What
a Relief
What
a relief to know
the
world does not need
to
be saved, but understood;
and
what a relief to know
it
does not matter how many
lifetimes
it takes to understand
the
world, we have forever
to
get there.
Composed
in Tiny Beaches,
Georgian
Bay, Southcentral, Ontario
Friday,
October 25, 2024
The
Hide-behinders
A
phrase popped into my mind that puts
into
perspective my conceptual understanding
of
a curious phenomenon that’s becoming
more
and more prevalent on Facebook
and
other social media platforms, a phrase
that
explains a type of personality that would
have
put a smile on the great psychologist Carl
Gustav
Jung’s face, a phrase that best describes
the
ersatz nature of the pusillanimous pretenders
of
moral superiority who rather than speak
their
own mind hide behind the wisdom words
of
well-known thinkers who reflect the same
sentiment
that they’re too scared to express
themselves—the
“hide-behinders.”
Composed
in Tiny Beaches,
Georgian
Bay, Southcentral, Ontario
Saturday,
October 12, 2024
A
Titan of a Man
He
puzzles, frustrates, and enrages
everyone
who pays attention to what
he
says, but understanding Donald Trump
is
beyond comprehension; not because
he
lies all the time, but because Trump
exaggerates
the truth of what he says
to
such extremes that it drives everyone
crazy,
enough for some people to become
afflicted
with Trump Derangement Syndrome
for
which the only cure is understanding
that
Donald J. Trump has evolved into one
of
the most original people on the planet,
a
man who has magically melded his false
shadow
self with his authentic ego self
into
a bigger-than-life personality that speaks
for
both selves, neither lying nor telling
the
truth, but both; a genuine gift of being
true
to both who he is and who he is not,
a
titan of a man destined to be the 47th
president
of the United States.
Composed
in Tiny Beaches,
Georgian
Bay, Southcentral, Ontario
Monday,
October 21, 2024
The
Squandered Life
“The
unexamined life is not worth living,”
said
the “gadfly” of Athens, who found
a
way out of that fabled cave of shadows
and
reflections that has puzzled the world;
but
the older I get, with much more life
under
my belt, the more I’m led to believe
that
this postmodern world of endless
consumer
pleasure keeps our soul trapped
in
the fabled cave of shadows and reflections,
and
not until we stop to examine our life
of
endless consumer pleasure will we realize,
as
Socrates implied, that the squandered
life
is not worth living.
Composed
in Tiny Beaches,
Georgian
Bay, Southcentral, Ontario
Monday,
September 30, 2024
The
Wisdom of Life Sayings
“She’s
all salt and no tequila,”
said
Joe Concha, Fox News Contributor,
speaking
of the vice president Kamala
Harris
who’s running for the Oval Office
against
Donald Trump in the November 5th,
2024
election, after her vacuous interview
on
60 Minutes; but what did Joe Concha
mean
by this jocular little piece of ornate life
wisdom?
What is it about Kamala Harris
that
prompted him to characterizes the vice
president
with this pithy saying? Google
search
informs us that when a tequila shot
is
taken, the salt is a sensory distraction
that
diverts attention from the raw burning
sensation;
and if this so, what does this
say about Kamala Harris?
Georgian Bay, Southcentral,
Ontario
Thursday,
October 10, 2024
The
Crucial Question of Our Life
I
thought about it, and thought about it, and
thought
about it, but I could not puzzle out why
so
many men and women hate the former president
of
the United States, Donald J. Trump; and then,
as
I always do when I can’t see why, I let my poetry
do
the thinking for me, and out came the answer
I
was looking for: there are two co-existing paths
in
life, one that leads to our true self, and the other
that
leads to our false self, and though we are free
to
take which path we please, the choices we make
determine
which path we take, and the crucial
question
of our life should always be, as the great
American
writer John Updike asked in his “Midlife”
poem,
“Why am I me?” And the answer to the crucial
question
of our life is always determined by which
path
we take, the path to our true self, or the path
to
our false self; and Donald Trump chafes everyone
who
is not true to themselves, like the “fake news
media”
reporters and vexed political opponents who
want
to take him down and destroy him. “Fight, fight,
fight!”
became his rallying cry ever since that fateful
day
in Butler, Pennsylvania with the assassination
attempt
on his life, and if he loses the election to Kamala
Harris,
he will go down in history true to who he was,
and
one of the America’s great presidents; but if he wins,
all
signs indicate that Donald J. Trump will become
a
president of historical consequence.
Georgian Bay,
Southcentral, Ontario
Tuesday,
October 8, 2024
A
Great Country Singer
He
lived his life grudgingly,
like
a tour of duty that he was
called
to do, a wounded soul
who
could not heal, which gave
the
songs he wrote the heart
and
tears that made him a great
country
singer; a life lived hard
and
full from start to end, just
another
Sunday morning
coming
down.
Composed
in Tiny Beaches,
Georgian
Bay, Southcentral, Ontario
Sunday,
October 6, 2024
The
Wizard of Bollingen
Ego
is as necessary to the self
as
air is to life, and yet there are those
like
Eckhart Tolle who say that ego
is
not real and that we do not have
a
self; but an epoch-making man, who
at
the age of twelve knew that he was
an
“I” separate from the stone that he sat
upon
when he was a boy of nine, went
on
to find the way out of the fog of life
and
prove to the world that the psyche
of
man was forever realizing it’s self,
and
that the ego was as necessary to the
individuation
process of the self as food
is
for survival, and that epochal man from
Kusnacht,
Switzerland was respectfully
known
by the local villagers as “the
wizard
of Bollingen.”
Composed
in Tiny Beaches,
Georgian
Bay, Southcentral, Ontario
Sunday,
September 22, 2024
It’s
All About Story
One
has a story, and the other
wants
a story; that’s what I took
away
from the political debate
last
night between Republican vice
presidential
candidate J. D. Vance
and
Democratic vice presidential
candidate
Tim Walz, one whose life
story
was made into a Hollywood
movie
by the famous director Little
Opie
Taylor, who now regrets making
the
movie because he’s suffering
from
TDS, and the other candidate
who
struggled all evening making up
a
story that he desperately wants
America
to believe is real.
Composed
in Tiny Beaches,
Georgian
Bay, Southcentral, Ontario
Wednesday,
October 2, 2024
