Short Thoughts On World

…for the breath of all humanity on January 7, 2024.

This object serves as a pencil sharpener.

Breath.

• “Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Breath.

• Bullet points make lists but points of bullets make wars.

Breath.

• “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” ~ 2 Timothy 1:7 (KJV)

Breath.

• Translation is work for the mind and play for the intuition.

Breath.

• Fold a piece of paper in two so that it becomes a diploma. It is now your ticket to travel back to the origin of the word, to the Greek language, “twofold.” Now turn it into a paper airplane, fill it with people gifted with leadership (power, love, sound minds), and send them off as diplomats to practice diplomacy.

Breath.

• Each poem is an atom. A person reading, intaking, a poem, splits the atom.

Breath.

• What power is in the thinker, the writer? What power is in the reader? The sound embedded in letters and words fuels intuition, translation, relationship, diplomacy, and love.

Breath.

• If all Industrial Complexes have walls that create boundaries for systems, of what are their walls made?

Breath.

• Where there is poetry there is _________ (a blank to fill in with whatever the writer/reader is feeling in the moment).

Breath.

• “Arise! the breath, the life, again hath reached us: darkness hath passed away and light approacheth.” ~ Rig Veda 1:113:16

Let us breathe as we generate energy for goodwill — first for self, second for loved ones, third for all sentience, fourth for all that is seen and unseen.

Thank you, with love, for entering the time period we call 2024 with me: survivors of all kinds of things, endurers of all kinds of sufferings, appreciators of all that is true, good, and beautiful about our life, our Earth.