And so ends another holiday season.....

Passover always feels to me like the ultimate "Spring Cleaning"...
Not only do we scrub and empty and essentially FENG SHUI EVERYTHING in our homes and in our LIVES....
But we also go through a pretty extensive and specific "Body Cleansing"...
We rid ourselves of Wheat and Corn for starters....
2 of the MOST POTENT ALLERGENS known to man....
Accident ?
Or ...
Did God know EXACTLY what He was doing when He designed this "Curious" holiday ?
For SURELY....
Passover was not "man-made"...
Right ??
And it follows, in a rather perfunctory way .....
that with such an all-encompassing, "CLEANING OUT",,,,,
a catharsis of the EMOTIONAL BODY would organically occur as well..

So...
What does this SUPREME CLEANING OUT mean ?
What does it look like ?

Just thinking aloud....

More or Less or More or Less......

And So...
I ask you...(as well as myself)...
(ad nauseam)
Which is better ?
'More'.....?
or
'Less'.....?

Is the minimalistic approach
the "Correct" way ?
the "ELEGANT" way ?
Is being UNDERSTATED the formulation for WINNING and THRIVING ?

Or...

Did some "HACK" who couldn't rub 2 nickels together
just come up with that line of bull ?
ONLY to rationalize and fantasize that his DIRE CIRCUMSTANCES were a
CONSCIOUS CHOICE....
or perhaps to SAVE FACE ?
in order to cover the walls and interiors of his humble abode....
with "SMOKE & MIRRORS ?

How 'bout we just take a BIG, OSTENTAIOUS BITE out of the "BOUNTY" apple ?
What would happen if we simply had MORE than enough of EVERYTHING ?
There are SO many GREAT, ALTRUISTIC, GODLY things to DO and BE
with "Plenty" by our side...

So....
Which is "RIGHT" way to ?

Should we STOP TRUSTING ?

So....
What then ?
What are we supposed to do in light of all of this new information regarding the NSA, etc ?
EVERYONE having access to EVERYTHING ...
Should we stop TRUSTING altogether ??
Is there even a point to LIVING if that's the only alternative ?
Do we not STILL,
even after ALL of the TRAUMA and DEBACLE of the recent past,
have somewhat of a inalienable right to BELIEVE ???
And, prey tell,
HOW is EVERYTHING that happens OUR FAULT ???
WHY are we BLAMED for ALL of the trouble ??
Is it possible that we, on some level,
are really just, plain, old VICTIMS ??
Victims of a fast paced, ever-bourgeoning, 'tech-absurd' world ?
In the end of the day...
are we not ALLOWED any longer...(at times)
to have a CHILD-LIKE BELIEF in humanity as a whole ?
Sorry, friends...
But I am not ready to throw in the towel......
I'm simply not willing to give up the waning, effervescence of
PURE FAITH...
and replace it with UTTER "JADED-ness"......

The WHALE in the room...a metaphor, yet again...

This creature in the room...
He's DEFINITELY NOT an ELEPHANT....
I'm goin' for BIG here...
That said,
I'll call him a WHALE....

So the WHALE just SITS THERE....
in his seemingly existential 'stupor'...
not uttering a word of advice or counsel...
Just WEIGHING DOWN EVERYTHING in his wake.....
He's ARROGANT ...nonplussed....
But TOTALLY FORBODING...

The point of my meager attempt at creating this 'visual'...
is NOT to spew esoteric gobbledygook your way...
Not a bit...
I am rather, albeit somewhat clumsily, attempting to tell the story...
of a CONSPICUOUS 'issue' weighing down this place....
an issue SO WROUGHT with PAIN and DIFFICULTY and Potential PARALYSIS even ...
that one can actually, PHYSICALLY FEEL the ENORMITY of its imminent ramifications...
overshadowing EVERYTHING, ,,,
as if the entire room had been shrouded in a DARK BLANKET of "DOUBT"...
In a blanket sprinkled with RED QUESTION MARKS...

So what does one do, faced with a REAL DILEMMA which REQUIRES RESOLUTION ??
of the "LIFE-ALTERING" significance type...
when it is CLEAR AS DAY that a decision MUST be made ?
in a "TIME-OF-THE-ESSENCE" manner ?

On Judgment....

Of course, of course,,,,,,
We JUDGE...
Everything we consider .....
EVERY DECISION....EVERY CHOICE...EVERY MOVE....EVERY WORD...
is ultimately a judgment call on one level or another...


But what about those moments when we just can't seem to make the decision ?
We are TORN...
in that EPIC, 'Robert Frost'-ish way....
We DOUBT our own ability to JUDGE appropriately....
Equitably...

What then ??

Which road to take ?
Which way to turn ?

Where, in these insidious moments ...have all the judgments gone?