Though today is Tuesday—let's note that
This post was originally penned on Monday, April 2nd, so
I'll start off with something that confused me until
My thought processor remembered that
Sunday was April Fools Day, at which time
I caught wind of the fact that God has a sense of humor
You see, one of our cousins was so busy working for
Big Business as to have somehow mistaken the first night of
Passover as falling on Easter Sunday, at which time
She and her family conducted their Seder, so
While chuckling, together, over wide spread mental dizziness
We decided that God, in his/her infinite wisdom, played
An April fools joke on her by drawing both holidays
Together—inside her head, and after you and I have
Imagined my cousin making matzoh balls with
The Easter Bunny (who asked if she was planning to
Color the eggs, which were boiling on the stove next to
The pot within which the savory aroma of chicken soup was
Simmering), lets pocket that imaginative laugh along with
Countless funny family stories as, once again
We return to those days of yesteryear when
Memory reminds me of how often I’d heard Will’s mother say:
Man plans and God laughs, and as she was not the one
Who coined that insight, which has been passed down from
One generation to the next, let’s see how far back into
Ancient history we must reach in hopes of expanding
Our understanding of this next string of inter-related
Insights concerning the historical time line, which
Is presently flashing through my mind as if to
Remind us to remember that
Every step taken from the beginning of mankind is
Connected to where we have come to be, today:
Rather than glancing over the historical time line, let's
Look closely at telling events so as to see why
I believe the time line is not a straight line—
In truth, the historical time line forms a coil made up of
Repetitive cycles depicting mankind's universal quest to
Fight, when necessary, for the right to existential freedoms in
Hopes of defeating corrupt political leaders, who, upon
Achieving absolute power, show themselves to be self absorbed
Control freaks whose internal emotional combustion enslaves
Every next generation unless the rebellious, idealistic spirit of
A youthful leader of the oppressed rises up to inspire his
Brethren to unite and fight to the death until
The freedom to respect each other’s differences has, once again
Been won, suggesting that the eternal nature of humankind’s
Internal flame of existentialism can never be completely
Extinguished as long as the very first breath of
Every brand new life is born to inhale the human spirit’s
On-going need to express his/her God given
Right to think and decide for oneself—and though
‘In the beginning' religious belief was meant to
Consciously heighten the self awareness of brothers and sisters to
Consider the sad fate of Cain and Abel by offering the populous of
Ancient times a wide range of insight-driven bible stories, illustrating
Disasterous results that were bound to shatter inner peace if
Positively focused trains of thought could not deter an injured ego from
Usurping total control over our minds, and though these stories had been
Passed down by word of mouth (like the party game of telephone) until
Scribes felt driven to record mankind’s personal need to embrace the concept of
Emotional self discipline on sacred scrolls in hopes of inspiring
Extended families to work through their conflicts respectfully rather than
Freeing rage to shatter their spirit of brotherhood so irrepairingly as to
Fracture their sense of togetherness into waring camps—
And thus does hindsight highlight this deeper truth:
Over time, religion, alone, has not gentled the egocentric, power hungry
Side of human nature from tying dissenting opinions to stakes once
Impassioned rage grows so hatefully inflamed as to burn dissidents
Alive while observers circle round, cheering so madly as to
Make me ponder over this sad reality concerning how quickly
Mob rule ignites our communal connection to sanity to
Go up in smoke, suggesting that insanity, based in
Our brain stem’s unquenchable thirst for power, is naturally
More contagious to the masses than is true of our higher brain power’s hunger
For knowledge, and here’s the conundrum associated with that historical fact:
Common sense suggests that knowledge IS power—
And with that said, thank goodness we see armies of youth marching into
Universities in hopes of arming young brains with information necessary to
Keep a greater semblance of peace throughout the world than that which
Is readily assessable to those who dwell within the confines of
Third world countries, where brutal dictators work like crazy to
Brainwash uneducated youth to martyr themselves in the name of God by
Strapping bombs to their chests after stoning women who were
Victims of rape—making me ask how much longer will we close our eyes to
This reality as well: Here at home, we empower the subtle nature of
Bullies to enslave men and women as Big Business tycoons conspire to
Formulate interest groups that paralyze our national government from
Passing legislation, which upon remodeling our tax structure, will
No longer deprive the over worked, silent majority (that makes up
The center swell of the bell shaped curve) of family time, which
Proves as close to extinct as is true of down time in which to relax from
Daily stress over income, dully earned but withheld while personal dignity
And respect for a job well done are disregarded, and that trilogy of
Travesties will only worsen unde our current administration, which
Advocates:—to the vicious egocentric nature of hard-hearted victors go
The spoils of Big Business once those who have lost everything feel so
Dispirited and exhausted from the futility of
Trying to make ends meet dispense with youthful, idealistic
Trains of thought based in existential freedoms for this reason:
Spiritual need to thrive wains once human distress grows so
Bitterly despairing as to stop seeking change for the better in favor of
Lowering expectations of succeeding beyond survival, and thus
Have historians observed insanity reigning over sanity, time
And again, until eventually, a generation of youth is born, which—
Behind complacency’s persona—harbors an intuitive
Combustible sense of internal rebellion until a leader arises, whose
Inner strengths inspire an enslaved people's heartfelt need for
Existential freedom to be resurrected and openly expressed, and
Once again, the good fight is on until, over time, liberation has been
Courageously won—and one day, I believe education will
Become so wide spread that today’s quest for existential freedoms will
Be won—not by waging wars that spill the blood of our youth
All over our souls—but by way of resurrecting
Reverend King’s dream, which, like my own, embraces
An emotional line of control so conscientiously constructed
And so consistently employed as to set personally defensive reactions in
Time out thus empowering the human brain's higher thinking powers to
Remain clearly focused upon inspiring tomorrow’s children (disciples), as did
Sages through the ages, like Moses, Jesus and Lincoln, who
Felt inspired to role model self-empowered, well-disciplined absorption of
Positively focused, empathetic solution seeking trains of thought, which
Over time, continues to become ever more wide spread so that
Some day, long standing, defensively combustible conflicts will be
Peaceably resolved—two steps forward one back—and I believe that
The illusive, heartfelt nature of so worthy a long range goal will
One day be absorbed by the open minds of children, raised at
Their mother’s knee, in one well educated home after another, suggesting
That future leaders of today's warmongering world will
Feel inspired to awaken to embrace this intuitive truth as their own:
The mindful absorption of brotherhood deepens inner peace, which
Precedes leadership's ability to work together in tandem to provide
All people with a future in which the innate intelligence of
Men and women (shed of burkas) is no longer denied basic
Human rights of equality, liberty, education and the pursuit of
Happiness (which working women throughout
The United States are still struggling in unison to change for
The better as their agile, well educated minds continue to
Bump up against glass ceilings, today), and if we are to embrace
The higher concept of role modeling ‘Make love not war’ to
Our young—and if our current engagement in
The war against terror (waged in The Middle East for eons), has
A higher purpose than any of today’s emotionally egocentric
Power struggling leaders can fathom—then
Thank goodness for the human brain's potential to
Continue to develop heightened levels of emotional intelligence, which
Will intuit when to embrace patience, humility and courage while
Hindsight gifts our conscious minds with flashes of insight that
Will brighten the intuitive minds of our grandchildren’s intelligence with
Visions of foresight, concerning how best to mentally wrestle
Mankind’s basic instincts (which will always exhibit egocentric desire to
Aggressively dominate brothers and sisters as long as
Each of us is born with a brain stem) to the mat so as to free our
Processors of mixed messaged madness that confuses
Our innate potential to brainstorm, together, toward achieving
The looong range goal of elevating leadership’s peace-seeking
Peace-keeping trains of thought by way of embracing
The mutually respectful attitude of one-for-all-and-all-for-one absorbed
At mother's knee—family by family—nation by nation
(Gosh—just think of how wondrous life might be if we imagine
Moses, Noah, Jesus, Socrates, Shakespeare, H. Tubman, Lincoln
Gandhi, Mandela, King, E. Roosevelt, G. Meir captaining
The United Nations in hopes of creating a ship so well balanced that
Unlike the Titanic, the liberties of the people of the world could be
Safeguarded, today (please take note that Plato is
Not amongst that crew—why not? He’s in time out, pondering upon
The fact that his writings proclaimed women's brains inferior to men's)
As reality insists that we can't magically transform the fantasy above
To form a round table discussion of world leaders, today
We're currently stuck with the mentality of Trump, who was elected to
Preside over our congress, which was also elected—regardless of
The fact that common knowledge knew that our nation's leader
Fires off deeply insulting, war-like missiles every time
He opens his egocentric mouth—see what I mean about observing
Insanity running so rampant through our streets as to have
Elected a person whose mind is clearly afflicted with megalomaniac
Delusions of grandeur to invade the sanctity of The Oval Office?
In case you think me a cock-eyed optimist, please note that
The realism, noted within this lengthy soliloquy,
Has not yet reached its bottom line, suggestive of the fact that
I can feel Part IV cooking up another batch of
Matzoh balls—I mean insights, simmering inside my mind ...
(When my sons were boys, intent on acting like Cain and Abel—
I taught them to say—time to lighten up—and following
My own advice, it’s time to rebalance
My emotional outlook so as to enjoy the rest of today)
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