Wisdom & Recognition

Wisdom begins with recognition
With the recognition of the irrational
First in ourselves and then in everyone else.
04.30.10

Choices & Consequences

Whenever we refuse to choose
We are neither alive nor dead
But, like a Sunday afternoon,
Somewhere in between.
04.29.10

Herd Mentality & Critical Thinking

Human herds
Can be led anywhere
As long as critical thinking
Remains suppressed or underdeveloped.
04.28.10

Money & Love

Ask a dying man
What would he
Rather have
Money or Love;
Then ask an old man
And then a young man
The very same question;
With age we always transition
From materialism to spiritualism.
04.27.10

History & Memory

In the infinite shelves of the brain
Resides the human library
We call the mind.
Culture, nature, nurture, coincidence
Where we grew up and how we grew up
What times we grew up in and our experiences-
(Religious, political, national, historical, mythological, personal
Our individual pre-wireings, and life's continuous programmings)
They all stack books in our brain shelves that can never be removed
Books that become our human library, our collective memory, and our identity.
04.26.10

Imagination & Reality

Imagination was born out of awareness
Out of our awareness of reality
For living entirely in reality
Is incompatible with joy.
We all live two lives,
The thorny life of reality
Where jagged facts bleed us
And the secret life of imagination
Where dwell our spiritual implements of joy
Our hopes, dreams, myths, delusions, and faiths.
04.25.10

Medicine & Quality

In America
The calling that was medicine
Is dying...
Technology and human nature
Have poisoned it...
We test before we think
We think to justify procedures
We take care of diseases
But neglect the humans who have them...
In America
Medicine has become a high-tech industry
With poor-human qualities and harsh insurance dictatorships
Expensive, aggressive, inefficient, unavailable
Unaffordable, fragmented, and dangerous.
04.24.10