bent solar system
foto by smith
i scour the news. just learned Voyager 2 finds our solar system’s shape to be dented, squashed, bent. how appropriate. it helps explain why things don’t work well here on mad-manned planet earth. we’re probably in the crook or crack or squishy part or bindy bend.
a blog i read said she couldn’t keep reading the news because it’s so endlessly bleary it depressed her. she has to take a step back, and was curious how others dealt with it.
i left this in answer . . .
i’m lucky. i’m 61 years old and have had a fascinating underground kind of life full of magic, special people, and massive amounts of luck with marvelous adventure.
past 2 years i even found the love of my life - long after i’d ceased thinking such a thing possible.
right now, if i wake up dead tomorrow, i’m way ahead of the game. no regrets. no putting off for some maybe later that which brings light now.
it’s the old zen goal - how do you live a happy life in an unhappy world?
well, it’s always been an unhappy world. it always will be. i live so that i bring light to life from within, spread light and not dark.
i still read the news closely. i need to know the bad so i can fuel my creativity and work against the bad - maybe mock it, or expose it, or even occasionally rant and rave.
we’re all dying anyway - and if humans fade away, mother earth will recover, life will go on. i don’t think people are the highest purpose of life, or the most important part of earth. if we die off, so be it. earth would really be better off and prettier without us. no big loss.
live now to the best you can. brighten the corner where you are. make someone smile instead of frown. help, don’t hinder.
and fight the bad guys every step of the way, just as if we could save our sorry asses.
foto by smith
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