DAY 1

What's going on on this planet? Who's looking after us? Who's helping those most in need? Who's checking the power of those least in need? As we spin, spin, spin around in circles so too does our progress...at least the progress that matters most. True, we keep making the computer smaller and smarter and better. But, why can we not do that of ourselves? Why can we not make our own egos smaller? Why can we not make our own minds smarter? Why can we not make our own world better?

True, there are too many injustices and travesties and crises for any one being to tackle all at once. But the billions of us working together? How can there be anything we cannot overcome, solve, better, or cure? It seems when we really want to, when it's all on the line, we certainly can and do. So, who decides what is and is not worthy of such collaboration? Our leaders? Those whom, purportedly, we elect? Are they deciding for us? Are they making the right decisions? Are they really leading? Why do we leave it to them to take or to not take action? What is it about our own eyes that cannot see the need? What is it about our own ears that cannot hear the cries for help, for justice, for action?

And our leaders?... For what, exactly, are they advocating? Who are they watching over, looking out for, saving? And, do the causes change as the leaders are traded and exchanged and replaced? Or, are many of the causes, needs, and issues constant, only growing in breadth and scope as the days and weeks and years pass? If, indeed, the powers that be are the same, the same, the same, why must this be acceptable to us? If they only have different smiles, wear different political badges, and engage in different rhetoric, but are all, at best, only slightly varied versions of one another, how can we keep lining up at the polls? When will this cycle of "believability" have run its course?

Each person on this planet deserves hope, a chance, a voice. And, the planet itself, deserves our combined attention, efforts, and care. We are here to live and to laugh and to love...but we are here. So, while we are here living and laughing and loving, is it too much for us to also see that others can do the same? Has it become too much to extend a hand to a fellow human in need? Has it become too much to speak out in the face of injustice? Has it become too much to care deeply for the very soil on which we walk and work and play?

There is, indeed, too much in this wide world for just one voice. One voice, however, screaming loudly and often, can surely invoke other voices to join, to help, to care, to act.

I will post daily on something of importance to me or on something of importance to someone else or on something of importance to us as a whole. I encourage others to do the same, here, on this blog.

Join with me.

Open your eyes, your ears, and you mind.