Contemplation

A blogger friend of mine who has a gift for poetry and profundity, Thomas Sutherland, said "Success is not an outer but an inner state of being. To find your strengths and still embrace your weaknesses, to know you are whole and worthy no matter your circumstances. Be love. Be joy." ts

My Comment: I agree. If only we could do that easily in the conspicuous consumptive nation that we are. It is hard to not personally measure your own worth by all those unimportant yardsticks that our culture uses to judge your value because in the end it will not matter. When and if one can reject that I think the truth of existence will be attained and it is not I believe by how much money you have, how gorgeous you are, if you have an Ivy League degree and Wall Street connections or if you married the "right" person.

In the end none of that to me should matter. What matters to me is if through whatever medium I can use I am an advocate for the poor, the elderly, the handicapped, the dispossessed, the lonely and for those who have not attained what society says they should have to judge one's worth. I want to do so in a way that is possible for me.

The earth, we persons of truth through the evidence of science know, is 4.5 billion years old. Think on that and see the vastness of life and as the Hubble telescope has seen how infinite the universe is as well. We are but an ink spot in tapestry of time. Our sun will die out as all suns do. The only things left for me in the cosmos will be the atoms of kindness I sow here on the gorgeous planet earth for those who feel left out.