damn well they did say please there go my weekend plans
The Inner Condition: Bad Poetry
I’m aware that my poetry is bad.
It’s not to say that I have low self-esteem, but truly, compared to the great Romantics or even Shel Silverstein of my childhood, I’m an amateur.
But when I feel emotion, I break it down into words and thoughts that can be contained by verse….
Oh the irony…
Something’s wasted, but it sure isn’t the irony. It makes me wonder, which is the more valuable commodity?
10 Reasons Why We Should Explore The Deep (and Space!)
- Exploration is about observation, the first step of the scientific process. Without exploration we do not have the intellectual fodder for scientific discovery
- Exploration is about knowledge, about expanding our horizons and answering questions that we haven’t even thought of asking yet
- Through exploration we can gain knowledge about earth, life, and potentially other planets.
- Exploration leads to technological and engineering innovation as we strive to meet new challenges.
- To explore the unknown means discovery with ramifications unseen.
- Through exploration, nations become great.
- A humans we are a naturally curious species, we deny our humanity if we do not explore the unknown world around us.
- Exploration allows for the unification of humanity around great achievement.
- Exploration allows us to inspire others to be explorers and scientists.
- We should explore because it’s cool, awesome, and amazing.
(Source: crookedindifference)
Here is a Georgia State Trooper in riot gear at a KKK protest in a north Georgia city back in the 80s. The Trooper is black. Standing in front of him and touching his shield is a curious little boy dressed in a Klan hood and robe. I have stared at this picture and wondered what must have been going through that Trooper’s mind. Before the Trooper is an innocent child who is being taught to hate him because of the color of his skin. The child doesn’t understand what he is being taught, and at this point he doesn’t seem to care. Like any other child his curiosity takes hold and he wants to explore this new thing that this man is holding probably because he can see his reflection in it and that’s a neat thing and he wants to check it out. In this picture I see innocence mixed with hate, the irony of a black man protecting the right of white people to assemble in protest against him, temperance in the face of ignorance, and hope that racism can be broken because this young boy may remember that a black man smiled at him once and he didn’t seem so bad after all.
