Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
Could it Be?
~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Could it be the time has come to turn away from danger, false gods, snake oil sellers, dream purveyors, tall, dark strangers offering magic beans and rhymes, promising the moon? Without regard, bartering shares, mythic bridges, unicorns, porn, war, sex, Pain […]
Make It So!
~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Every day is a day to make new stories. Our own, the stories we alone can tell. Every day the stories we tell ourselves and others have the potential to change how we see the world, to change the world. You […]
A Matter of Heart
~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ People are made to be loved and things are made to be used. The confusion in this world is that things are being loved and people are being used. Unknown – At least I couldn’t find any attribution I am sick […]
One Only
~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Missing a single piece, no matter how small or large, the picture is incomplete. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and let me know what you think. See more […]
Now or in the Future
~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Filled with chances, wasted hours, happy times the path ahead carries us onward, up a distant hill. What stops will we make, steps will we take, missed friends, opportunities, through fear, reason, self-treason? Challenges we’ll add to our path’s trials as […]
Here, Then Gone
~~~~~ Do we believe that the world will remain, that it and we will always stay the same? Our thoughts and actions we must retain, no different than all who play the game? Most agree our world is a different place. Fire, water, ice, wind, life here, then gone. No exception; we all run in […]
Time and Tyrants
~~~~~ Then, how do we judge things we create reflecting the world and the self we present. Utilitarian, glorious, elegant, ugly, personal, public, whatever field. Music which may soar as skyscrapers, cathedrals. Art, as massive dam or a mighty cataract that surmounts it, shatters it, altering our landscape, a flowing river, stopped by a new […]
War and Music
~~~~~ The held breath Anticipated moment Awaiting Fall of the baton Order to attack The battle begun Enemy engaged Black notes Nebulous faces Hours of practice, drill Engraving response Into your body Your mind, being Carving moments Movements Into your soul Send up a prayer To a higher power Universal spirit Favored deity To watch […]
Nothing Left to Give
~~~~~ Smart phones are a boon and a curse. They unite, simultaneously isolate us. Rooted deep into our days, our purse, in oh so many ways they bankrupt us. Tech rules, talking, staring at a screen, cut off from each as we communicate. To the fly on my leg, it means nothing. In caves, no-touch […]
Happy Trails to You
~~~~~ I look around and wonder what each of us sees. Where I sit, it’s cliché, the forest from the trees I listen to voices, talk spiced with the word like; never mind, I think I will go out for a long hike. We mistake politicians for leaders, know they lie. Kill or discredit true […]
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