David Jackson National Geographic presented a docustory about “America before Columbus”. It is an insight and vision of the dynamic between European humanity and nature in which trees are one part, water and population size being another. There is yet another factor in the human life dialogue from Europe—an access to essential resources beyond their natural organic … Read more
So, what does it mean The 4th of July In liberty’s quest? To celebrate in its decline Indebted to the few With so much cash in greed’s heavy chest So many, fighting in need Wars fought in Justice claims Lost in ambiguous reality Dominated in violent White Generating the Blues Of others blood flowing Red … Read more
“Every now and Zen.” Some of what you’re doing in the present that is a doing of the past. Zen in the present. I feel that there is something in what I am experiencing that is a responding to, originating from, and rooted in the past. There is something that guides me, “us”. This is … Read more
I’m feeling very much that I am not keeping up. At the same time I am knowing more of the reality of human existence as an expression of a creative distortion, a monstrous failure in a rational potential. And yet the paradox of incapacity permeates the generality of the abilities of the species. Those who … Read more
The Hawk’s Dinner The ambivalence of Death Hidden in meaning’s struggle Stories told of what lay beyond Unproven in foundations unknown A fantasy remaining About Death’s first sighting It’s not the end As the flock continues to sour In the winds of life Challenging the dream’s meaning In Sunlight’s shadows And so comes the time … Read more
“Life, one is the dinner; the other is the meal.” DLJ Feeling dissociated, isolated in a life sense. Like the owl eating the petral, both are not reflecting, but simply doing. One, whose head and neck is being chomped in death with the few seconds of nothing arriving in the dying, the other relaxed and … Read more
“Intelligence is like salt, it’s all about what you use it for?” David L. Jackson “I don’t have a brain. I don’t have an education. I don’t have a job. All I got is a vagina. I don’t want a baby.” Still wondering about the emotions generated by the image of destroying a fertlized human … Read more
Alone Dreaming I was just finishing up after a public rally. It was all over and I had come back to the office headquarters to check in. A middle aged man with a friendly face sat behind a desk. He greeted me warmly looking into my face. I felt part of the victory and appreciated … Read more
Hard to breath this morning I feel overwhelmed, overloaded Isolated from meaning Knowing that humanity is engaged In its last crisis of growing. But I don’t see any new sprouts. I see only those poisons that kill I hear the cries of betrayal, Of those lost in rage And buried in uncertainty. It is difficult … Read more
My lessons are always close at hand. I can feel the shrinking of my reach, my will, my gathering, my remembering, my learning, my doing, my living. And what of those without vision, interest or knowing And standing with me At the gate of death, empty Having never filled themselves with knowing? Is this the … Read more