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Memorial Day

Every year we have a day to remember soldiers who died in war, but I think if we really want to honor them, we will choose to stop fighting the wars that require their sacrifice.

Transformation

                                                      

We create our destiny and we can change it.

 

Education

Educating the mind

 without educating the heart

is no education at all.

 

~ Aristotle

 

Racecraft

 

Every day is a chance

to get it right.

Not by luck

but deliberately.

To make a better choice

than the one

 I made yesterday.

To not be beaten

 by my failures.

But to learn from them

and be

 a better me.



Deadening Field

Life

Don't shine

Keep me in this darkened state of mind

I will find my peace alone

And alone I'll spend my time

 

Things pass

Things die

But the memories stay behind

 

Closing my eyes

I choke on my thoughts

I grow deaf from the sound of my cries

 

Feeling who I am

Touching the pain locked inside

Dying in the grasp of desire

 

~ Murray Neill

 

We Just Don't Care

It seems that we've made our decision regarding what to do about climate change. We are going to do nothing and hope that the effects will be manageable. The history of humanity is filled with shortsighted, illogical choices. We can now add another one to our quiver.

~ Mark Serreze, Director, National Snow and Ice Data Center

savanna

savanna

the spaces between your trees

are wide

your canopy is open

yellow light reaches ground

where grasses grow

their stems leave

their leaves die

reborn in magic soil

I wander this open plain

searching the horizon

 

Food

 

If man made it, don't eat it.

 

~ Jack Lalane

 

Promise

I have a me to keep a promise to.

 

~ Laura

Culture in Decline