Thursday, December 26, 2019

5 star points

5 star points


*there is no Planet B
 
*When each of us is healthier, all of us are healthier
 
*Peace offers a great deal more of benefit than fighting
 
*when in doubt, ask questions
 

*institutions created by humans can be changed by humans

Friday, December 13, 2019

stop fighting

Freedom is fundamentally not financial.
It is the overarching value of human dignity
thus that each of us has the right and responsibility
to be and express who we are.
 
 
 
It’s not so much our take, our diatribic hate
around specific issues,
but who or what we trust.
 
 
 
Who put those demeaning words in
your head?
Who are you so desperately trying to please,
to the point of destroying yourself?
 
 
 
Stop fighting!
Ceasefire, Mutually Assured Truce.
Hold a  moment of focus:
Look at your prize.
See your reward so clearly,
stillpoint of unfettered success.
Who have you become in this elation?
What does your future foretell?
Absorb and admire this most fervent vision.
Worlds of Truth are built from valiant visions.
Spending our vital energies fighting,
destroying, dying
take us from what could be
our lives.
 
 
 

12/7-12/19

Friday, December 6, 2019

apocalypse ahead

They say depressive folk see the world
more realistically.
But it’s not realism that brings us down.
It just all feels so beyond our ability
to change.
Yet change will be, as change is the
one true constant.
No we cannot recreate what is real
to fit our plans.
Yes, we can plan and act in thoughtful
ways that help sway the direction
of change.
But the weight of our understood world
can get so immense.
We feel frustration, energized into rage.
Without clear place to make that anger
win our cause, it builds, and accretes
with memories of shame, turns itself
to blame against our own mistakes,
unfortunate choices, to take the only
control we feel allowed.
 
 
 
We have expectation, assumptions
of what total strangers believe, based
on our experience of our own motives
and shame.
 
 
 
Traditional end days have been based
on religious prophecy.
Today’s are based in science.
See our behaviors through the lens of
apocalyptic desperation.
What better response do you recommend?
 
 
 

12/1-6/19