Why do autocrats, tyrants, emperors, and dictators seek ruthlessly power, wealth, and fame? Because they are insecure human beings. Most likely, none were not loved not enough, if at all, during their earliest of years, so they compensated unconsciously for this terrible deprivation. Instead of becoming leaders who lift others up, they became oppressors. Instead of caring for those without, they aggrandized to try to fill the emptiness in themselves.  They could not realize what and why they were doing. Oppressors are actually scared. They are frightened of the emotional abyss at their center, but unable to feel it consciously. Instead of giving, they take absolute power, gargantuan wealth. and fame, which is actually infamy. They are not happy. They are not fulfilled. But they are noticed, and worse, like a raging forest fire that consumes and destroys everything and everyone in its path. If one is not loved, one eventually will hate and reify both the sadness and cruelty of their soul.

Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks

Most are afraid to be their real selves. This is a worldwide tragedy. An untold number of all people on Earth suffer this unconscious condition. Why is this likely true? Because many people were never loved enough, if at all, in their earliest of years. This sorrowful situation on Earth is abetted by the unconscionable fact that several billion of them live often in extreme poverty, which means so often that those of means have no compassion for their fellow human beings and care only about getting rich, then getting even richer. This immoral consquence of inhumanity is that several billion who have little--perhaps nothing--to eat, only shacks to live in, few schools to attend, virtually no medical care, among the absence of many other critical needs, are overwhelmed by these obscene deprivations, and therefore will unconsciously have at their center only the abyss of never having been loved. The result, therefore, is that they will never experience their true, sacred, inviolable worth, which they share with all others. That is why most are afraid to be their real selves.

Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks

I do not belong to Democratic Party. I do not belong to the Republican Party. I belong to Love. I am not a citizen of the USA. I am a Citizen of Earth, as we all are, which means that all us belong to Love, whether we're conscious of it or not. There are so many ways to love, and the world needs them all. The world needs as much as it can get. The air needs to be loved. The rills, the rivulets, the streams, the rivers, the lakes and ponds, all oceans need to be loved. I belong to Love. Meadows, forests, hills and mountains, deserts, all need to be loved. Dogs and cats, tigers and lions, moongooses and gorillas, all the animals need to be loved. Porpoises and whales, dolphins and seals, jellyfish and manatees, all kinds of fish and sea creatures need to be loved. I belong to Love. Bluebirds, robins, mockingbirds, hawks and eagles, all our winged friends need to be loved. Tulips and roses, the amaranths and amaryllis, daisies and dandelions, all need to be loved. And all human beings need to be loved, all races, all people with different skin colors, people who practice all the different religions, the mentally and physically infirm, babies and toddlers and teenagers and adults and the elderly, all need to be loved. I belong to Love. We all belong to Love.

Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks

A politician makes calculated decisions.

A leader makes moral ones.

Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks

I have, as of yet, avoided caducuty.
Emotionally, creatively, I feel younger,
not older. Is it true that the older we
get, the more wisdom we accrue?
It seems that way to me. My scope is
broader, my vision paradoxically
keener, my understanding deeper,
my tolerance for intolerance
virtually extinct. I have never been
able to brook unkindness, cruelty in any
of its manifold manifestations. The
notions of differences among members
of the human race--e.g. degrees of social
status, the poor and the wealthy, one
IQ better than another--all and others
are specious, bootless. We all are one.
Our shared worth is within, not without.
I have gotten wiser, not older. While my
life has gotten longer, my patience for not
knowing right from wrong is shorter.
The years of my living that remain will be
like dances of insight and joy, not lugubrious
ones. I shall live them in the sunshine of
caring and sharing.

Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks

It's one in the morning.
I almost fell asleep.
But I keep going on.
Been reading about
James Taylor. He and
I are livin' the same
life, it seems, 'cept
he's been married 3
times, and I have never
been. Went through hard
times, drugs and all.
He hooked on ******,
I took ******. Both
went to prep school,
he to Milton, I at
Andover. Both of us
found them mean.
I mean to say that
James and I are one.
He was in mental
hospitals, as was I.
We vere very young.
Then he started singing
and I began to write.
In the night of life,
we we were together,
seems, songs he wrote,
I poetry. Ups and down,
but stayed the course.
His guitar and voice,
my pen and paper. He
got famous;  both of us
got well. He made millions
from songs he sang. My
poems are priceless, though,
sacred and sublime. What the
hell! Everyone has his trials.
Our verdicts were the same.
He sang songs he wrote,
I treasure my words and
feelings. James and I have
kind of met. I think we are
good friends.

Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks

**** Trump has embodied, for four years, the worst  behaviors ever endured by our citizens. He is a liar, a cheat, a racist, a misogynist, and a criminal. He is, in short, the most despicable human being I have ever encountered during my lifetime. The worst thing he has ever done--this is a tough choice--was his ordering the Border Patrol to rip children, even babies, from the arms of their mothers who had both the U.S. and international legal right to come to any of our borders, literally place one of their feet on U.S. soil and say they were here to seek political asylum (check out the laws). Instead, the traumatized children were put into cages and, in so many instances, never to see their mothers again. On November 3rd, we should be voting on whether **** Trump should be put into a prison cell for 40 years or for three lifetimes.

TOD HOWARD HAWKS