Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, or perhaps I should say Kaninchen, Lapin, Coniglio. It is an old superstition that if the first thing you say is Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit at the beginning of the month, you will have good luck all month. Add to this, that August 1st is Swiss National Day, I thought it might be a good day to say Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit in German, French and Italian.

Yesterday, we got thrown yet another curve as we try to downsize out of our current house. I won’t go into the details here. I’ll only say that the lawyers are handling it, and that there is even more uncertainty about where we’ll be living.

I’m not a big fan of trusting in luck. Recently, luck hasn’t seemed to be on my side. Also, too many people I know seem to be looking at luck as an ATM to bring a little prosperity into their lives.

My wandering around the Internet the other day brought this home. I like to start off with people who have visited my site via MyBlogLog. Then, I see who visited their sites, and go off on an Internet Walkabout. You often see interesting things.

Recently, I was visiting Mard’s Rants from the Great State of Maine. Having been born in Maine myself, I particularly like Mard’s site. As I wandered the links, I found my way to Beyond Zen’s discussion about non-attachment. This lead me to a site about which credit card sites have the best reward programs, and from there to sites about the Law of Attraction. The path lead on to sites to buy jewelry and perfume. This lead to sites written by ‘luxury travel companions’. At this point, I figured I’d traveled far enough on that path and started over again visiting some mommy blogger who had recently visited the site.

It lead me back the important questions. What are we looking for? Wealth? Power? Sex? Or something more important and more satisfying? On the Object Relations website, Object Relations is defined as ” a modern adaptation of psychoanalytic theory that places less emphasis on the drives of aggression and sexuality as motivational forces and more emphasis on human relationships as the primary motivational force in life.”

Perhaps that is why I like the community of mommy bloggers much more than so many of the political blogging and SEO blogging, or even the Law of Attraction blogs. They get to importance of human relationships. That is also why I like Falcon Ridge so much. Falcon Ridge isn’t about music carefully packaged by RIAA compliant corporations, music focused on wealth, power and sex. Falcon Ridge brings the music of human relationships.

Mary Gauthier has a great song about this. In “Mercy Now”, she sings about her father fading away with Alzheimer’s.

My father could use a little mercy now
The fruits of his labor
Fall and rot slowly on the ground
His work is almost over
It won't be long and he won't be around
I love my father, and he could use some mercy now

She expands on this through out the song, ending up with:

Every living thing could use a little mercy now
Only the hand of grace can end the race
Towards another mushroom cloud
People in power, well
They'll do anything to keep their crown
I love life, and life itself could use some mercy now

Yeah, we all could use a little mercy now
I know we don't deserve it
But we need it anyhow
We hang in the balance
Dangle 'tween hell and hallowed ground
Every single one of us could use some mercy now

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I guess that captures some of the luck I hope to capture by saying Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, by trying to think positively and attracting good things, by trying to be in a place where I can experience some of God’s abundance. All I’m looking for is a way to feed and shelter my family while I try to bring a little more kindness into this world that could use a little mercy now.