."  If you don't swallow their bilge water, you're Hell bound.  As I grew older, that just made absolutely no sense to me.  I mean,  by that reckoning, everyone is going to this palce called Hell.  Makes no freaking sense at all.

Enter my mother.  Actually, she was around alot sooner than that, I think, now dont quote me, but I think she was thre when I ws born.  hehehe.   I didn't find out until a long time after she died, her reasons behind this, but she always told me to find my own path.  I always looked up to Mom, and for good reason.  After my accident she was instrumental in my recovery, my early education, my love of education, and it's due to her diligence that I entered school knowing more than half the idiots err people there.   So I did just that, set out on finding my own path.  What happened to her that made her so open-minded?  Simple.  Her years as a Jehovah's Witness turned her against "organized" religion altogether.  Go, Mom!!!  It was because of her that I was able to read at 3.  wasn't I just the CUTEST??? And so it begins...