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That Bring About the Order of Grand Relationship
1. Respect
Anticipating marvelous things
2. Affection
Yearning for the touch
3. Love
Planning good things that will offer better possibilities in showing one’s best
3 Things… July 5th, 2018
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That Will Continue to Grant You Freedom
1. Find the truth
2. Respect the truth
3. Tell the truth
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Salient…June 18th, 2018
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There are matters that are too important to ignore or leave to chance. These are salient moments.
I have never been quite certain what the purpose is for a disclaimer. If you’re going to disavow a claim, why make it in the first place? Yet since I have the tendency to pursue hypocrisy, I shall make the following disclaimer:
I am fully aware that the toys I am about to mention are archaic, old-fashioned and certainly not in the lexicon of anyone under the age of thirty-five. Yet attempting to substitute modern toys would remove much of the charm, and still make me irrelevant within five years.
So let me say that when Eddie came to my house for a play date, I was fully expecting him to show up with marbles.
(Marbles are little circular glass toys of all sorts of colors. You pinched them with your fingers, rolling them across the floor and striking your friend’s marble, and in so doing, you won control of his prize. It was very popular back when you were able to play outside because the dinosaurs had gone to their watering hole.)
But when Eddie arrived, he did not have his marble sack. Instead he was carrying four brand new cans of Play-Doh. For those unacquainted with Play-Doh, it is best explained as a molding clay in various colors with which you could use to form objects and declare yourself artistic.
Eddie’s parents had just purchased the Play-Doh and he was obsessed with the stuff. I was offended because he had not warned me, and I was prepared to play marbles.
We struck a bargain: he would work with his Play-Doh and I would pursue marbles. This lasted half an hour.
We were miserable.
I kept looking over at his Play-Doh and he kept peering at my marbles, each of us insisting that we were happy–while secretly aggravated because we weren’t playing with each other.
Finally I interrupted the process and suggested we take the Play-Doh, roll it into tiny circles resembling marbles and mingle the games, instituting a new format called “Play-Doh Marbles.”
It seemed ingenious, but the Play-Doh would not roll, so we tried throwing the little clay circles at the actual marbles, and it came off as stupid.
It was a play day from hell–so frustrating that we cut it short, growled at each other a bit and separated to our households of security.
Now, as I rose and listened to the news this morning, I realized that we have much the same situation in our world.
Everybody is showing up with their favorite toys. Because we insist that nothing matches, nothing is the same, nothing is culturally equivalent, we are playing side-by-side with our own rendition of fun, privately pissed off.
No one seems to have the sense to look for common toys, mutual ground or general excitement. We have become convinced that “marble people” are better than “Play-Doh people,” and because of that “Play-Dough people” should not be allowed near “marble people.” We even make up rumors about “Play-Doh people” and diminish their character. Sometimes we even say that “Play-Doh people” smell. Or is it the “marble people?”
Earth does not work unless we agree on the toys. I can think of three right away:
- Kindness.
- Respect
- Passion
Without this trio, the Trinity look like three bums who came into town to hold a revival and nobody showed up.
It is time for your salient moment:
If you can play with your dough, you won’t mind losing your marbles.
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PoHymn: A Rustling in the Stagnant … March 1st, 2017
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Take What You Can Get
How you treat me
I can’t predict
How I treat you
Is in my power
Waiting for your appreciation
Stalls my progress
Giving forth your portion
Cleans my conscience
Do I want to be powerful
Or find solace in generosity?
Is there any victory in your defeat
Or just a hollow chest thump?
Where did we go wrong?
How does winning become joy
If losing destroys my warmth
Leaving me cold and vacant?
We don’t need to be friends
To cease the gnawing strife
Agreement may escape our grasp
But sweet Spirit grants space
Everything doesn’t need to be right
To chase the wrong away
Just a respect for one another
Manifested each and every day
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G-Poppers … November 4th, 2016
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G-Pop is insulted.
After six months of playground buffoonery passing itself off as a Presidential election, he finds himself feeling violated by the very same people who would solicit his support.
One of the candidates insults G-Pop’s intelligence and the other one insults his faith.
As Secretary Clinton touts her qualifications for the job of being the leader of the free world, listing numerous occupations which have prepared her for the position, she simultaneously pulls up lame, pretending that the technology of an email server is beyond her grasp.
She also has a litany of profiles to explain how four Americans in Libya–a very hostile environment–were lost on her watch.
On top of that, she continues to make excuses for a husband who certainly did his best to denigrate the gravitas of the job as Commander-in-Chief.
It seems that Hillary is incapable of comprehending that credentials need to be backed up with actions.
On the other hand, G-Pop’s faith is insulted by the lifestyle and urges of Donald J. Trump. Donald has taken one of the primary concepts of the Declaration of Independence–“all men are created equal”–and has whittled away, redefining the meaning of these words by placing special significance of one group over another.
He simultaneously has taken the respect, honor and equality that Jesus saw for women, attempting to turn our country back into a 1950’s philosophy, where it is assumed that men will step in to cover the inadequacies of the “ditzy female.”
But worst of all, Mr.Trump pretends to take on the mantle of faith in Jesus Christ, when three of the greatest principles in the teachings of the Nazarene are repentance, tolerance and forgiveness. By his own admission, he does not apologize, he does not view all humans as equals, and he would much rather attack those who cross his path and challenge him.
These two people are insulting.
If you have intelligence and a measure of faith, you will find their applications disheartening.
So what should we do?
Is it worse to have someone who insults your intelligence, or an individual who insults your faith?
Or is it more important for us to realize that as expected, no true transformation, revival or inspiration will ever come out of Washington, D. C.?
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G-Poppers … September 30, 2016
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It is not in the course of human events, a particularly rugged political campaign, or a social environment that has begun to ignore the importance of human interaction that creates our present quandary.
G-Pop believes we have begun to dilute the human glue that allows us to stick together: an adherence to values and a respect which prefers kindness to judgment, mercy to critique and truth to deception.
G-Pop contends that if we don’t respect this glue, we will begin to fly off in all directions.
Here is the human glue:
- I will try to tell the truth.
- When I fail, I will step forward and admit I’m wrong and tell you I’m sorry.
- Since I am often wrong, I need to both forgive and be forgiven.
- I will determine to do better.
The absence of this wonderful mucilage of human emotion causes us to attack one another, often with violent conclusions.
We can no longer sit by and act as if this present situation is typical. It is not. It is a deteriorated state of consciousness which fails to recognize the need for grace.
Without human glue, we collapse.
Yes.
We become unglued.
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Dear Man/Dear Woman: A Noteworthy Conversation … June 25th, 2016
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Dear Man: So are you a Martian?
Dear Woman: What?
Dear Man: John Gray, in his book back in 1992, claimed that men were from Mars and women were from Venus. So I guess that would make you a Martian.
Dear Woman: And you a Venetian.
Dear Man: Isn’t that a set of blinds?
Dear Woman: Yes. Can the blinds lead the blinds?
Dear Man: You didn’t go there, did you?
Dear Woman: I did.
Dear Man: I think it’s dangerous to think that the two genders of one species are from two different planets, with no plan to build a space ship.
Dear Woman: It’s a cop-out. I’m sure this Gray fellow was nice and all, but he didn’t realize that fostering the ignorance of an ongoing farce is not realism–it’s pandering.
Dear Man: Yeah. I guess it would just be easier for me to think you were nuts and I was fruitful.
Dear Woman: And easier for me to believe that you are incapable of understanding me.
Dear Man: Here’s the truth–we both have landed on Earth. We can’t escape to another sphere of living without jeopardizing our relationship and probably even the balance of life itself.
Dear Woman: So rather than making up a conflict or feeding a present disagreement, I think it’s contingent on both you and me to try to get along on Earth.
Dear Man: Well said. Let me start off by telling you that the first thing all Earthlings have to realize in order to survive here–whether they’re male or female–is that truth gives you freedom. If you lie, you’re bound to spend all your time covering up the lie. The only way to get freedom–whether you have a vagina or a penis–is to tell the truth. Otherwise, you’re in bondage.
Dear Woman: Can I offer a second? Commonality creates allies. I will tell you–Mars and Venus thinking is just a clever way to cover the nastiness of gender bias, just as the pursuit of “culture” is the new Jim Crow.
Dear Man: What do you mean by that?
Dear Woman: I mean, commonality creates allies. When we insist we’re different, it separates us into camps, which invites bigotry.
Dear Man: I get that. So the more we find in common, the more we become allies. As allies, we don’t need to fight anymore just to prove we’re uniquely male or female. So can I give a third one?
Dear Woman: Fire away.
Dear Man: Respect preserves love. Once we convince ourselves there’s some sort of quiet mutual disrespect going on, love rots. Love cannot survive disrespect.
Dear Woman: Boy, is that true. If I think that you think I’m kind of stupid, I will find it difficult to love you.
Dear Man: And if I think you think I’m lesser, I won’t have any motivation to give you my love.
Dear Woman: So let me make a bold statement–John Gray and those who followed him may have felt they were being contemporary with their observations, but what they ended up doing was driving a wedge between the only forces that can unite to make the world better–men and women.
Dear Man: We live on Earth, not Venus or Mars. We are not separated by outer space. Truth gives us freedom, commonality creates allies and respect preserves our love.
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