January 30, 2021 – A

There is more to everything than meets the eye.
Any eye.
All the time.

We don't know more about everything
than we do know.
Every thing.

Which puts us in the position
of looking and listening,
inquiring, examining, exploring,
and simply sitting with
all there is to sit with
instead of running through our life
as though we know what we are doing.

Projection, presumption and assumption
lead the way,
and we swagger arrogantly behind
certain that we are only having our way
away from having it made.

Where did all this wind in our sails
come from?

Where did we get the idea 
that we know what we are doing?
And that if everyone would just 
do it our way all would be well at last?

Where is humility,
kindness,
generosity
and good will?

Waiting for us to sit down
and be quiet, no doubt,
and take stock
and be appalled 
at running on opinion
about hearsay
instead of seeing what we look at
and knowing when we don't know
much of anything at all.

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