How 'bout "NOT KILLING THE MESSENGER" ???

I mean...
Is it MY fault that you can't put 2+2 together ??
Did I CREATE your lack of intellect ?
Have I somehow CONTRIBUTED to the abundance of
vacuous, NEGATIVE space inside your frontal lobe ??
What do you WANT FROM ME ??
I'm just the FREAKIN' MESSENGER !!!
And...
FURTHERMORE.....
I HAVE TRIED...
(admittedly TRY is a weak word!)
Nonetheless, I HAVE !!!
I've dragged your clueless ass to libraries and theaters and BARNES AND NOBEL even !!
I've STUFFED you with BRAIN FOODS...
I've editorialized for your benefit.......
on everything from NUCLEAR PHYSICS to QUANTUM FINANCE......
from DICTION to POETRY to GOD only knows.....
And still....
NUTHIN'...
SQUAT....
So now......
I'm just gonna take a back seat...
and become a VOYEUR.....
And perhaps...
in the ABSENCE of my droning soliloquy....
you will finally be allowed to MAKE A SOUND OF YOUR OWN.....
to actually EXPRESS YOURSELF !!!
Is it possible that I've been standing "IN THE WAY" of your progress ??
WAIT !!!
Am I talking to MYSELF ???

.

And Eve said to Adam...

"Take a freakin' bite already !!"
"What's the worst possible thing that can happen ??"
Eve, we hear,
 had never been long on patience...
PATIENCE was NOT her virtue,,,,

Adam considered the RED, JUICY APPLE which Eve held out to him so 'unabashedly'.....

***Interesting to note that EVE WAS BUCK NACKED at this point.....
Yet Adam was focused on the APPLE !!
Huh ??!

"Well....", he thought...
"Its not like some BIG, poisonous snake is gonna come outta the wilderness
 and SMITE me or something, right ?"

LOL

ADAM and EVE....
Metaphor ?
History Lesson ?
The Calm Before the Storm ??


You decide....

Color.....

It's EVERYWHERE !
undeniable....non negotiable COLOR...
SO VIBRANT that you can actually TOUCH it....
even SMELL it....
The challenge, my friends, is to RECOGNIZE it...
to see COLOR as the grouting which splices together the MOSAIC of your life...

It is neither GRAY...
nor simply UTILITARIAN....
It is the MATTER....
the SACRED SPACE....
the connective tissue....

Somewhat difficult for me to verbalize...
yet CRUCIAL in its significance....

And if, somehow, (GOD FORBID!),
you find....
that you have INDEED lived your life among the TONAL BROWNS AND NAVIES...
devoid of RED...GREEN....
I'm suggesting to you STRONGLY.....
that it is most certainly NOT TOO LATE !!

Hence.......
Go forward today.....
with your eyes and hearts open....
to the MYRIAD COLOR surrounding you.....
This simple task will gift you
with  DIMENSION...
with DEPTH of purpose....
perhaps even with ABSOLUTION...

And so the proclamations abound......

as per usual.....
"YOU CAN'T !"
"IT WON'T !!"
"THEY AREN'T"
....
And you wonder...yet again.....
Where ON EARTH they gathered their information on this issue ??
I mean...
WHAT BASIS did they have ??
None, right ?
And then.....
when faced with the impending,
PRACTICAL MATHEMATICS of the looming situation....
you begin to realize...
that THEY are just people....
entitled FULLY to their opinions....
(however wrong they may be !!)
and you kick that YOGA practice into high gear.....
and you take a DEEP, ALL CONSUMING breath....
and you RE VISIT the whole, freakin' scenario......
And guess what ???
They may have actually done you a favor !!

Can we CO EXIST with the "Enemy" ?

So...
Where EXACTLY does one draw the line ?
What constitutes "ENEMY" ?
Can we EVER put our cultural and ethnic beliefs ASIDE...
in order to CO EXIST ?
even for but a moment ?
In this MODERN world,
 do even BIBLICAL FOES continue to plague our sense of SECURITY ?
What does one DO when faced with a 'startlingly obvious'
'difference of opinion' ?
Let me put it very SIMPLY here....
an example that we are ALL familiar with....
GERMAN CARS....
SHOULD JEWS BUY GERMAN CARS TODAY ???
in 2012 ?
I don't need to go into the whys and why nots..
I'm sure everyone's wholly familiar with this decades old argument ....
I personally...
.......EVEN BEING THE DAUGHTER OF AUSCHWITZ SURVIVORS....
have never really had a problem, per se,  with German Cars...
(although I'm not a fan.....)
I mean...
mmm...
Well...let's put it this way....
The German Car issue is NOT what I'm writing about......
The cavorting with a 'known enemy' is.....
Thoughts ?

So the bearded sage posed the question:

"Do we spend our time
"WANTING the LIGHT" ?"
Or....
"HAVING the LIGHT?"
I must tell you......This is an EXCELLENT, PROVOCATIVE QUESTION !!
Disconcerting rather.....

What is it that we are in such HOT PURSUIT of ??
(I realize that I ended the question with a preposition!)...
(Chill out...OK ?   :}})....
You may actually LEARN something today !!

We spend veritable lifetimes ...
"making LISTS"....
lamenting our 'less-than-perfect' fortune...
SAYING....
We WANT this....
We WANT that....
But...
Do we REALLY EVEN WANT the things which we supposedly pine for ?
OR....
Do we simply WANT "THE LIGHT" ?
I took his interpretation of "THE LIGHT"as my own meaning for "GOD"....
Mui Complicato....
and yet.....
SO SIMPLE......
We want GOD....beginning and end of story....
I'm just beginning to contemplate these words which startled me so.....
startled me into an UNCOMFORTABLE state...
You will hear much more on this "eye opening" revelation moving forward...

Until then, My Sweets...
SHABBAT SHALOM....UM'VORACH

And things change......and they DON"T.....

Its all some sort of mystical mind play...
I'm 150% positive about this!
We CONTEMPLATE.....
and we CONSIDER......
and we hold VERY tightly to the concept of EVOLUTION.....
 and Anthropomorphic Gobbledygook.....
We do YOGA and MEDITATION...
 and  we freaking visit GURUS in the Himalayas...
(Well...I DON'T !!)
But people DO !!
I'm tellin' ya...
And we read and WRITE !! 'self help' books.....
and we eschew ALL things MATERIAL.....
We even MOVE TO NEW JERSEY !!!
for God's sake !!
But.........NOTHING EVER REALLY CHANGES !!!
We are STILL...
All of us....
just some abstract form of MINUTIA and MATTER.....
Sorry, Bros......
It IS what it IS....

Here's the thing though....
Our ACTIONS can STILL play a SIGNIFICANT role in
 EVEN the EXTREME "pseudo-EVOLUTION" of "others"...
Meaning...
 We KNOW what we KNOW.....
 with absolute NON NEGOTIABILITY.......
But even STILL,
we must find a way to navigate through the 'existential' waters of our earthly sojourn...
KNOWING, FULL WELL,
 THAT NOTHING WILL CHANGE !!
(cuz we're SO EXISTENTIAL !!)
Are you following my stream of consciousness on this ??
DOES IT MATTER ??
haha !!
I'll get back to you on this IMPORTANT subject.......

This appears to be consistently true....

Not exactly the "When it rains, it pours" thing....
But along those kind of lines, I guess....
Plenty seems to beget Plenty...
uhhhh....
Abundance tends to group itself with MORE abundance...
What am I saying ??
That you CAN, in point of fact, my friends,.....
HAVE IT ALL....
Every little freakin' bit of it...
With just ONE caveat....
ONE rule to follow,
 in order to KEEP it....
RECOGNIZE "ABUNDANCE" when it shows its face to you...
APPRECIATE it....
and for GOD's sake......
be THANKFUL for it...
This brings to mind that old story about the guy drowning at sea....
He PRAYS and PRAYS for rescue....
and along comes a WHALE with a SADDLE on its back.....
But the guy is SO BUSY praying and lamenting,
that he IGNORES the whale !!!
Then overhead come 2 helicopters....
But the man, true to form, is too "OVERWHELMED" by how dangerous his situation is...
to EVEN NOTICE !!
And FINALLY....
 along comes a sailboat with a captain....
And the captain tries to get the drowning man's attention....
But to NO AVAIL.....
The guy is too busy screaming for help...
And so.....
He drowns....
He goes to heaven, and he runs SMACK into GOD...
and he says,
"GOD !!!   WHY DID YOU LET ME DROWN ???"...
And GOD says, "Listen, DUFUSS...I sent you a WHALE !!!
with a SADDLE ON IT !!!!....."
"I sent you TWO FREAKING HELICOPTERS !!"
"I  EVEN sent you a BOAT WITH A CAPTAIN !!"
You were so busy crying for my help,,,FOOL,
 that you actually missed all of my HELP !!"

Guys...
YOU GET MY DRIFT, right ??