Category Modern Life
Ask, Listen, Care, Touch
Ask, Listen, Care, Touch ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Listen to the man who loves history. Ask him why he studies the our past. Listen to women caring for children, wonder how long this world will last. I try to find answers in thick tomes, fact […]
How Long, How Well
How Long, How Well ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ We must share our stories all of us, whenever possible. We are at risk. Pick your poison, climate change, pollution. starvation, stress, violence, encouraged and enhanced by fools, mountebanks and misers. Profits proffered as basic rights […]
We Will Never Know
We Will Never Know ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ While I am well aware that what other people like may, in no way, appeal to me and the corollary, that what I find wonderful, they may see as dreck. This should not matter in the scope […]
Simple Man
Simple Man ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ I am a simple man. Because I believe the human race can change. I am a dreamer. Because I believe everyone should understand. I am naïve. Because I believe if enough people say no, it will matter. I […]
Neverending
Neverending ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Will we Grow, grow up, grow old, grow old together in all weather? Woven, weaving a tapestry, joined, cleaving, or a shroud, grieving, giving, dying, living out loud. Friend, lover, mover, cover, shielding all, memories times, signs. Lightening, thunder, torn […]
Act After
Act After ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Where will we be on the midden of history? These moments, time, which none might recall. What will we or any other see? Torments of our climb, if we rose, when we fall. Who will, then, decide what we […]
Redefining War and Peace
Redefining War and Peace ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ War, armies, death, destruction, terror, horror and fear fill our news and our days. These are all very real and frightening, but I believe war deserves a broader definition, as does peace. War is not simply armed […]
Neither a Laugh Nor a Tear
Neither a Laugh Nor a Tear ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Today, I decided to remove my face, to discover what I would find beneath. It looked a bit like red, stringy lace. Much like we will all one day bequeath. Wait, that says you’re the […]
Echoes
Echoes ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Out in peaceful nature, where I love to be. Now, I hear soft voices, direction a mystery. Are there other hikers in the nearby forest, or echoes of other people from long ago? ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is […]
Live In
Live In ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ ‘Tis a gift to be simple and uncomplicated, no bartered existence to prove we’re alive. Sit silently, existence within contemplated, no more true separation than bee and hive. Appearances deceive, all grand illusion. Alone, same centers, edges and middles. […]
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