MONDAY MORNING

A lot of folks complain about Monday Mornings. I enjoyed them. It was nice to get back to the office and hear what people did over the weekend. No one was anxious to get down to business, so there was much coffee drinking and conversation. Sometimes we were reluctant to get fully engaged with whatever work we were suppose to be doing. That's okay. I feel a little like that this Morning. Not that this is work, but it demands some attention. For me, work is something I would just as soon not do. Writing this blog is something I want to do, but many times I have no idea what I am going to write about.

I am coming down from a very busy week. A big family birthday party which involved much preparation and the death of my brother midweek................wow............ it must be time to recharge.

My brother's death was expected. He was on the verge of leaving for a long time. Yet, when someone close to us leaves, it is still a surprise. Every once in a while it occurs to me, gosh my brother's gone. We have been sharing the planet for eighty years and he is no more? Yet, I am fine with it. It was his choice. He wanted to leave.

Everyone has to explore for themselves, what death means. The idea that we live forever is reassuring; but if you don't really believe it, death will still create trepidation. Jamie asked me, "Does the death of your brother remind you of your mortality?" It actually didn't. I am aware of my mortality everyday. How could you be eighty and not know that today could be your last day? I don't dwell on it. I am very healthy and I can easily imagine living another twenty years.

Perhaps it is because I am convinced we live forever, that I feel closer to my brother now, than when he was in a body. I talk to him and I see if I can feel his presence. I imagine he can understand much that was a puzzle to him, when he was in a body, and I invite him to help guide me through this illusion.

It isn't hard to find people who predict the world, as we know it, is about to change drastically. I have been meaning to point out some things for readers to look at which point to the collapse of our present system. I don't want to keep hammering at it. I am not a prophet. I am convinced major changes are on the horizon, but the timing eludes me. Folk have to do their own research and decide for themselves.

Yet there are directions we should go even if things stay the same. Everybody should be planning some kind of garden, if they have any piece of land available. If they have no land available, of their own, they should consider a community garden. Commercially raised food is becoming more and more unhealthy. Despite all the information out there, our food is still being poisoned by pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers. As long as the bottom line is the decision maker, commercial foods will continue on a dangerous track.

Likewise, even if our health system stays in entrenched in capitalistic greed for the time being, we as individuals do not need to slavishly accept it. If our doctor gives us a prescription, we can read up on the drug and become informed about its efficacy and dangers. Is it really a necessity? Will it really help? Is it just another money making fad like Statins? Is your blood pressure really that high that you need a dangerous drug- is their no other way?

Our world is way to insane to just wait patiently for things to change. How about politics, education, religion? Are some people still pretending we have a democracy when everything and [almost] everybody is for sale?

We have the power to have the world we want, and as John Lennon pointed out, it is evolution not revolution. We need to dream our world into being. Focus on the world we want and in the meantime, prepare where we can, and don't go along with the craziness.

Love and Peace,  Gregg