NAPKIN WORDS #21 2011 - Dedicated to Mike Prevor
1. IMPORTANT WHY QUESTION
When silence scares us, we may find ourselves
with no friends who are kind by their silence.
Why have friends who only make noise?
2. IT COMES FROM YOU
When your words offer kindness, all will
acknowledge power of your words!
3. CREATIVITY AND TIME
Art makes its time, often without knowing its time.
It never has nor ever can request its time.
Just the way it is with that oddity of beauty
which we call art!
4. MAKE IT A PURPOSE – AN ASPIRATION
That each dream of wishes is captured by
your memory so it can become a truth!
5. TRUE JOINING
Words are the great strength of friendships.
Yet even when they are wrong, a true, genuine
friendship will figure it out, so that the one
important thing of that wonder called friendship,
overcomes the mistake, long survives and prospers!
6. HERE IN AMERICA
Many of us have the perfect right and reason to
complain. There is so much wrong, so much
which needs to be corrected.
I beg of you, each reader, to stop, look at your
perceived wrongs and then look at the wrongs
going on right at this moment, around the
world.
If you do this, consider carefully what you
have as wrongs compared to the wrongs of
so many in other parts of this globe. You might
just find yourself smiling, you might just bless
the place you are at.
Even if you don’t, you should. For our problems,
big as they may be in our minds, are but tiny in
the truth of problems in so many other places
around the world!
7. I AS A HUMANIST
By my nature, I am an optimist as well as a realist.
Realizing this, I am not worried about my time.
As a humanist, I am concerned and worried about
the time of others.
As a humanist of my definition, not necessarily
that of others, I would have it no other way!
NOISE OF DARKNESS
Without a sigh or a shout,
silence.
Lights blinked as noise of
utter darkness filled
elevators,
subway stations,
lonely rooms where
ancients lay,
asking;
Where is God?
Where is brightness?
Why the quiet, when there
should be
laughter,
lovers,
children,
admonitions of
mothers,
wails,
creaks,
New York notes
for each
passing day?
Gone.
A system hushing rushes
amid millions of speeding
prayers….
“BRING LIGHT!”
Before this crush of
bleakness startles...
then awakens our fears.
by Edward Hunter
Written about the great blackout of August 14th, 2003