For a lifetime I have taken the road to peace not only marching and playing my fife in peace parades in Washington, DC, but also writing books and essays toward this end (as well a through a drama titled A Place of Consequence including my song Perseverance), many poems–and even a peace quilt made up of actual photos of aggressive tragedies of the first Gulf War.
However, peace is more difficult to gain than war. War economies are fueled by greed for other people's land, natural resources, power and control ever since man made a slingshot or a stone hatchet.
Dear On Ones,
Before you choose a presidential candidate–think–with reasoning power and don't react with elbow jerk voting. Donald Trump may be loaded with money, but he doesn't care one hoot about Earth's environment, our only sustenance. He threatens to blow up foreign oil fields that send toxic emissions around the world. Again, isn't this behavior full of terror and violence ?
Don't we have more than we can handle domestically, with western horrendous forest fires exploding and flaming everything in their ways? Isn't this natural or man induced tragedy over the top?
Think about the addition of futile extremist religionists slashing and burning like Sherman did to Atlanta and Columbia in Georgia during our own Civil War fought without foreign troops on the ground. Did God tell the northern ministers that he was on their side? Or was it one man who was president at the time using his mind to stop racist slavery that still is fomenting America with its dirty roots even today?
Grove City, PA author, Helene Smith whose first literary engagement (for her children book, Hannah's Town, was before the local Kiwanis Club where she received a standing ovation when she said her husband and five children were her best accomplishments
