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Sanctity of Life
Those who have forgotten say trees are not sentient beings, but they do not understand poetry. Nor can they hear the singing of trees when they are fed by rain and music or hear their cries of anguish when they are broken and bereft~Joy Harjo It is beyond my ken that anyone would deny trees […]
Born an Old Soul?
We all feel younger than our real age because the spirit never ages.~Isabel Allende Most of us have met a person, typically young, who we describe as having an old soul. It’s a phrase used to describe someone who possesses qualities or characteristics or has a perspective deemed to be mature beyond their physical years. […]
Universal Inclusivity
The world is my country, all mankind is my brethren, and to do good is my religion.~Thomas Paine I was sitting at a dinner table immediately following a, thankfully, secular wedding when the conversation turned toward politics. I forget the actual prompting, but I responded that I am an American by accident of birth and […]
Chasing Alternate Realities
I find myself slowly but surely divesting of human encumbrances, letting them fall away as leaves depart the ancient, broad leaf tree come autumn and the shortening days. I think it is my soul prepping my mind for the long rest, the perpetual sleep. Like many of my profound thoughts, this one manifested in my […]
Words Are Sacred
When words were first shaped into sacred bundles and placed on altars of earth and stone we made prayers of thanksgiving.~N. Scott Momaday There are few, if any, elementally sacred existences in this world than words with their ability to communicate complexities irrespective of the languages made audible by speach or visible with scratched marks. […]
Seeing The Sacred
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you are expecting. ~Douglas Adams We typically see what we expect to see. It is this very reason the delusional tRumpers see a messiah where most of the world sees an antichrist incarnate, if not that drastic then a […]
The Litmus Test of Religion
The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion,patience, tolerance, humility, forgiveness. ~HH Dalai Lama My litmus for the veracity of religion is to touch a human and see it it the litmus paper is colored love, hate, or indifference. Indifference might as well be hate for they are both violence against the […]
Self Loving
If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.~Gautama Buddha How do people who feel insecure balance the books in their favor? By hoarding power, lauding said power over their ‘enemies’ and using it as a weapon to secure their fragile view of reality. By attacking anyone who dares to accomplish anything especially if […]
Fishhooks in my Brain
I had already shuffled out of the train into the stale, dank, piss smelling underworld, grabbed a couple of plain Dunkins while navigating the tunnel system. Sadly, they no longer have the dunking handles that were the brand mainstay. I breached the surface to feel the breeze blowing fresh off the monster lake straight swimming down Washington street as dawn was cresting. I bought a large Early Grey, one teabag please, and two hardboiled eggs to quell my hunger. The shelled eggs were perfectly smooth, baby ass velvety…
The Next Messiah
Human history is punctuated with new faith systems rising from a catalyzing individual exploding onto the scene then settling into long, sustained religious dogma where it takes on a life of its own with little correlation to the precepts espoused by the founder…
Long Cold Shadows
Being deeply loved by someone gives strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~Lao Tzu At what point does the courage derived from being “In Love” cross the bridge and become an obsession, the needs of the self slaying the person desired?
No Bleeding Heart
I write to you and my tears are the ink. ~Jaume Cabré I was riding my bicycle on LSD, that’s the Lake Shore Drive trail, not the mind-expanding chemical though I do wonder at the mind-enhancing experience of riding LSD on LSD. Although, my mind does seem to elevate to higher planes during long rides […]
Value of a Kiss
I, no longer young, Know what a kiss is worth. ~Mary Oliver What is a kiss worth? Ten bucks paid to a junkie prostitute with rotting teeth jonesing for a fix more accustomed to sucking and fucking than the intimacy of lip-smacking? Sixty thousand dollars when wrapped around the illusion of love perpetrated by a […]
A Flower Thrown Into The Air Does Not Stay There
America was conquered, but not discovered, the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discovery is still taking place. ~Eduardo Galeano The above quote made little sense to me until I saw the concept in terms of a relationship with a […]
Superficial Human Connections
I can’t wrap my mind around people caring that much about me. ~America Ferrera I don’t feel lovable. It has been that way for as long as I can remember. I would prefer to think it is because others lack the fortitude to love a person as complicated as the twisted canyons one must navigate […]
A Hungry Heart
She looked pained in her sleep. Was the pain inflicted by a bad dream or fear, upon waking, the nightmare would begin? ~David Olson Her lungs heave and hollow in long, rhythmical waves, cresting, falling in equal measure but for different rates. The tide rises and falls at the behest of the moon seeking to […]
Rubbing Raw Nerves
How much strength does it take to climb atop the world and not give a damn? ~Remi Kanazi I have been climbing the mountain for 58 years and still the summit is beyond my ability to grasp intellectually, emotionally, physically, spiritually. Or, it may be that I have blindly crested the summit and am in […]
Betraying The Christ
The war his country asked of him convinced him war has no heroes. Only the dead. The cost of violence is always more violence. ~Glen Sorestad I am sick to death of the older generation, the vast majority that never set foot in the military, calling for war. It’s an easy call, a hypocritical call […]
Dry as the Sahara
I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine. ~Morrissey I have been grasping since the moment I was born for the breast holding life’s milk, suckling with all my strength for a few drops of the salty elixir sustaining essence. It is a […]
I Am Not Afraid
Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm, just another false alarm. ~Morrissey I have a reoccurring nightmare that I am a lovable being, that someone finds me acceptable no matter the circumstances, that I am chosen until death do part, that I am fully known and still the other smiles […]
Musings of a Middle Aged Man 