Consiousness

a big word

and what is the experience
of Consciousness?

Think of a kid's drawing
of a person:
two stick legs
a stick middle
two stick arms
a ball head

if we could just be
"Conscious" of that much
as we went about
the too busy
too yammery
too thinky
day

we'd be in pretty
amazing
shape

What is Truth?

this is a good question:

what is truth?

ah.

let's start simple:
somehow we are pressing down
in some part of our bodies
into the Earth, chair, floor, bed
whatever

this is a simple truth,
and the paying attention to it
can get us out of a lot of "stories"
in our head/ heart that make for misery

and we are either breathing in
or breathing out
or inbetween the two

this too
worthwhile to put attention on

okay, so we are breathing

beings

in a world of gravity and arms

and legs

and spine and head

what is a big Truth?

that we can know

we Are/

are what? is more complicated,

but Alive 

is a good start

we Are

we Are Alive

we can be Aware of this

AAA

plus gravity

plus breathing

and: there is a world out there

birdies

and plants

and trees

and billions of other 

people

they 2 are

AA and can be A

maybe we can be of us

to others

or the trees and birdies

and plants

who knows?

Is it safe to be smart, yet?

Ah yes,
the question no one is asking:

Is it safe to be smart, yet?

Remember in the song,
My Funny Valentine,
there's a line to the effect
that one of the gal's problems
is that when she opens her mouth
to speak,
she's smart.

And, until recently, in Presidential
elections,
having intelligence
was scorned as elitism,

which actually,
it often was.

And then Barack Obama comes
along,
and raise discourse to the level
of intelligent people looking
at things in a broader
and more fair way

He's speech in response to the Rev Wright
imbroglio
was a model of treating people as if
they were adults, who could think
and reason

no sound bites

intelligence
I actually posted the whole thing back
then
at
Barack's Speech on Race and America
and dream's deferred

And then the question:

is it safe to be smart, yet?

Not quite

but it's almost safe to be intelligent,
especially if you can be
calm
and intelligent
the way our new President elect is

wow, what a miracle