The moment we gave names to the deepest forces – good and evil, love and hate, life and death – we stepped into a different world. They are not simply labels. They are powers. And to speak them aloud is to awaken them. But naming is never neutral. Once we name them, they name us.*
AleXander McManus

Love is like a plough that opens up hard ground and allows things to grow.**
David Brooks

Ever tried to imagine
what it must be like
to think like a dog or cat?

It is impossible
because we cannot remove the heavy
clay of human consciousness–

Here is our complexity–
Love and hate, good
and evil, life and death–

We may try not to hate,
not to do wrong, not
only to exist–

How quickly self-control empties–
Better to love, to do good,
To live fully while we have breath–

Choosing to be
more human–
Transcending, transforming–

*AleXander McManus’ Blue Moments;
**David Brooks’ The Road To Character.

SOME RANDOM THIN|SILENCE
THIN|SILENCE FROM A YEAR AGO