Sometimes, in-line skates to a rat are like computers to humans. Those wheels can make the rat zip here and there but soon it forgets it can run better and faster and climb without them. Computers are great but too often it has replaced the human's ability to think critically. This works very well with cunning communicators who use technology to spread their lies and propaganda. By the time the truth catches up, the lies have circled the globe three, four...ten times. Oh wait. With computers, it's instant multiple points of attack. Oh, and hiding behind the veil of anonymity!!! Have you read those commentaries on the news and op eds?!!!
Okay, on a different subject matter: Now and then I listen to the radio that is constantly on in the kitchen. It is usually set to a conservative station. I heard something that sounded like an Arabic rap and my thoughts started racing. So I shut off the noise in my mind. Later I heard this gem. I feel these are the people I have in my life who give me love. I just hope I deserve them and I give back to them. I can hear my father, my mother, my sisters and brothers, the best of my friends, and especially my eldest sister and husband in this...
"I don't wanna be someone who walks away so easily
I'm here to stay and make the difference that I can make
Our differences they do a lot to teach us how to use
The tools and gifts we got, yeah, we got a lot at stake
And in the end, you're still my friend at least we did intend
For us to work we didn't break, we didn't burn
We had to learn how to bend without the world caving in
I had to learn what I've got, and what I'm not, and who I am"
Okay, on a different subject matter: Now and then I listen to the radio that is constantly on in the kitchen. It is usually set to a conservative station. I heard something that sounded like an Arabic rap and my thoughts started racing. So I shut off the noise in my mind. Later I heard this gem. I feel these are the people I have in my life who give me love. I just hope I deserve them and I give back to them. I can hear my father, my mother, my sisters and brothers, the best of my friends, and especially my eldest sister and husband in this...
"I don't wanna be someone who walks away so easily
I'm here to stay and make the difference that I can make
Our differences they do a lot to teach us how to use
The tools and gifts we got, yeah, we got a lot at stake
And in the end, you're still my friend at least we did intend
For us to work we didn't break, we didn't burn
We had to learn how to bend without the world caving in
I had to learn what I've got, and what I'm not, and who I am"
A rat with roller skates...I used to feel like this rat at work...but minus the roller skates which I definitely could have used!
ReplyDeleteYes, I know that feeling. This is my self portrait. Hehehe!
DeleteWhy, I'll never know. It used to be a "saying" in my yoot--c.1943--
ReplyDelete"Rats on Roller Skates". Even now it makes no sense. Had completely forgotten. Thanks, Ces, for this important memory, which will certainly bring me closer to my Higher Power!--grin!
Now...that SONG! LIKE it! How appropriate for a meditation for today. Imagine: "..What I've got, and what I'm not" usually translates to
"who I am!"
Wishing to thank you, for the song, yes, your thoughtful writing, yes, the rat on skates, OK!, conservative radio (yeah, me, too), for those inked pelicans (?) blocking moon-shot, yesss! BUT mostly for leaving open the "comment" section! HAHAHAHAHA!
Yes, comment section just for you! :)
DeleteMmmmm mmmmm mmmmm, Mraz is one of my favorites!
ReplyDeleteHehehe, your little rat is cute on wheels. I wonder how he laces them all! And now I wonder if four skates is better than two. Heck, those make for some excellent ab-rollers! If that were me, though, I'd be lying flat on my belly.
Zip zip zip, lies spread so quickly and with so much vitriol. Agreed. But the benefit of technology is that you can quickly look up the truth and call them out on it too. Boo-yah.
Speaking of abs, I must go exercise now. Sigh.
Yes, he sings beautiful words.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately there does not seem to be any desire to publish the truth, rather propaganda and by the time the truth comes out, people have moved on to another sensational item. Sadly our media chooses what to ignore so many facts.