Desire...the future in present tense

On Thor's Day, the 20th of April in 2023

. . .it's high time to legalize cannabis – and end the unjust, racist War on Drugs that has been harming communities for decades.

Every day, at the moment when things get edgy, we can just ask ourselves, “Am I going to practice peace, or am I going to war?” – Pema Chödrön

In most of us there survives an opposing curiosity, a desire to see what’s around the corner. It doesn’t require an epic, round-the-world journey. We merely need go where nobody says we have to go, for no particular reason, where the smells and tastes and the breeze on our faces awaken us from the soporific haze of habit. To practise an enlivening sort of indolence. To drift, to roam, to colour outside the lines a bit. To wander. – Jordan Fisher Smith

The pride of possession of the Truth diminishes; the urge to share the sunshine succeeds it. . .Gratitude is the prevailing attitude at my age. . .[I am] obligated to be a better man than I know how to be. So I’m trying. – Garrison Keillor

"The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later." – Joan Miro, who's birth was on this date in 1893 Barcelona.

The past tense, the future perfect

Somewhere in each of us is an echo

expressive of every time past and future life

we have had and will have.

That past has quite a bit of pain

but enough love to recognize in

that echo of the future that it –

the future – is wholly a construct

of Creation. In the present moment

we co-create what comes next.

By holding on to the past

we bring the pain of our poor choices

and sorrow for all the guilt we carry.

Only by letting go into the unfolding present –

absent tense – can that love

embrace us.

Letting go of all tenses may bring a judgement

to even the minds of our loved ones,

that we have lost ours.

4.20.2023 jb