PEACE ECONOMIES BRING GOOD HEALTH AND HAPPINESS. WAR ECONOMIES BRING DEATH AND GRIEF. WHICH ONE DO WE ENABLE?

Do we permit our own mind to be ruled by ancient man-made scrolls of dogmas that inhibit our freedom and even  persecute or keep women down with inequality, all contrived when primitive men–who feared the opposite gender in a time of ignorance before the enlightenment of science–ruled the world with a club?

Dear Ones,

Think of what we love the most–members of our family; our friends and buddies; our sight and hearing ability; a beautiful song or view or a painting; the excitement, competition  and exileration of sports; the pleasures of the arts; delicious food; picnics in the park; the surf and the beach. 

Now imagine that all these wonders, joys and miracles of life are blown to radioactive smithereens in our faces  and are so crippled we no longer can enjoy them?

A great poet, William Ernest Henley, explained his undefeated, unconquered spirit in the face of adversity.  Can we muster up the same strength to overcome our own negatives in life–what inhibits life and all its precious moments–even our own warped thinking?

INVICTUS

                                                           It matters not how strait the gate,

                                                           How charged with punishmet the scrolls.

                                                           I am the master of my fate.

                                                           I am the captain of my soul.

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