Tag Archives: wealth
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 […]
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 […]
Live In
Live In ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ ‘Tis a gift to be simple and uncomplicated, no bartered existence to prove we’re alive. Sit silently, existence within contemplated, no more true separation than bee and hive. Appearances deceive, all grand illusion. Alone, same centers, edges and middles. […]
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 […]
Before You Go
Before You Go ~~~~~ It is time to put people over politics, country over capitulation and world over wealth. ~~~~~ Do you think our getting old is making some folks rich? Tell you that’s true and not some sort of computer glitch, though the people taking care of us do not get that dosh. Those […]
After
After ~~~~~ It’s time to put people over politics, country over capitulation and world over wealth. ~~~~~ When none speak truth, we hear only lies. Then, it doesn’t matter what we call the color of the skies, or if the clouds send rain or death. Will anyone sew our shrouds, bear witness to our […]
Sad to Report
Sad to Report ~~~~~ It is time to put people over politics, country over capitulation and world over wealth. ~~~~~ Like the narcissistic needs of a reborn Christian’s god, Donald Trump requires constant praise and adoration. It doesn’t even matter that he got the presidential nod, he’ll say, do and promise anything for your adulation. […]
You Cannot Know
You Cannot Know ~~~~~ It is time to put people over politics, country over capitulation and world over wealth. ~~~~~ Another mass shooting in the United States. Whether on the battle field or living our daily lives, we are at war. Will this be the day you will die or I will die because […]
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 […]
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