Beholden by Forces and Shapes that Form a Life

I am grateful for a growing circle of influences within the inner river of life--narrative, poetry, theories, schemas and manners of learning and organizing knowledge such as religious,

Möbius strip

science and philosophical readings—material broadening my vision to more elusive territory while calling me to learn, challenging my current orientation with respect to awareness, attention, assumptions—love, hope . . .

Psalm 5

Lord of dimensions and the dimensionless,

Wave and particle, all and none,

Who lets us measure the wounded atom,

Who lets us doubt all measurement,

When in this world we betray you

Let us be faithful in another.

Mark Jarman, “Five Psalms” from To the Green Man. Copyright © 2004 

Lies We Tell Ourselves: Exposing Inconvenient Truths and Devalued Reality of the Military Complex

Major Danny Sjursen, a U.S. Army officer and former history instructor at West Point exposes the primary societal lies the illogically sustain the American industrial-military complex and justify perpetual war.

See article: The Lies we Tell Ourselves

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"War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."  - President John F Kennedy