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Aug 2020
Everybody wants to feel worth, but something is wrong in the way we hope to experience it. I have written a commentary called PEACE ON EARTH THROUGH LOVE, which I have sent to every one of the over 200 nations on Earth. My commentary is about loving and being loved. I believe love is the only way to save Earth and all the creations upon it. But the love I feel and envision is not romantic, let alone ******. It is has nothing to do with physical attraction or financial wealth or social status or native intelligence. Yet it seems the whole world thinks all the aforemenioned are the pathways to possessing worth, of feeling worth yourself and from others. No wonder there are so many sad, depressed souls on Earth right now. This global notion is false, the diametrical opposite of the locus of worth. The truth is that everyone has inviolable, sacrosanct worth at her/his center. Love and loving are that worth. All of us are imbued with it when we are miraculously created. By loving first ourselves, having been nurtured by others--our parents, our grandparents, anyone in a position to care for us at our earliest of ages--will mean that as we grow older and our self-love increases concomitantly and exponentially, our capacity to love all others will increase ineluctably. For millennia unfortunately, as well as right now, our world has been, and still is, turned inside-out. I wish it to be to turned right-side in. Then all will not only know the locus of our worth--it is at our center--but also feel it and will want to share it with all others. The mansuetude of love and loving will save Earth and all of its creations.

Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet
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TOD HOWARD HAWKS  81/M/Boulder, CO
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