Age and Wisdom?

 AGE AND WISDOM? 2019-01-09

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Dear Mom:

I am getting old, up in my mind, but it is not a big problem at all. Maybe Tani is there, too.

I feel OK with things and mature. I feel calm and fairly peaceful. I have passed through it and come out the other side, like a plop of melange on Arrakis.

The only rub is the media. Everything in the media is old to me now: news, music, TV, and movies. Is it like that to you, too? Nearly everything is redux, including politics.

I live in a noisy media world that sounds quieter to me now. The welfare state and technology (prison world) work for me and don’t scare me much. A slow boat that doesn’t require a lot of contemplation either...is what it feels like. The war machine goes on and on, as usual, but doesn’t ask a lot of me.

I just need my meds tuned down a bit, and then I’ll be doing fine.

Now, I get to watch the children grow up and listen to the flowers and corn plants grow, till fruition, in good time.

I think of Gibran’s “The Prophet,” which you gifted me with at age five, and which I read right after my crisis of 2002 began. It seem poignant to me, right now, and apropos to mention to you.

Love,

--- JASON LINDSAY CROCKETT ---

A music video:

The epic poem (a reading):

Ushering in the Peace of Muad'dib:

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