Fanfare for the Common Man & Woman...

We get distracted by the bullies, the loud-talkers, the overstuffed egotists, the rich & powerful bozos in business, in politics, those attention-seeking bad actors who are always swimming in, and dominating, the conversation. We put clowns and con-men, flim-flam artists, show-offs, narcissists, psychos, front and center. The culture is off the rails, putting the noisy ones up on pedestals. The media loves to amplify the extremists in the cultural bloodstream. Anyone with money to burn can squeeze the oxygen out of any room.

Yikes. It is a bad stew, for sure.

What of humility, grace, kindness, the common good? What of human beings struggling to do the right thing? The little people, the common ones, you know, just people, those not seeking the limelight, people just trying to live a good life. A simple code for living: alive, aware, awake. Human beings with their feet on the ground, their heads screwed on right. Tuning out the B.S. Trying to lean to the light, gravitating to simple goodness. Human beings who know they are deeply flawed, trying to do the best they can. Yes, that's the human conundrum, carrying on in the face of the odds. Damn the torpedoes.