Christmas is almost here . . .
Christmas is almost here and then comes my annual soul searching. This year I have so much to be thankful for.
+ My son is CANCER-FREE
+ The publication of Sleepless Nights
+ Finishing Writing Sins of a Father
And I always make a list of goals and prioritize them. And this year will be no different, though my readers will notice that my blogs will not consume more of my time than things I view as being more important. Blogging is necessary, although it is not going to be number one on my list, anymore.
What I’ve learned is that so many people hide behind a façade, too afraid to be themselves . . . I prefer knowing my friends, not something that was just pretend. I write fiction, I don’t live it. Our country is living in a mist. Soon the sun will heat the earth and reality will burn through and we’re going to realize with regrets what we have let slip between our fingers.
I thought that if my readers would read my words they would take a moment and realize what is at stake. And then they would catch to the wave . . . Everyone has had a part to play and everyone is just as guilty of looking the other way. Does anyone remember the pain of 29? No one reading this I’m sure.
I am not overly religious, though I believe in the words of the Bible . . . Probably for reasons that would astonish most. And yet I know that any group that hates can’t be good . . .
My goals have always been to try to help this world to overcome the hatred and to become great again. And then everything else just fit in where it may. But now I realize that everyone has their own silly reasons for being and nothing I do will help them find a cause more righteous than what others have sold to them . . . You see, hatred is a tool used by leaders to control you and me. And we decide not to hate anymore, we take their power away from them.
And this Christmas time our leaders would have us believe they have won in Iraq and yet no matter what they tell me, I can’t see a victory with so many lies . . . So we’re supposed to believe they have achieved what so many have failed to do. And it stinks when the words start up again about Iran, Korea, Syria . . . Will the next leader be any different?
How could they? Our leaders think they have found a way to have wars and peace at home at the same time . . . That’s because we’re so stupid . . . To back a war is to give them what they need so desperately. It’s funny, I mean the bridges to no where . . . You don’t really think the hundred dollar toilet seats are for real? And now your President doesn’t even bother putting everything in the budget, he doesn’t have too. No one will hold him accountable. And the economy doesn’t even look at the cost of food or gas to calculate inflation . . . And so one day we’ll surely know 29 once again . . .
And the internet is great . . . It allows us to get our message out, or does it? What if search engines don’t put your posts on their sites, but send them to some watch dog instead? What if ISP’s screen everything for certain words, regardless of intent or what was meant? What if the social blog logs are really gardens of chatter for the gardeners to sift through? Where we’re going, someone has gone before us . . . And it didn’t have good results. Warrior and Wars. The Brave Few. Dan
Dan Hanosh
Dreams are yours to Share
Just Released . . . Sleepless Nights, AuthorHouse, 2007
A continuation of The World . . . through a poets eyes.
The World Outside My Window, AuthorHouse, 2004
Links: Dreams Are Yours To Share
Warriors and Wars
The Moon Also Rises
Dan’s Room 2 Write
Copyright © 2007 by Dan Hanosh. All rights reserved.
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Christmas is almost here and then comes my annual soul searching. This year I have so much to be thankful for.
+ My son is CANCER-FREE
+ The publication of Sleepless Nights
+ Finishing Writing Sins of a Father
And I always make a list of goals and prioritize them. And this year will be no different, though my readers will notice that my blogs will not consume more of my time than things I view as being more important. Blogging is necessary, although it is not going to be number one on my list, anymore.
What I’ve learned is that so many people hide behind a façade, too afraid to be themselves . . . I prefer knowing my friends, not something that was just pretend. I write fiction, I don’t live it. Our country is living in a mist. Soon the sun will heat the earth and reality will burn through and we’re going to realize with regrets what we have let slip between our fingers.
I thought that if my readers would read my words they would take a moment and realize what is at stake. And then they would catch to the wave . . . Everyone has had a part to play and everyone is just as guilty of looking the other way. Does anyone remember the pain of 29? No one reading this I’m sure.
I am not overly religious, though I believe in the words of the Bible . . . Probably for reasons that would astonish most. And yet I know that any group that hates can’t be good . . .
My goals have always been to try to help this world to overcome the hatred and to become great again. And then everything else just fit in where it may. But now I realize that everyone has their own silly reasons for being and nothing I do will help them find a cause more righteous than what others have sold to them . . . You see, hatred is a tool used by leaders to control you and me. And we decide not to hate anymore, we take their power away from them.
And this Christmas time our leaders would have us believe they have won in Iraq and yet no matter what they tell me, I can’t see a victory with so many lies . . . So we’re supposed to believe they have achieved what so many have failed to do. And it stinks when the words start up again about Iran, Korea, Syria . . . Will the next leader be any different?
How could they? Our leaders think they have found a way to have wars and peace at home at the same time . . . That’s because we’re so stupid . . . To back a war is to give them what they need so desperately. It’s funny, I mean the bridges to no where . . . You don’t really think the hundred dollar toilet seats are for real? And now your President doesn’t even bother putting everything in the budget, he doesn’t have too. No one will hold him accountable. And the economy doesn’t even look at the cost of food or gas to calculate inflation . . . And so one day we’ll surely know 29 once again . . .
And the internet is great . . . It allows us to get our message out, or does it? What if search engines don’t put your posts on their sites, but send them to some watch dog instead? What if ISP’s screen everything for certain words, regardless of intent or what was meant? What if the social blog logs are really gardens of chatter for the gardeners to sift through? Where we’re going, someone has gone before us . . . And it didn’t have good results. Warrior and Wars. The Brave Few. Dan
Dan Hanosh
Dreams are yours to Share
Just Released . . . Sleepless Nights, AuthorHouse, 2007
A continuation of The World . . . through a poets eyes.
The World Outside My Window, AuthorHouse, 2004
Links: Dreams Are Yours To Share
Warriors and Wars
The Moon Also Rises
Dan’s Room 2 Write
Copyright © 2007 by Dan Hanosh. All rights reserved.
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1 comment:
You have yourself in a interesting quandary Dan,,
Do you hate the haters?... just a question…you have good thoughts
to speak… I don’t believe in a supreme being,, a creator of all,,
but I do believe (perhaps like you),, in the teachings of ALL holy books…
For within them,, mankind has tried to show the path which we all
should follow to make peace on earth and within ourselves…….
I sense a great Cynicism in your posting today……. must be the weather,,or the commercialism of the Holy day that is apon us…..
Words have great power,, but sometimes people don’t read them,, nor do they use their ears to hear them,, sometimes the echo doesn’t come back,,and sometimes a rabid dog is really a rabid dog……………….
just a thought on a cold frigid night from a passer by....
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) -
hate /heɪt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[heyt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation verb, hat•ed, hat•ing, noun
–verb (used with object) 1. to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
2. to be unwilling; dislike: I hate to do it.
–verb (used without object) 3. to feel intense dislike, or extreme aversion or hostility.
–noun 4. intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility.
5. the object of extreme aversion or hostility.
—Synonyms 1. loathe, execrate; despise. Hate, abhor, detest, abominate imply feeling intense dislike or aversion toward something. Hate, the simple and general word, suggests passionate dislike and a feeling of enmity: to hate autocracy. Abhor expresses a deep-rooted horror and a sense of repugnance or complete rejection: to abhor cruelty; Nature abhors a vacuum. Detest implies intense, even vehement, dislike and antipathy, besides a sense of disdain: to detest a combination of ignorance and arrogance. Abominate expresses a strong feeling of disgust and repulsion toward something thought of as unworthy, unlucky, or the like: to abominate treachery.
—Antonyms 1. love.
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
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