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COYOTE ARCHIVE
Dick Prosapio aka, Coyote is a member of the TMC Advisory Council, ceremonialist, psycho-
therapist (ret.), author, leader of men's experiential workshops, & Co-founder of The Foundation for Common Sense. He lives with his wife and daughter in Stanley, NM
For more info about Dick Prosapio, visit his web-site:
Spirit/ Earth Path
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With War
by
Dick Prosapio
Is there anything else to write about except the war? As much as I might like to believe there is, I really can't get myself to discover it. A friend of mine believes that there is a kind of "death star" comet headed our way, it'll get here in April or May he thinks, and it will totally disrupt the planet, though probably not destroy it.
I don't believe it for a minute, but who knows? If he's right then what's to worry about? If he's not, then we can keep right on worrying about everything else.
What a choice.
With the dogs of war on the loose and all the other dark metaphors and potential realities available for speculation, is there really any space left in our consciousness for anything else to be important? "March Madness" has taken on a whole different set of meanings and who really cares who wins a basketball tournament except as a side show?
I wish my heart were into writing about the fact that the meadowlarks are beginning to make their way towards our altitude. They are hanging out at about 6000' right now and will be showing up here at our 7000' hilltop in a couple of weeks. And I spotted two mockingbirds just thirteen miles away from our place last week. The real signs of spring are moving northward here in New Mexico.
And then there's the war. People complained that there wasn't enough coverage of the Gulf War in the '91. We were being kept in the dark they said. Now they're complaining that we are being overwhelmed by information. Reporters who were put in with the troops, "embedded", are now being criticized as being "in-bed" with the military because they don't show us pictures of our soldiers corpses. I wonder how well the coverage is being reviewed on the Iraqi side?
It seems that as much insanity as is produced by a war on the battlefield has as its mirror image, an aimless kind of craziness on the home front. I can tell you this much from my own experience; nobody in the U.S. wanted to get into World War ll either. We were dragged kicking and screaming into that one until Pearl Harbor. Nobody believed Hitler was a threat to the World, at least not to our world even after he invaded Poland and Czechoslovakia. Nobody believed he was killing Jews, and even as the war unfolded, nobody believed he could outgun us. At the end, he had jets and we didn't. He had guided missiles, and we didn't. He almost had an atomic bomb and certainly would have used it. The only reason he didn't have it was a misjudgment on his part about where to put his priorities.
Is Saddam Hitler? It's a close call. Too close, I think, to gamble that he is not. If you were the leader of this country still staggering about after the World Trade Center disaster, would you want to risk making a mistake about that? That's a lot more threatening than a fanaticized collision with a comet I think.
Dick Prosapio ©2003, All Rights Reserved
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