THE MILLENNIUM PROJECT

There is a vector to the cosmic story line we are embedded in. A vector describes a force and a direction. Human history, the latest unfolding of the cosmic vector, is the story of directed human energy. Historical success can be thought of as movement that is in alignment with the lineaments of the cosmic vector. Historic failure can similarly be found as movement inappropriate to these lineaments.

We know that we stand at the end of a long process of cosmic development from the proverbial "Big Bang" to we human beings. There are some basic features of this developmental story line. Let us explore them. Complexification is obviously one of them. Each stage of the journey was materially more complex than the stage before it. This ratcheting up of external material complexity came with its internal counterpart, a successive increase in informational complexity. Two methodologies or strategies for accomplishing this complexification are further apparent. The first involves opposites joining. The second involves simpler singularities joining to form higher order constructs.

The nature and quality of the information required to build material complexity is an indication of cosmic mastery. More of the workings of the cosmos must be understood and made useable for complexity to proceed. This is equivalent to what we humans call consciousness. Increasing Consciousness is marked by an increase of both understanding and bringing into unifying harmony more and more parts of our universe. This is what atoms do with quantum probability functions, what chemistry does with atomic particles, what the biosphere does with chemistry. Atoms must "understand and use", in their own fashion, the subatomic universe to create themselves. The same is true of chemistry's "understanding and use" of atoms and life's "understanding and use" of chemistry.

Opposites represent the two sides or halves of a cosmic quality. The material universe presents itself as duality. Each half or pole of a duality represents a half-truth, a partial or constrained  understanding of itself and the forces around it. The joining of opposites results in neutrality, an unbiased whole and release from the limitation of a half-truth. This joining of halves or opposites to form a bipolar whole occurs all along the complexifying story line. A negatively or positively charged particle is constrained to act in a certain way when confronted by a magnetic field, but when positive and negative charges combine they are neutralized, freed from such constraint. In the biosphere the bipolar unity is represented by reproductive sexuality.

Complexification also occurs when many less complex individuals combine to form a more complex structure. Atoms coalesce to form the elements and chemistry is born. Cells coalesce to form multi-celled organisms and the animal kingdom is born. This is not crystalline in nature where the whole is merely the repetitiveness of its parts. In a higher order coalescence, not only do the parts bring differing capabilities with them, but a unique new combination is born consisting of a new level of unifying strategies. This higher order information, how to combine successfully, had never existed at the individual's level. More of our genes are encoded for organizational information than for the simpler construction of cells.

These very same vectorial forces similarly shape human history. Organizational strategies are represented by belief systems. These systems try to embrace larger and larger portions of humanity. They have taken the form of systems of government, of cultural worldviews and of religious and ethical imperatives. The more sophisticated the strategy the wider its application. But integrating strategies at one level tend to become divisive at the next. Where religions had partially unified great portions of our human population, divisive trouble spots now exist along their borders. The latest attempts at further unification involve the global economic system, humanity's science project, defining universal cross-cultural ethical behavior, telecommunications systems and the World Wide Web. The journey has taken us from tens of thousands of tribal groupings speaking their own languages and demanding their own allegiances to nations with interchangeable currency markets, cross cultural agreement on ethical and physical laws and global communication protocols.

So these are the most salient features of the portion of the cosmic vector that we are heirs to:

1. MATTER COMPLEXIFIES (From the Big Bang to us)
2. INFORMATIONAL CONTENT BECOMES MORE INCLUSIVE (From the Quantum Soup to the World Wide Web)
3. POLAR ENTITIES COMBINE TO FORM WHOLES (From Protons and Electrons to Men and Women)
4. INDIVIDUALS COALESCE INTO HIGHER ORDER ENTITIES (From subatomic particles forming atoms to the United Nations)

To map a successful strategy for the coming millennium, we, humanity, must align ourselves with the vector that has produced us.

In general, the vector informs us that we must not shy from complexity, not long for a simpler time, not reduce the world to simplicities, not be attracted by simple solutions to our difficulties. We must aim for inclusivety, understand that reality is multifaceted, that there are many successful and useful world views, that we grow by expanding our understanding, by including more diversity, more paradox, more of our world and the cosmos we are embedded in. We must seek to dance in harmony with these diverse and wide ranging elements. We must seek to love and learn from those unlike ourselves, from distant cultures and ways of being. We must seek to love and learn from the geology of the sphere on which our drama takes place, from the untamed wilderness that gave birth to us. We must soon engage and learn to live and act in space's hostile, distant, cold and seemingly treacherous environment. We must learn to understand the workings of consciousness, both individually and collectively. And finally we must become aware of our coalescence into a higher order entity, our building of an earth organism.

Consciousness must, during the course of this coming millennium, grow from relying on simple "either-or" informational constructs to relying on much more complex "and" constructs. The physical sciences are examples of "either-or" constructs. F equals MA it does not equal 2MA. The World Wide Web is an example of an "and" construct, anyone can launch a website with equal access potential. Religious belief systems have often been either-or, either you buy into them or you are damned. Wisdom Traditions for the coming millennium seek to find universal application and common ground. Clear Cutting is an either-or strategy, it is either the trees win or we win. Ecological consciousness is an and strategy, the trees and we humans are interdependent, our actions must have a win-win result.

This past millennium successfully mapped the physical world using the scientific method of inquiry. The physical world is marked by universal lawfulness, and we have learned to harness these laws to secure us and to produce the artifacts of our industrialized civilization. In the next millennium we have the much more difficult tasks of distributing this largess to the rest of humanity and of mapping consciousness. In this new milieu it is not a matter of us or them, it is a matter of us all; and the map is no longer linear, no longer one size fits all, no longer marked by either-or logic trees. We are advancing into the realm of the holographic paradigm. Every consciousness has a worldview and the reality is the combination of these worldviews, each contributing a unique aspect of the whole. We are leaving the realm where we constrained our selves to better fit into or belong to the concentric circles of family, community and country. We are entering a new conscious space where the complexity of individual consciousness will be accepted and valued.

The Wisdom Traditions in the form of religions were the first to try to understand the laws of consciousness and to give each consciousness a divine position. As religions they mostly suffered from two misconceptions. They failed to see the vectorial nature of our cosmic roots. They believed that a truth once unveiled would brook no further development. And they invariably applied more primitive mythological properties to the lawfulness of consciousness proposed by their founders. These two mistaken views cause most religions to be backward looking and miracle based. It is time for humanity to undertake the project of examining, codifying, mapping and understanding how consciousness works. We are starting to do it with our global information systems. Transcendent ethical and moral values try to bridge the older and narrower belief systems and cultural constructs without requiring that we buy into an ancient mythology of miraculous origin. Just as participants in humanity's science project, the mapping of the physical universe, come from all cultural and religious backgrounds, participants in the project of mapping consciousness will equally not be bound by cultural or religious worldviews.

So, the questions in this regard are as follows. Will the scientific community recognize the proposition that an understanding of consciousness and its properties is critical to our further development as a species? Is this community prepared to launch as energetic a mission for the study of consciousness as it has the physical aspects of our world? Are the tools of the scientific method of inquiry appropriate to the study of consciousness? Does the advent of information technologies herald a beginning to such studies? Are the forces that advance information technologies appropriate to the tasks of mapping the characteristics of consciousness? Will we learn fast enough to forestall the potentially disastrous consequences of our powerful physical technologies?

With the growing realization that we are all engaged in the project of building a unified global organism comes the responsibility of tending to all of its parts. We are encouraged to realize our coalescing by the apparent shrinking of the planet. The visual imagery of its parts is brought to us by our technologies. The interdependency of our well being and the well being of our environment is demonstrated daily. And our earth watching orbiting satellites give us a critically needed planetary self-consciousness. There are two aspects to this third millennium realization and its attendant responsibilities. One is that we, the industrialized quarter of humanity, raise the other three-quarters of humanity to our level of security, comfort and choice. The second is that we do this while nurturing and providing for the planet's biosphere.

We each, as citizens of the industrialized portion of humanity, consume about eleven times the resources that a citizen of the non-industrialized portion of humanity consumes. It is therefor imperative that we set ourselves the goal of reducing our consumption dramatically without lowering our level of security, comfort and choice. Efficiency, recycling, conservation, new, less resource consuming strategies for work, play and lifestyles must be priorities if we are to allow the rest of the planet to be brought up to the same level of both living standard and combined resource consumption. An organism can only function successfully if all its parts are cared for. We certainly know this. To care for all its parts we must distribute resources more evenly. To evenly distribute resources we must cut average usage dramatically.

So the questions in this regard are as follows. Will the free-market democracies move to fulfill these vectorial responsibilities or will forces better able to do so overtake them? Does the global economic marketplace promote the distribution of successful economic strategies? Do these economic successes demonstrably contribute to bettering the lives of the people and do they do it energetically? Do powerful corporate entities have social responsibilities? Do they have environmental responsibilities? What forces are pressing for reductions in resource consumption? What types of global frameworks are we building dedicated to environmental preservation and health? Do democratic governments promote universal concepts regarding human value, rights and responsibilities to other nations? Should we rely on democratic governments to examine the long and broad reaching effects of their decisions?  Are there better systems of cognizance, evaluation and policy making that are more responsible to long and broad range strategies? What types of international frameworks are we building? Are we advancing an overarching set of global ethical principles and requirements?

In a nutshell: Can humanity learn to understand the interior world of its own consciousness? Is the scientific community up to this task? Can such understanding be applied toward our human and ecological responsibilities? Will humanity realize its overarching goal of unifying our planet? Are the free market democracies the appropriate instruments for moving us in these directions? What strategies would improve the potential for success in these realms? These are the questions worth asking. These will be the challenges of this coming Millennium. These are the issues we must address.

Morty Breier, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

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   A language instructor was explaining to her class that French nouns,
unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically designated as
masculine or feminine. Things like "chalk" or "pencil," she described,
would have a gender association.

For example: House is feminine-"la" maison.
In English, of course, words are of neutral gender.

Puzzled, one student raised his hand and asked, "What gender is a
computer?"

The teacher wasn't certain which it was, and so divided the class into
two groups and asked them to decide if a computer should be masculine
or feminine. One group was comprised of the women in the class, and the
other of men. Both groups were asked to give four reasons for their
recommendation.

The men decided that computers should definitely be referred to in the
feminine gender (la) because:

1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic.
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is
incomprehensible to everyone else.
3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later
retrieval.
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending
half your paycheck on accessories for it.

The group of women, however, concluded that computers should be
referred to in the masculine (le) gender because:

1. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.
2. They have a lot of data but are still clueless.
3. They are supposed to help you solve your problems, but half the time
they ARE the problem.
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that, if you had waited a
little longer, you could have had a better model.

 
roll with the flow my dear, have no fear ,
let go, dont dissapear,
ride the center of this vortex,
that space between the valley and the summit,
the middle path,
blind to nirvana and sheol,
alive and aware of  the light,
where duality is a dream within a dream,
and oneness is all there is,
where shiva drops his shadow
and stands naked in the moonlight........

i am the mountain,the clouds, i am the sky
i am a bird in flght, i am a butterfly,
i am the wonder of the changing of the day,
i am the sowing, the loving, the praise,
i am always, i am
i am singing i am dancing i am free,
i am the dust, the seed, i am a tree
i am the message heard by everyone,
i am the freedom and the glory of the sun....
i am always, i am....
i am the brightly colored pebbles in the sand,
i am the power and the healing in your hands,
i am the essence burning brightly in your soul,
i am united, i am perfect, i am whole .
i am the blending of the people everywhere,
i am awake , i am alive, i am aware,
i am the miracle of living everyday,
i am the universe and this is what i say,
i am always, i am....

EVERYTHING HAS TWO SIDES

Everything has two sides,
Hot and Cold, Light and Dark.
A word is one wing of silence.
I dive into the fire and find myself resting
On a mountain top where ice and fire embrace,
In the valley of tears,
Where my darkness meets your light
And I am complete.

    Everything has two sides
    Everything has two sides

Life and death, peace and strife,
New and old, hot and cold,
Death and life, peace and strife
Rough and smooth, new and used,
fire and ice, nasty nice,
Love and hate, early late,
Wet and dry, earth and sky,
Dark and light, day and night,
Happy sad, good and bad.

    Everything has two sides,
    But if you look into the cosmic eye
    You will find out that its a lie
    Duality is a lie,
    Love is all there is
    Love is all there is.

 marcus uzilevsky, woodacre, california, dec 1999

This is part of the Genesis story where Jacob leaves Laban, his father-in-law, with all his household and possessions, to go back and meet, with much anxiety, his brother Essau. The night before he was to meet with his brother, Jacob, alone at his desert encampment, encounters a stranger with whom he wrestled until daybreak. Jacob let the stranger go only after being blessed by him. He was told by the stranger that Jacob's name would henceforth be Israel, or God-wrestler. I'll do my drush on this one element of today's narrative.

Our name Israel means God-wrestler... what a way to define a people.... an appropriate one, at that. We are God-wrestlers, by definition... if you look up God-wrestler in the dictionary you'll see a picture of us. Me and you... Israelites, God wrestlers. I'm using wrestling here as a metaphor for struggling with obtaining meaning from. Does God wrestling mean word-wrestling or does it mean reality-wrestling? The black hats, in my take, wrestle with words. This to me is like smelling the word rose. Isn't Shakespear closer to the truth when he says "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Or as the Zen master said "don't mistake the pointing finger for the moon." This difference, word and reality, lies as a fault zone in our definition of ourselves, in the meaning of Israel, God wrestler. The crux of our deliberation this afternoon is the difference between words and reality. This question, I believe, is on the cutting edge of our faith's ongoing job of defining itself.

I understand the beauty, utility, importance and even the spiritual significance of language. I assign them a very high priority in my lexicon of values. Words have greatly expanded my world so that now I live in a much larger universe of even greater detail. Words are the way humanity accumulates knowledge, skills and sometimes even wisdom, and I access that inheritance through word filled books. We humans cooperate on a vast scale with the use of electronic words.  I use words to reveal my interior, my secret self,  to the world, and I learn of your secret self through words. My love for Karen and her love for me is often expressed with words. And we pray using words.

But notice that in each of these wonderful compliments to words, lies the reality being served by the words. Let me go through them one by one. Words are a useful means for expanding my world, but expanding my world, my reality, is what is important. Accumulating words in the libraries of this world to pass on humanity's understandings of itself and its surroundings, is a noble effort, but remember its aim is to see reality more clearly. Words are the loom on which our cooperative efforts are woven but it is our intent at cooperation that yields the resultant tapestry. Human communication, the way we reveal our interior mental deliberations to the world, is, after all, still concerned in essence with our interior mental deliberations. Surely beauty, poetry and joy lie in love using words, not in words using love. And although we may think that worded prayer is the best way to communicate with Hashem, there is great reason to believe that as far as Hashem is concerned, our actions speak louder than our words.

Try to find a case where words have value that is independant or worse, subordinate to the reality they attempt to express. It isn't easy. That's because words have always been the pointing finger and not the moon. Words are our contrivance, tools for communicating a multitude of Human feelings and understandings about the realities we find ourselves in. Better words describe that reality in richer terms, more clearly, with more profound meaning. Worse words describe it more poorly, muddled, seeing only reality's surface features. So, although words are very important to us, and their expression worth perfecting, without an intent to see, and an underlying inclusive vision of, reality itself, words become useless babble, or what's worse, blinders to that reality, a false god trying to entice us away from witnessing, the real-time unfolding of the living God's own glorious reality, the present here and now.

Let's return to Israel, to God-wrestling. Is true God-wrestling wrestling with words about reality or is it wrestling with reality itself. Again, I'm using wrestling as a metaphor for struggling with obtaining meaning from. The black hats would have us believe that the only wrestling worth doing is wrestling with the words of Torah, or studying those who wrestled with the words of Torah. They believe the words have more meaning than the reality itself. They believe all reality's meanings have already been expressed by the words of Torah and we need only struggle to find meaning in these Torah words. I heard one say "even God had to consult the Torah to build the world". We have too often deferred to them, carriers of our historic image, the people of the book. We have deferred too often to those who know the book's words better than they know reality.

And for me personally, I have too often had my eyes and ears on words and too little on the whisper of trees or bird's singing. I have too often missed Hashem's real world because I was listening to too many of my own interior voices. I must stop my incessant fascination with words, many of them my own, it is truly idolatry. The Hindus say that the mind is often like a tree full of drunken monkeys. I need to quiet my mind to let Hashem in. I need to create an empty space to entice spirit to enter. Only in silence can I chance to hear Hashem's message.

I am alive in Hashem's classroom, the events of my life perfect lessons for my journey. My history tracks that journey toward a clearer, more detailed, more inclusive, more meaningful appreciation of reality, a journey toward harmonizing more gracefully with Hashem's day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute offerings. Our prayers say that God spoke and it was. This means that God speaks through isness. To me this kavanah, this intent, to be fully aware of this isness, Hashem's real-time Torah message, is truly God-wrestling. I must do it on God's terms, reality itself, and not on my terms, my fascination with language, whether English or Hebrew. Wrestling with the meaning of language is like wrestling with my own shadow. Wrestling with the meaning of reality, my own and the worlds, is truly wrestling with God. And this is precisely what we, as inheritors of the name Israel, are asked to do.

The idea is to get a bunch of hip contributors, secret sages,  to comment on the passing scene, to offer creative work and to wax philosophical about perennial issues.  The tribe's elders, and I count myself among them, need a forum and at least this is a start. To begin with, I hope that my dear friends become this E-Zine's regular contributors. The trouble is that they are, as is perfectly appropriate for this mission, iconoclasts to the core and getting them to cooperate is like hearding cats.

And that's just the part that tries filling these electronic pages... trying to get readers is an entirely different proposition. I remember an actor telling me that it's better to be in a play with a large cast because then all the family and friends of the cast are at least sure to help fill the seats. The start of this E-Zine readership will be like that. Friends have friends and family. And who better to make contact with than our friends and family.

Even though this issue has only one other contributor, my cousin and dear friend Marcus Uzilevsky, the rest being my stuff, I hope these pages might inspire others to join in. I will be sending email messages to those I particularly want to contribute but everyone is welcome to try their hand. I hope to have several different views on a particular topic that needs addressing and I'll let you know each month what those topics are. January's 2 topics are:
        "HUMANITY'S MILLENIUM PROJECTS" &
        "RELIGION, MYTH OR MYSTERY"

Feel free, of course, to submit anything you want. I would like your submittal to be accompanied by your photo and an autobiographical piece. I can read attachments in Microsoft Word or in Corel WordPerfect and I prefer JPEG formatted images. My email address is morty@aloha.net. Let's see what we can do together. Remember: POWER TO THE PEOPLE.

SHALOHA
MORTY BREIER, Editor

ECOLOGY AND THE ECONOMIC MACHINE

We are driven by an economic engine at this time of our history. Our creative energies are channeled by its choices. The evolutionary branchings of our culture's artifacts, both goods and services, are traced on the market tickers of investment capital. We watch major historic limbs on this evolutionary tree thicken, mature and stabilize, while fruitful new branches reach out and grow. We seem to need this proliferation of possibilities. We are building something and desperately apply ourselves to the making of its parts.

Success requires applied human energy. Applied human energy requires money, or, better yet, is measured by a number whose dimensions are dollars. Much human energy is spent converting naturally occurring matter into its refined, combined and quantified constituents. Much of our expenditures, for food, building materials, transportation, communication and consumer products, is spent on this process. Companies compete to supply these refined, combined and quantified constituents for the least cost.

During much of human history, the natural environment acted as both the source of all human needs and a major adversary in the battle to keep warm, fed and free from danger. The natural world seemed much larger and less vulnerable than the gatherings of warm blooded creatures that built encampments on its fringes. Because of its vast size and untamed expanses, nature seemed to be a supplier without apparent limits, a receiver whose recovery abilities were inexhaustible, and a rival entity that could easily overpower the humans who had a small and insecure foothold on its boundaries. So, if one could, one took what was needed from this all encompassing natural domain, without any thought to its possible losses.

America is a special case of this world-view, with, only recently, a relatively empty continent to expand into. Our economic system grew up with these understandings as its formative experience. Needing to supply goods and services at low cost to its expanding population base it looked to extract what it could from a vast and thinly inhabited land mass. The losses nature experienced in these transactions were not considered cost factors in this calculation. They remain today, at a time when the planet's resources are being seriously stressed by human activity, minimally accounted for.

We need a major paradigm shift in our economic equations. The economic model must be appropriate to the world we live in. If it is, it will act appropriately. If not, it will act inappropriately which in this case would be disastrously. Our grandchildren's lives are at stake. The natural world is being stressed. It is being stressed because these stress factors are not accounted for in the cost of a product. The natural world's losses are either ignored, given commons status for any or all to use as they might, or repaired with tax-payer dollars. There are few economic incentives for suppliers of goods and services to apply creative human energy to re-balance this equation.

If, on the other hand, the cost of a product accounted for all of its consequences, from cradle to grave, then cost reduction strategies would be applied to all of these factors. The typical product requires extraction, refinement, combining, packaging, marketing and distribution. Each of these stages requires the use of natural resources in the forms of materials, energy, chemicals, land surface, air and water. The cost of such use must, if we are to be true to what we know, include returning these constituents to their natural state. Nothing less will do. The cost of a tire must include sustainable rubber tree plantations, sustenance, shelter and health-care for its workers, scrubbers and purifyers for all plant effluents, and the full cost of disposing of that tire at the end of its useful life. Further part of the tire's cost must include tearing down the tire factory after its useful life, replanting the ground it was built on and recycling its components. Part must also include the cost of re-tooling our energy systems as our supply of oil and natural gas used to run the tire making machinery is depleted, and part must be the cost of replanting the forests used to make the paper on which the tire's marketing brochures are printed and the cost of returning those brochures to a compost on which new trees can be nurtured.

The world will continue to grow its uses of the goods and services the economy's corporate entities produce. There is no argument on this point. Could there be any argument against having the total cost of these various goods and services accounted for in their individual prices? If we assign these complete and reasonable responsibilities to each corporate producer we promote responsible actions and encourage price reduction competition in all of its cost aspects. Engineers will be assigned to minimizing the impact to the environment in order to minimize the cost incurred of recovering from such impact. Engineers will be assigned to minimize packaging materials because this will minimize the cost the company will incur for disposing of such material. Engineers will minimize the air and water used because they will be charged with returning that air and water to its natural state. The entire economic system will start pulling for sane, sustainable, efficient, and life-affirming productivity.

We are on a space-ship called mother earth. As a species in a particular habitat, we have grown self-conscious in the last 50 years. We now can see pictures of our world taken from space. We are a small blue and silver sphere spinning in a void, held in place by a small star at a remote edge of the billion starred Milky-Way galaxy, one galaxy of millions. We have incoming energy from this star we call our sun. For the rest, we are self contained. Humans are supported by a complex biosphere that covers the surface of our planet  to a depth of few miles and to a height of a few miles. Our lives take place in this several mile thick spherical envelope. The life giving properties of this envelope were developed over millions of years of biological evolution. Blinded by greed or ignorance or arrogance we now have the power to do irreparable harm to this delicate envelope.  Realizing this means accounting for it in all our calculations. Our primary calculations at this time approaching the new millennium, are our economic calculations. Let's open our eyes and account for it.

                                                        Morty Breier, Kailua-Kona Hawaii, Nov 12, 1999


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WORDS

                                There are words I'd like to say:
                                     Quick brush strokes on toothy paper,
                                          Just a few, just so, spare,
                                Like a single arrow to the heart,
                                     Or lightening in darkened thunder heads,
                                          The glint of a moist eye,
                                A windblown stalk of wild wheat,
                                     Dry and whiskery against a blue sky,
                                          Murky waters turn clear.

                                There are words I'd like to hear:
                                     Tell me of your silent song,
                                          The winter white, muffled and forlorn.
                                Tell me of your anger sharp,
                                      Flash of tempered steel,
                                          Pain electric blue.
                                Let me hear your breadth,
                                     Cilia swaying,
                                          The tidal flow of you.

                                There are words for me to read:
                                     Precious cargo
                                          Sailing through time and space,
                                Inner journeys, outer worlds,
                                     From other souls sent,
                                          Spirit squiggles to coded codicils,
                                Wisdom's repository,
                                     Folly's reminder,
                                          Faith's continuity.

                                There are words to be silenced:
                                     Drunken monkeys in a monkey tree.
                                          The pointing finger Not the moon.
                                Often lost in numbing habit,
                                     Quietly mumbling me to me,
                                          I forget to be here now.
                                The awesome fades to grayness
                                     Masked by the mosaic of
                                          My words, endless words.
 
                                                            Morty Breier, Kailua-Kona Hawaii, November 4, 1999