I love little pussy,
Her coat is so warm,
And if I don't hurt her,
She'll do me no harm.
So I'll not pull her tail,
Nor drive her away,
But pussy and I,
Very gently will play.

That's mine.   Now what's your favorite nursery rhyme? 

Need a refresher? Zelo Nursery Rhymes has almost 200 online.

The Use of Force

Terror which is allowed to perpetrate itself is cold and deadly and unrelenting.

Terror turned back upon itself screams effusively with the ultimate terror as it itself is extinguished. Like matter and anti-matter meeting--a final flurry, then gone.

Terror in the world today is intended as a means to our end. We must recursively realign it through counter-terrorism to serve only as a means to its own end.

Firemen in forests, at times, fight fire with fire when they torch a firewall.

Are they arsonists?  If you think so, I hope you do not live close to a forest with no firefighters (who at times --by means--must be firestarters ) to protect you.

Do we need to oversee the use of fire, the use of force? 

Yes, of course.  Lest we fall into a situation like we did earlier this year where government-sponsored "preventative burnoffs" led to actual raging, uncontrolled wildfires out west.

But if we dispense with fire to fight fire altogether because we fear that we ourselves may go to excess, then we are fools with one less tool to pummel the fiery maelstrom.

You can't both empower a fireman and frisk him/her down for matches.

In my heart I feel this:

After we effectively rid the world of terrorism, we must dispense with our obsession with the myth of Economy, and learn to love the Earth, sweet Gaia, again.

For we have allowed the overriding myth of our time to become an organizationally-complex but spiritually-sterile 'Economy'; while I believe, forever and always, the true myth is 'The Cosmic Journey'.

Let us become heroes with a thousand faces.

Just staring at my last post, I'm reminded of a commerical that was on TV about ten years ago.  And though I don't remember all the particulars of it, the relevant segment goes something like this:

Daughter: "Dad, can I go out and play?"

Dad: "No. It's too late to go out--it's not safe."

Daughter: "But you told me you did when you were a kid..."

Dad: "Things are different now."

Daughter: "Weren't they 'different' then?"

Dad: "No, they were the same."

Different then and the same!  Hence, different now and the same! 

The world forever changes through generations for the lessons we need to learn to evolve as humanity are never static. 

So we all have a hard lesson at hand now and a lot of work to do to get through it. 

But we, too, will someday speak of a distant tomorrow to a subsequent generation by saying "Things are different now." 

And they will be.  For that stays the same.