tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851056198631557096.post1284280984975697886..comments2024-03-09T22:06:30.008-05:00Comments on THE WALKING MAN: GOING, GOING, GO...the walking manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10058913927297370740noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851056198631557096.post-3926719920757074112015-02-22T17:25:04.476-05:002015-02-22T17:25:04.476-05:00Mark-Syd is right. Death is the great equalizer. I...Mark-Syd is right. Death is the great equalizer. I spend most days trying to 'grab my happy'. xo<br />jodihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01798858210138821711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851056198631557096.post-30991819876812543542015-02-18T12:05:01.953-05:002015-02-18T12:05:01.953-05:00I know that as a species we are all the same. The...I know that as a species we are all the same. There are many great equalizers for humans--death is the ultimate one. Sadly, ego seems to be what eventually separates us and what drives us to lust for money and power. I know that I am equal to anyone else when all the wealth and power and illness is stripped away. We fool ourselves into thinking that we are better, but we aren't. <br /><br />As far as your being on the way out--I know we all are. But I don't like to think about it. Sydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05642843245634635843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851056198631557096.post-57904844051563446032015-02-17T06:39:58.660-05:002015-02-17T06:39:58.660-05:00Brian the last part of your first statement is a g...Brian the last part of your first statement is a goal. But do we really have the capacity to think of a janitor in the same manner and give them the same status as we do an engineer? What if the engineer truly hates his job and is daily weighed down by it but the janitor is perfectly content in his. We still praise the engineer as accomplished and the janitor is looked down on even though without their work nothing the engineer designed would ever get cleaned. When 10% earns more than 50% of the wages and wealth in America there can be no equality, and to be bought or sold either is at great cost because humanity is not a commodity like grain or oil. Yet so many will offer themselves for sale to get as close to that peak as possible as though money will solve problems. And those who get unknowingly sold are them who are the ones winding up paying the debts owed by them doing the buying. "When the power of love is greater than the love of power then the world will have peace"--Jimi Hendrixthe walking manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10058913927297370740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851056198631557096.post-45167562642344147842015-02-17T06:31:34.634-05:002015-02-17T06:31:34.634-05:00I think I need to get out more Jeff, no life is en...I think I need to get out more Jeff, no life is entirely futile but mine certainly seems to be headed there.the walking manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10058913927297370740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851056198631557096.post-88138801241384952432015-02-17T06:30:32.368-05:002015-02-17T06:30:32.368-05:00I hear you Alice, journalists, lawyers and politic...I hear you Alice, journalists, lawyers and politicians seriously have place in the inner depths of the inferno--a long way out for them that perpetuate the current myths of class and riches.the walking manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10058913927297370740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851056198631557096.post-90009710659351478722015-02-17T06:28:28.363-05:002015-02-17T06:28:28.363-05:00I'd have to move to get out of the dumpster me...I'd have to move to get out of the dumpster meowmomma. PTSD is an interesting concept, I know it is a diagnosed illness but at some point it stopped being my reason for being me and the the way I think.the walking manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10058913927297370740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851056198631557096.post-64199177177687811082015-02-17T06:26:38.834-05:002015-02-17T06:26:38.834-05:00Personally Charles I think that feelings of equali...Personally Charles I think that feelings of equality have to do with how we measure our successes. I have had far more success at the things I have turned my hand to but when I think about my life and being I don't count them as much of anything. In this area of the country it is all about race and wealth. Most people say because of my race I could have had more wealth, but I live among the poorest people in the area and i still can't count myself as any better than them but I do sneer at them who tell me I let my class down. I just don't know and to be honest i am rather tired of trying to measure myself against the expectations of others, regardless of what those expectations are. That is the hard part of being what I am, seeing things as they are before someone throws the sugar on it.the walking manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10058913927297370740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851056198631557096.post-18873477129008250722015-02-17T06:18:54.991-05:002015-02-17T06:18:54.991-05:00I kind of like that comparison Cloudia, especially...I kind of like that comparison Cloudia, especially because other than his work so little is known about him.the walking manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10058913927297370740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851056198631557096.post-11201644770108109902015-02-16T12:48:04.107-05:002015-02-16T12:48:04.107-05:00You are our Hieronymus Bosch. The view back over a...You are our Hieronymus Bosch. The view back over a generation is dizzying!<br /><br /><br /><br />ALOHA from Honolulu<br /><a href="http://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">ComfortSpiral</a><br /> <3 Cloudiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05853753108637831069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851056198631557096.post-83133132498242521742015-02-16T11:44:06.081-05:002015-02-16T11:44:06.081-05:00I struggle with the issues in that first poem as w...I struggle with the issues in that first poem as well. how do I help others when I suffer the same weaknesses.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851056198631557096.post-62821194145397641732015-02-16T11:32:40.994-05:002015-02-16T11:32:40.994-05:00... had a PTSD patient in a while ago ... he was d...... had a PTSD patient in a while ago ... he was dump truck driver ... and he dumped and almost squished and killed a squatter ... Note to self: Get your food, but then get out of da garbage container ... ^.^https://www.blogger.com/profile/17422876955246850636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851056198631557096.post-68642298629415561132015-02-16T11:20:37.173-05:002015-02-16T11:20:37.173-05:00Yep, I'd rather not be equal. Sometimes those...Yep, I'd rather not be equal. Sometimes those dumpster dudes are waaaay cooler than the politico types.Alice Audreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00493000223984649409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851056198631557096.post-7576140473010743052015-02-16T11:18:59.790-05:002015-02-16T11:18:59.790-05:00I like the first poem and am pondering the dream--...I like the first poem and am pondering the dream--so many vivid images and a life worn down by the futility of it all.sagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17499891950639742366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851056198631557096.post-456720912570903372015-02-16T08:19:00.725-05:002015-02-16T08:19:00.725-05:00i dont know that equality is the goal...are we eve...i dont know that equality is the goal...are we ever truly equal? can we be? i think we can be equal in some things...concepts really and attitudes, but i think if we can appreciate the good, the skills each have and work toward equality in how we are treated and opportunity to live...<br /><br />the second is sad a bit...maybe it is at the thought of you winding down...and the bastardization of words...of twisting them into weapons and tools to kill/destroy....being bought would mean that someone wants us at least...that maybe we were more than a commodity...and honestly chosen....Brian Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722940075884718007noreply@blogger.com