Wednesday, June 26, 2013

opportunity

Opportunity
access to...
   what you need to...
             Live?
Thrive!
Create
Dance
Imagine
BE

food to feed... Justly grown, harvested, processed, left alive to nourish, sometimes...?
Clothes to clothe... Justly grown, picked, spun, woven, pieced, shipped, purchased
Trends shift.
Tossed out.
What next?

"Id die for a pair of those!"
"really?" He asks. "I'll get you those baby - now, just help me out with one little thing..."
Opportunity seized.

who buys the shoes made by slaves for the girl he wil sell to a buyer purchasing her body for the same price or less?!
She is looking to belong, to be loved. He treats her nice, she wanted those shoes for since forever! (since they came out last month)
He is looking to belong, fit in, make money, prove his "manhood"
What is this "manhood" ? Identified by abuse and oppression and manipulation of others?!

The camera goes on.
abuse. Mutilation. violation
video uploaded - streamed to millions
viewing
corrupting
corroding heart and soul. destroying intimacy
on TVs, laptops, iphones and blackberries... Justly made? mind, molded, pieced, assembled... Sold.
to increase access to information
education
the world opens up ... to this??
Opportunity seized.

No! How can we create access to what you need to LIVE a life connected to the respect and dignity of self and others
THRIVE when others thrive and not on the oppression of anyone else?!
create, dance, imagine, BE
a world where life can be lived to the full

To love and be loved.
Opportunity seized.

"But unconditional love is always tied to justiceJustice is love on legs, spilling over into the public sphere" - Cornel West