Building You and Me

A  L  O  H  A !

" It's not the load

 that breaks you down, 

it's the way 

you carry it. "

Lena Horne

" To different minds, 

the same world

 is a hell,

 and a heaven. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" I am determined

 to be cheerful and happy 

in whatever situation

 I may find myself. 

For I have learned 

that the greater part 

of our misery 

or unhappiness is 

determined 

not by our circumstance 

but by our disposition. "

 
Martha Washington

Wife of George Washington

and first First Lady

  of the USA

" Speak your mind - 

even if your voice shakes. 

Well aimed slingshots 

can topple giants. "

 

Maggie Kuhn, 

founder, Gray Panthers

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Free Will- What IS that?

Yes, we live & act based

on the way were were raised,

the family, community, nation

where we grew.

Genetics and brain chemistry

pull many of our strings. . . .

And yet-

In every community

there are those

who live generosity

while neighbors

live a predatory existence.

There is no

 Manual for the Human

in Washington, Rome, or Beijing

where we can look up the correct

"Answers"

So in the truest sense,

EACH of us, YOU & me,

has the task (if we think about it)

to CHOOSE what we BELIEVE

about the nature of life, of

reality.

Many of us contract out this power

to a Church, Mosque, Peer-Group,

Conspiracy Mind Set,

or Common Ethos

 (where we happen to live).

On my quest to Find Out

I have found many powerful little

(and Huge) gems.

Call them Tools, Skills, Maxims,

Wisdom.

I am constructing

my own Understanding.

I act from what I know to be right.

When I fail, I forgive myself.

I believe that God cares, cheers me on, smooths my path.

But I do not subscribe to any church

 but the world.

No one should hold the reigns of my morality

but me.

That's Free Will.

That's tested Cloudia Morality Reigning.

I dine at every tradition's ancient banquet

as a respectful guest.

My soul rises up to sing with theirs.

But I decide of the feast

what is the Chicken

and what are the bones

to be discarded.

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