Tag Archives: fear
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 […]
Redefining War and Peace
Redefining War and Peace ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ War, armies, death, destruction, terror, horror and fear fill our news and our days. These are all very real and frightening, but I believe war deserves a broader definition, as does peace. War is not simply armed […]
Coffee Break’s Over
Coffee Break’s Over ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Thinking about meaning, life, the universe, everything and, remembering the question’s answer is forty-two. Fun and silly but, I believe, it may be onto something. The one percent, owning most of America, worry, too. Statistically I recently […]
Onward to Begin
Onward to Begin ~~~~~ It is time to put people over politics, country over capitulation and world over wealth. ~~~~~ Stop. Listen to the world in all its fecund profusion. Block out the noise, our daily whirl, which leads only to confusion. Stop, now. Put away our toys; they cannot, in most ways, begin […]
Get Along With You
Get Along With You ~~~~~ It is time to put people over politics, country over capitulation, and world over wealth. ~~~~~ All of us, pawns in a world full of sound and fury. With overtones, undertones, key changes, abrupt screams, staccato bullets muffled by frail flesh, silenced forever. Leaving rivulets red, brains, gore, guts, […]
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid ~ Updated May 2019
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid ~ Updated May 2019 Originally Written Before the 2016 Election ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Anyone who lived through the Great Depression, World War II or was educated in the decades after the war is familiar with Roosevelt’s famous words: “…the […]
Desire Driven
Desire Driven ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Is the constant testimony to our inanity, desire driven, to reject our homogeneity? Does our need to think that we’re special push us far beyond our living threshold? Will a sudden need to flee make us gape, Push us […]
Ere We Fall
Ere We Fall ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Who knows what we’ve lost in the cause of war? Music, art, novels, plays, poems, films and more. Bach, DaVinci, Cassatt, Monet, fodder of kings, Shakespeare, Elliott, Beethoven all gone missing. Would we find saviors numbered with the […]
Euphemism: The Cynical Silent Killer
~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Boots on the ground come marching, marching Boots on the ground come marching one by one Boots on the ground have not one specified role At least that is the bill of goods we’ve been sold Boots on the ground come […]
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 […]
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