Elvis, Stop Dat! You Know It Is

My Friend Ronald Gottesman Says...that The Cause Of All Our Trouble Is The Belief In An Essential, Pure Identity: Religious, Ethnic, Historical, Ideological.

As With Much Of The World's Problems, They Become Public--or Much More Of Interest--the Moment They Begin To Impact The West.

Here's The Thing: You Rescue Us Every Day In Small, Quiet Ways, So Why Not In This Way? Let Us Into Your Mystery, Tell Us How You Would Like To Be Loved, Show Us How To See You, Really See You.

Time Was The Only Variable In Every Equation Of Power And Oppression--how Long Before The Pot Boiled Over.

Love Is At Once The Most Creative And Yet Simultaneously Destructive Force In The World, And Thus, In Our Lives. And I Don't Mean The Hallmark Sentimental Type Of Love, Although That Is Part Of It. But A Deeper Obligation That We Have To Each Other: The Obligation To Reflect Our Humanness At Each Other, To Reflect Back The Things Others Show Us And We, Them.