My friend, neighbor and fellow writer shared this with me
and agreed to let me share it with you. Let us enjoy everything we can!
Written by Christopher Andrew Maier:
By an accident of birth, we are living in a Land of Plenty.
We exist among the top 1 percent of the world who have enough to eat every
single day, who have lovely warm surroundings when it is too cold, and cool,
serene surroundings when it is too hot.
And political oppression is not even on our radar screen.
The rest of our experience pales when faced with the real hunger, cold,
debilitating heat and guns in the face that many people can not escape for lack
of funds and awareness.
So “serene’ would be the operative word. We have the luxury
to experience that, as well as the drugs and counseling to allow us not to
suffer too much from anxieties. We [artists] also have the joy of creating with
tools and materials that allow others to see into our Appreciation of Life, or
our discouragement, for that matter.
The entire history of the human race has not been too sweet
a trip. I think we are riding on a froth of whipped cream, far from the
maddening crowd and the worst that life could be, what it is for countless
billions right now, and stretching into the distant past.
