Chaos Tamer
Looking at how we’re evolving culturally, and how humanity engages with itself, for good and for ill.
A message from the bishop of my Synod in response to the recent horror in Las Vegas :
I found this a perfectly poetical statement, and a powerful part of his email introducing this letter.
It is important
To respect people’s boundaries
Not all hugs are safe
Those evenings at dusk
Fashionable, Seattle style
Nights in my city
At first, resistance
Everyone I knew
Adores all those tunes
Which , in my mind
Trite, vacant, and “No”
Glad to say that’s wrong
Gritty dissonance
Akin to Dylan
The honest seeking
Within his lyrics
Brought out the sunlight
In this darkened world
Filled with painful news
Death, destruction and much pain
Manifest sorrow
As I get older
Athletic has new meaning
It applies to me
Compline sung again
Mark another year of life
I am richly blessed
This dream of my youth
Needing to be loved widely
This thing: “Popular“
I learned long ago
To accept inconvenience
With grace, not anger
It’s a harder path, but very rewarding in the end. My focus is to build people up, expand community, expand interconnection. Grace helps that vision. Accepting people where they are/who they are.
Depression
Dismantling me
From the inside out