Carol A. Hand
Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever understand
why people in power seem to care so little
about the suffering and destruction
they leave in their (una)wake(ning)
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Robin wings and bloodied backbone lying in the grass
A gift from my neighbors’ roaming cat?
It breaks my heart although they don’t seem to care
Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever understand
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Garbage strewn across from
the neighborhood school
cluttering the little wooded stream
an elder’s shopping cart now inaccessible
Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever understand
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Still, I will tend gardens, teach, and write about possibilities
even as I mourn while picking up the wings and sending love
I will clean up the little wooded area although others may laugh
because caring about the earth and others matters
Maybe it will inspire some to care
even though I may never understand
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Voices from the Margins 
Without people like you spreading the love around, Carol,… the world would be a bleaker place…bless you.xx
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Pat, it’s so good to hear from you. Thank you so much for your kind and lovely comments. You know, dear friend across the pond, you are often in my thoughts. I send my best wishes and much love to you and “the lovely Christine. ❤
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Carol, I believe that when we put Self above all else, we become blind to the needs of others.
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Thank you for sharing such important insights, Rosaliene. I suspect you are correct. The challenge, of course, is figuring out what can be done, isn’t it? I wonder if it’s because many people don’t want to feel others’ pain because they’re too busy numbing out their own.
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Carol,
Your words here, and the thoughts and concerns behind them, once again, make me look at life and myself. I hear your heart, and I trust you. And then I look inside of my self, and I see nothing but anger, frustration; a completely jaded nature that I despise. And yet, I seem to have no power to change at the moment.
So I continue on, doing what has been placed before me to do.
Hope you are well? Take care!
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Dave, it’s always good to hear from you. I’m grateful that you feel comfortable enough to share honestly. I feel those things, too (anger, frustration, and hopelessness when it comes to people’s ability to awaken). But then, I listen to the birds sing, watch fascinating cloud formations and budding trees sway in the breeze, and encounter students who really want to learn how to make a difference. Those experiences touch my heart with both joy and sorrow and give me a reason to try to do what I can to open up possibilities for others to care.
In answer to your question, I am okay, busy trying to catch up on editing now that I have a computer that seems to be working. It’s a challenge, though. As the weather grows warmer I’d rather be outside but I feel the aches and pains of aging and wonder how much I’ll be able to do. I won’t know until I try…
I send you my best wishes and hugs, dear friend. ❤
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Thank You for another post that speaks to my current thoughts and feelings, as well. I get so frustrated at the lack of concern for the world we live in. I saw a dead robin this past week, too, in front of a pick-up truck. It bothers me because it’s my first name….hmmm…wonder at the symbolism there….
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Dear Robin, it’s always good to hear from you. Thank you for your thoughtful comments, and for sharing this on your blog. It always makes me sad when birds die. Beings that can fly above the troubles of the world hold a special place in my heart. 🙂
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Delightful
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Thank you, Kate. 🙂
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I am with you, dear Carol. Feeling a little lost in the midst of such neglect of those who most need what is being held back or redirected. I am deeply sad and doing my best to sit with it so that it doesn’t consume me. Take good care of you. 💕
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Dear Carrie, thank you for your thoughtful comments. Staying balanced in times like these is truly a challenge. I appreciate the helpful suggestions you share on your blog. ❤
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From one bleeding heart to another…I rejoice in your caring and your creativity.
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Delightful comments, Joan, that made me laugh. Thank you. 🙂
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If one would truly understand, one must engage the bigger picture and come to terms with what constitutes a “human” on this world. Engaging the reality of the Ancients, the Spirits, awareness of past lives and interaction with non-earth beings is necessary, else how shall we know? If a thing doesn’t have its counterpart to compare it to, how then shall we proceed to understanding? Once we accept the bigger picture of cosmic life, some of earth man’s history breaks through Matrix disinformation and some things begin to make new sense. The first great revelation I had to accept on the path to understanding is that the people of earth are not human. Nor are they animals. They are pseudo humans. They do not know what it means to be human because they have been lied to about their position. A human does not kill, that’s the first law. As for being an animal, no animal does the things Earthian creatures indulge themselves in, to the detriment of their loved ones, their neighbours, and finally their world. To understand one must begin at the beginning. Who is strong enough, and humble enough, to do this?
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Crucial questions and insights, Sha’Tara. How do people learn what it means to live in harmony with the world and each other if there are too few who can model what that means and too many who wish to keep inconvenient truths hidden?
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Then they will not, and the inevitable must follow: from decadence, to corruption, to decay, to downfall of civilization. It won’t be the first time for the Earthian species is obdurate and refuses to learn from its mistakes.
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My heart is with you.
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Thank you so much for your kind and lovely comments, Leya. ❤
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Many seem to suffer the inhumane damages from so few. In such cases that affect my disposition, I choose to think globally for solutions.
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Thank you for your thoughtful comments, James, and for your wonderful posts about the beauty you are discovering during your travels. 🙂
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My heart aches for many of the same reasons, Carol. I see how people don’t care about the earth, even in protected habitats like the salt marsh here, I see plastic bags, bottles and cups invading the space of the wildlife. And I clean too…
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Thank you for your lovely comments and for sharing such important insights, Helen. 🙂
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It is disheartening – the lack of care for other people, for other creatures, and the planet, and I don’t understand it either. Such an alien and alienated relationship with beauty and kindness. But all the more reason to continue loving and nurturing what’s precious. Each one of us makes a difference no matter how small.
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Thank you for your wise and lovely comments, Diana, and for creating works of art that weave new possibilities into being. ❤
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Well expressed bittersweetly, caring curiosity, Carol!
Seems victimhood is a hard prison
for most human cultures to escape.
Such suffering behavior blinds most from seeing
the suffering of others, of the neighborhood & beyond.
Without adequate & compassionate support to experience relief
will the cycle of ignorance ever end?
showing a little care for the ‘hood seems fundamental.
I’m invoking flower power to help us
with our deepening crisis of trust.
Wishing you a happy day 🙂
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David, I’m grateful for your kind words and for the work you do to invoke the power of flowers to help humanity awaken to beauty and peace. ❤
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The world is up for grabs, Even after everything. It’s still wild. It’s generational, but we shouldn’t let anything though on our watch.
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Wise words, Bob. Thank you. 🙂
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Like you and many others, I still don’t understand why people throw away garbage in nature. It’s sad. I definitely do believe your actions inspire people. hugs , Hanneke
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Thank you for your thoughtful, lovely comments, Hanneke. It’s always a delight to hear from you. ❤
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Well spoken and understood
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Thank you for your thoughtful comments, Crimson Shadow. 🙂
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My pleasure
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More power feeds ego while slowly killing the conscience. More power feeds on more power and as the cycle goes on, results in death of conscience and a human’s soul.
Bodies without soul care nothing for the suffering they leave behind as a telling trail and this lack of care is what drives compassionate and lovely humans as yourself to voice out against the injustices.
I also believe strongly that if one’s soul is damaged or hurt, there is still hope but to be without one or a dead one is the end of a life, many afflicted with the second sickness show their uncaring through various actions that adversly affect nature, animals, resources and humans.
Lovely post here, made us all reflect and be reminded of life’s preciousness.
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Thank you for sharing such thoughtful and important reflections, Saadia. Power is so seductive. If that it what one craves, one can never have enough to feel in total control. Nothing else and no one else matters. And tragically, those in positions of power often haven’t learned how to use what they have wisely and compassionately.
Life is precious, as you so eloquently point out. From my perspective, we are responsible to using our talents and positions to honor and preserve the wonder and beauty of life despite the challenges we face. ❤
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