Lamenting on the 23rd

Do you ever feel so good you wish everyone in the world could to?
Do you ever feel so bad you want the world to go away?
Do you ever get so mad you want to yell, hit and run away?
Do you ever laugh so hard you hope it never ends?
Do you ever get choked-up and want to cry due to someone else's suffering?
Does your heart ever feel like it has broken into a thousand pieces?
Do you ever feel so blessed, loved and content?
Do you ever feel so isolated, lonely and alone?

To have everything, anything, a little or nothing at all and find a way to cultivate what is right, with honor, humble and noble all at once, and armed with the heart of a lion.

Tears of joy sparkle and shine and make the tears of sadness and grief go away.
In awe and wonder, recognizing beauty in the simplist, subtlest thing.
Precious, simple gestures of kindness bearing bold strength, quietly canceling out harshness, Magnificant humble hearts leave me breathless.
I wonder and wait, seek and find, give and receive sometimes good, sometimes bad, then just as lightening fast as the wind whips and whirls and makes bones ache... a sudden turn of events...the world changes. Change so constant, eminate, relentless, mysterious, insisting you marvel at the evololution of life and time, pleasure and pain, wreckless and abandoned or bracing yourself, ready or not for more of the same.

HOPE

The following was published in The Sun
March 2003*Issue 327
In one of the backpages Sunbeams can be found. Wise words of simple reflection are posted and stem from all walks of life. The compelling quote is without a title; However one word, one syllable sums it up; HOPE.

Stop thinking this is all there is...Realize that for every ongoing war and religious outrage and environmental devastation and bogus Iraqi attack plan, there are a thousand counter-balancing acts of staggering generosity and humanity and art and beauty happening all over the world, right now, on a breathtaking scale, from flower box to cathedral...Resist the temptation to drown in fatalism, to shake your head and sigh and just throw in the karmic towel...Realize that this is the perfect moment to change the energy of the world, to step right up and crank your personal volume; right when it all seems dark and bitter and offensive and acrimonious and conflicted and bilious... there's your opening. Remember magic, And, finally, believe you are part of a groundswell, a resistance, a seemingly small but actually very, very large impending karmic overhaul, a great shift, the beginning of something important and potent and unstoppable.

-----Mark Morford