091323 Letter to 2023 version of the Borg

We have about eight billion people on this planet.  Why, in 2023, do you still believe that diversity, differences, variety, alternatives… are a bad thing?  Why do you spend so much energy shutting down another person's voice because it's message doesn't work for you?  Maybe it works for someone else.  Why is so much effort spent on narrowing the possibilities instead of expanding them to make room for the people in this world that don't fit into the mold you think is the best for the future the planet?  Why can't I believe and eat what works for me, without being judged, censored, condemned… or assimilated by you?  

(Written September 13, 2023) 

080923 Not the Lawyer of the Cosmos

I'm glad I'm not the lawyer for the Cosmos. I tell people, I'm not a theologian or a scientist, I'm a poet. I let people see the agnostic in me more than the atheist. I tell people I am only fifty five years old and not nearly old enough to debate the existence of the universe with any credibility. I realize that there are more important things than having a position on the hot potato subject of "God existing or not". I am starting to let people hear that I am trying to navigate my worldview based on those fifty five years, not on a 2000 year old story. 

As much as I enjoy listening to Richard Dawkins... he can have his debate platform. I don't want it. He's closer to the beginning of time than I am... and a little more confident than I am about things that maybe are okay left in the realm of the unknown. I don't like certainty... be that theological or scientific. I am much more comfortable understanding that Love is the prime energy of the universe. So I need to work harder at loving people and critters and nature and spend less energy on trying to figure out how I got her in the first place. 

I'm here through no decision of my own. What can I do about it? There are some people who have grown to appreciate my existence. Maybe all the purpose I have in this world is to make their days a little bit better. 

(written September 8, 2023)