Friday, June 12, 2009

Killing us softly with this song ... with apologies to Roberta Flack and Lauryn Hill


I heard we sang a good song ...


Mysteries of past and present keep confusion as our hand maiden.

Eat drink and be merry ... or, is it buried? The slogan has been, "Just say NO; don't do drugs." Yet, as evidenced by the obesity of our country and the number of emergency room visits to the hospital for gastro-intestinal problems, food makers (both corporate and personal) continue to pour white sugar and white flour into our foods, our stomachs ... hmm, with all the fiber being removed from our food, what is left of the sugar and flour basically acts as harmful as drugs to our systems. The ability to transform the nutrients is removed ... so we eat food that is going to stay in our bodies, transforming into fat and disease. We are eating for pleasure, not for nutrition.

Killing us softly with this song, letting our whole lives get wasted ...

A high school student found her disease (Crohn's) that numerous health care practitioners missed (8 years) ... yet, a national public health care program is being clamored for by most! Is our society dysfunctional, at best?

Telling my whole life with empty words ...

What am I missing? There is so much beauty in life. There is so much to see and do. There is also so much information being left on the table. I don't agree with government being the best governance of morality; yet, attacks on people who point out the wrongs on both sides are chastised for being condescending (see Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post on President Obama, 6/12/2009) and fosters vitriol and blindness to people who, as citizens, don't take the time to fulfill their civic or spiritual responsibilities. We are too busy, we have to make a living, we are to angry ...

I heard he had a style ...


This is what we leave our children, and their children?


Hermeneutics of our current state of events leaves beauty and truth at the doorstep, not invited in. If it goes against our training, we discard the information as meaningless, or irrelevant. Our mistakes will be visited upon the rest of our lives, as well as our children's lives, and their children's lives. Letting beauty reign in the soul has produced some of the most powerful truths and actions in history. Love of faith, of fellow man, of spouse, of children ... governments, medicine, science, art have all gained powerful successes when truth and beauty are at the core of how we choose to look at life. If we fail, as citizens, to recognize this ...


Killing me softly with this song ... wasting my whole life with these words ... killing us softly with this song ...

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