Sunday, October 27, 2013

The House of the Setting Sun

Chogyam Trungpa wrote that we should look not to the West but East facing the future and never looking back on the day as finished nor done. I have viewed this many ways since the first time I read Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism. As a pathological pessimist the East seems the solution, yet that inward navel gazing will not do the job. Always gazing West is also pathological as the sun also rises and never sets therefore endless summer of the evangelical polarity, an extroversion predatory capitalist personae.
As I watch the sun go South and add to the sunset effect I dread the evening sun. I lie waiting for light to come again. Now until February. The long dark night only tempered by the warrior facing always the Western sun. What has the Summer left? What have I gathered to weather this time of cold and barren earth.
Dare I speak now here of the oceans the glaciers and our fellow beings dying in such numbers? I will be that soon enough. Thank you Universe for this day to stay free to dance and to weep.

Why is there so much resistance to healthcare?

Polarity is the rule in American society. I guess we can blame this on a lack of leadership. But not in the same perspective of the conservatives who blame things on PBO not leading us as they deem fit, I lay blame clearly on the corporadoes who bought enough democrats to detour single-payer Medicare for all and sell us the hedge deal (ACA)made  that there will be no limits on lifetime  expenses and elimination of "pre-existing" exclusions.
 I understand it is not a sweet deal for those(unions) who have theirs.  To others, the ones who only have the "death or emergency healthcare option D", anything is an improvement. To those who feel the pinch, I recognize your suffering. It does not excuse our collective responsibility to the 50 million who have no healthcare.Be holy,(Holy) call on whatever religious tradition you choose, but do not ever say to me that the system is just fine as it is. The "Man" fears universal health care  not because Juan Valdez has a an anchor baby on your dime but because the worker wins, the young win and the Man gets to pay his tab finally after 30 years of Reaganomics. Get on the right side, The Left.