You can’t hide from love.
It is going to strike you when it chooses.
Ain’t nothing you can do about it.
“Falling in love is the easy part.
Staying in love is tough.”
Dartwill Aquila
(This is the 8th in a series on racism that appears on the 20th of every month.)
Our ancestral ghosts appear in many forms. Normally they live out of sight within the strands of our DNA. We can speak to them at any time. When they appear it is because they want to speak to us.
They have so much to say, but have great difficulty being heard. We don’t seem to listen. Who can be bothered listening to 200 000 years of experience. And besides, they may tell us things that we don’t want to hear.
Did you know that biochemists have traced the heritage of humanity’s genes back to its common Homo sapiens source? We are all descendants of a single woman they call Mitochondrial Eve. She lived in East Africa in the area around Lake Victoria about 200 thousand years ago.
What are our ancestral ghosts trying to tell us, my sisters, brothers, cousins, aunts and uncles? From what they tell me, they are very concerned about getting the family back together again. It’s difficult now that it has become a global clan, but it is more necessary than ever.
“Black, white and tan, red, yellow and brown
beautiful colors in humanity’s gown
torn with names; Stranger, Devil, Clown.
The blood that is spilt on group-named ground
has but one color and flows with no sound
out of the victims of improper nouns.”
Dartwill Aquila
Hats off to musicians,
particularly the base players.
Without a base
we have nothing to stand on
or a place to hang a hat.
“What do you do when the g-string is lose?
Screw it.”
Dartwill Aquila
I’ve seen this pattern on the back of the tram seats for years. What is it? What does it symbolize? What is it trying to say?
Then it hit me. When I don’t see the pattern, it means that the seat is occupied. The pattern says that no passenger is sitting here.
“Obviously, we can be blind to the obvious.”
Dartwill Aquila
The light in the background comes from an explosion in hell. Margaret Thatcher died.
The song ”Ding dong, The Witch Is Dead” shot to the top of the charts in the UK and the people danced in the streets.
The word disrespectful peppered the media. The rulers seem to believe that evil becomes respectable upon death. We didn’t hear them talking about respect when the witch took milk away from children’s school lunches or impoverished millions of citizens so that her friends could harvest riches.
The Iron Lady’s death caused not only a song and a word to rise in popularity, but an idiom as well: Good-bye and good riddance. (= I’m glad it’s gone.)
Amen!
“The Iron Lady is now rusting in hell.”
Dartwill Aquila
Through the years I’ve collected stupid statements from major authorities. A decade or so ago, for example, the ”genius” who won the Noble Prize in Economics said, ”Everything has a price.”
Poor man, I thought, he’s never received a priceless kiss.
Recently I read a professor of mathematics claim, ”Nothing is perfect.”
What perfect nonsense. Ask parents about their new born child and see how often you hear them describe perfection. Are they not correct? We see perfection all the time. Have you never seen a perfect smile? Heard someone make a perfect comment? Looked at the line of your love’s neck and not seen a perfect form?
The nature of perfection is dynamic and short-lived. It can’t be calculated. Not even by professors of mathematics. It is no less perfection because it is incalculable and temporary.
“I won’t claim that we made perfect love,
but I did hear angels applauding.”
Dartwill Aquila
Be careful! I heard that he’s dangerous!
“We are often suspicious of those who see things from a different perspective.”
Dartwill Aquila
People believe in the strangest things. Some look for miracles while miracles pop up like weeds around us. Take psychokinesis (aka telekinesis) for example, moving physical objects with the power of the mind. Despite years of experiments no conclusive results can be shown. Yet anyone can, and everyone does, move physical objects with their minds all the time.
Example: My mind says that it would be nice to move Julia’s body next to mine. I call Julia and ask her to meet me at the Miracle Cafe in an hour. Violá!
Is that not a miracle? Any two people no matter where they are in the world can speak to each other and agree to meet at a specific time at a specific place anywhere in the world. Citizen A in Guangzhou, China can agree to meet citizen B from Valparaiso, Chile in front of the City Hall in Saint Prex, Switzerland at a specific time of a specific day. If that’s not a miracle, a frog’s ass isn’t waterproof.
We perform many such miracles regularly without reflecting about how miraculous they are. And we’ve barely started the production of miracles. With nano-technology (engineering on an atomic scale) wonders await us that we can’t even imagine today.
All this is possible because System Humanity itself is a miracle.
“Looking for a miracle?
Explain to me what part of life isn’t a miracle.”
Dartwill Aquila
Increasing the number of individuals with prosperity leads to general prosperity. The way to health and harmony must be built with everyone’s health and harmony. That’s the only road to travel.
How often have we heard about the problems of population growth? Populations are not growing everywhere. Most developed countries have diminishing populations. France, Sweden, England, Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Bulgaria and others are example of countries with negative population growth. Populations decrease when living standards increase.
All social problems, from early pregnancies to heavy criminality, increase as the gap between the rich and the poor increase. Justice and equality are not simply pretty words. They are essential ingredients in the diet of a healthy society.
We can easily judge the leadership of any society. Are the problems increasing or decreasing? Are we on the road to prosperity or are we going in a wrong direction? This is not heavy science. Any citizen can figure it out.
“All journeys start with a first step.”
Dartwill Aquila
I asked Mom about it
she told me to clean my room.
I asked Dad about it
he told me, “Do it soon!”
I asked my sister about it
she told me to lend her money.
I asked my friend about it
He said, “Don’t be funny.”
I asked my teacher about it,
she told me to learn to think.
I asked my coach about it,
He said, “(hick) Don’t drink.”
I asked the doctor about it,
He said, “Don’t catch a cold.”
I asked grandpa about it,
He told me, “Don’t grow old.”
I asked a guru about it,
He asked back “How thick is thin?”
I asked a pol about it,
He told me to vote for him.
I asked a celeb about it,
She said, ”It’s all about me.”
I’ve stopped asking about it,
and I’m learning instead to see.
“Trust other people, but make sure you have a plan B.”
Dartwill Aquila
System Humanity 