SENSE AND NONSENSE

IT’S AS IF AN ALIEN SPECIES IS ATTEMPTING TO TAKE OVER OUR PLANET.

Perhaps we need to think of the Coronaviruses as akin to extra- terrestial beings set to multiply and take over our planet?

They are living organisms. Like all living organisms, their main intent is to survive and propogate their species. They are very good at doing this.

They were new on our scene. At first we were helpless to defend ourselves. Because of the airplane the virus travelled to all parts of the world, living and propagating inside the living bodies of tourists and other travellers.

Now we have vaccines which are weapons to stop (or at least slow down) the extra terrestrials from multiplying and wiping out large segments of our human population.

At first it was the elderly and infirm who were mostly vulnerable. But these crestures have a little trick that we don’t have (or perhaps we do but it takes more time for us to develop it?)

They are able to mutate their offspring into meaner and tougher beings that are able to attack younger and stronger human beings more and more effectively as time goes by.

Anyway that’s my take on the situation we human beings are in!

My Son’s Latest Poem

Canada’s Shame by Bruce Ray

give us back our names
as we lie in the cold
and dark Earth
our voices muffled by time
and it’s passing
memories rising up like
pale lilies from our bones
to say we still live
as long as our people
remember us –
let us walk with the
spirit bear once again
let us feel the skin of the land
and walk the fire’roads
of the deepest forest
let us return to the place
where we were born long ago
our names are all we have
our names are what we
leave behind -we speak from
our choked mouths
and hollowed out skulls
waiting now for the names
of recognition -golden eyes
still see -the starlight
and the moon of our sisters
give us back our names
don’t bury the truth beneath
like we’ve been buried
let us be proud of our culture
like we were before
the teachers came to fill
our heads with numbers
give us back our names
for surely we are only dead
if no-one speaks of us
resurrect us with the truth
of your truth
give us back our names
there are no stones on the ground
to mark our passing
there are no stories and tales
to celebrate us -they filled
our heads with useless knowledge
and they took away
our language and history
how we were made to speak
the god’tongue of our masters
we were compelled to think
with the colonized mind
and to put on the white masks
and live out the white dream
give us back our names

give us back the eternal spring
and the waters that rise up
from our open throats
as we sing of our captivity
and the injustice of what
has been done -how we wait for
someone to speak our names
we wait for our faces to be
uncovered from the dirt
as we share our secret story
with the children of mercy
give us back our names
give us back our names
and now a thousand and more
in the neglected graves of
residential schools
forced assimilation, some 150,000
children taken from their
families during this period and
placed in boarding schools.
in order to“’get rid of the Indian’
in the child.”
give us back our names
speak the sacred language
of trauma -let us rise again
bruised and beaten but unbowed
give us back our names
take our bodies and carry them
back to our people
let us sing the funeral songs
and invoke our ancestors
give us back our names
let us be angry and resolute
let us go through pain
let us walk through the fires
and let us feel the heat
give us back our names
and in the calling let us open
our eyes to see again
give us back our names
give us back our names

give us back our names
as we lie in the cold
and dark Earth
our voices muffled by time
and it’s passing
memories rising up like
pale lilies from our bones
to say we still live
as long as our people
remember us –
let us walk with the
spirit bear once again
let us feel the skin of the land
and walk the fire’roads
of the deepest forest
let us return to the place
where we were born long ago
our names are all we have
our names are what we
leave behind -we speak from
our choked mouths
and hollowed out skulls
waiting now for the names
of recognition -golden eyes
still see -the starlight
and the moon of our sisters
give us back our names
don’t bury the truth beneath
like we’ve been buried
let us be proud of our culture
like we were before
the teachers came to fill
our heads with numbers
give us back our names
for surely we are only dead
if no-one speaks of us
resurrect us with the truth
of your truth
give us back our names
there are no stones on the ground
to mark our passing
there are no stories and tales
to celebrate us -they filled
our heads with useless knowledge
and they took away
our language and history
how we were made to speak
the god’tongue of our masters
we were compelled to think
with the colonized mind
and to put on the white masks
and live out the white dream
give us back our names

To Vax or Not to Vax – That is the Question?

It all boils down to choices about whom we choose to trust and about whom we choose not to trust.

In regards to the Covid Pandemic, I choose to believe that the children , in whom our country and countries throughout the entire world have invested good money in, in order to educate them to become scientists, need to be trusted.

They have not only used their own exceptional minds that God gifted them with, as well as the wealth of knowledge passed down to them by previous scientists (who learned what worked and what didn’t work) but they now have amazing tools and data bases on the DNAgroupings of simliar viruses. That’s why these vaccines are as effective as they are.

There is bound to be screw ups from time to time. My thoughts re side effects are that those same people would have suffered even more terribly and likely died if they had contacted the virus itself. It hasn’t been stressed enough that Covid 19 is an emergency situation similar to what people were told to do during WW 2. I lived at the Coast and still remember the blackouts, ration tickets etc. It was what we had to do. Don’t know if anyone complained about “conspiracies.” It was just was we had to do because we were facing a common enemy. Same thing as nowadays and the terrible virus that is mutating into a more dangerous one because that’s what viruses do.

My cousin’s healthy 3 yr old granddaughter contacted a caronavirus (not Covid 19) and died suddenly only a few years ago. Such a horrific tragedy that the entire family is very slowly recovering from! You can bet your booties the entire family has now had their Covid 19 shots!