What goes down, must come up

I believe that instinctively all creatures would tend to reach for the sky or the heavens as its ultimate goal.  There is a force so compelling that even without understanding,  we are heaven bound.  In the same manner that plants follow the cosmic energy of the sun, our lives and habits have revolved around it and that darkness, even darkness is only a prelude to the birth of light. 

Light gives hope.  With the breaking of a new day, comes new life- an old new life even.

 The ritualistic setting and rising of the sun is a much photographed phenomena but little do we understand beyond its beauty that it is a key to understanding our life's journey.

As the roosters invoke the coming of a new day, so do little insects and plants.  The last of the dew drops hanging by the seconds know that his turn is up as the sun rises to rule the day.

 Light begets life.  It begets beauty. It paints colors and nuances.

  
It brings a smile.







Over in the meadow,
By the old mossy gate,
Lived a brown mother lizard,
And her little lizards eight,
"Bask!" said the mother;
"We bask!" said the eight,
So they basked in the sun,
On the old mossy gate.




always wear sunblock when basking dear lizzies!

thoughts of cool off

Maybe cyber connections have brought me back friends from the youthful past and i am glad it did find some missing pieces of my life.  I realized how funny and innocent my youth was and proud that for most of my elementary to high school friends, this thing called success was reached!  Happy to see my girlfriends married to good husbands, grateful for their good health, and delighted over their own accomplishments.

Cyber connections have also provided a virtual reality for families who are separated by the continental divides.  My son and his family in Australia will be terribly, horribly missed if not for the net.

Somehow it has provided romantic liaisons and people have found life partners through this incredibly efficient means of connecting people from the different parts of the world.

I will not enumerate anymore how the net has also opened new risks for children, dependence on instant gratification, a venue for misplaced or erroneous "strength" for bullies, and a cowardly way to face issues against another human being through a deceptively "intelligent" social or public commentary which in reality and in short, defamation especially when it is too far from the truth.  I have seen thousands of readers who have failed to think critically for themselves and have committed unknowingly, betrayal of self and the human race.

Such power to make or break is here to stay unless we all unplug then choose to grope in the dark again.  Maybe if we only learn to balance things then we reduce the risk of raising children who are not crippled but are no longer using their legs, who are not mute but are no longer speaking... who have no autism but are imprisoned in their own world, people who fail to look at the eyes of another person because that part of their humanity is no longer exercised.

Yet I do facebook when I have often thought of setting myself free.  Still i consider my students  (probably hate the fact that I am around this "new space") and my responsibility to exercise the role of a diligent father of the family given the fact that this is a completely different "school" or "unlearning environment.  I cannot yet leave the very young ones who are easily influenced and who still lack the process of discernment yet they are already out there in this very threateningly dangerous zone even before they learn to read danger signs.


This feeling is very much akin to shaving my head and coming out clean into the world.  I want to but I could not yet.

Ta-ta!

meandering

Staring at this empty page... sleepy
I beat my pots and pans the other day... tired
Somebody tried all means to open his presents before Christmas... caught colds and cough
It rained manna from heaven on Christmas day...blessed
I turned another year older.

I had ham and bread this morning
while neighbors drowned in blasting noise of their own voices
i just wanted peace for breakfast.

walking out of my closet in boots
leaving my phone behind.
what news do I need to know?
the pettiness of self-absorption?
the latest on what people are eating?
or where they are?
and who they are with?
latest fashion?

I turned another year older
what do I do next?
what won't I do?

this was an empty page.
yes inside me is a galaxy of undiscovered thoughts and knowledge
of observations, truths and realities
but i choose to sleep tonight...

just a thought i thought someone thought we should have thought

Vignettes Swept Out From Under the Carpet

                                                                                   
"... I was talking to an enlightened friend not about hockey but of being discouraged in myself and humanity’s inability to turn away from sailing down the advancing sinkhole. She reminded me that my thoughts were damaging for the planet: In order for me, humanity and the planet to shine through these trying times, each of us needs to live and think loving thoughts all the time because we are inter-connected as one, and our negativity or positivity is so contagiously powerful that it can change the vibrational pull of what happens to our planet…or in the next case, an outcome."
                                                          
                                                                                 -shai