TV, Reality, and Extremes in 2004
We live at a time when we can’t watch
television
without hearing that we need to be fixed,
or our home needs to be redone.
We live at a time when reality dictates
that we all need a makeover,
perhaps even an extreme makeover.
We live at a time
when we may not be chosen, and if we are
we may get voted off the island,
we may not survive,
we may not get the rose,
the ring, or the money,
we may not become
the next American Idol.
It’s time,
surely it must be time
for a little more evolution,
I mean conscious evolution.
It must be time
to look around the planet,
the whole perfect egg,
our spectacular cosmic sphere,
and recognize that we are all right
just the way we are.
It must be time
for a bit more – quite a bit more – authentic
straight-from-the-heart-and-not-set-apart
unadulterated, absolutely 100% STD-free
LOVE.
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Possibilities
Anything is possible
in this world.
in the ring of a phone,
a knock on the door,
a letter in the mailbox
or an e-mail message,
in a moment, a whisper,
a breath.
Of course it is. We know it.
September eleventh
demonstrated it.
Our personal triumphs,
challenges and tragedies
confirm it.
Yet the seasons spin onward,
spring unfurls its misty
scarves of green,
summer its long torrid days
of satiation,
autumn its calendar
of color and loss,
winter its stark and spindly
naked limbs.
What pain and paradox
we encounter everywhere.
What beauty and joy.
Begin now.
Be present in this moment.
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