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Snow ~ Cherished Treasure

Monday, May 28, 2012 ~ MAY 2012 FOLLOW ME BLOGGING CHALLENGE prompt is Cherished Treasure by Humming Bird

I grew up in a time of innocence and simplicity. It was a time when the solution to all of our problems meant making more money so that we could become good consumers. It was a different reality then the one we are living in today.

Childhood memories became nostalgic echoes;
Happiness was an innocent game of Hop Scotch or Hide-N-Seek.
Each Sunday morning church was mandatory ...
Religious training a requirement that no one questioned;
In Sunday school they taught that heaven was restricted and
Segregated, which only one religion could enter.
Happiness was an innocent game of Hop Scotch or Hide-N-Seek.
Ecology was mentioned but not stressed because our
Duty was to become good consumers.

Treasures are hidden in those memories ...
Reasons to question that reality;
Each birthday I see more clearly the lies I was taught
About religion, ecology, consumer culture, etc.
Searching for truth independently, I
Use my mind to learn about a new way to live and
Reasons to under consume rather then over consume;
Each birthday I see more clearly the lies I was taught.

I have a file boxes and journals containing poetry and stories; mostly poetry that I have to rewrite or accept as completed. Sometimes in the rewriting process, the theme and subject change.

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