I live near the UN and each year when the United Nations General Assembly has it’s seven day meeting and certain street crossings are blocked off and there are many police watching – like today – when I saw what appeared to be hundreds of Protesting Marchers shouting as they paraded up and down the sidewalk on Second Avenue from about 40th Street to 47th Street – I realize it doesn’t have to remain this way. I believe we can create peace and love on our planet.
I was simply walking up to the “The Health Nuts”, the health food store at which I purchase certain products I use. I value this store and find the workers there to be very helpful. I also feel that way when I’m in the Gristedes I do my weekly food shopping in. I’m not saying this to advertise. I’m saying this to let you know I feel secure that I won’t need to go on a rampage to stay alive. Well…every once in awhile I catch myself praying that I’ll have enough to be able to buy my food for the rest of my life. Now that I’m approaching 80, I find myself having more faith in the planet’s ability to care for me. I’m so glad I did the research that led me to be able to restore my health and I’m glad I was able to get the book I wrote about my process published. I thank Balboa Press for doing such a great job of producing it.
I admit that I do feel that I need to cut down some of the activities I take part in all the time because I need to be sure that I’ll have enough finances to carry me through several more years of life. While this doesn’t make me jump up and down with joy – I don’t feel that there are people who want to steal what I have so they can live well. Well…there may be people who would like to do this. However, I’m careful about what I do with funds and with whom and where I keep what I do have and I’m quite sure I’ll be able to live for several more years, as, I believe, our creator intended me to.
Won’t it be wonderful when (and I do believe that “when” will come) people will all realize that this planet can make enough for everyone and we don’t have to take it from the “other guy”. Now that I’m approaching 80 years of having lived I see that I (we) can “have” enough without “fighting” for it. When we can relax and know that working (maybe we need a new word, so people don’t look at it as a hardship…work has come to mean something not totally positive) doing what’s needed to live comfortably we can all be happy with each other. It wouldn’t matter what color hair or skin, etc. we have. With all the communication tools humankind has brought about – we’ll all speak the same language.
The one thing I’m praying happens within the time of my lifespan is that we’ll all be creating together and enjoying each other.
What I see and hear in the movements and voices of the protesters is that we need to educate the frightened people on the planet and open there minds to the reality that we can each do what we love to do and were created to do and all will benefit.
I have a feeling that people who have lived longer, might be the best teachers to help Earth become One Community made up of people who are each doing what they were born to do.
It would be wonderful if our brains would develop to the point at which each of us wouldn’t need the idea of “competing” to prove we were contributing to our planet. We’d know that each of us does contribute!
I believe I posted a similar blog last year. I still see an Earth without unrest as a possibility. I hope it doesn’t take millions of years to come about.
Bobbie has been involved in several different areas in the 76 years she’s lived thus far. She now realizes, related. She's became aware that her mission has always been to bring joy into people’s lives and thereby help people love themselves. "Be the Star You Truly Are" is her motto! ___________________ She graduated "First In Class" from the Labor Relations School at Cornell University in 1961. In 1964 she received her license in Secondary Education from Columbia Teacher’s College. As a graduate student and then until her son David was born, while also working as a substitute teacher in NYC Jr. High Schools that were considered "difficult", she worked as an economic researcher at Drechsler & Leff, her dad’s labor relations law firm. The firm was founded by her grandfather David Drechsler. The firm represented management - in industries that realized their employees were important if the companies were to succeed. Among the clients represented were the NY Hotel Association, The Men’s clothing Association and ladies’ clothing manufacturer Anne Fogarty. Her grandfather, David Drechsler, who founded the firm, helped Sidney Hillman found the Men’s Clothing Workers of America in 1914. ________________________________ When her son, David, was in kindergarten she followed her childhood passion and plowed into NY Theater. She began by studying with Stella Adler (whom she adored like a family member) , Lee Strasberg and Gene Frankel (who also became like family to her). She continues to perform and to write songs. Her . She has also produced theater and events, including the Drama Desk Awards and musicals and plays in New York, London and other US cities. She produced "The Betrayal of Nora Blake" by John Meyer in London and in West Palm Beach. The show is coming back and is presently having readings for possible investors. She won the 1988 MAC Award for the act she performed with former songwriting partner Sharon "Spector" Schapow. She was nominated for the 2015 MAC Award for Best Show and - Bobbie won both the 2016 and the 2017 MAC Award for Best Emcee for her series: "It's Just a Number!" The series continues on at The Metropolitan Room in Manhattan. She has become a well-known member of the NYC entertainment community. You can see her full entertainment resume on www.bobbiehorowitzproductions.inc. She attributes much of the positive response she got as a cabaret performer to the “look” she’d learned to achieve as a result having been analyzed by an image consultant. This led her to become a Certified Image Consultant herself, in order to be able to help others. Bobbie was on the faculty of New York University's Film, TV & Broadcasting Dept. where she taught "How To Present Yourself At an Audition". She also taught the course at the T. Schreiber Studio and taught Teen Image classes in Westhampton Beach and at Cascades High School in NYC. Her corporate image seminar bookings include Cornell University, Queens and Fordham Business School. She also was a speaker for the "Women in Business" series, BCD Productions, Profile Health Spa for Women, the Jacob Javits Center, Prudential Bache, The West Side Spirit, Our Town and Cablevision-in association with Image and Fashion International. She's done color promotions, with IFI, for Lancôme/Mirabella at Bloomingdale's and Abraham and Strauss. Her private clients are business people and performers who wish to rise to the top of their fields. She holds Color/Style "Dress To Get YES" workshops in New York City. You can read tesitmonies from private clients and workshop attendees on this site. Excerpts from her handout book "Max-Impact: Presentation for Optimum Results" and her article "Pruning the Ivy" (job interview dress and etiquette for college seniors) were published in "Image Update". She has been quoted as an expert in Seventeen Magazine and she co-authored the printed material for a seven-week tour for Escada. As VP for Education of the Tri State Chapter of The Association of Image Consultants International, Bobbie was a founding participant of AICI's project with The Partnership For The Homeless.