People Over Politics, World Over Wealth

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Information Disconnect ~ Philip Brent Harris

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Drifting into memory, real or fictional,
all of our many moments are rewritten,
enhanced or diminished per our needs.
From the first instant, already we begin
altering the story to best suit ourselves.
We decide it was unimportant, so we
misremember the color of the balloons,
the flavor of the birthday cake recently
consumed. A rapidly forgotten and flimsy
tissue, tossed away when we’ve finished.

When we recall what we considered an
important occasion, we might still suffer
a poor memory. The balloon color shifts
because we don’t like red. The cake, too,
may change. We were not the center of
attention, the star, the hero who saves the
day. We embellish moments so we shine
or we can tell the tale more smoothly. The
point can be sharpened, or the punchline
stretched to catch our listeners of guard.

I begin to understand beauty is truth and
truth is beauty. Despite our altered stories,
we mostly speak the truth as we believe it.
Art, music, ideas; tales we spin move more
than us, encompass time and space. They
capture, if only for the briefest instant, a true
reflection of us and the cosmos at a moment
in time. Which may speak thousands of years,
across borders and barriers of mere language.
Whether we know it, we are changed by it.

Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment

Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,

Unite the World

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Information Disconnect ~ Philip Brent Harris