Regrets

 Regrets:

I was not good enough at marbles, jacks, pea shooters and sling shots.
I didn’t experiment with my hair while I still had it.
I didn’t dance enough.
I didn’t fully understand Steenrod Cohomology Operations.
I didn’t make optimal use of my chest hair.

On Joseph Cornell

On Joseph Cornell 

Constellations mapped in starfish
Spheres explaining
Spirals from the edge of sky
Conclude, obscured
Things in proximity
Edge past the names of things

Obsessive in the coming
The vision won’t speak life, but dreams
Copulating
Then structures (intimate) cohere
And symmetry is replicated

Niches of happened things
Stacked perimeters
Bird, shell, arm of tree
Reflect on where the idea of it lives
Item-icon tooled
In flecks of story not his own

Answer this

 Trump supporters answer this.

If your children’s teachers spoke to them in the mean-spirited, name-calling, lying way that Donald Trump speaks to you, would that be acceptable?

Harry

 

Universe

 

Elders

 The elders are disappearing across the world

There but not there, alive but not living
Theirs is slow marching into a fog
Of memory, confusion and time
They can never get themselves back
The architecture of their brains
Is crumbling unpredictably
No hope of repair
Once vibrant, they are now children
To their caregivers, daily sustained by love
Sleep for them is comforting escape
Dreams become hallucinations
Hope for small intimacies
Who are you? Why are you in my house?
Will the TV harm us? Will the TV harm us? Will the TV harm us?
Why do I have to take this medicine?
Are our children dead? Can we go see them?
Questions requiring tailored answers
You must enter their world
A world as real to them as yours is to you
Smiles are little saviors
Something still alive in their eyes
Best to avoid visions of their exit
Best with both feet planted in now

I whispered

 I whispered promises

In Tomorrow’s ear
And heard the laughter
Of Yesterday
Who overheard

Connected

 We are completely connected by technology, but little connected by love.

America now

 

Part 5

 Part 5:

Children are meant for creative play and figuring out the absurdity of the adult world.

Children who aren’t loved must be saved from ruin.

Love requires humility and flexibility.

You will suffer, so do it gracefully.

Do your best at all you do and love authentically, and you’ll have no regrets.

Give yourself an honest look in the mirror occasionally.

Let those around you know you love them.

Get to know people who are not like you.

Make lasting friendships. Help them and let them help you.

Make art that feeds you, challenges you and defines you.

Recognize the box you’re in and get the hell out of it.

Value your intellect, but don’t let it get lazy.

Lift up others.

Pay attention.

Inflict wisdom on young people. It makes aging worthwhile.

Use nostalgia wisely.

Get your hands dirty.

Dance more.

Question the experts.

Spend more time naked.

Humans are absurd creatures.

Write your own eulogy.

Don’t be afraid of truth and integrity.

Give your spiritual nature a chance.

Age gracefully—your body will eventually turn on you.

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Evolution

 Evolution has a long reach with its complex web of interrelationships, dependencies, probabilities, synergies, variety and its arching oneness. Evolution’s first disruption comes at the hand of its most complex thinking, feeling, dreaming creature.

This creature strives to reach its full human capacity but so often fails, and in its failure, disrupts its own future and destabilizes the living environment that created it.

Unlike lower creatures who live and die in an ecology of community, humans live and die by feeding off nature without giving back.