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A Prayer for the World

                                                             A Prayer for the World

                                                            Light of the World                                                                                                                                Shine on me                                                                                                                                         Love is the answer                                                                                                                                Shine on us all                                                                                                                                      Set us free                                                                                                                                            Love is the answer

                                                                        -Song by John Ford Coley

          

                                                Native Americans love of earth and respect for nature

                                                Joins with African rhythms, flamboyant colors, celebrations

                                                Joins with European symphonies, architecture, art

                                                Joins with Buddha's zen, meditations, introspection

                                                Joins with the Land down Unders kangaroos and didgeridoos
                                                Joins with India, lotus, chakras, yoga, reincarnation
                                                Joins with Asian discipline, artistry, efficiency                                      

                                                Joins with Persian Arabian Nights, genies and oil production                                                                  Joins with Christians love, service to fellowman           

                                                Joins with North American freedom, incentive, innovation

                                                Joins with South America gems,spicy rhythms and fiestas                              

                                                Creates peace, joy, happiness, respect, understanding, connection      

Counterpoint for Liberals and Conservatives

Counterpoints

Liberal Heaven                                                                                                                                        No genders, anything goes, tattoos and piercings everywhere, no morals, pornography pandered, the dark side worshiped in media and books, abortion fine and paid for, capitalism,despised, no guns,no freedoms, larger government that controls all      Conservative Hell                                                                                         

Conservative Heaven                                                                                                                                Freedom of religion, freedom to bare arms, freedom of Speech, Respect for life, no abortion for any reason, genders defined, freedom to govern self, lower taxes, personal responsibility and accountability, good work ethic rewarded, smaller government that controls less.                             
Liberal Hell                                                                                                                                         

                                                           

                                                                     Heaven on Earth      

A New Idea

Respect for self  

Respect for others

In body

In Mind 

In Spirit

Generosity to all

Health for all

Wealth for all

Freedoms for all

Peace for all

Love for all                                       

The Path of Love and Light

Message for Millennials

          A Message for Millennials         

If you were going to have a conversation with Millennials what would you say?                                My husband posed the question: 

What do you see as your place on the planet?                         
And where do you see yourselves in ten years?

Millennials seem to be missing some very important insights about the world today.

They have been educated to show tolerance for everyone (except those with conservative values) and have not been taught ethical behavior, manners and an awareness of their actions. They think it’s important to protest about global warming and yet leave terrible messes after their protests. They can’t seem to see the hypocrisy in so many of their actions and causes. Too often they don’t seem to understand the reasons they are protesting. Their thinking processes don’t seem to go that far and don’t see how counter intuitive and self defeating some of these protests could be for them if they had to experience the consequences of those protests.They haven’t experienced enough about life and the difficulties and history in the world to understand all they have been given. Too many seem to think the world owes them a living without them doing much and they have been taught that by parents who indulged whatever they wanted to do and weren’t good at setting boundaries.

     They say they don’t want to be called “Snow Flakes” any more but are some of the worst name callers to those that don’t see things the same way they do. They have been babied and coddled their whole lives and not allowed to understand winning and losing. When college students need coloring books and play dough when things don’t go their way, there is something wrong with this picture. They have not seen the aftermath or the horrors of WWII, thankfully, but don’t seem to have any understanding  of  the freedoms the world was fighting for and the horrific evil of that war. They seem to be willing to give up their freedoms. That is because they haven’t experienced what it is like not to have freedom.  

     The biggest observation I would have about too many millennials is that they lack substance, intelligence, and sensitivity to others. They parade their tatts around like some kind of badge but could care less if they are offensive to many people who don’t enjoy looking at them but are forced to anyway. Attention is the only thing they seem to want.They are often very narcissistic and don’t care what anyone thinks and that their own opinions are the only right opinions. Their masochistic behavior is concerning as well.Why are they hurting themselves for attention by putting tatts all over themselves? For some it is an addiction and they cover their entire body with them. They don’t seem to understand their masochistic behavior or boundaries or borders of any kind.

     They are big on equal rights but the sad thing is that too many of them don’t believe there are two sexes and think it’s fine to make girls boys and boys girls which is not the natural order of nature. That kind of thinking is offensive to many people.They have been manipulated by liberal thinking in their educations and it has really hurt them.They don’t seem to have any morals or values.Anything goes and there is no right or wrong is the norm among too many millennials. In fact they don’t seem to understand right or wrong because too many haven’t been taught what is right or wrong. Media is too blame for much of their dysfunction because they have been raised by television and dysfunctional families with few morals as the norm.They try to rationalize that right is wrong and wrong is right. Another question for millennials is who are they serving and what are their goals?

     They haven’t been taught what the word respect means and they don’t seem to have any respect for anyone including  themselves. They are disrespectful to others on every topic and the only true concern they seem to have is about “global warming”. Again they have been manipulated in their education by liberals.They need to read more books about history and need to understand and incorporate more ethics and morals in their thinking.Too many have given up God and organized religion but they haven’t replaced it with anything healthy nor with strong values and morals.

There seems to be a high suicide rate and addiction problems for many millennials and yet they are killing themselves for strange and unimportant reasons.Too many don’t seem to have strong coping skills or understand healthy ways to solve their problems.

     If millennials truly care about the world, they need to show it in grown up and mature ways, not narcissistic shallow ways.They need to become more aware of the world and other people and not think the world revolves around them. They need to get more depth and a greater understanding of history. They need to think on much deeper levels about the repercussions of their actions. One of the biggest things is they need to THINK before they go around protesting things that could only hurt society and this country. Time for millennials to truly grow up and stop joining a losing and dangerous political trend.

     “If you have lost your way in today’s world. Check out this book. “Spiritual Help In an Ailing World”  Ann Hughes Amazon to find peace, meaning, hope and healing  again.  

Social Commentary Poetry

American Idol

Rock Star

An oxymoron

Crowds cheer

Rock on

Rock on

The Grateful are Dead

Morrison

Joplin

Hendrix

Children aspire

To catch the fire

“When I grow up I want to be a "Rock Star”

They don’t know they can’t have both

A high price to pay for

Groupies

No lasting relationships

Recreational drugs

Once vices

Now habits

On the Road again

In a cold hotel room after the show

Unstrung Heroes

The world has gone mad or has always been so

Why else would it make sick souls it’s heroes

All through time  inevitably

The famous have gone down in history

But their fame  it seems  has been terribly maimed

With disease  misery  and life’s tragedy

Elvis’s Pelvis was long acclaimed

Yet he died overdosed on drugs

Fat  weak and lame

Marilyn Monroe was legendary

For her lips  her breasts and her imagery

Drowned in a pool her life rather brief

Unable to cope with her pain and her grief

Lennon  Morrison  Hendrix and Joplin

With drugs and booze  left their minds quiet fried

Never the less they are valued and prized

Their lives quite seriously eulogized

Considered poetic greats of their day

Still their lives turned out to be rather gray

As Ann Sexton and Sylvia Plath

Left suicide in their aftermath

Clinton and Nixon and Kennedy

Whose personal lives were far from free

Of disease and corruption

Left a trail of destruction

As they lied to us all and one  “Never Inhaled”

All got off scot free when they should have been jailed

For murder or adultery,

But as President

“These laws don’t apply to me”

One of the sickest crimes of the day

Was when Simpson blew his own wife away

But because he was athletic and good with a ball

The world let him off

Because after all

His life should be free of punishment

Because “All Star Players” are always exempt

Sometimes I think I must be living in Hell

An asylum of absurdity is the place that I dwell

To be sentenced to earth as the place of my birth

Where the crazier one is the more valued his worth

Are we really such fools to allow the race

To put these kinds of people in the realm of first place

To guide lead direct and be idolized

People whose lives really should be despised

We vote them in, put them up on the wall

We cheer and we clamor

Make them King of the Hall

Are Earth’s souls so lost they must follow the lost

To death, to Hell and Oblivion

Isn’t there anyone whose memory lives on

Are their truly no saints or souls worthy

Of our praise and our votes and honest glory

Ode to Tattoos

Once handsome men are now freaks

Women a side show at the circus

It has become the trend

Putting  permanent life marks on flesh

Once a birthmark was thought a curse from God

Especially in visible places

Now young and old enjoy marring their body

With ugly designs

Once hidden in some secret place

Now they force us to witness their masochistic acts

Purplish blue black and indigo colors

Blur the beauty God gave them

Once thought extreme

Now they parade their anti-social behavior

Like a badge on arms and legs

An art exhibition we didn’t choose to attend

Some say their tatts mean something

A tribute to someone

Some say they are sensitive souls

Expressing themselves

I beg to differ

Anyone who consciously chooses

To hurt themselves for attention

Doesn’t care if they offend

Is not someone I choose to know

Face Book Follies

Let it all hang out

Give every sorted detail of your personal life

Nothing sacred

Make political stands that alienate your friends

Your family

Divide the country with political rants

Hide behind a screen spewing venom

Cause division

Hatred

Abuse family and friends

Show off vices, drinking, tatts, dark sides of character

Teenagers

Threaten and bully

Cause someone to commit suicide

with cruel words

Cat fish and lie

Stalk and spy

Gross people out with obscene

Pictures of man’s cruelty

To animals

Or each other

Use filth and foul

Sociopaths on the prowl

Definitely the wrong ways to use face book

Face book

Friend or foe

You decide

Epilogue For The Homeless

The homeless are great

They Manipulate

Playing victim and preying on good Christian hearts

The con their game

They use different disguises

And different faces

One man who is always out there has many

Sometimes a goatee

Sometimes a long beard

Sometimes a hat

Sometimes just looks weird

He stands on the median

Always a forlorn face

 looking down

He should get an academy award

for acting

They have different signs

Preferably scrawled on cardboard is a good technique

One I saw said 

Stranded 

Please anything will help

I called her on it as she as she got on her hidden bike

smiling

One sign said

I used to have a life once

I decided to talk to her about it

Same old sob story

Sores all over her face

Wasn’t going to admit she was a meth addict

Another sign said

I used to be somebody

Well she’s still somebody

Somebody on the streets

Another sign

Will work for food

Four restaurants hiring on the same street

Homeless and Hungry

Anything will help

When you give them food they’re disappointed

One man made a much better living begging

A cab driver told me they often make $200 a day

A better wage than his fifteen an hour plus tips

It’s lucrative

begging

I’ve interviewed a few to see

How they ended up on the streets

Ran away because my mother was a drug addict

Or her husband was sexually abusing me

Husband was an alcoholic

All pretty legit reasons

Sometimes tragic

Sometimes real

Usually not

It’s the lazy man’s profession

Some like it

They don’t mind the vagabond life

Enjoy the gypsy life riding the rails

They’ve made their own bed

Don’t mind sleeping in a bag on the streets

It’s just like camping

Much easier than taking care of a house

All that responsibility

They like the simple life

Most take your money for alcohol and drugs

They don’t really want food

Don’t be fooled and feel too sorry for these

“Victims”

Sometimes these “Victims” are victimizing

You

Zero Population Growth

Some people believe in quality

Not quantity

Unlike California who adds a new million each year

Or India

Teeming with life

Beggars

Merchants

Yogis

Cremation at the Ganges

Recycling life into another reincarnation

Or China

Population grew so large the government forced contraception

Only one for a while

Only two in the country

A boy valued more than a girl

Infanticide of females became too common

Today freeways buzz like bees twenty four seven

Traffic stopping like clogged arteries at rush hours

New lanes and new structures line them with commerce

Urban sprawl leaving no room

For pastures for cows

Meadows for Meadow Larks

Or clean air to breathe

Back in the seventies there was a push

Only two children per couple

The world then was three billion

Now fifty years later the world population bulges

More than double

Humanity has not taken the idea seriously

Responsibility with the life force

An afterthought

When does the earth reach

“The fullness of it’s Creation”

Does that mean humanity is the only life form left

Resting,Relaxing, and Rejuvenating in the Grand Bahama

There is nothing like the ocean to rejuvenate my soul and the turquoise clear water and white sands of the Bahamas are definitely a way to do it. There are different colors of the turquoise ocean just like the turquoise stones from deep blue to blue green. Another name would be aqua-marine and that really describes the lighter blues of the water. The sands on the beaches  range from coral to various shades of off white to almost white around the island. There is nothing like the calm and relaxing waters and the beautiful marine life from lavender and blue sea fans to "cu cu ca choo"sea turtles peacefully drifting in the waters.

A favorite place for lunch and wading in the waters is Banana Beach. The sand bar reaches way out into the water at low tide and people love to wade around it in the warm waters that range from lower to higher seventy degrees. The food at the Banana Beach restaurant is tasty with fresh fish, conck fritters, and other sea and surf fare. Palm trees surround it and it is very laid back and people come in and out all day to enjoy the atmosphere and the food.

The Island people are very friendly and polite. Always greeting you with a "Good Day" or "Good Afternoon" and there English is very good with a little Bahamian twang at times. They believe in the bible and there are Churches all over the island. They seem to believe and live the Christian creed as well and I hear them talking to each other about bible lessons.

Hibiscus of many different colors grow everywhere. I have discovered not only their beauty but the tea that can be created from them which is a little tangy and pinkish in color from the many shades of hibiscus. It is good with a little honey or lemon.

Pictures are worth a thousand words some I am including them to help you visualize this captivating and mellow place.

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Here are the Titles. I hope you'll explore some of them of interest to you

Spiritual/Inspirational    Non Fiction

Spiritual Help in An Ailing World  By Ann Hughes  Amazon

Too many have given up a spiritual foundation in their homes and it is reeking havoc on our Society. A return to strong morals and spiritual values is the much needed remedy. Find ways to find purpose and meaning in life again.

How to Help Your Kids in a Troubled World By Ann Hughes Amazon
Families are in crisis today. Parents and children need some support and guidance to make their families strong again. Help your children be happy and healthy in body mind and spirit and feel successful in their lives.

Children's Books

The Rainbow World  By Andrea Hughes  Amazon

Teach your children to love and respect all the races and cultures in the world

Wise Ways  By Andrea Hughes Amazon

A wise wizard teaches some young people secrets to having a healthy world through Help, Hope, Healing and Harmony

Poetry and other Collections

Connections  by Ann Hughes  Amazon
We are all connected to each other in different ways. Explore some of those connections
A collection of  Short Stories and Essays

Slipping Through Time  by Ann Hughes  Amazon
A collection of poetry