My Country

The president's credit is no good here. No US banks will loan him money.
19 women claiming sexual assault.
10,000 lies and counting.

Porn stars and playboy bunnies. Payoffs and lies. Checks written in the oval office - in the oval office.
$25 million to payoff students he attempted to deliberately defraud.

Children, babies separated from their families and discarded on concrete floors.
The vilification of desperately poor and frightened people willing to walk thousands of miles to a country that used to represent hope and refuge. 'Shithole' countries translates to poor countries of color - again so in need of our compassion and help.

Racism, hate and fear = make America Great Again.

Obstruction, lies, and childish behavior - all from a man with his little hands on some very large buttons.

My god what has happened to my country?

Alive

Sunlight dancing on turquoise water

slowly circling at anchor

Sun and sea, graceful palms, glistening skin, sweaty musky bodies

in the heat
A deep sensual tropical laziness

Ancient rhythms
Exotic faces
Bodies in motion

Alive

A New Age

We live in The Age of Greed. It began as we moved from cooperative, nomadic clans to agriculture and first city states 7-10,000 years ago.

Ever more perverse, violent, and inexcusable as our technology grows, its onset saw the beginnings of class, narrow social constructs, selfishness, and justification for the suffering of the many for the 'privileged' few. The accumulation of things began to define as much as isolate us from each other in our pursuit of prestige, title, wealth, profit. In return we get more wealth, more titles, more things - but at the expense of meaningful life.  It is a soulless, empty, hateful way to live. 

If people could understand the truth of their reality through comprehension of this one picture - we could finally begin to usher in a new age. We are all part of an immensity we cannot really understand, except as it humbles. To know that humility, to let it strip away your meaningless constructs, is to know the fragility of life, the understanding that we are all in this together against immense odds - is to know love for all life. We are all one  family of life.


 
            The first ever photo of a super-massive black-hole – one of 
                    billions as compared in size to our solar system.

Dont Care What You Think

Dear Media

We do not care what you THINK
We only want facts

Please shut the fuck up

Sincerely

Everyone

Empty Words

War is insane.
How many lives lost to have become numb to those words?
100 million? 200 million?

For their sacrifice...
Soldiers do not sacrifice their lives
Those that died wanted to live. They so wanted to live.
They were murdered, as they murdered.

Innocent children, women, the frail, the elderly - ‘collateral damage’
Jesus Christ.

Your blood soaked flag of imagined meaning.
How much suffering with each flutter?

War is not glorious. War is grotesquely, horribly, cruel.
Babies blown to bits. Hold that image as they march by, flag high.
‘Necessary’ evil is still evil. And it has always been a choice.

Open your eyes to your family of humankind, adrift on a small lonely planet immersed in an unbelievably hostile universe. And then, open your heart.

Choose peace.

His family, home, and any meaning to his life  - gone. 

A 10 year old Polish girl mourning the murder
of her sister by the Germans