Discombobulated

A voice from over my shoulder said, “You need to mist. The mist makes it come alive.”
I turned and there was a woman standing next to me, a woman who I didn’t know, smiling and pointing at the Christmas wreath I held.
“If you want it to stay green and healthy, mist it” she said again.
Only later while lounging by the lake did this woman’s seemingly innocuous words have their unintended effect. After allowing my thoughts to flow for several minutes, tuning into the rustle of the wind through the dry, fragile, multi-colored leaves, my dogs panting and slobbering, the nursery rhyme calliope of a street vendor enchanting youngsters and oldsters alike to come and purchase his ice cream, did my random thoughts coalesce.
Mist it to keep it healthy, eh? Then consider me the gardener holding the world’s most powerful mister -words- doing my best to spray the world at large, trying to make it healthy in any way possible.
We are in a war. A war with evil. A war rife with violence that is off the scale. The bad news is, evil is winning.
Never in my life have I ever felt such negative vibrations distorting our natural harmony. There are rampant, marauding square waves driving the human race into a murderous froth. What unnerves me the most is we currently have a leader who is espousing this vitriol, stirring up the dredges of the worst that mankind offers, and all in the name of God, using fear as a means to keep yon sheep in line, and the lost and befuddled are responding with even greater negative energy, gnashing their teeth and lashing out at the foreigners, the homosexuals, the killers of babies, while they kill untold number of innocents overseas, frying death row subjects like their Sunday barbecue, ignoring the genocide in Sudan, the killing rage in Chechneya; the negative waves driving a citizen to kill a musician onstage, hell, even sports icons are now attacking their fans! and there are countless other heinous atrocities spurred by the onslaught of this negative tsunami, just pick up a newspaper and prepare to hang your head in shame. In the middle of this massacre, has anyone ever taken the time to reflect on one of our most high on high commandments? Last I looked, there exists a dictum from God that plainly states, “Thou shalt not kill”. And to add a bit of spice to that, “Violence begets violence”. Period. No misunderstanding or misconstruing those words, eh?
Meanwhile we, the human race, pursues this madness whole hog, full tilt, shaking fists at any who might disagree, spitting vile hate and flexing barbaric domination over ones who dare to think differently.
Realize this recent election was a battle. Not the war. And that is the one thing that we who seek evolvement and brotherhood must never forget. This evil is too big now to stand toe to toe and duke it out. We’d be forced to resort to their methodology, which we know only begets more of the same. No, we must chip away, fight every little battle we can to the teeth, and as their foundation crumbles, and it will. we can finally push to win this war with tolerance and love, and isn’t that what’s important? To win the war?
Heed these words and reflect: “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” - Paul Valery
This war can be won. Scars will run deep. Blood will be spilt. Lives will be lost. But in the end, victory will be claimed without another shot fired, the enemy of peace and freedom splintered to ruin, defeated for the most part by his own vain ruthlessness.
For those who know and seek, the orders are simple; persevere.