It s still our addiction to comfort and convenience that thwarts our every effort to "change". We seem to think where we are as culture is fine and the product of good practice. The truth is, we must let go of many of the comforts we've contrived over the past 30 or 40 years. "Change" looks different. So take a walk through your house and observe the profound difference between your lifestyle five years ago and today. Television? Computer? new carpet? Hows your car? Still working for fixed wages of sliding value?
The root cause for the problems of our time (war, anthropogenic global warming, air pollution, water pollution, dwindling funds for education, antiquated transportation system, and so on) is consumption. The solution, naturally, is conservation. Of course there is much more complication, but let us once and for all stop bickering about opinions on what shade things are; things are fuqed and conservation is long over due.
Recycling is not conservation, it is a highly consumptive process. Conservation would have us not using the vast majority of products we currently recycle for they are disposable/recyclable. Throw it in a land fill; waste a bunch of energy and pollute the world? Stop using disposable products.
Now we have a choice and we must choose to conserve, or more so, we must be less excessive in our wastefulness. We must look objectivly at our habbits and change them to favor conservation, not consumption. We cannot get to where we want to be morally, healthfully and responsibly if we try to maintain this current lifestyle. Let go, grow and BE THE CHANGE
6/22/09
6/20/09
The Inner Most
To all the junkies on the streets of New York; to all the politicians making that sweet deal; to the News personalities on saturday night, I got something better than you.
I let go of a memory, and sing a song for the sun. I write poems to people who inspire me. I'm in Utah, a land of much beauty and many crazy people. Its true, the land of Mormans has a tinge of weirdness to it but the mountains and desert take you to a place far beyond the bitter fruit of contrived religous doctrine. As it were, the other day lightening struck the Angle Moroni statue atop one of the temples leaving it blacken. A true sign from above, right?
I hope Summer Solstice finds you well. It is after all, the reason for life upon this waterey planet.
Peace and Love are actions
I let go of a memory, and sing a song for the sun. I write poems to people who inspire me. I'm in Utah, a land of much beauty and many crazy people. Its true, the land of Mormans has a tinge of weirdness to it but the mountains and desert take you to a place far beyond the bitter fruit of contrived religous doctrine. As it were, the other day lightening struck the Angle Moroni statue atop one of the temples leaving it blacken. A true sign from above, right?
I hope Summer Solstice finds you well. It is after all, the reason for life upon this waterey planet.
Peace and Love are actions
6/17/09
The New Religion: Optimisim
The soul knows truth. It is something like a book, in that, even a book dusty and unread on a shelf still holds the story in its pages. We still have our soul, some know it and practice. To them yes, be optimistic.
In terms of society, optimism is unhelpful if not completely unrealistic a prevents reaching the requisite level of seriousness in order to promote individual change. Optimism, if nothing else, is a practice in blind faith for the situation is and has always been getting worse. Disagree, then what about education, war (for more______)
Socially we are destine to ride a rougher road for say no other reason than we keep going in the same direction. Optimism is perscribed by the media/government and education. On a college campus, any college campus across the country there will be no demonstration to end the war or to stop poisoning the air or water. How can one be optimistic if society refrains from personally and publicly standing up for solutions.
Argue: Global Warming; War; Agriculture..... The topic that no one addresses is consumption, population, design. We cannot be optimistic if we don't discuss the root causes. They say "its complicated". Reason would have it that simplicity would be the solution and cause for optimism.
Quit your job
grow a garden with your neighbor
connect;love;grow;let go
In terms of society, optimism is unhelpful if not completely unrealistic a prevents reaching the requisite level of seriousness in order to promote individual change. Optimism, if nothing else, is a practice in blind faith for the situation is and has always been getting worse. Disagree, then what about education, war (for more______)
Socially we are destine to ride a rougher road for say no other reason than we keep going in the same direction. Optimism is perscribed by the media/government and education. On a college campus, any college campus across the country there will be no demonstration to end the war or to stop poisoning the air or water. How can one be optimistic if society refrains from personally and publicly standing up for solutions.
Argue: Global Warming; War; Agriculture..... The topic that no one addresses is consumption, population, design. We cannot be optimistic if we don't discuss the root causes. They say "its complicated". Reason would have it that simplicity would be the solution and cause for optimism.
Quit your job
grow a garden with your neighbor
connect;love;grow;let go
6/14/09
Yoga
Get rid of your car; walk a lot; ride a bike a lot; quit making excuses why you can't do what is right; Do yoga in everything. Breathe; Be.
Love; learn something new when ever you don't know; challeng your perception; help when you see need; let go. Breathe; Be.
Stand in the streets; ask questions in public; BE the change; sacrifice comfort for health. Breathe; Be.
Love; learn something new when ever you don't know; challeng your perception; help when you see need; let go. Breathe; Be.
Stand in the streets; ask questions in public; BE the change; sacrifice comfort for health. Breathe; Be.
6/13/09
To be strong; to be wrong and move on
A rain falls in a city
streets empty and stoplights swing in the wind
mothers tears for laughter or sorrow
A gift, pure: Water
Optimism is the latest religion
streets empty and stoplights swing in the wind
mothers tears for laughter or sorrow
A gift, pure: Water
Optimism is the latest religion
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