A Note.

    Although I haven't any audience at all save myself, when looking at my blog posts and considering the ills of the world at large, I can't help but wonder how my entries would be viewed by others, Words such as fatuous, frivolous, meaningless, pointless, self-absorbed, self-indulgent, trifling, trivial, useless, vacuous, wasteful spring to mind. 

   Am I not the least bit aware of the sociopolitical and environmental horrors transpiring about me?

    I am.

    Why don't I occasionally direct my writings to  some of those issues? If I were well-spoken, knowledgeable, and intelligent, I would. Believe me, I would. I do care and am deeply impacted by the weightier matters that abound. I just don't have the competence, eloquence, or skill-set, I believe, to address them.

    What do I think of the horrendous genocide being perpetrated by the nation state of Israel on Palestine? ("Shooting fish in a barrel" as a number of the soldiers and security forces are doing.) How do I feel about the inexcusable and deliberate mass starvation in full view and evidence?

    I'm a pacifist and eupraxosphist, and my mind literally screams at the horror of it! I hate war - all forms of it! I do not think it honorable in the least! When I see what warfare, nationalism, and service has done to my family members, friends, and others, I spit bituminous bile. That humankind, all over the world, can routinely sink to such barbarity!

    But who listens to a little punk like me? I am nobody.

    What are my thoughts concerning the open attack on democracy here in the States and the world over? To think that heartlessness, hate, violence, and cruelty are the order of the day. Esurient and unfettered capitalism is devouring our planet at a devastating rate, and consigning our progeny to an disastrous, environmental fate we may be already unable to stop for them, let alone reverse! 

    Peace loving as I would wish to be, even I am sometimes tempted to say "eat the rich"! 

    The rights of people of color, of which I am one, the rights of women, and of the LGBTQIA are being trampled before my eyes. The candle of enlightenment is being snuffed by the mendacious, malevolent, murderous, and malicious. What do I say?

    The world is going to Hell in a proverbial handbasket, with those currently in power, callously slamming the levers as far forward as they can - full throttle! I almost can't believe it. Yet recklessness and irresponsibility are becoming more the norm everyday.

   Currently, this is the photo that haunts me.

Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, an 18-month old child in Gaza who faces life-threatening malnutrition. Photograph by Anadolu - Getty Images

    There are days when I literally sick of it. 

    STOP!!!