Remembering that the "money God" that destroys Gaza and Southern Lebanon is the same money God that destroys the forest/ocean around us. In many ways, its the same fight.
This is the most beautiful and searingly relevant poem I've ever read. Thank you Caitlin. Translating it into Spanish for my friends. The awakening is happening. Light and love and life win.
I leave tomorrow to camp at the beach in Maine for a week. No internet. No "How many has Israel killed today". No news except high and low tide waves giving the happening now report against the rocks and shoreline. TY Tim and Caitlin for a great send off with this. Keep on all. I hope on my return home to hear Israel has been canceled and there is peace.
"Printed with the oil made from the blood sacrifices of Chevron"
So much has been made from that oil... It's time to sacrifice the demons of Chevron and its minions of the military-industrial complex to the gods of capitalism and then burn the whole corrupt system down!
Peace be upon you by Gaza and Jerusalem - Honour and victory are the allies of the axis of resistance and its allies, and humiliation and shame are for the axis of evil, Epstein Class (USA, Britain, France, Turkey, Qatar, UAE, NATO Governments, New Nazi, Masonic, Zionist and Israel) and its allies.
And we can be both all at the same time -- too busy and broke, but aware still.
We need to make ourselves heard and hearable, and to care deeply -- for our planet, all lives and all the suffering humans too, at home and all around the world.
Jimmy Carter smiled his Sunday-school smile while secretly authorizing the CIA machinery of death. Listen to the Oval Office order regarding Archbishop Romero: Shut him up, or we will. The Human Rights President illusion is dead.
Racial struggle is not art. Racial struggle will always be used to divide and weaken the slaves. You have been told that racial struggle is the essence of leftism by the same racial supremacists carrying out the genocide. Most blue eyed, white individuals are not rich and are as powerless as you are.
I've been writing poetry quite a lot lately too. It feels like the last artistic refuge away from Zio Imperialism. Keep it up.
In the big picture - the one we look away from, we are the whales, the children and parents in Gaza, the starving in much of the world, and the killed and maimed in absurd wars for dominance and a false sense of security: it just hasn't registered yet
It is of value to do a deep dive on money, its history, what it really is and how it controls us.
Some say it is a commodity that we must compete for and that is certainly the majority experience but the billionaires, the military industrial complex and corporations that extract wealth from the living planet are drowning in the stuff. If they are caught short government simply issues them the rescue funds.
Hermes was the classical Greek god of wealth, trade, capitalism if you will, but also the god of thieves. They weren't silly those Greeks.
Remembering that the "money God" that destroys Gaza and Southern Lebanon is the same money God that destroys the forest/ocean around us. In many ways, its the same fight.
ignoring our climate and starting wars are how they make money. it is exactly the same fight. money money money.
Correct Susan. BUT if there is no Earth what are these rich people going to do?
I have often wondered that too. I guess they will hide out in their well stocked bunkers until the food and water run out
Oh what fun!
We can solve for that "money God..."
EAT! – Energy accounting tokens (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/eat
This is the most beautiful and searingly relevant poem I've ever read. Thank you Caitlin. Translating it into Spanish for my friends. The awakening is happening. Light and love and life win.
yes
Nature is not a godless god
But rather a collective intelligence without bias
Which loves all existence unabashedly
As long as it serves the whole
Waste not your time with tone-deaf cloud beings
But sing the music of the giant Sequoias.
Yes.................who knows that Trees speak truth.
I leave tomorrow to camp at the beach in Maine for a week. No internet. No "How many has Israel killed today". No news except high and low tide waves giving the happening now report against the rocks and shoreline. TY Tim and Caitlin for a great send off with this. Keep on all. I hope on my return home to hear Israel has been canceled and there is peace.
Hello Chuck. Just went away myself in the depths of France.
Came back to the same old SHIT
Born to Run: the first freedom
We were born
not with roots
but feet.
Not buried in one obedient place,
not nailed to the soil
by blood, border, name,
or the old commands of the dead.
The tree must endure
where the seed fell.
It must take the drought,
the axe,
the fence built around it.
But we—
we were given ankles, knees,
a hunger in the horizon,
a road inside the body.
To leave is not betrayal.
To flee is not cowardice.
To run is sometimes
the first honest prayer
of the living.
Every exile carries a country
under the tongue.
Every migrant carries a doorway
in the chest.
Every wanderer proves
that the soul was never meant
to be a prison with a flag.
Our freedom is not abstract.
It is not written first in books
or granted by kings.
It begins when the foot lifts
from the ground
and says:
No.
Not here.
Not this cage.
Not this hunger.
Not this fear.
Not this life chosen for me.
We have feet
because the world is unfinished.
We have feet
because home can become a wound.
We have feet
because beyond the hill,
beyond the border,
beyond the smoke of the ruined city,
there may be bread,
there may be kindness,
there may be another name
for tomorrow.
The tyrant loves roots.
Roots can be mapped, taxed, watched,
cut off.
But feet are dangerous.
Feet remember the road.
Feet make slaves into fugitives,
peasants into rebels,
children into explorers,
the hunted into survivors.
So bless the footstep.
Bless the boat, the train,
the desert path,
the mountain pass,
the trembling knock
on a stranger’s door.
We are not trees.
We are the animal
that walks away.
May your hands always be busy / May your feet always be swift / May you have a strong foundation / When the winds of changes shift.
“Forever Young,” 1974
bob dylan
Powerful!
"Printed with the oil made from the blood sacrifices of Chevron"
So much has been made from that oil... It's time to sacrifice the demons of Chevron and its minions of the military-industrial complex to the gods of capitalism and then burn the whole corrupt system down!
Peace be upon you by Gaza and Jerusalem - Honour and victory are the allies of the axis of resistance and its allies, and humiliation and shame are for the axis of evil, Epstein Class (USA, Britain, France, Turkey, Qatar, UAE, NATO Governments, New Nazi, Masonic, Zionist and Israel) and its allies.
Caitlin & Tim, I am lost for words and I am no poet. Your poem is so powerful, moving. Moved me to tears. Sums up what's wrong with the world.
Thank you. 🙏
Beautiful and inspiring, evidenced by some of the comments below, also glimmering with poignant poetry.
Your Great Rumbling comports with the epic tragedy of a planet that fails to stop a genocide ...
https://doc115.substack.com/p/when-the-planet-that-didnt-stop-a?r=18tk5o&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Best of luck to all, especially those who hear the whales,
~~ Doc
And we can be both all at the same time -- too busy and broke, but aware still.
We need to make ourselves heard and hearable, and to care deeply -- for our planet, all lives and all the suffering humans too, at home and all around the world.
Thank You Caitlin
Jimmy Carter smiled his Sunday-school smile while secretly authorizing the CIA machinery of death. Listen to the Oval Office order regarding Archbishop Romero: Shut him up, or we will. The Human Rights President illusion is dead.
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/hemisphere-of-plunder-el-salvador
I was enjoying it until, "the cold blue eyes
of the empire of whiteness"
Racial struggle is not art. Racial struggle will always be used to divide and weaken the slaves. You have been told that racial struggle is the essence of leftism by the same racial supremacists carrying out the genocide. Most blue eyed, white individuals are not rich and are as powerless as you are.
I've been writing poetry quite a lot lately too. It feels like the last artistic refuge away from Zio Imperialism. Keep it up.
In the big picture - the one we look away from, we are the whales, the children and parents in Gaza, the starving in much of the world, and the killed and maimed in absurd wars for dominance and a false sense of security: it just hasn't registered yet
It is of value to do a deep dive on money, its history, what it really is and how it controls us.
Some say it is a commodity that we must compete for and that is certainly the majority experience but the billionaires, the military industrial complex and corporations that extract wealth from the living planet are drowning in the stuff. If they are caught short government simply issues them the rescue funds.
Hermes was the classical Greek god of wealth, trade, capitalism if you will, but also the god of thieves. They weren't silly those Greeks.