.......and all is well. my hub is quietly watching tv........the terminator movie--last one i think.......my sweet little doggie is snuggled up in her bed, glancing up at me now and then......i wonder what she is thinking..........i smile at her........she sighs........cute
at times like this, i stop and think about others for who life isn't as peaceful at the moment......the people of iran......who have seen what our invasion and occupation of iraq has created for the citizens........what must they be thinking? are we next? when? i cannot imagine living that horror........oh sure, after 2001 i had some nightmarish thoughts and fears about another attack.....but that wasn't about an entire nation--a powerful one at that--wanting to invade.......conquer.......of course i have since learned to have an equal concern over our own government as i have over any terrorist group.........
the people of iraq.........is there gunfire in the air right now? how many children are snuggled up in fear against their mother's breast? the soldiers.........how many wish they were home with their own spouse and children..........how many now believe there is no legitimate reason to have gone over there to begin with.........
the people of the phillipines.........family members losing loved ones........friends losing friends........nature is such a beautifully spectacular yet often dangerous entity.......
it's cold outside where i live.........in the 20's..........i think of the homeless...........i think how my husband and i came so very close to joining them last year.....frighteningly close.....ya never know what life will throw at you.......you hope for a billowy fluffy soft fleece pillow........sometimes it's a baseball flying at you at 98mph...........support systems are so necessary..........sadly when those aren't a reality, social services is the next best thing..........lifesavers they can be.........just not as soft and as safe as a loving family is...........
or so i hear.......
and so tonight i think of those who are suffering...........suffering due to violence..........war.......hunger.........cold...........and it really chokes me up...........the tears are right there, knocking on the back of my eyes asking for release..........it could all be so different........so simple the solutions..........so difficult the change of consciousness needed to create the solutions......john lennon was right..........imagine............imagine no religion..........no possessions........imagine no countries...........imagine all the people living life in peace........
his words........powerful..........my words, a struggling attempt to create the same message as he did............love.........respect............imagine looking in the eyes of another.........and seeing yourself.......imagine that..........no more bombs would be dropped...........no more slaps upon innocent children's bodies........no more ugly words would be cast upon one another...........no more low wage jobs......no more greed or control.......no more people without health insurance.....or food.....or clothing....or homes.........an end to suffering.
i think that's something all of us can agree upon would be a wonderful thing.
nina
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