Day: February 16, 2020

I’m in a funky get down mood
Everything I read is negative
Coronavirus going wild
People contagious on cruise ships

China making most of our drugs
Where have we been?
Who has been watching out for us?
Certainly not the Swamp
Too much money in it for them

Where is our hope?
Can’t have a block party
Can’t shake hands

Why do people go to church 
when they have a cough that 
comes from the bottom 
          of their lungs?

Stay home brother
Call it a peace maker interlude
Do your part
Wear a mask

Everyone is having the blues
Sharing germs in the vestibule
Let’s close things down
Even San Quentin closed to contain a virus

Pass me not
The Lord will make a way
But I am not ready for the Highway to Heaven

So we shall endure
This too shall pass
I can feel it

I’m getting a positive mood
Can’t harvest it
But it is there

Sure feels good
It’s been a long time coming
Everything’s going to be alright

If you know and I know
Then you have a friend
Just don’t shake my hand
Or even look like you are going to cough
 
Stanski
February 16, 2020 ^
 

I wake up and look out to see a calm winter morning
The blizzard is over
I see a pink tinge on the southern horizon

It is Sunday
A day of peace
Although there is anything but peace
in the greater picture
 
People going after each other
Groups at odds
Political opponents fighting for the top stop
while criticizing the man in office
overlooking all of his accomplishments
in spite oF the opposition from the swamp
 
I see countries suppressing their people and neighboring countries 
I see that people are dying of a Coronavirus
especially in China and then realize that
China makes many of our medications
because they make them cheap
even though the prices we pay are very high
 
I realize that the cost of cheap is going to be very high
 
I have music going,
a small glass of grapefruit juice and
a cup of coffee 
My computer is on and I am typing away like a mad man
 
Eva Cassidy is singing “Wade in the Water”
I think that may be the solution but the lake water is frozen over
I will go to church instead
 
Will try to be the peace to others
There are many besides myself who need it
The morning is very cold and our souls need warmth
They need healing as do our bodies
Age has a way of diminishing the body

The mind is in constant battle,  
wanting to give up and refusing to give up

There is much to do
We must not quit
We must overcome
 
Stanski
February 16, 2020 ^

The function of education is
To teach one to think intensively
And to think critically
Intelligence plus character-
That is the goal of true education
These words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ring true today as they did when he spoke them first
 
We have lunatics in this country
Trying to take us over the cliff as
Though we were sheep and have
No mind of our own
 
There would be an outcry of denial
If presented to the Board of Education
But the breakdown in morality
The avocation of choosing your gender
The failure to teach history and the constitution
Failure to discipline misbehavior in a proper way
Teaching to the tests, leaving no child behind
 
Some say nonsense; why wouldn’t they?
They are the problem not just part of it
Dr. King sensed this as he spoke
He knew what denial of education could lead to
 
We hear of good teachers being ostracized
They are doing too good of a job
Their students want more; do not want to go home
Instead of imitation we see harassment
Washington closes down a successful charter school
Students, finally succeeding, were
Thrown back into the failing heap of public schools
 
These statements are easy to deny
There are good teachers in public schools, but
Not enough to make Dr. King’s dream come true
That is the teaching to think intensively and critically
 
Intelligence plus character or
Sheep running over the cliff
 
Stanski
February 15, 2020 ^