Eden in LA is ok. Haven't heard from my brother.
And here in the NW it looks like this:
Got nothing to say about current events. Oil has contributed to global warming which causes the droughts and crazy weather patterns and hence fires and destruction.
This child spoke truth to power.
My friend Micha figured out how much fossil fuel it took to fly her to Greece and back. She was appalled. She wants to make art that doesn't include electronics because of components made with harmful chemicals and minerals. I suggested rocks and fallen trees and leaves. Stonehenge has lasted for a while and doesn't pollute, as far as I know.
California is burning and al Baghdadi
is dead
My daughter empties her fridge
no power in San Rafael
no school tomorrow
no work because the door combination is
hard wired
gas pumps are dark
she has a plan
two cat carriers
a generator
water
a flashlight
the freeway is nearby
a man I know
taught to track and kill a deer
by his uncle on the rez
took his first when he was 14
still a boy
when he got back to the house
he danced and laughed
proud of himself
his uncle slapped him
hard
never rejoice when you take a life
the deer offered herself to you
so you might have food for the
winter
today while men in a room watched
hundreds of miles from the tunnel
filled with
dogs and soldiers
a man took his life and the lives of
three children
our president described in great detail
'crying, screaming, cowardly'
'body parts identified by DNA'
'great' 'very bad' ' hatred'
where is uncle to slap him
teach him to take life, any life
is not honorable
no matter how necessary it may seem
we are all capable of murder
in our hearts
this will not stop ill will
this will not stop the illness of greed
my daughter lights candles
in her living room
her son is a few blocks away with his
girlfriend
if they need to leave
they are ready
as she texted me-
“We're here in the dark,
waiting for the apocalypse.”
7 comments:
It is very, very hard right now to keep hope alive. May all of your loved ones and beloved ones and everyone be safe.
I have no words for the disgusting depths to which that pretender president has sunk into beneath the foulest swamp of all.
I'm sorry. My son fought in Iraq. He said that every life taken took a bit of his soul with it. I thought of that while our president was crowing over a victory he watched while sitting safely in a luxurious room with clean hands. Can he really claim that his hands are clean. Too bad someone didn't slap him.
May all our relations in California act as uncles and teach us how to go forward in community and honor life under the most dire of circumstances.
our kids, who will likely adapt reasonably well given what they must try to live with and through, unlike we , who have had our earth fling-are made of tougher stuff. There is no illusion that living on earth will be easier or any different that other times in earth's history when she shakes of entire systems to begin again. Of all species, homosapiens tend to take it personally, having invented a protective god and all. Anyway, here we are, and there we go- I advise my kids to get out into the mountains and streams- take advantage of the beauty of earth while they can. We, who have always thought in terms of "future", saving money, planning a holiday, getting a degree, a career, a family, planning for old age...there is no longer a future- adapting to that which goes against our "plan" will be a challenge. ZEN to you, - go hug a tree , for real!
'earth fling'-I like that.
Thank you for that fine poem, for the boy's uncle on the rez who honors life.
Thank you for all if this Beth.
This has been going on for 30 years. All who could read and listen could have made a change 20 years ago.
Instead now we all panic and give in.
Filling our hearts and minds with sorrow and pain and pity.
We are better than that. We must be.
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