The Road to Peace … (09/03/13)
Right now — in this very moment — we stand at a nexus where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost’s familiar poem, they are not equal. The road we have long been traveling — the road that continues on straight ahead towards the horizon — is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed and make “great progress” … and yet, at its end lies disaster; at end lies the extinction of our species.
The other fork of the road — the one still ‘less traveled by’ — offers our last hope, our only real chance to blaze a trail to a new destination …
*a destination of Peace between all tribes & all nations, caused by a common, species-wide refusal to go to war;
*a destination of forgiveness & tenderness amongst strangers & enemies & friends alike, brought about by a refusal to condemn or judge or dismiss the actions & opinions of others;
*a destination of mutual honor shared amongst ALL forms of sentient life, engendered & enlivened by a global mandate that we humans treat animals with Kindness & that we respect their innate rights to life & liberty & justice.
Simply stated, it is the only destination that will allow for the preservation of life on Earth.
I’m headed there today …
Won’t you walk a ways with me?
(inspired by Rachel Carson)
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