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Out with the old, in with the new way of doing the same old thing.
Instead of snow, I clear the leaves. I don’t cleave to a resolution.
I don’t revolve around indecision. My natural giddyup takes off, as
the silence of empty-for-years-nest necessitated a sort and toss.
Happy New Year, a choice, when nothing precludes its success,
such as mourning in formal dress. Sneakers suffered from heel to toe,
as the alternative alteration of age - not hip, not on toes, unbendable.
Sixty-four years new, on the eve of ceremonial senior citizenry,
golden leaf revelry. Hold onto what is momentous: kith and kin,
giving in the form of an empathetic and devoted ear to your loved ones, acquaintances, strangers. Wishing you a Happy New Year. This one
begin with wraps and bows, even if the ball drops. Make it your best.
The Silence of a Library
David J Walker
Here is where I will live
Beyond the fear
of the coming death
And its imagined motif
Find me on 26th street
at the park with my friends on
a cool summer evening
laughing about the coming
unfamiliar days we fear
Some design their own white robes and
Gilded ropes braided around their waists
differentiating the
gender of cherubs
Some accept the silence and
the blackness of the nothingness
of not knowing
Some await the inevitable alternative universe
Created to suit the nature of the attendants
Some practice the celibacy and the silence of
The library with books to confirm their convictions
But we will play volleyball as the sunsets
And the temperature drops
The lights come on automatically
And we play until the dawn and
Fall asleep between the swing sets
FORGIVING
Forgiveness – well, just let it lay inside
Not to see any daylight, maybe never
No moment of weakness or surrender
If a request received, return to sender
It’s not about strength or being clever
And no way back once regret has died
Some might suggest an alternative way
Being the first to say I forgive, out loud
But for me, however, that is premature
With no reciprocation, there is no cure
It is not about being remote or proud
Just think twice and get through the day
Who does one have to be, to forgive
It smacks a little of haughtiness to me
As if such an offer commands respect
But it may just be automatic, I suspect
It’s not someone who I’d want to be
And such words fall through any sieve
If one gets an apology, maybe it’s Okay
Perhaps then forgiveness can be allowed
I’m not too sure who collects any points
Nothing is ever solved by smoking joints
It should never be just to please a crowd
And such an empty gesture doesn’t pay
Some equate forgiving with being gracious
Others may almost consider it their due
When accepted, is it really over and done
Or a dark cloudy sky when expecting sun
And it’s only worth it all, if it’s really true
To say the words when false, is audacious
Christmas seems to be a good time,
To look for alternatives in good time,
While we still can have a good time.
Christmas seems to bring out the best,
So we can be at our best,
And the worst does not look the best.
It may be the silly season,
But alternatives look best in this season than,
In any other season.
So Lets put some alternatives in our New Year Resolution,
Be prepared to stand by that resolution,
And not give in to an alternative resolution.
Christmas is the one time of year we can freely mix,
And put alternatives in the mix,
While drinks we mix.
Christmas is the time to appreciate our planet,
A time when we are not looking for an alternative planet,
But alternatives so we can stay on this planet.
Most of the night
He had sit home
Waiting
Begging and pleasing
Reneocating
She had promised her time
With another
He had been seen as an
Alternative
She wished to be with
another
The evening came which
He had been seduced
Morning of soft crab breakfast
Where the creams
Had been reduced
Months later they spoke of
that night together
She was pregnant then she
Thought he'd say whatever
Of them together he asked her to
Stay
Maybe us together we should start
To pray
He wished her the marrying type
But was to fool to ask
She just played alone like
She was part of a cast
Emotions ran high
He was wise enough to ask
Said "marry me the foolish one
we can do it fast"
Slow down hell no, but will marry you
Than the awkward foolishness
Would all be through
I've lived my life believing
that if you can't see the good
in a person;
then either look closer,
or step away:
the choice is always yours.
But in today's world,
impressionable minds
are being manipulated to see
things that aren't there:
to some, the truth
is never absolute.
In their alternative reality,
facts are flexible;
and thus, easily bent
to conform to any twisted ideology.
Democracy exposes its weakness
and hints at its strengths.
At times, meaningful change
can seem highly improbable.
However, it's not impossible!
Stop standing
behind your traditional tribal shields;
and think for yourselves:
armed with reason and compromise.
But remember,
evil, disguised as good, is still evil.
You need but lift its mask;
to recognize its face.
1. Surface,
respect,
and record current health beliefs,
valid and invalid,
useless and useful.
2. Ask "Do these mental models help us make the health we want
right now?"
Are they optimally effective,
integral,
mutually resonant?
3. Stimulate alternative,
diverse,
polypathic views about health experience past,
present,
future projected.
4. Develop a wealthy vision of what communion you want now
by integrating mental health models
supporting optimal future wealth
of cooperativity--
mental and physical,
spiritual and natural,
emotional and rational,
inductive and deductive,
theological and ecological.
5. Conduct, and learn from,
health dependent/wealth independent experiments,
competitive Win/Lose
Cause/Effect research,
and health-primary/wealth-secondary value maps
cooperative Win/Win cause-effect models
surfacing health/wealth intent,
respecting secular/sacred practices--
cooperative
transparent
vulnerable
intimate empowering communication strings
ego/eco-enlightening.
Extra health/wealth credits:
Invest year-end time revisiting validity
and utility
of personal
and familial identity models.
During Christmas Dinner,
Who are you?
Who are we together and apart,
both healthy and not quite so much?
What are the most significant secular and sacred events
of your life, so far?
Which of these ecstatically happened to you
more than you carefully planned to facilitate their unfolding?
And which unveiled themselves
enchantingly vice versa,
planned by self with others
for your mutually wealthy nutritional experience?
And which seem to transcend any competing,
distinguishable ecstatic Source,
sacred or otherwise?
What future plans do you expect to implement
on behalf of your self
and other's healthy wealth
of significant cooperative developing futures?
For compassion,
wealth of nutritional wisdom
mutually given and received.
What communion of healthy friendship do you most anticipate
with all EarthTribes,
all ZeroZone Souls past,
and not yet born,
and not yet full health reborn,
not at all unlike your enchanting healthcare optimizing self?
Journeying into love as non-competing
non-violent peace
fulfilling healthy secular/sacred
left/right bicameral holonic integrity.
I am not sure who I will vote for in 2024 for the Presidential
Election yet. Many like myself, aren't content about a Trump vs Biden rematch. I would like to see a candidate who actually will do something about wealth inequality and workers rights. Trump and Biden have the backing of the corporations and the super rich, because their policies will be favorable to their interests, depending on what industry it is.
In many highly developed democracies like in the Baltic nations, workers are entitled to things that in the United States we are yet to really have. Things like more paid time off, more time off as parents when starting a family etc.
The defense budget is cut in favor of social spending like for education, medicine etc. The rich are taxed more than they are here, to support these programs.
This is definitely an option worth considering in the future. It would not be any worse than what we spend right now on our interventions around the globe. It could be a slightly better alternative to the nation we are right now, a nation that is in perpetual war, always in someone else's backyard. Think of Libya, Yemen, Iraq, Israel, Ukraine, just too many places to mention our unnecessary involvement When we give to Israel or Ukraine, that money is gone. It is not coming back to us. The debt goes up and the government has to find ways of paying it off. They will not pay us back for our help. That's just how it is.
I don't know whether the United States should have Free College or a Free Health Care system, because we don't really know what it's like to have it yet, even if we might know a lot about what it is. But it can't be as bad as when we send our money elsewhere and see nothing in return or to show for it like our failed war in Afghanistan, which is once again taken over by radical extremists.
Nothing was gained from that. So it has to be a lot better spending our money here and actually see something nominally positive.
A photo of the near past
The year is 19O1, a market on a muddy field
selling, God knows what, I see cattle, and children playing around
the muddy ground, it had been raining in the morning
but this does not dampen the excitement of the day; the people
back then did not bother with posh umbrellas.
The men wear suits that look like hand-me-downs from the rich
people on the hill, the women too, try to look elegant
wear hats, the children run around in long dirty frocks
they look happy living an alternative life among the adults;
not to forget the ever-present dogs.
At a farm workers' market, everyone has a half day off
before returning to work to feed and milk the cows.
On the scene rests peace of an unchanging world that will
Soon be shattered by wars, hunger and economic forces.
Nothing will be the same again as the 19th-century approaches.
I look at the photo and think, every living thing at the market
on that day is long since dead a few of them are remembered
perhaps a faded photo of great grandparents as young is found
in a cottage for workers, due to be demolished for a new road.
Forgotten is the life lived by farm workers of 1901
Our problems all began with the industrial revolution
And its legacy has left us with toxic pollution.
Climate change is real and been declared a code red
And if we chose to ignore it, we'll all end up dead.
It's not a new problem, they've been saying it for years
Driven by greed and profit now there will be tears.
Ice caps are melting, I'm sure you already know
And soon the polar bears will have nowhere to go.
Sea and river levels are a worry as they continue to rise
Houses and cars swept away before our very eyes.
Wildfires are quite common now the air is so dry
Many people lose their homes, sadly many of them die.
Not forgetting wildlife, they too perish in the flames
Insurance firms kept busy with thousands of claims.
Our vast oceans too have become a dumping ground
With oil slicks and plastics, just some of the things found.
We burn fossil fuels that release carbon to keep us warm
Now we must find an alternative that wont cause us harm.
Pesticides sprayed on crops with no thought for the bees
Forests cut down ruthlessly, soon there will be no trees.
Action is needed now, they know what's needed to be done
Because when it gets worse there will be nowhere to run.
In the distant future an apocalyptic waste land will be
And all because of mankinds greed and his own stupidity.
Every country must play its part, not just one or two
And every individual on earth that's me and you.
Dinosaurs roamed earth and disappeared mysteriously
And here we all are creating our own catastrophe.
And the many idiots out there who think it's a big joke
They won't find it so funny when they're choking on smoke.
Written 13th August 2021