Category politics

Do You See?

  People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ What if you could be transportedto another time and place? Perhapsthrough a great novel which leavesyou an active participant, the hero, orsomeone else who changes the mostbecause of what they experience withinthe pages? If only it never had to end.Great music, some art may also transportyou, […]

Only They Exist

  People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ I have felt the darkness come. I’veseen the stars wink out one by one.Not the thousands we can see, butthe million billion contained in themillion billion galaxies. So vast ourcosmos, it beggars description, letalone any concept of true understanding.Could we use such cosmology to explainthe purchase […]

All the Other Beings

  People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Gently, the wind blows through the trees.I wander through the valley, smell theflowers and listen to the birds. What willI find if I am but quiet enough to listencarefully to the world all around me? Whatwill I know within the silence of myself?Will I take the […]

All Along

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Life speeds past me with a grace and precision which are no longer mine. Yet I enjoy the show, want to join in all the ways I could before. Do I still see a crack in the door, one I might slip through? And bring along my […]

Beginning to End

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ When your day is more than you expected and it’s a good day. Oh, how you wonder, did I ever get so lucky? Though, like the weather, days change suddenly. Cloudy to sunny and back again. Sunny yet cold, much like entire lives. This brief moment for […]

Only Time’s Caress

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ How languorously her tears fall waiting for the service to begin. Who can know the depth of her sorrow, how her time came now? Listen for the sound of sadness pattering the floor below, like distant rain upon cobblestones. Wait! The hearse has arrived. The pallbearers lift […]

Her Final Words

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ It’s been over two weeks and I still do not understand how someone could do this. Half my age and she had no idea that morning would be her last one. She’d dropped her children at school. Did she hug them and kiss them, as if she […]

Lo, We Remember

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ We remember those who are gone, and we honor those who remain. All those who have lived so long, who pray they did not live in vain. Think now of those who served, and those who have only waited, to experience the horrors of war. worse than […]

Vision

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Sometimes, we must look outside ourselves, to see what lies within our hearts. ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Unite the World ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and let me know what you think See more of my creative offerings […]

In Between

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Sometimes it comes to me in ways and waves of feeling sends me reeling, like a movie spooling out at 24 frames per second. You have seen the mise en scene, or at least know what I mean. Go forth, spread the word, all you’ve heard, until […]