I’ll never understand how faced with a choice between elephants or trillionaires, people with children kept choosing the latter. How they chose not to see Heaven and Eden are this very place, where every mother lays eyes upon the promise of their newborn's face and simply wishes for them good health and happiness. I pray they not wait until all that is beautiful in our exhausted world is turned to ash and ivory to discover this truth: We are all miracles sharing this singular planet.
I wondered the same thing, Troy, as I walked the beach at sunrise this morning and saw empty bleach bottles, oil cans, flip flops, juice bottles, alcohol bottles, netting, and more tangled up on the shore. We choke the planet, choke our hearts, chasing after something "out there" to make it all better. It seems these are painful contractions before the birth of a New Earth. Thank you for sharing your words, your gift.
Love it. When we've destroyed everything, can we eat money?
Would you like a side of crypto with that...?
Lightly fried please, with a glass of your finest crude oil.
I wondered the same thing, Troy, as I walked the beach at sunrise this morning and saw empty bleach bottles, oil cans, flip flops, juice bottles, alcohol bottles, netting, and more tangled up on the shore. We choke the planet, choke our hearts, chasing after something "out there" to make it all better. It seems these are painful contractions before the birth of a New Earth. Thank you for sharing your words, your gift.
May the new earth be filled with more empathy, understaning, and integrity.
Elephants hold a special place in my heart, what a perfect image for this poem.
Beautiful, empathetic writing Troy, thank you for being one of those miracles!
Right back at ya! 🙏🏼
Beautiful. Thanks.
Thank you, Matthew. I hope you’re well!
amen
Beautiful. Thank you.
Thank you again. I appreciate your kindness.
Do you remember the Dr Seuss book “The Lorax”? We are all Thneeds now.
I do. I feel like it needs to be read in every hall and school and church and bedroom every day until people wake up and realize our home is on fire.
Totally agree. But of course in the real world it occasionally got banned by lunatics who found it too anti-capitalist 🙄
It doesn’t matter Troy, there are enough Loraxes, like yourself, to soften the blows and who knows, extinguish the worst fires anyway 🙏🏼
So tender and true
Thank you for the support and the share!
You're welcome
Beautiful, true. Thanks, Troy!
Thank you, Leon. I appreciate you.