YOUR time to Listen!
Michael Sortomme BLOG,
www.michaelsortomme.com
© Aug 27, 2012
Southern California experienced thirty successive quakes in a row this morning, following the 7.3 quake that hit El Salvador. As usual, I heard the news about El Salvador as it was happening: LIVE, as I did Sendai, Fukushima and many other disasters in the last decade or so; such is the world of late night cable TV. A few of those terrible happenings I saw on ABC’s World News Now that runs from 2 to 4:30 AM PST; this was the case during the early morning’s dark hours. When I awoke a few hours later, I was NOT surprised to find that Southern California had been shaking, news reported the largest quake (still unnumbered) in three decades. AND PEOPLE WONDER WHY I DON’T DO CALIFORNIA? I was born during the largest quake Southern California had experienced thus far, in 1956. At the same moment of my birth, to the day, fifteen years later, S-Cali was hit by the next largest quake, taking out freeways and the Vet Hospital close to Norwalk. Today, S-Cali was hit again and its months from my birthday; coincidence or the times? The times are calling: “No need to wait, we’re here, we’re here; these are the times you have been expecting, like it or not!”
Meanwhile, natural disasters, in the form of storms, tsunamis, quakes, fires and flooding are happening on every continent on the planet, NOW, not yesterday, tomorrow, but NOW. I have written about these times for decades, usually to small audiences, skeptical and rude, but persistence keeps my course. For far over half a century, I have witnessed the destruction humans have doled out to one another, to the world as a whole and to our beautiful planet. The Earth is always the dispensable pawn and She is understandably weary from the aggravation and destruction. Shake, Mother, shake; shake us off your back! Can you hear the song, the repetitive call to be heard and to HEAR? One again, the Gospel of Mary of Magdala shines: “For those who have eyes, let them see. For those who have ears, let them hear!” Yes, you are right, I quote the same quote, disaster after disaster, in hopes that humans will wake up to the realities of our changing world and actually help, help the Self, help the Whole. The message is repetitive, it needs to be. If the audience doesn’t hear the first time, the show plays again, it’s an everyday matinee, not just on Saturdays anymore. This is this generation’s call to LISTEN!
People are out of work, many rioting worldwide, famines threaten half the planet’s people and we in the Western World, collectively, have removed ourselves, by and large, from the tumult, psychologically and socially. “If it doesn’t affect me, it’s not real” consciousness, happy to find a quiet sterile place, only large enough for romantic comedies. The majority remain intentionally blind and isolated, missing the need to connect, to hold each other, to understand the larger picture, despite our prejudices and fears, in real time, NOT on social media that is far from the battles of life. It’s time to leave the bulging war chests, leave them in charity’s hands, booty to feed, shelter and heal those hurt on the front lines.
We represent many different faiths between us, the majority being agnostic or atheist, in the small circle I call friend, and in the larger circle I call family. At this special time, 2012, a cross-roads year on many levels, for this nation and the world, I ask all to put religion and alliances, or lack thereof, aside. Take a deep breath and as you exhale, think of US, all of us, as one breathing organism. Feel it, know it, embrace the organic feel of life and love you enough to love others, love big enough to extend a hand, even if it has been slapped away in the past! Grab life and make it real, share, grow and evolve, NOW, not tomorrow. TIME is calling; it’s your time to listen!
www.michaelsortomme.com
© Aug 27, 2012
Southern California experienced thirty successive quakes in a row this morning, following the 7.3 quake that hit El Salvador. As usual, I heard the news about El Salvador as it was happening: LIVE, as I did Sendai, Fukushima and many other disasters in the last decade or so; such is the world of late night cable TV. A few of those terrible happenings I saw on ABC’s World News Now that runs from 2 to 4:30 AM PST; this was the case during the early morning’s dark hours. When I awoke a few hours later, I was NOT surprised to find that Southern California had been shaking, news reported the largest quake (still unnumbered) in three decades. AND PEOPLE WONDER WHY I DON’T DO CALIFORNIA? I was born during the largest quake Southern California had experienced thus far, in 1956. At the same moment of my birth, to the day, fifteen years later, S-Cali was hit by the next largest quake, taking out freeways and the Vet Hospital close to Norwalk. Today, S-Cali was hit again and its months from my birthday; coincidence or the times? The times are calling: “No need to wait, we’re here, we’re here; these are the times you have been expecting, like it or not!”
Meanwhile, natural disasters, in the form of storms, tsunamis, quakes, fires and flooding are happening on every continent on the planet, NOW, not yesterday, tomorrow, but NOW. I have written about these times for decades, usually to small audiences, skeptical and rude, but persistence keeps my course. For far over half a century, I have witnessed the destruction humans have doled out to one another, to the world as a whole and to our beautiful planet. The Earth is always the dispensable pawn and She is understandably weary from the aggravation and destruction. Shake, Mother, shake; shake us off your back! Can you hear the song, the repetitive call to be heard and to HEAR? One again, the Gospel of Mary of Magdala shines: “For those who have eyes, let them see. For those who have ears, let them hear!” Yes, you are right, I quote the same quote, disaster after disaster, in hopes that humans will wake up to the realities of our changing world and actually help, help the Self, help the Whole. The message is repetitive, it needs to be. If the audience doesn’t hear the first time, the show plays again, it’s an everyday matinee, not just on Saturdays anymore. This is this generation’s call to LISTEN!
People are out of work, many rioting worldwide, famines threaten half the planet’s people and we in the Western World, collectively, have removed ourselves, by and large, from the tumult, psychologically and socially. “If it doesn’t affect me, it’s not real” consciousness, happy to find a quiet sterile place, only large enough for romantic comedies. The majority remain intentionally blind and isolated, missing the need to connect, to hold each other, to understand the larger picture, despite our prejudices and fears, in real time, NOT on social media that is far from the battles of life. It’s time to leave the bulging war chests, leave them in charity’s hands, booty to feed, shelter and heal those hurt on the front lines.
We represent many different faiths between us, the majority being agnostic or atheist, in the small circle I call friend, and in the larger circle I call family. At this special time, 2012, a cross-roads year on many levels, for this nation and the world, I ask all to put religion and alliances, or lack thereof, aside. Take a deep breath and as you exhale, think of US, all of us, as one breathing organism. Feel it, know it, embrace the organic feel of life and love you enough to love others, love big enough to extend a hand, even if it has been slapped away in the past! Grab life and make it real, share, grow and evolve, NOW, not tomorrow. TIME is calling; it’s your time to listen!
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