Category Thoughts about change
Never Noticing
Never Noticing ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ When night descends in silence. Sergei Rachmaninoff Do we fear the coming night? Do we think our cleverness will best the sun and stars, our perception of time? […]
Grown Large
Grown Large ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ In too many places we are led by children grown large before they learned to share, grown large, still believing the the myth. Mine! Neither want, need nor knowledge hold sway. The fluid world of young children, constantly shifting […]
Too Many Aces
Too Many Aces ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ When the night descends in screams of terror, minus hope, our world shatters, breaks open, with the fragility of a DDT damaged eggshell, who will hear our wailing, save the darkness? With our cleverness, our hubris failed […]
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 […]
Do We Dare?
Do We Dare? ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Mistakes which only I can make. Wonder just what does that mean? These were words I heard recently, neither do I recall, nor know where. Our world, opposites, give and take, reminds of all the balance I’ve seen. […]
Missing in Action
Missing in Action ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Social media puzzles me, likes and followers galore appear and vanish freely, can’t know what’s in store. My numbers rise, dwindle, Often can’t find who below. Is my search but a swindle? That’s what I want to […]
In Between Time
In Between Time ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ How many times, I wonder have come and gone before? Did I make any laugh, ponder, was I seen as an awful bore? ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Please, […]
Waiting for God, Oh
Waiting for God, Oh ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ I think some of us listen to the music, lives simply waiting for intermission. Left, by the world we know, too sick, wait for someone to offer permission. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is […]
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 […]