True freedom is NOT about guns, money, or religion as damaged males interpret these symbols.

“I will keep my freedom, my guns, my money, and my religion, and you can keep the change“—-Hank Williams Jr.
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This T shirt represents the state of mind where a sense of spiritual failure has taken over, and to complete the look the man should be wearing a MAGA hat. This picture fully represents the attitude of those who have chosen not to grow and heal. They have little insight, and have lost the capacity to be honest with themselves, with their families, and with their world about their own sense of inadequacy, and they erroneously equate some mythological state of being from the past as the emotional, spiritual, and political goal for their own lives. As these wayward souls continue to argue for their own limitations, the limitations become their own Gods, and the world suffers accordingly.  They become pilloried to the whipping post of their own resistance to life and change.
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America is the new Titanic, having run into the iceberg of ignorance, hatred, white supremacy, and antagonism to change. While the rats, whose wayward ideologies created the iceberg in the first place, try to escape the sinking ship, they actually attempted mutiny, and install Trump as their new captain on their journey down into Davy Jones locker.
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Today I choose to be free from our diseased past. I point the direction towards healing for those who still cling to their own misunderstanding like it was a lifeboat, instead of the anchor it really is.
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Willingness to change is the start of the process required for all evolution, healing, and progress. The capacity for change is a God-given power, though it is often ignored at our own peril, much like the iceberg in Titanic’s tragic story.
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Our spiritual awareness, with its native intelligence, creates lifeboats that will carry us to safety. It is tempting to let the wayward ones sink. We extend our hands to them, knowing that some of them will attempt to pull us under the water with them.
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Tragically, some will need to be let go of. Don’t let their guns, money, and religion scare you, for they represent nothingness in the face of who we really are, as a country, and as awakening individuals.
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In our America, the light of love with its justice, diversity and equality, wins.
We feast on the understanding of the brotherhood of mankind, while recognizing the needs to bring truth and healing to a dying planet.
We walk with the living.
In Hank Williams, Jr’s.  America, chaos and the dead past rule the darkness.
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They feast on the rotting carcasses of historic ignorance created by fascism, lies and fantasy narratives, white supremacy, and toxic political and Christian religious tribalism.
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They walk with the dead.
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It is a choice each of us must make: we either choose to sink, or we choose to swim to the nearest lifeboat.
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Those icebergs are only menacing to the point that we ignore them.
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Categories: Musings

Bruce

Presently, I am 67 years old, and I am learning how to live the life of a retired person. I am married to Sharon White, a retired hospice nurse, and writer. Whose Death Is It Anyway-A Hospice Nurse Remembers Sharon is a wonderful friend and life partner of nearly 30 years. We have three grandsons through two of Sharon's children. I am not a published writer or poet. My writings are part of my new life in retirement. I have recently created a blog, and I began filling it up with my writings on matters of recovery and spirituality. I saw that my blog contained enough material for a book, so that is now my new intention, to publish a book, if only so that my grandsons can get to know who their grandfather really was, once I am gone. The title for my first book will be: Penetrating The Conspiracy Of Silence, or, How I Lived Beyond My Expiration Date I have since written 7 more books, all of which are now posted on this site. I have no plans to publish any of them, as their material is not of general interest, and would not generate enough income to justify costs. I have taken a deep look at life, and written extensively about it from a unique and rarely communicated perspective. Some of my writing is from 2016 on to the present moment. Other writing covers the time prior to 1987 when I was a boy, then an addict and alcoholic, with my subsequent recovery experience, and search for "Truth". Others are about my more recent experiences around the subjects of death, dying, and transformation, and friends and family having the most challenging of life's experiences. There are also writings derived from my personal involvement with and insight into toxic masculinity, toxic religion, toxic capitalism, and all of their intersections with our leadere. These topics will not be a draw for all people, as such personal and/or cultural toxicities tends to get ignored, overlooked, or "normalized" by those with little time for insight, introspection, or interest in other people's points of view on these troubling issues. There also will be a couple of writings/musings about "GOD", but I try to limit that kind of verbal gymnastics, because it is like chasing a sunbeam with a flashlight. Yes, my books are non-fiction, and are not good reading for anybody seeking to escape and be entertained. Some of the writings are spiritual, philosophical and intellectual in nature, and some descend the depths into the darkest recesses of the human mind. I have included a full cross section of all of my thoughts and feelings. It is a classic "over-share", and I have no shame in doing so. A Master Teacher once spoke to me, and said "no teacher shall effect your salvation, you must work it out for yourself". "Follow new paths of consciousness by letting go of all of the mental concepts and controls of your past". This writing represents my personal work towards that ultimate end.