Okay so this is a quote from one of my favorite musicals: HAIR
and I ask, as I sit here this:


All the clouds are cumuloft;
Walking in space;
Oh my God your skin is soft;
I love your face;
How dare they try to end this beauty?;
How dare they try to end this beauty?;
To keep us under foot;
They bury us in soot;
Pretending it's a chore;
To ship us off to war;
In this dive;
We rediscover sensation;
In this dive;
We rediscover sensation;
Walking in space;
We find the purpose of peace;
The beauty of life;
You can no longer hide;
Our eyes are open;
Our eyes are open;
Our eyes are open;
Our eyes are open;
Wide wide wide!"

AND:


"Our space songs on a spider web sitar;
Life is around you and in you;
Answer for Timothy Leary, dearie;
Let the sunshine;
Let the sunshine in;
The sunshine in;
Let the sunshine"

I guess the thing that is hard for me to understand is that common sense tells us the atrocities of WAR...the cause and effect of reality that we create around us. If this is so, why is it that so many come back and seek to understand such sorrow, and unnecessary pain? Isn't it common sense that WAR=LOSE?

This past Saturday night my friends and I decided to go to Sweetwaters for dinner....the sitting taking awhile "forced" us to wait...and so smiling to myself, not letting my friends "know" that I was happy for this turn of events, that fate would allow me to have them see the latest "art on display" at the Firehouse gallery downtown church street...there we saw simplistic and raw art at it's best. The four artists portrayed various current spending of the "Almighty dollar" in our ever continuous need for Super power over this mundane material existence. One artist approached me and let me know not only of a workshop of participates working with pulp, raw paper, but of a woman that used the very thing to protect her from this fruitless domination as a work of art...the paradox between the body armor and the Manuel of the US army brought me to tears...of complete and under confusion. The reality that what I see as common sense others see as effect....