Category Thoughts About Art & Culture

Exactly Where and When

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Lost in time and in space, unconcerned, utterly relaxed. What to worry? You’re still part of all creation and as creation fills you, you recall it’s impossible to be lost, wherever you may be now. Like the eternal now, the eternal you, always present. Though sometimes more […]

The Bus Pulls Away

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The clock ticks and time races. Move to the country, time slows. It can’t be just clock or location, but I will bet no one truly knows. The country, an unexploded bomb. We had best hope time stands still. Ticks last hours, sweat on our brow. If […]

Awe the Key

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Imagine you’re running in a wildflower field. Bright yellow dominant, accented by purple, red, blue, white, and green, plus sharp and subtle tones of noise. A kaleidoscopic crescendo of colors, shapes, and heady scents, All designed to hold you captive within the sanctuary of your soul. Awe […]

Do Not Look Away

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The world moves more quickly now, like the tones in an aria or oratorio. Trill upon trill, in alternating notes. So many won’t know what we mean. Do you wonder? Since we so rarely know ourselves. We believe that we decide what we think we are doing. […]

Nourishing

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Every time I write a poem, I open myself to the cosmos. I see with an inner eye, hear with an inner ear, hearing something far or near, What the thrust that draws me on, draws me through? I feel myself flow through myself, and everyone filling […]

Will That Help

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Do you recognize signs of a season, a special time? Time may be the word we must stress. How we perceive. Would we know signs from the past, portents from a distant future? If we are told, would that help? Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace […]

Mere Language

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ 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 […]

Theoretical History

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ What did the world look like before we arrived? What will it look like after we are years gone? In a distant future, will unknown alien archeologists dig artifacts from unmarked ground and wonder? What will they make of what they find and will their theories be […]

What to Do

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The world is going crazy, I don’t know what to do. While I know I am crazy, I know you’re crazy, too. Since life is upside down, I’m standing on my head. By your feet all over town. That fills me full of dread. You could kick […]

Ours to Notice

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~   Where do we find the good in life? Is it hidden in everyday moments, natural or created, as all things are? Each moment in life is not pleasant, but each and all belong, enrich our song of creation. Despite how badly we have done to date, we […]