We Can Choose To Live Lives of Clarity, Hope, Love and Grace.

We can handle the truth. I mean the species. There are some hard truths that we all must live with, and live with them, we must.

For instance:

We all will die.
Everyone we know and love.
Including ourselves.

Human Beings are not the center of the Universe.
We are just another species that happens to live here.

We don't really know what we are doing most of the time.
We are just making it up as we go.

There are too many of us.
We are destroying the ecosystem that supports our lives,
and the lives of all the other species on the planet.

No one is in charge.
No Big Daddy will save us.

We (the collective We), are the authorities.
We make the decisions.
Our fate is in our own hands, to an extent.

Luck and Randomness are powerful forces that have momentous sway in our lives.

Despite our "Death Sentences," we can choose
to live lives of Clarity, Hope, Love and Grace.
Not to please some Big Daddy in the sky,
but just because, it's the better path...
to live a Life with Heart, Soul, Integrity & Truth.

We are resourceful, creative, resilient.
We can do it.
Damn the torpedos.

The a.m. soundtrack - 2 CD set - "Beautiful Bollywood."  A compilation album. I don't know what year it was released. A label from the Netherlands. Don't know how we came to own it. My partner was deeply into dance and trance music for awhile. Thinking we probably saw a Bollywood movie, and decided we wanted a little of that Bollywood vibe in our home. But maybe it was just luck we stumbled upon this one. It's a bit electronic, groovy, trippy, with that shimmering Indian vibe. Digging deep into the CD collection this a.m. Looking for the exotic, the colorful, the overwhelming power and beauty of being alive. The first track is called "Pickels." What's not to love?!