Mindfulness

I cannot behave in a world I don't know or understand. If I only know and understand myself, I most likely achieve nothing more than contempt, hatred, bigotry, and destruction of others. I watch, listen, read and learn, instead - without having to agree.

A Betting Vote

Money is the first vote in politics.

Pretty Colors

If only people were like flowers, colors would take the place of strife.

Ideologues Don't Reason

Ideologues perform thinking and action based on an ideological template they rarely, if ever, deviate from. Not only their thinking is performed via ideology, but it's often their reason d'être. All too frequently an ideology has an object for hatred - on a small scale or large, it must hurt, punish or more, subtly or conspicuously. Most ideologies have no shame or guilt. The ideology justifies the ideologue. Notwithstanding all these characteristics, the most bizarre is ideologues believing themselves intellectually superior to others.

Nature

Nature abhors perfection or Nature would end.