Homeless Veteran

Last night I saw a segment on the 60 minutes TV show how military veterans are being neglected and denied benefits from the VA. A friend called them ‘throwaway’ victims of our society and wonder if we were all not becoming ones. I read about the 7 CIA personnel whose bodies were returned to USA from Afghanistan. I was with a person today suffering from mental illusions where every little move was so difficult. Going to a hospital pharmacy today for a friend I saw a seriously injured person in the lobby.

What do I do, what do I say in the face of suffering and death? I need to recognize it, feel it, yet cannot allow it to slow me down. But it does.

A friend wrote me today in a Christmas greeting how my web site was leaning more to the nonviolent side, or as he called it ‘mental’ side, and away from the physical or earthy side, the growing power side, as I would like to call it. I would have to say that is true but would rather think that I am trying to integrate both sides, mental and physical, nonviolent and cow side, or at least find a balance.

I think when faced with suffering and death it is easy to lean more toward the mental side. When all is going well the down to earth and physical side seems more appealing.

What I probably need is to see more deeply into the death and suffering side of life, and put it, by reflection, into perspective so I can see “all is well” after all.

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