We are running and rushing towards an abyss of blockbuster proportions, no one is fully facing to be properly prepared for what may be. We shoot off our stinking guns and starve children, we battle for land and barter the lives of our brethren, while, waiting a virus wrests from us our… Continue reading Be prepared.
Month: March 2020
The Caress of Nature
I sat beneath the boughs of the cherry blossom and felt its touch as light as a doves feather, it drifted down and traced its path down my cheek, and lay for a moment embracing me with a ———————- sweetness of a caress that called to me to become as light, reaching out with the… Continue reading The Caress of Nature
Death in the dark.
It happened in the night as the golden owl glided by and the scuttling of tiny mice scrabbling in the earth for food. ——————– The flowers slept and the trees were quiet. The swollen stream washed their roots and the rain rolled down in rippling rivulets. ———————— The silent drifting by of a fox, its… Continue reading Death in the dark.
Antidote – The Elephant in the Room
There was an elephant, oh so big, t’was rather proud of his twirling trunk he trumpeted triumphantly til the noise threatened all, he said they stunk. —————- He flung it far from side to side and lifted slippery trees and stuff and sweetly smiled his toothy grin, decidedly drunk on being so tough. ———————- When… Continue reading Antidote – The Elephant in the Room
Policing the Till
She sat at her till and stared sufferingly at the cascade coffee boxes and cans and counting them carefully speaking kindly, she said, “No.” —————— Her pinched features pulling at her ready smile, she stopped the stockpiling and stealing of food from fellow folk who see only empty shelves. ——————– Words fall from her weary… Continue reading Policing the Till
Coronavirus
It enters the scene slyly, where from we know not. It challenges the chariots of human arrogance. —————– It sits waiting without racism, genderism, sexism and classism, ageism or poverty. ———————– Wealth will not avoid its tentacles tangling and trying to kill as it seduces and secures ——————————- its future development; spreading silently, mutating, morphing… Continue reading Coronavirus
Lent a Fast
What do I do with Lent? Does God really choose to ignore me if I eat chocolate, or biscuits, or drink wine? —————– Does God like me better because I give up something? ——————— I believe that fasting maybe not for God at all, but for me. A time where I feel better about myself… Continue reading Lent a Fast