There are things that humans are able to block out
They call them blind spots
It's not just our own noses
I've been watching my own TV for a year and a half now
Blocking out that smashed bug on the wall for that whole time
The one that I've been meaning to clean up each and every time I happen to notice it
Of all the things I've been meaning to happen to notice
From time to time
But now I'm thinking that's what we can do
When fully engrossed in any siting eating enjoying intoxicating moment
From ingestion or moving colors and lights on a screen
Fitting together to make not just the perfect movie
But that something... more
We block out that bit of the life we don't want to see
That is dirty and 'Wrong'
I ask
Is that what you do with me?

Fear

I feel like fear is such a hated emotion. I feel like it's not just our society saying we should be stronger, wiser, sharper, better, whatever. I feel like our society is pushing us away from fear. When fear is natural. Fear is wholesome. Fear is healthy. I feel like our society is pushing us towards this fear of fear when we learn too late that that's the wrong thing to do. And we drain our energies into trying to avoiding even the notion of fear in ourselves. When in fact, it's the moment that you realize that if you just let fear wash over you, completely engulf you and that there was nothing to fear after all, is when you live. To fear fear is what society tells us is the right thing to do and in the end it's what we tell ours selves, our internal selves, the selves that have to live with our selves when we take ourselves home that should be the first guide. Not the last guide. But that internal voice telling us "Maybe not" should be a start to the direction in which we point our decisions.

Mom

I realize now it's quite common to loose a mother. In fact nearly everyone looses a mother or father, or both in their lifetimes. Even much earlier than I did. But what I think most people don't realize is that I didn't just loose a mother, I lost a hero.