Alone...

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”

Mother Theresa



Being lonely has little to do with how many are in the same room or the number of friends we have.
We are living in a sea of lonely people. Due to social convention, and the need for some kind of conversational conformity that we all live by, these people are hard to spot.
They are quiet, they are outgoing, they are married, and they are not married, they are men and they are women.

You will not see it in the span of a day unless, you spend that day looking for it.
If you take that time and energy, you will see it in others.

It is someone who is part of a group listening to a joke or a story and if you watch them, you will see it. It is a quick looking away or a glance downward.
It might come across in a smile that is tinged with melancholy. It could be a call you receive from a friend that seems to be simply filling a gap of time, when in fact, it is really a search to open up or a search for something more.
It is a question in your mind about something that someone said that grips you later in the day and you wonder what they were really trying to say.

Those are lonely people. Some talk too little, some talk too much.
In time, if you wish, you will spot them. If you are a lonely person, it's much easier...

Time To Hope Again...


"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

Martin Luther King Jr.

In 1968, evil was triumphant for the moment and the world's greatest civil rights leader and visionary was cut down on the balcony of a hotel in Memphis.

It was the darkest day and the darkest moment in the modern history of the civil rights movement in the United States. As a 12 year old boy , I remember the hopeless demeanor of the adults around me that day who gazed at the heavens as if to ask why. On the very day that Dr. King was assassinated, Robert Kennedy gave an impromptu speech and said these words:

"What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black."

Just two months later, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian, opened fire with a .22 caliber revolver and shot Kennedy in the head at close range.The many hopes and dreams of people throughout the world concerning the United States was to be buried for a very long time.It was a very hopeless time indeed.

During that time, a skinny, inconsequential 7 year old black child
attended school at St. Francis of Assisi in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The darkness has faded and Dr. Kings words are prophetic...On Tuesday that little black child from 1968, Barack Obama, is being inaugurated as President of the United States. It is time to hope again...