Chapter Ninety-One
THE SUN ALSO RISES
[ a song, folk ]
The sun also rises
Yeah, the sun returns again
There may be hate, there may be war
But there will be peace in the end
There’s no need for confusion
There is one God up above
We don’t need more religion
We need more peace and love
So, do unto others
As you would have them do to you
The sum of what matters
In our heart we know it’s true
No one is an island
We can hurt or we can help
The solution now is love not hate
And it begins with our own self
Ask not for whom the bell tolls
It tolls for you and tolls for me
The answer loud is coming down
From the stars of eternity
We may be rich, we may be poor
We all need help from above
We need a friend to lend a hand
And we all need someone to love
So, do unto others
As you would have them do to you
Is there really another better way
To turn our gray skies back to blue?
From the rock of ages and good news pages
Buried deep on history’s shelf
This is the sum of the matter
To love our neighbor as our self
Yeah, no one is an island
We must work together to be free
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, now
It tolls for you and tolls for me
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, now
It tolls for you and tolls for me
Ask not for whom the great bell tolls
It tolls for you and tolls for me *
“I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security.
Defense of our
resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise,
what is there to defend?”
--Robert Redford
VOTE TO IMPEACH
{ may as well throw in the 108th Congress of gross malfeasance while we are at it }
We need individuals representing us who make the people’s health a priority;
we need representatives who care about our sick and poor, who care about
our jobless and homeless and who care about the environment of our chil-
dren’s future. All those in office or running for office who do not make
these a top platform priority, We The People---just say “NO!”
DEDICATED TO: Motion picture actor, producer and director of planetary conscience
Robert Redford and Mariel Hemingway, a note from "Papa". Also dedicated to former Attorney
General Ramsey Clark, apparently the only noteworthy political official in
America who correctly understands what should be done regarding acting president Bush
Junior and to Don Henley, Glen Frey and The
Eagles, whose
haunting popular song “Desperado”, is truly a masterpiece of poetic art, among the very finest
verse that human literature has to offer; “O' beautiful, for spacious skies, but now those skies
are threatening. They're beating plow-shares into swords. . .” ¹ American
Desperado best re-think her selfish direction and change her savage and perilous course before
it’s too. . . late.
Credits:
1. From “The End Of The Innocence” by Don Henley; The End Of The Innocence (1989).
*FootNote: Inspired by American author Ernest Hemingway, Welsh/English poet John Donne,
the unknown author of Ecclesiastes and the foundation of Human and Civil rights, as
stated by Jesus of Nazareth. Concept inspired by folk singers Tim and Sarah Crews of
Prescott, Arizona.
BE---CAUSE
As noted throughout this book, there are many sincere and dedicated well-known individuals
in various professional positions that devote a considerable amount of their time, talent and
other resources toward alleviating negative problems. There are of course, other
noteworthy persons of dedication not mentioned here and a great many more people of less
recognizable name who likewise, contribute (some a great deal) toward a worthy endeavor of
individual choosing. If this book has inspired nothing else, please consider the absolute
necessity of uniting and working together under the singular Just Cause solution of Human and
Civil Rights.
Those who work toward a better environment and safer planetary home for all species, those
who work to help the sick and the poor, those who strive for peace and social justice, those
who support true and better education, those who believe in individual and collective freedom
and those involved with other valid issues---Please consider the value of combined power of
solution in working together under the umbrella of a singular Just Cause. For as Albert
Schweitzer and Robert Redford (above) have clearly pointed out: If we do not strive to
protect the environment of our children’s future, then we do not care about our own offspring,
our own nation or about Human Rights. And if we do not promote mutual respect for and
strive to help our immediate and planetary brothers and sisters, then we can harbor no hope of
future generations caring about anything other than their own greed and self gratification, at
the expense of our fragile planetary home and all species (including ours) who live
therein. In the great philosophy of Reverence For Life, we must strive to treat all
species with dignity and respect and most assuredly, there is no valid meaning or purpose in
this age other than to love our neighbor as our self.
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