Making It Real, Relationships and Love

Blinding Truth

Seeing with unshaded eyes is not easy.It's not easy seeing you in bright daylight.It's not easy knowing you have left.It's not easy believing you unkind. I'd prefer seeing you behind purple-pink lenses.Your actions matching your words.I'd prefer seeing you in the dark, where I can pretend.Pretend you really care.You really like me. Pretend you are… Continue reading Blinding Truth

Making It Real, Relationships and Love

Be a Lamp Lighter for Each Other

Before electricity, large cities such as London and New York City had lamp lighters. Men who would walk the boulevards and light the gas lamps along the main streets and upper class neighborhoods (Reference the recent movie Mary Poppins Returns with Lin-Manuel Miranda as Jack, the lamp lighter?) I've been fascinated by the metaphorical idea… Continue reading Be a Lamp Lighter for Each Other

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We are all in the Mist [Howard’s End- the levels of wealth and compassion]

I have returned to reading the classics during this quarantine. E.M. Forster in Howard’s End has some amazing lines that are timeless and fit within COVID19's economic crisis and worries regarding money. It is a story of wealth, independence, capitalism, charity and the poor during 1910 in England. It displays the economic structure of society, especially the… Continue reading We are all in the Mist [Howard’s End- the levels of wealth and compassion]