“quiet din”

“quiet din”

5-15-2017 174 words

I've traveled many long roads on my way to get to today,

and one thing I've learned in fighting this fretful fray,

There is only one speed on this highway of strife,

'full forward' is the only true speed in our life,

the main problem is when I think it's all about me,

I forget to listen to the bark of each sacred tree,

and cast my eyes to my short future to see where I've been,

and forgive myself for all the ways I've sown sorrow and sin,

but nothing is perfect, we do what we can,

to share our small joys around the flat frying pan,

and when we allow ourselves to reflect in the glass,

and take some small credit and come to terms with our ass,

and do what we will to appreciate the big gift,

and never allow our fair spirit to far drift,

and think we have the answer to the mystery we are in,

but thank Creator for each minute spent in this “quiet din”.

What is the All American Partie ?

Platform of the All American Partie - a Short List
     - A Utopian Platform of totally idealistic, unrealistic, and sensible goals.

1.  We are all in it together.

2.  There is no time left to argue, fuss, or fight.

3.  We must get Busy and hang together or as Ben Franklin said,
           "If we do not hang together, we will surely hang separately."

4.  We have too many enemies abroad to keep fighting amongst ourselves.
           If we do not pull our heads out of the sand, Russia and China will make
           sure there is no USA to bother them about human rights.

5.  If we do not hammer out some working agreements among all segments
      of our society, we will not have a country left, or right.

6.  What is great about this Nation is We Celebrate our Differences and We
         agree that everyone has a right to worship their own religion and to
         celebrate the Creator.

7.   Nothing stands between you and the Creator or between you and your
          choice of religious belief.

8.   The Founding Fathers wisely chose to keep government and religion
          separate, but that does not mean we cannot respect and even celebrate
          all  faith traditions.

9.   There is only one Human race on the planet.    In the USA we have proved
           we can all stand together for family values, religious values, and
            human  rights as embodied in our Constitution and our Bill of Rights.

10.  Without a belief in anything sacred or holy about life, no nation can stand.
          A house divided against itself also cannot stand.

11.  Sexual orientation is a person's private business, but for children to
          develop  normally, they should have a mother and a father, as is
          evidenced  by the rest of the living creatures on the planet.

12.  Stop the war on Drugs and unclog the court system.  All drugs should be
         available to people who desire them.  If they cannot use them
         responsibly,   shame on them.  The drug cartels will fade away once
         deprived of all the inflated profits they now make and use to undermine
         society.

13.  Insure our watersheds are not fowled or polluted with fertilizers, oil, or
         chemicals.

14.  We need to get to renewables as quickly as possible, before we fowl our
          own nest any further, become embroiled in any other wars over oil, or
          raise the mean temperatures any higher.  Global climate change is real.

15.   Our real enemies are not terrorists, but our ancient fears of the unknown.  
           Civilization is based on integrity and trust.  Without cooperation and
           community, the human race itself will not survive.

16.   Nuclear power and other forms of concentrated and toxic power
           sources are not worth the inherent risks involved.  Nuclear plants and
           radioactive materials need to be decommissioned and removed as
           they reach the end of their useful life..

17.   If most of these goals are not embraced willingly, we are setting ourselves
           up for a totalitarian and Global new world order whose rule will be
           worse than anything we have now. 

18.   All biodegradables should be processed and plowed back into the soil,
             not put in our waterways.  ( see #13 )  Trees and cover crops need
             to be planted as widely as possible to retain the soil we have, retain
             moisture, and help to protect waterways.

19.    A nationwide system of municipal servers to provide secure public wifi
              coverage  throughout the country needs to be implemented, just as
             REA in the 1930's was used to install  electricity for most if not all
             Americans.   Public transit should be similarly equipped with wifi.

20.    Americans of all stripes, colors, and beliefs need to look at                  
              America......          and then look at the rest of the world, and decide
              whether to try to prefect this Union or to move to somewhere else.

Hanging by a Thread

Hanging by a Thread              5-11-2017         771 small words

                        or I keep putting it out there, but no one's picking it up

Oh, My Brothers, Oh My Sisters, How much we take for granted !

What a foolish creature is Man ! To see only with our eyes

the surface of our world and think we know this reality,

because we can touch it and measure it,

because we can feel the hard and soft texture of it,

and we can feel the weight of the physical objects around us,

as we go about our day….always thinking what we see and can prove,

is the sum total of reality, 

BUT what we do not see and what our very sensitive senses cannot detect is actually the greater part:

the dark matter of our souls, the intangible truth of what we feel,

the part of ourselves that we cannot measure or quantify,

because it is the Spirit of Life; 

and there is no test that can put a number on Your divine Spirit,

and there is no laboratory which can measure your desire or your yearning,

for those who vainly think that Science can provide the only answers we need,

 please take another look, and please tell me what was in your Mother's heart when she birthed you,

when she lovingly caressed and calmed your cries, when only her touch would soothe your raging need to know you were loved and safe,

and this loud, sharp world of cold thought could be softened

by the the precious gift, the benediction of knowing care was involved.

And not knowing care makes us terror filled, and nervous, and puts us out of synch with the music,  the harmony that underlies all things, 

the invisible part of the electro-magnetic spectrum of Divine energy

that was planted long ago and hard-wired in our circuitry to feel love,

and to want to feel love, and yes to give love and kindness, and let our

sisters and brothers know, we are with them in our Spirits, 

in our desire to join in a greater truth, to bond covalently with life,

in the true connection that joins all of us back to our dark origins,

at the beginning of our Time on Planet Earth, back beyond the capacity

of our memories to remember because it is too long ago, 
and there are no memory banks large enough to store all that data, 
except for short memories stored in our long DNA, twisted and folded and wound round our cells,

the cells of our lives scribed by an intention beyond our conscious thought,

and only in our dreams, the ultimate realm of our most real feelings and knowings, 
do we weave our Technicolor desires into a cohesive whole and make sense of our primeval knowledge that there is a lighted world beyond our everyday perceptions;   what is real is what we feel,  
but what is real is also the priceless gift that we are imbued with Spirit as well as flesh, and maybe-

Spirit is the greater part, 
because you cannot separate out the Word from the story, the intention from your tale, and your story, your tale is woven with the story of all life and you are not separate from all the life which flows around you, 

One Life, One Spirit, one dream as light as a mote of dust,

the nuclear density infinitely small and infinitely large, 

and by any real measurement of Man, ultimately immeasurable by our senses, 
by whatever we can detect on the surface,
 and only palpable to our sense of wonder when we stop analyzing the Gift, 
 stop cutting it into ever smaller pieces, 
and announcing with our paltry rationality, we have 'discovered' a new particle of matter, 
which will explain our true heritage, 
and will explain our true Origin, 
and will explain the quantity of Time in the Universe, 
and all the time we miss the important thing: 
we are here to love each other and care for the precious and priceless gift given to us, to revere the Spirit of something without a name, to hold it in awe, 
and to 'see' “It”, not as material and prove-able, but as weighty as the mass of the darkest black hole, everything part of a longing to connect with the greater part, the greater truth:

we are joined in a mystery and on a spiritual journey, and how we treat each other while we have the opportunity to touch and feel the physical is a test of our true wisdom, and tells the story of how we weave the thread of our meaning.