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Restitution

Posted in Parents and children, Psycho-Bubbles, Social justice, tagged , on February 2, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Restitution—a powerful word, highly charged in our world in ways I will not touch.  Intended for individuals, families, and entire communities.

A dictionary definition, “the restoration of something lost or stolen to its proper owner.”

What of emotional restitution? To children, adults, souls passed. Returning their peace, safety, their honor, the space of their memory, the warmth and trust taken away—or never given.

We all seek something. Something missing by circumstance, by nature, or nurture.  Or freedom from something done, something taken on purpose, or through ignorance, inflicted.

If we live long enough, sometimes, the quality is returned, the lack is restored, created, or given.  It is a simple question—what would you wish to be restored?

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Vote

Posted in Climate change, Social justice, tagged , on November 3, 2020| 2 Comments »

Deliver us from ignorance.

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STOP

Posted in Social justice, tagged , , on July 23, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Even on a quiet day, it is rare when music is not running through my mind. No need to stream music or the radio, it is always there.  Maybe it is that way for you, too. New tunes sometimes come by, but they never stay long. Most often it is something I heard long ago, or just yesterday.

This morning it was the music and lyric, “it starts when you’re always afraid, step out of line, the man come and take you away.”

In the minute it took me to find the song on YouTube, I was crushed by the realization that the lyrics apply today as well as they did in 1966.  Racism, misogyny, poverty, ignorance, and greed are as rampant now as then.  Did anything really change? Does it ever change? Or do generations just wear different clothes, hairstyles, grow old and die feeling satisfied that they made a difference when they didn’t?

The current times expose the fetid underside of the American Dream, of human nature. While it needs to be seen and hopefully engaged, the collective grief is breathtaking.

Political commentary is beyond me. But this has got to stop.

 

For What It’s Worth

There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down

There’s battle lines being drawn
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind

I think it’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down

What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side

It’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you’re always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away

We better stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, now, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, children, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down

Buffalo Springfield

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