let me elaborate....got rushed for time to go to the market with my mom......

the rivers damned, polluted, blocked, the bloodstream of the earth choked by metal and cement scoured and scarred by excessive waste....

the sky opaque with tarred molecules of soot, CFC's, and gasoline...

the menacing fingerprint of capitalism touching every core of every culture.....KFC, McD's,7-11,Mobil, 31flavs, the list is endless and repeats with methodical precision. Without forethouht to consequence the ramifications of thoughtless action, the grinding scurry for a buck that all humans have been forced to devote their existence to, while there bodies and spirits slowly cripple under the omnipotent threat of poverty......

and yet the miracle remains that in the gutter a small cluster of leaves emerges from the toxic crevice.....

and the human heart is still warm from within its own inner fire connected to the divine

and the sky does with all its effort and attention, despite all the odds, maintain its colour blue.

for these things we must rejoice, for life and love continue to flourish and thrive despite the seemingly invincible and unavoidable barricade of despair and destruction that sinisterly dissguises itself as "progress"

for I have to keep believing that though the light at the end of the tunnel is faint that if we truly unite as a species, and combine our efforts that fading light may grow stronger and our future may not have to be so bleak.

It is easy to forget the true state of the world when we surround ourselves with highgloss beauty, the tranquility of Santa Cruz or Santa Monica, or San Francisco or any other luxurious place in the States, but the reality remains that these are small, miniscule bubbles of peace and tranquility, and most of the world exists in squalor. Do not forget, do not become too comfortable, we must unite, we must forge a new future, one that is collaborative and compassionate not competitive and counter-active. the future is in our hands. What will we choose to do?