Across the years down the days to this moment I find surprise in a life blest beyond all that I know in others. Principle amongst these blessings is the fact that though painful at the time I grew to maturity in two different venues:
1.) Rural a transition point for the Underground Railroad on the Ohio River
2.) Greenwich Connecticut one of the three wealthiest communities in the then world
I sensed myself in those growing years incapable of learning within the vocational context of public school. Remembering best being admonished by a Colonel's wife, my fourth grade teacher, someone I then described as having flown past the class room on her broom, purple hair and all: “Don't you want to grow up and earn $10,000.?”
That was in the '50s right now I am living on less than $13,000. Social Security annually yet am at peace and happy though I intuit my classmates in Greenwich at least some have stolen not merely my fortune but processing their competitive greed have destroyed the world's economy . . . I'd love to use the recently acquired Navy phrase; “Who f__ked the pooch?” here.
Without malice/rancor/vengeance envying no one or anything I appraise my next course of study in the Hard School of Life's Knocks--my pleasure and joy--but mostly for you and for all of us. Seeking a measure of: adapt, improvise and prevail in a time of extreme anxiety and attentions of the Authorities those fools who lead us astray.
We are what we consume food, air, water, news, education and opinions of others. And I have a concern that we are being psychologically factory farmed as slaves to the intentions of those who essentially are psychotic having virtually no compassion since they lack the gray matter to do so. Not their fault but when they institutionalize their theft of our lives, the lives of our children and pets, our future and the very existence of our species upon this home our planet . . . well then . . . I do protest.
The subtext of my personal education, ongoing, is Power, addiction, grief, love, crimes against humanity, unusual practices of convenience to the few at the expense of all others. We or Us. Add to which I would know if allowed the full measure of that which, or who, created us to begin with; not from idle curiosity but from love for the beloved.
I can, as you may and can, be anything you long to become. It follows that prayerfully I request God's will for us that we give not steal as most do arrogantly. This self same irreverent child's mind enabled me to survive stoically the depredations and slanders of my time and parentage.
Though I had shelter food and clothing my tutelage was in the school of indifference otherwise. To my dismay I judge, applying the same standards to myself, the current rulers of the world, the Corporations, have essentially destroyed the family idealized and made fear mongering the dominant form of control the masses they disabled to consume their products.
With hope and love we learn how to survive first then thrive living fully at peace with ourselves. I intuit that to God all life is precious. Even those who persecute us and steal the world in their competitive race for profit.
Anger and rage are byproducts of fear. In their turn they own us so long as we allow it. By entering mine after a very long time I am now free as we can all be.
Be well.
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