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| Paula Patton was voted eighth most beautiful woman of 2012 by People magazine. |
Paula Patton was voted eighth most beautiful woman of 2012 by People magazine. How many people quickly adjust their views to correspond with this assessment? How quickly do many of us find a way to be in alignment with popular opinion? Who in the deep recesses of their mind work hard to be seen as keenly up to date with the latest trends as if it is their natural state of being? How many and who admit to themselves, or deny their opinions are televised, or in print as gossip and trivia passing for real news? These questions cover and give broad insight into some of the predicament behind and beneath the questions that face our national conscience. Many laws are in place that do not service the needs of the people in this nation because many resided in front of televisions. Today it is the cell phone, and personal computer.
Network news is a construction project regulating views and public opinion with the skill of a wrangler. Need we know more? Yes, of course we do. Do we need to ask the right questions of ourselves? Are we responsible for each other? Do our words, and lives live on after we die? If so, what value do we bring to the circles of other peoples' living experiences? Does Paula Patton have some of the prettiest legs on God's green and brown earth to go along with her iridescent life-force? Yes. She does.
What? What does that question about the actress have to do with anything I've raised? What connects with her beauty or her essence to the political and ethical and spiritual landscape in dire need of reform? Think about it. What natural forces are consciously and unconsciously left out of the thinking and planning of policy in country after country? What force do we come from that helps hold the world together is excluded from serious consideration about life on this planet? Think about it and think hard!
- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8.24.14
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