View From My Kayak-Deer Harbor

Seeing things from the water, looking up. Paradigm shift. 

Views From a Kayak - Mountain Lake

 Rope Swing 

Tell Me The Secret

Hillel Neuer's Question Put to the UN

Here is the video. There is not a peep in the room when he asks this question at the end. Apartheid is real....but the truth will surprise you.

Watch Eyeless in Gaza (streaming on Amazon) to understand how journalists fearfully self censor and are forcefully censored.....silenced so we are unable to hear the truth.

Shelter

What Hate Speech Is

Young

More Life

Trump is Like Oxygen

What if he's like 

the mask an airplane

lets down in the event 

of a looming catastrophe 

dispensing

vital oxygen? What if we 

are oblivious to the 

rescue offered?

We push away this 

sustaining substance

because we find 

the equipment’s

delivery system 

(yellow plastic held by elastic)

unpalatable.  

We prefer 

to suffocate as we crash

to the tune of foreign, 

unfamiliar 

calls to worship crying out

to a god we 

do not know while our

own remains uninvited. This

(anthem parenthesis) 

cocoons angry women 

who in tender

moments administer rituals 

to initiate each other 

into wearing modesty 

by way of

hijab - draping  

our American flag 

around their heads

and necks as a symbol -  

consenting, ironically, 

and (un)knowingly 

to sharia law.

I'm going out on a limb (naked) by writing this - because I'm disturbed to my core. The core I didn't even know I had! I did not vote out of discouragement and hopelessness. After some digging, I'm wishing I had voted for Trump after all. Hate me too, if you will.

I'm confused with the hatred toward him and the hatred displayed by the women's marches. 

Not Wearing A Pink Hat

Uncharacteristically, 

today I listened to 35 minutes 

of what's considered news 

by thousands who tune in. 

Top news? Starburst

has a new package of 

all pink candy.

And a new app called 

Women Interrupted 

was highly recommended

to much applause. 

I confess: Women marching 

in silly pink pussy hats

spewing their own brand of

putrid hate is not silly at all

and makes me embarrassed 

to call myself 

a woman.  

 Does this app 

also track how 

many times women 

interrupt other women

or how many times women

interrupt men? 

The bullied become bullies. 

The tolerant aren't so tolerant. 

Facts are buried. Opinions go

viral in a world turned upside down, 

backwards and inside out.

Earl told us to learn to live with irony.

But I'm losing the hang of it. 

The only thing I can hold on to, 

the only thing familiar, 

the only thing I know any 

more when I see it - 

is love. 

It's still the same 

all over the world -

yesterday,

 today

and forever. 

It never ends. 

Amen.