2004-11-24
A PRAYER FOR THANKFULNESS
excerpts from a letter to a new friend | I hope this finds you having a pleasant holiday / or having had one [depending on when you get to your e-mails on the holiday]
Tomorrow I go to spend the morn with a man for whom I have become family. His relatives live minutes away from him; while they haven't disowned him, it might be less hurtful than just ignoring him | At least with shunning there is some certainty where one stands |
But visiting a lonely soul seems to me the essence of what a day like Thanksgiving is supposed to be about | Rather than than sacchrine air kisses and insincere queries of "how ya doing?" from putative familiy members and community notables who could care less what your response was but wants to know if that stylish platter under the turkey is Limoges or not | I'd sooner visit with someone who needs help giving his diabetic cat an insulin shot | There's no pretence or artifice | There is a purity of spirit | ...and that's a good thing |
It saddens me to see what waste and hurtfulness abounts in this day and time | Greed and vainglory have won over true piety and caring of our brothers and sisters, regardless the uncertainty of genetic lineage in front of us at the moment | Regular readers of my page will not find it a surprise that from MY treestand it is Moloch, not Jesus, that our so called moral leaders truly worship | I really wonder where the prayers for more wealth get stored up and acted upon |
Wrapping all this up, I'll close with my long standing statement about being optimistic for the future in the long haul; pessimistic for the short. And the seeds bearig fruit to result in the long term cheerier vision, are firmly rooted in the pessimism for the present. Deep shit is good fodder for seeds.
Hope your day of thanksgiving is good, with a table groaning over with not only good food, good drink, pleasant company, but Good Spirit too. |
G*D bless | ¶ 20:20
excerpts from a letter to a new friend | I hope this finds you having a pleasant holiday / or having had one [depending on when you get to your e-mails on the holiday]
Tomorrow I go to spend the morn with a man for whom I have become family. His relatives live minutes away from him; while they haven't disowned him, it might be less hurtful than just ignoring him | At least with shunning there is some certainty where one stands |
But visiting a lonely soul seems to me the essence of what a day like Thanksgiving is supposed to be about | Rather than than sacchrine air kisses and insincere queries of "how ya doing?" from putative familiy members and community notables who could care less what your response was but wants to know if that stylish platter under the turkey is Limoges or not | I'd sooner visit with someone who needs help giving his diabetic cat an insulin shot | There's no pretence or artifice | There is a purity of spirit | ...and that's a good thing |
It saddens me to see what waste and hurtfulness abounts in this day and time | Greed and vainglory have won over true piety and caring of our brothers and sisters, regardless the uncertainty of genetic lineage in front of us at the moment | Regular readers of my page will not find it a surprise that from MY treestand it is Moloch, not Jesus, that our so called moral leaders truly worship | I really wonder where the prayers for more wealth get stored up and acted upon |
Wrapping all this up, I'll close with my long standing statement about being optimistic for the future in the long haul; pessimistic for the short. And the seeds bearig fruit to result in the long term cheerier vision, are firmly rooted in the pessimism for the present. Deep shit is good fodder for seeds.
Hope your day of thanksgiving is good, with a table groaning over with not only good food, good drink, pleasant company, but Good Spirit too. |
G*D bless | ¶ 20:20
