My poor rhino, waiting all this time for a pitch from me.  Sorry, luv.  Sigh.  It's been a long, I'll say, tricky summer.  July's unrelenting heat & humidity (two words that give H a bad name) just about did me in.  I have no AC but survived in spite of all attempts to parboil me.  It's one of those weather cycles that happen with or without human carelessness but which corporate food producers will exploit to the extreme, screwing us to the floor of poverty as much as they're able without killing all us golden geese.  This cycle that we (the earth & her children) are in is so difficult to adjust to.  I'd love to find a balance but I keep being pushed off point when really good things happen and then are followed almost immediately by really bad things happening.  I mean this on the personal and global level.  I have to keep reminding myself to remember to focus and meditate and act on the good stuff; recognize the bad stuff, act if I'm able. 

But I admit to a growing belief that nothing I do or don't do will have any effect whatsoever on what corporations have put in to motion--decades ago.  They've had such a long, long time -- by "virtue" of their money and what it can & does purchase -- to stear everything in the direction that will give them the only thing they seek or understand: more.  Hard to believe we've got global wars, poverty, prejudice, bigotry, hatred, famine, dire water & food issues...all due to a relatively small number of people's greed.  That's not paranoia at all, it's simply the current truth of things.  Things do have a way of changing so there's no guarantee that even these greedy ones will stay on top forever.  In fact they probably won't.  It's just so sad that they will have wrecked so much global misery before they fall.  I don't know how that will happen, but it will, maybe in some future where the battles will be out among the stars.  I'd like to rage and beat my fists on some of their heads, but I know that's not the way, that it will only harm me.  I need to meditate, be kind as often as I can remember (and it gets easier the more I practice it, kindness, in the smallest of places), and whistle two songs, alternately: Always Look on The Bright Side of Life; and, Don't Worry be Happy.  Next time this post will have barrells of laughs!  Promise.