Would that they who work so hard at creating heartbreak learn instead to love.
Brussels, Europe, Our Whole World
Dove peace image, publicdomainpictures.net
Brussels, March 2016
March 26, 2016
Sparked by Words
Sharon Lynne Bonin-Pratt began her writing career the way so many others have done: by first doing everything else. Winning entries in grade school art, story, and essay contests convinced her to become a writer, but the real world intruded in adulthood and demanded she pay bills, raise kids, be a contributing member of the community. Along that rutted path she worked in the commercial art field designing patterns for surfer shorts, bikinis, and Hawaiian style shirts, taught after-school art through a city recreation program, and structured an art curriculum for three private schools. Ten years ago the writing muse, struggling to breathe in letters to friends and art articles, found its way to the surface. In a two-week period Shari wrote 60 pages of her first historical novel, and didn’t stop for three years. By then a second book demanded paper – OK, computer space – and now the third is in final revision stage. Of course, final revision is two words with a long shadow and a little footprint. Some folk claim they will write when the floors get vacuumed, the family accounting completed, the new garden planted. Shari is proof that all those things can be successfully ignored but not the urge to write. Her fiction explores human relationships, revenge, rage, forgiveness, redemption, and all the labyrinthine quandaries that mess up otherwise perfect lives. She resides in Southern California with her husband who’s learned to vacuum but not to cook. And the garden needs help.
Sharon Bonin-Pratt's Ink Flare 
Comments on: "Brussels, March 2016" (15)
The world is going mad Sharon… I fear for the future if I’m being honest!
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Sadly I don’t think you’re alone in your fear, Suzie. I hope we can find a sane way to put the world together for the betterment of all.
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Until the world replaces tolerance and hate with acceptance be will have to suffer these tragedies. Lovely post. Be well.
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Perhaps, or perhaps education is the way forward into peace. You as well, Andrew.
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It’s complicated, innit.
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I think an effective response is complicated.
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Amen
“Through our ignorance and lack of viewpoint we divide this common home, we divide the members of this family into various races, we divide religion into different sects and then with those suppositional division we wage war against one another; we shed one another’s blood and we pillage one another’s possessions. Is not this unpardonable ignorance? Is this not the height of injustice? Were we just and could we observe without prejudice we would realize that there are no fundamental differences.” – Abdu’l-Baha, Divine Philosophy
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That which is hateful unto you do not do to your neighbor. Babylonian Talmud, Hillel.
Judaism teaches that it is the responsibility of all societies to create just and fair legal systems. In terms of righteousness, this is achieved through our actions, to do good simply for the sake of doing good. Tanahk: Psalms, Isaiah, Ezekiel
Justice, justice, you shall pursue. Tanahk: Deuteronomy
Keep justice and do righteousness at all times.
Seems to run through the heart of it.
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If only. Think if all that energy went into loving how wonderful life would be for all.
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Doesn’t it make you wonder why some feel that life here on earth should be less worthy than life in the world to come?
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Absolutely. Even if you knew for sure which of course is impossible wouldn’t you want to have a happy life in the one that you do have.
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Yes.
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I know. 😦
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So very sad, isn’t it.
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Terribly.
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