Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Reflections From The World...

Have you noticed that there is a shortage of "absurdists"?.... and "charming" ,"pleasant", and "quirky" ... "humorists" in the world? ...and we have an over-abundance of "gruff" and "serious" and "ordinary" and "obvious-ists" ..and un-aromatic intellect?    It is as though being witty, wry, and playful, is a rare genetic mutation.


Photo Art: Chip Simons

Reflections From The World...


Gaston Bachelard in his study in 1961. Photo by Bernard Pascucci/INA/Getty


In 1961, Bachelard was interviewed, aged almost 80, at home in his tiny claustrophobic study in Paris. He sits snugly, seemingly shoe-horned into the only available space, between teetering heaps of books piled floor to ceiling, folios to slim pamphlets, the philosopher incarnate, down to his effulgent Socratic beard and unruly white hair. ”Life,” he tells his awed interviewer lightly, ”is about thinking and then getting on with living.”

Stopped To Ponder


*One Dimensional Conscience In A Multidimensional World*


Never in my life time have I experienced as much change. Lets just do a short list...beliefs, values, ethics, moral binding, environmental issues , religious clashes, believers vs. nonbelievers, clash of cultures, freedom rights, civil liberties, nuclear controls, child sex slaves, addictions, prejudice, anarchy, world health, social networking, cyber war, unrest with capitalism and democracy results, war and saber rattling, migration, over population, world poverty, the gap between have and have not’s, treatment resistant virus's, pandemics, aging population, growing number of youth unemployment worldwide, pressures on monarchies, unrest within the oppressed, immigration laws, terrorist, disease, food and water shortage, climate change, political parties, and politicians so bad world wide they have a category all there own. I don't know about you but many of these are new stuff for me to ponder as I deal with my own personal Sh_. I know they have always been there, just out of awareness. 

I'm not sure what questions will be answered in the future that might prove the choices we are making today will be detrimental to our soundness of mind, but I think this is an important distinction that is yet to be answered.

We must not fret...Regardless what we call this period...it is still our beautiful life! Live it. Be a decent, conscience aware being. Understand what brings dis-ease into your life and what brings you ease. We still have some choices to make.

I will leave you with a gift that came from the talented writer, Dorothy Lin..._”a simple replacement of thought could be your achievement of a life time."_

Bloom where you are planted. Make peace with yourself and just get along with it all...Doc


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