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'When there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.'- Rumi
Poetry for a desperate world on fire: Finding hope in a hopeless world
We are not victims of the dark times, We are the ones who hold the spark of the new beginnings
‘When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.’- Wendell Berry
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“Capitalist production… disturbs the metabolic interaction between man and the earth.”-Karl Marx
‘Drill baby Drill’: The narcissistic dimensions of neoliberalism, monetised and de-humanised market economy
'Drill baby Drill' is the Moral and Spiritual abdication of What it Means to be Human
The World on the Edge of Abyss
The continuing and deepening dominance and reliance on fossil fuels is blocking humanity, civility, hope, and imagination
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Congratulations, you, the Zen Z 'Cockroaches'!
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Congratulations to the ‘Cockroaches’ of India, proving to the world that success over brutal force, corruption, injustice, and authoritarianism is possible and change for the better can be achieved. You have become the beacon of hope to all the activists around the world; expanding and defending freedom, democracy, and justice not only in India, but around the globe.
Nota bene
A heartfelt congratulations on your magnificent victory in India. You shattered the false invincibility of the house of neoliberalism. You are not alone, many progressive individuals and activists around the world wish to support you for more victories yet to come. I have been thinking about how I could contribute. I'm a retired academician from the baby boomers generation (ages 61-79) an old ‘cockroach’ if you may, and I dearly wish to help your noble cause. My power rests in my pen and my words, feelings and emotions; my love for you, the beautiful‘cockroaches’, my real-life heroes. I want to be included in your ‘cockroaches’ team. Yes, me too, an old-timer ‘cockroach’. I can envision that one day, not too far, we, the progressive activists with a big heart will win and bring the global house of cards of neoliberalism and arrogance down. We will show the world who the real cockroaches are.
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