Away February 2012, Toronto. There are a few small-but-playful flakes in the air outside my window. I can hear the B&B owner (now my friend – I’ve been coming for ten years) arranging breakfast in the room next to this one – we will sit there together an hour from now, eating from outrageously refined (and imperfect) 100-year-old china. There’s a mirror over there framed in gilt baroque, and to my left on the wall an italian master’s drawing of a lion’s rump, framed more quietly (tho still gilt). I love it here. I am away. Far enough away to take a good long look around, not so far that I can’t recognize who and where we are. From here I can see that we are dangerously mal-nourished, and we don’t even know it. [I removed a long rant from here because I don’t like publishing run-on-negative. Broody I can be – dour, my dad calls it, but I prefer to avoid toxic. Feel free to virtually insert your own rant – it’ll be as true as mine, perhaps more so. Wall street, China & Tibet, pharmaceuticals, Monsanto, derivatives, the Greek tragedy of debt, the American tragedy of denial…. it’s all there ripe] The sane thing – the brave thing to do is hard to get right- Find a truth and tell it so it’s heard so it’s told again again true story gets told, again sent back through like Newton’s cradle – smack the shock through the unmoved ones to the last who smacks it back through again Some Tibetan monks are left with nothing but suicide as a means to tell the truth. Share this:PrintEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInPinterestRedditTumblrLike this:Like Loading...
Touched my heart … so much to rant about when there is also so much to just be grateful with… Thanks, Keira lovely and poignant as usual Loading... Reply