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Please honor the Tao or Spirit of creation and use your voice and actions courageously to build a wise and loving world.

Speeding Blindly Toward Doom Down a Dangerous Road

Out here, immersed in nature, we can see
inherent worth in worms and trees and birds.
We see as well our shared humanity,
despite our different views, behaviors, words…
so those who out of greed dehumanize
the poor they rob or all who block their way,
and who treat earth as if it is their prize
for being rich, so nature must obey,
sound stupid, dangerous, like utter fools
who lack the common sense of any child
who learns hot stoves will burn and other rules
of higher powers that must be reconciled.
Out here, we see our doom when we don’t know
to honor Tao on roads of mud or snow.

3/10/25