O' Great Spirit

O Great Spirit, give us hearts to understand:
Never to take from our creation's beauty more than we give;
Never to destroy wantonly for furtherance of greed;
Never to deny to give our hands for the building of earth's beauty;
Never to take from her what we cannot use.

Give us hearts to understand:

That to destroy earth's music is to create confusion;
That to wreck her appearance is to blind us to beauty;
That to callously pollute her fragrance is to make a house of stench;
That as we care for her she will care for us.

We have forgotten who we are.
We have sought only our own security.
We have exploited simply for our own ends.
We have distorted our knowledge.
We have abused our power.

Great Spirit, whose dry lands thirst,
Help us find the way to refresh your lands.

Great Spirit, whose waters are choked with debris and pollution,
Help us to find the way to cleanse your waters.

Great Spirit, whose beautiful earth grows ugly with misuse,
Help us to find the way to restore beauty to your handiwork.

Great Spirit, whose creatures are being destroyed,
Help us to find a way to replenish them.

A Few Thoughts

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."
- Sandra Carey

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in
each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Road Less Traveled

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth
Then took the other as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet, knowing how way leads onto way
I doubted if I should ever come back
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference

-Robert Frost

The First Step Is Always The Hardest

O.k., a month or so of thinking about it, I mean really thinking. Probably too much thinking as usual, and I setup my very first blog. I think (there I go again) that it took about 2 hours, and I haven't said a thing yet. I suppose the hold up was my vacillating (God, does this thing have a spell checker?) between keeping this relatively anonymous and giving out the url to people I know. I have decided to keep it private, just between you and I. It occurred to me that while it would be great to blog having a baby, or taking a world cruise or remodeling a house for your friends, family and others, blogging my search for relevance, my shadow, missing pieces of soul, etc. might be misunderstood by those closest to me. I suppose also that vacillating, "being in the middle" being the peacemaker and "seeing both sides of the issue" is a recurring theme in my life. Do I flatter myself into thinking this is a sign of great wisdom like some high courts judge (yes, usually I do) or is it a sign of a troubled minded? Or maybe it’s something else all together. Anyway, another reason I want to stay anonymous is that I don’t trust myself not to use this as a forum, and to be completely honest. I don’t want anyone who knows me to ever have to wonder whether I wrote something for me, or if it was slanted for his or her consumption. Besides, I’ve been reading a lot of blogs lately and commented on a few, and I think/hope that maybe there’s a few people out there that might share their opinions or feeling once and a while.

For now, this blog will be my place to discuss the path I’ve been on for several years now. A place to perhaps document and share some of the bits of information that I have found to be interesting and possibly enlightening. A way to let some of the stuff that bounces around in my head all day out.

BTW, In case you haven’t notice, I love commas way more than periods so please bear with me and hold harmless my high school English teachers. They tried their best.