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WHEN FACING DEATH

9/19/2023

When confronted with an illness such as cancer that really has no magical pill but is at the mercy of trial and error by contemporary medical people, you begin to see what life is really all about.

And you realize that we all have a “Rendezvous With Death” at some point sooner or later in life. That we are just another aspect of Nature like the trees and birds and our bodies will return to the earth. We are in fact “Earthlinks”.
But since you can’t believe that is all there is, as you have tasted Love and Soul then you realize whatever more there is, it is all “Hidden In The Eyes”.

The bad and the good exist together like night and day and “Bewilderment” is our constant companion. But if you look with Love at each and every moment Life is beautiful! And facing death transports you there like nothing else can.

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ALICE TODAY

9/17/2023

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“Wonderland is a place of madness. ‘We’re all mad here,’ states the Cheshire cat.” Through the eyes of society, one who questions, and perhaps especially the seemingly basic things may be labelled mad. And society is in fact ripe for questioning, between the extreme inequality of wealth distribution and lack of real movement on Climate Change. Global Warming is causing floods, fires and brimstones and yet the Oil Industry is untouched preferring to pray rather than quit mining.

It is the White Rabbit who leads Alice down the rabbit hole. It is he who woke her up from her daze since the hot day had made her sleepy.
By ignoring the reality of our existence we are feigning sleep while awake and carrying on with life as if nothing is happening. The death toll from devastating flooding in Libya's eastern coastal city of Derna has risen to 11,3000, according to a recent UN report.

Fires are causing people to have breathing and lung problems. Hurricanes are devastating whole islands, like Hawaii and coastal shores. And yet we sleep, allowing billionaires to convince us that as long as their profits are intact we will be okay.

Capitalism, that may have served us well in the beginning is now a rapacious greedy entity eating our very life. We have devastated Nature to the max and Nature is rebelling.

It is the White Rabbit which Alice runs after and searches for endlessly in Wonderland, a symbol of her quest for knowledge. Just when things seem rather desperate the rabbit appears yet again, and Alice drives on through.
Symbolically this means we need to overthrow the warm fuzzy mantle of what was comfortable and face life head-on, we need to dance and shout and act MAD to move the powers-at-be to change their course before it is too late.
Artists more than ever need to be vigilant and vocal. No longer preoccupied with just abstract aesthetic values but speak and shout on behalf of the world and life.

Lewis Carroll constantly asserts the essence of nothingness: ‘If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?’

Yes the other side of earthly existence exists like a two faced coin, but we won’t really learn of it until we are dead. Nothingness awaits, but until then, we have a duty to fight for the survival of the earth, for the sake of those humans yet to come.

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WHEN FACING DEATH

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