Shine a Little Light

This life thing, you know? No one told me that it would be so fascinatin'. No one said that I would be around to watch human beans try to wreck the oceans, each other, and every other livin' creature. Sheesh! You'd think that we never learned nuthin' in all of these gazillions of years on this planet. I mean, how long does it take to figure this stuff out?
And what's REALLY head-itchin' is the fact that us humans can fly people all the way to the moon and back, but we still can't figure out how to get along or
how to plug up a problem once we've made it.






So I was readin' some Alan Watts - a man that I just adore. I wish that I could have met the man before he had to go and die.

But anyway, I was readin' and thinkin' and I came to the not-new conclusion that we need to step back for a minute and look at the bigger picture here.

Instead of always assumin' that things will always turn out because we are the chosen ones or instead of reactin' off of the top of our numb skulls, we ought to take some time out to ponder before we act. And I mean before we go diggin' holes in places we oughtent to be diggin' and before we go bombin' people we oughtent to be bombin', we need to, as the native people of this land say, think about the 7th generation before we act. We can't, as Mr. Einstein said, "...solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

We gotta start thinkin' outside the box. Maybe we need to start engagin’ our whole beings instead of just our pea brains. Because I know that my brain may think that it wants to be comfortable and to be able to travel to every corner of the earth and to have the best clothes and the most creature comforts possible. But the rest of me knows that I love my children and all livin' things and I would be willin’ to have less in order to be certain that the rest of life doesn't suffer.

So when we're thinkin’ of diggin' deep into the recesses of this planet, maybe we might want to first stop and consider jest what might happen if our plans go awry. And when we're thinkin' about jumpin' on other people's ships or occupyin' other people's countries, we might wanta first stop and think about the fact that them peoples got family and dreams jest like we do, so maybe we should set down with a cuppa tea and try to talk things out before we start to think of hurtin' someone.

Jest sayin’…