Heaven and earth and I are of the same root, the ten-thousand things and I are of
one substance.....Zen Master Seng-chao.

War of words………

There’s something happening here…….what it is ain’t exactly clear…….there’s a man with a gun over there…….telling me I got to beware…….I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound…….everybody look what’s going down…….Buffalo Springfield.

I have unexpected urges……..to talk to strangers……..I’m doing it now.

A question is a dangerous thing…………..a bull in a china shop.

Why are a million young girls being sold into sexual slavery every year?……why do immigrants want to come here?…….why aren’t their own countries as well off?…….why are 18,000 innocent children dying each and every day from starvation?……..why is our water full of poisons and phamaceuticals?…….why is plastic the bane of our age?…….why do they cut fins off of sharks and throw them back?…….why do they fly airplanes into buildings?………….why are all the ice caps and glaciers melting?…….why do they stone girls who’ve been raped by their brothers?…….why is the Amazon rainforest being destroyed at the rate of fifteen hundred square kilometers per month?…….why is one religion the “real” one and another is not?…….why are Jews and Arabs fighting when they are brothers?……why are priests molesting children?……why are corporations being allowed to buy our government?……..why is my penis a pornographic thing?

I suppose if I had lost the war……I would have been tried as a war criminal…….General Curtis LeMay.

Have you seen the North Pacific Gyre?……..also known as the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”…….composed of “plastic soup”…….they’re finding animal carcasses filled with plastic bottle caps and various other plastic trash tidbits mistaken for food……the ratio of plastic to food is……ten to one…….of course their eating plastic……that’s all there is to eat…..we’ve got to get a handle on plastic.

“Disposable” plastic……..is garbage that lasts forever…….plastic is the bane of our age.

Superman’s got nothing on me……..except he can fly…….and see through walls……..and crush coal into diamonds……and bounce bullets off his chest…………..are you trying to seduce me?

Regarding the psychology of insemination…….it has been said that……”all sex is rape”…….sperm attacks egg…….enters and joins……it has also been said that…….at one time or another…….male and female were one complete being…….and only when we join together……. are we made “whole” again……..make love, not war.

Can’t we all just…….get along?………Rodney King.

Liberal and conservative………what is that?……..oh yeah, right and left……..selfish and generous……myopic and tolerant…….fearful and hopeful…….small and big…….dream big.

Turning food into biofuel……is turning the hungry……into the starving……food……is the new gold.

Disposable…….is another word for……..waste…….more waste equals more profit……..waste equals profit…….something wrong with that…….ya think?…….nothing is disposable…….think re-usable.

Animal wildlife in Africa is disappearing because…….they are food……..and people are hungry.

Art is the proper task of life……..Friedrich Nietzsche.

The “Great Principle” of Confucius……..says that we are all brothers and sisters……..we are all related in the family of man……..one world, one globe…….live or die together……..the operative word is……together.

I was always amazed…….that you could combine two gases……..hydrogen and oxygen…….and get water…….the water of life.

Remember the photos from the moon landing…….earthrise over the moon?……..that was us…..on our small blue lifeboat called earth…….we’re all in the same boat brothers and sisters……..small lonely rare earth…….better take care of your life boat in space……..where else you gonna go?

You are…….what you do…….only the dead……are truly happy.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined…….Henry David Thoreau.

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