NUMBER 6

Number 6
By Alex Ness
February 5, 2024

AN APPROACHING STORM

I have surgery coming up in many areas of my body, more on that later. I don't have any information that I can say, but life happens, and we don't always get to choose our future's rewards and costs. I offer you this song to remind you to prefer destiny to fate, and thank existence that you had a chance to breathe, sing, cry, laugh and more. We can worry, or we can surrender to hope and allow ourselves to be, without judgement.

I've recently been told by friends, they feel an enormous change is coming. Well let's count the way it could change, not predicting, just looking at the many sources. There is the US 2024 election, the war in Ukraine, the war in Gaza, Global climatic change, rampant inflation, racial strife, micro plastics in the rain water, fresh water, and oceans, pending fishery collapse, nuclear terrorism, preemptive attacks upon enemy states who might have nuclear arms, proxy wars then lead to an active war, and war through proxies under the control of opposing world powers. Rising sea levels might be initially slower than predicted, because if the huge glacier that threatens to cleave from Antarctica does what is pending, it will be years of melt prior to enormous sea level threat.

But I promise, life is worth living, even if it is difficult. I suggest living to the fullest, you'll be spending much more time dead than you ever will alive. Don't impose limits when life is already limited. Life is your single chance to encounter the best things about existence.

ART (click to enlarge)

"Joan of Arc in Battle"
By Frank Craig

"Saint George Killing the Dragon"
By Bernat Martorell

"Stańczyk during a ball at the court of Queen Bona in the face of the loss of Smolensk"
By Jan Matejko

"Icarus and Daedalus"
By Sir Frederic Leighton

LINKS

My Author Page: amazon.com/author/alexness
Poetry Blog: AlexNessPoetry.Blogspot.Com
Popular Media Blog: Poplitiko.Blogspot.Com
Published works: https://alexnesspoetry.blogspot.com/2007/01/My-Work.html

SOCIAL MEDIA
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While I've not altogether quit working, I have slept a great deal more, and I've relaxed, as well as filled my mind with the works of these wonderful Japanese authors during my hiatus. I've been blessed to read each of their works.

Kazuo Ishiguro
Yasunari Kawabata
Haruki Murakami
Kobo Abe
Yukio Mishima