Comments on: Struggling to Be “Fully Alive”: Reports on Coping with Anguish

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:22:34 +0000

http://www.columbia.edu/~mhs119/Temperature/

Who will tell them?

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:47:44 +0000

Robert those last few words I saved them in the zero’s and ones and will end my comments with those words from now on.

Who will tell them? They can’t hear me. They, and many others, will have to see the changes for themselves, as I have. I can’t imagine that anything else will convince them. My grief for the world, and for them, is compounded by this feeling of helplessness because there is no way we can have the collective action you speak of when the ‘collective’ is still in denial. Thank you for listening.

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:26:10 +0000

If you watched the video read this and for many of you it could just help a little.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. … I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends … and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it. –John Lennon

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:19:49 +0000

I say calm at peace and it does appear we must fight the pervaders of denial. Yes calm at peace but no reason to be a Namby Pamby. Did anybody see the new Sarah Palin political message, ad?

But one thing looks clear from the ad: Palin isn’t pushing the “mama grizzlies” as much as she’s pushing herself as a tough independent woman and future candidate on the campaign trail.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=67435

Watch this and talk about going to hell in a hand basket. The talk is out of the old play book of how to be nut’s and make money doing it.

This is the second year in a row that our apple trees do not have apples on them. But most people get their food in grocery stores where the apples still appear, and food still arrives, in season and out, from all over the world. This will soon end, and people won’t understand why. They don’t see the trouble in the land as I and my friends do. I grieve daily as I look on this altered world. My grandchildren are young adults who think their lives will continue as they have been. Who will tell them? They can’t hear me.

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:46:29 +0000

“The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.”

“The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.”

“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.”
Sigmund Freud