Don't put all your eggs.....

in that ONE FREAKING basket...
Cuz....
Guess what ??
The basket could BREAK....or TIP OVER...or UNRAVEL.....
and all of those perfectly lain eggs would come toppling out....
SPLAT!!
SCRAMBLED !!
all over the kitchen floor....
And guess what else ???
You would have ONLY yourself to blame...
That's the truth...
WHY, you ask ??
Because you had the absurd notion....
that all your eggs would stay perfectly upright.....
regardless of the winds and rains and inevitable, inclement pitfalls of the day....
NOW.......
Take this very notion......
and apply it to people....
for surely you realize.......
 that projecting ALL of your HOPES and EXPECTATIONS on one person...
one UNASSUMING person.....
will lead ONLY to DISAPPOINTMENT and feelings of being CRUSHED....

This is ALL totally hypothetical, of course!
I'm just sayin'.....

Not so simple.....

We conjure up all this LOFTY, conceptual imagery...
and.....
We intellectualize and critique...
and, yeah...
We even JUDGE...
We can roll those words around like nobody's business...
and we can render and paint and materially manifest just about anything your heart desires...
And we have really good hair and eyes to boot!
So, externally, we seem to be "on the ball"...
But here's the thing....
There comes a moment....
every so often...
when we stop and look around ...
and we take a sort of ethical and moral inventory....
And as we do so....
a MIRROR appears magically on the wall directly in front of us...
And those magnetic eyes of ours look DIRECTLY into themselves...
and there appears to be a hint of 'wistfulness' ...of 'longing' almost...
behind those deep, green pools...
And then....just like that....
the mirror disappears.....the cell phone rings,,,,and the moment is HAPPILY forgotten......
And so it goes...

Allowing LOVE into our lives....

I know....I know...

sounds corny...

But it's NOT....

We read articles and novels and E-books on 'Letting Love In'...

Dr Phil and Opra and Oz and EVERYBODY ELSE and "their mother'!!

 are lecturing to us about LOVE...

EVERY DAY....

EVERY DAY....

And we REALLY consider what they're saying....

and we contemplate....and speculate...

and ultimately, 

we just continue on as we were before....

none the wiser....

And then we turn around one day....

and we realize, in no uncertain terms, that we've SABOTAGED ourselves right into a corner...

for even though we certainly have the CAPACITY to LOVE...

we lack the ABILITY to BE LOVED.....

Is it an issue of SELF ESTEEM ?

or...

PARENTING ?

or 

CULTURE?
What about the HEART CHAKRA ?
I mean...
we practice YOGA....and we conceptually MEDITATE....
we work on the Chakras...
(at least the aspiring enlightened ones do!)
and STILL....
and STILL.....
the heart remains relatively CLOSED....
or so it SEEMS....
What if we were to somehow SHED ALL of the EXTERNAL blockages ?
the things KEEPING us from love ?
What would that look like ?
Feel like ?

Tuna Sandwiches, Liberty, and Electric Cars....

The above-mentioned, three items seem unrelated, right ?
As if I'm trying to be CLEVER or something....
Trying to PUZZLE you with my FLAIR for the SUBLIME, right ?
But I'm NOT trying to be or do ANYTHING....
other than PROCESS the out-of-sync, oddness that we've been living with as of late...

1)Tuna Sandwiches....

No supermarkets, farmers markets, etc OPEN during this "UNFORTUNATE" weather situation...
ONLY convenience stores, offering Advil , TUNA, and bread.
period.
Hence....TUNA SANDWICHES....

2)Liberty...

Need I go into this in any kind of detailed way ?
Do we actually HAVE LIBERTY ?
Are we really FREE ?
or...
Is our so-called, "FREEDOM", cloaked in IRONY and SUBTERFUGE ?
just sayin'...

3)Electric Cars...

I don't know about YOU, but a CHEVY VOLT is sounding PRETTY GOOD at this particular moment...

There it is...for your ANALYTICAL CONSUMPTION.....

In the wake of....

yet another SNAFU on the part of the American people...
we feel...
(at least SOME of us!)
like sitting ducks...
stooped on the edge of the Golden Pond....
Our webbed feet are dry and achy and in desperate need of WATER...
Yet try as we will,
we cannot seem to ENTER the pond...
And so...
we shrivel a bit....feeling more than a little PARCHED....
and ever so DEHYDRATED....
Somehow, to our own chagrin,
we had relied TOO MUCH on the OTHER creatures to help us out with our struggle...
for THEY, as you know, do NOT have webbed feet themselves...
They are simply without sight...
They are BLIND....
roaming the streets with HUGE, SEEING-EYE dogs....
We have no FOOTING, and they have no VISION...
We are QUITE the combo....
Hopefully.....
a CHAMPION will appear on a white horse....
equipped with enough Intel Paraphernalia to save ALL of us....
Until then.....
WE PAINT.....

The Storm is Over...and yet....

We feel....
NUMB, in a way...
Overly agitated...
Worried...
about seemingly simple things...
like.....
GASOLINE....
FOOD....
ELECTRICITY....
things that we CERTAINLY took for granted only 8 days ago....
And now....
CONCERN....DISCONCERTION...
We are relieved, I suppose...
Yet this RELIEF is dressed in a costume of RAIN GEAR and general OUTER WEAR...
just in case of another DISASTER !
This time we will PREPARE !!
And to top it off, we are, somehow, PARALYZED....
when there is SO MUCH to do....
Is this POST TRAUMATIC STRESS SYNDROME ???
or just....
EXHAUSTION ?

Here's what we CAN control....

We can control our CHOICES....
of friends...of men....of actions....of  OUR RE-actions....
We can control our DECISIONS....
the motivation behind MAKING those decisions....
the scales that we weigh our options on BEFORE we render those DECISIONS...
We can control our TRUTH....
our UNIFIED, GLORIFIED, and UNRELENTING TRUTH....
even if it is deemed UNPOPULAR....UNWORTHY...by others....
We can control our WORDS...
for they surely have incredible GIRTH and WEIGHT and PURE DENSITY....
And finally....
We can control our RESOLVE....our undying commitment...
to GOD....to EARTH....to HUMANITY..

Don't fool yourselves, my friends......
It's not ALL out of our control.....