Apr 2020
I have lived a blessed life. I have been a poet and human-rights advocate
my entire adult life. Money and the material things that it can buy have never
mattered to me; their worth is illusory, yet, it seems at times the whole world
has bought into these falsehoods, and look where they have got us: hunger,
homelessness, hopelessness. The 7.5 billion of us presently residing on this
planet face two foreboding existential threats: catastrophic climate change
and imminent nuclear holocaust, while **** Trump is only concerned with
shaving a few more points off his handicap at Mar-a-lago every weekend.
So where do I find solace? I find it in the bright and beautiful I have been
blessed to experience: meeting the dispossessd; the social outcasts; the down-and-outs; the forgotten; the socially disgraced of the world. But I have found my gold: the goodness, in fact, of everyone, if only each knew where inside themselves to look. "Goodness" is not out there. It is deep within each
of us. Why am I rich? Because I know where and how to mine the heart
of anyone.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
my entire adult life. Money and the material things that it can buy have never
mattered to me; their worth is illusory, yet, it seems at times the whole world
has bought into these falsehoods, and look where they have got us: hunger,
homelessness, hopelessness. The 7.5 billion of us presently residing on this
planet face two foreboding existential threats: catastrophic climate change
and imminent nuclear holocaust, while **** Trump is only concerned with
shaving a few more points off his handicap at Mar-a-lago every weekend.
So where do I find solace? I find it in the bright and beautiful I have been
blessed to experience: meeting the dispossessd; the social outcasts; the down-and-outs; the forgotten; the socially disgraced of the world. But I have found my gold: the goodness, in fact, of everyone, if only each knew where inside themselves to look. "Goodness" is not out there. It is deep within each
of us. Why am I rich? Because I know where and how to mine the heart
of anyone.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
