Category politics
Future Worth
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Blue skies today follow clouds, dark with rain gushing like tears. Staying home, my head bowed. My device reinforcing my fears. We are daily fed a diet fit to kill. Madness, mayhem everywhere. Many people do what they will. As we who comply, shout unfair. We must decide […]
AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL
AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL For Preventing the Poor Children of the People of the United States of America From Being the Innocent Victims of Lunatics, Madmen, and Terrorists, both Foreign and Domestic, and For Protecting All Citizens of This Great Nation of Ours It is a melancholy object lesson to those who walk the highways […]
Learned From my Father-in-Law
~~~~~ Everywhere it rains, it raineth on the just and unjust fellows. But mostly on the just because the unjust have the just’s umbrellas. ~~~~~ People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings at: […]
Simple Things
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ When did we waste the reality of simple things? Where watching the wonder of a far horizon is like listening to the voice when an angel sings? Nothing religious or mystic found around here. No less magical is the sound of a human voice. Why did we sacrificed […]
To Love or Mourn
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ A concert performance of Shostakovitch String Quartet #8 Dedicated “to the victims of fascism and the war.” Slow and sonorous, is how we choose to begin Lush and lovely strings, filled with dissonance. Why must we write music full of tragedy, pain? It’s part of all there is, […]
The Glory We Have Seen
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ How terribly strange to be 70. Paul Simon Not strange to have reached this lofty age, but more the wonder of how did I get here. Riding past the Pacific ocean without the burden of driving, I watch the blue of salt water change color in lingering day. […]
If You Will
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Follow the Path ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ How we long for what has never been, for a life we have never had or known. Imagine lives in neither time nor space. Lives which look better than your own. We may fancy we want what used to be, even […]
They Might Grow Up
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Emergency, emergency, everybody to clear the streets. *The cowboys are coming, the cowboys are coming.* Guns carried openly on the hip or hidden under arm. They will tell you it is only the bad guys they will harm. Unless, of course they are the bad guys, that’s only […]
I Often Wonder
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth Water Feature ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Remember your problem or anyone else’s may be opportunity another person awaited. Shown in many films when the understudy, second fiddle steps in at the very last minute stars, and performs absolutely magnificently. Not what we hope but should, when replaced. While […]
Phrygian Resolve
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! A House Divided ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Given enough, would we live differently? Enough what time money ambition talent? The answer may be different for each person. But suppose it was in our power to grant such a boon to every person. Would we? What if it […]
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