I will leave my house in fifteen minutes and take a local bus to the campus of the University of Iowa. Right now I’m sitting in my living room wondering if the day will open doors to better understanding, a warmer and richer appreciation for this planet and all who share it–or will my day be marked by the greater violence that has befallen our nation–witness yesterday’s tragic events at the University of Texas at Austin–events that are not unknown here in Iowa City. As John Lennon famously sang: “Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear?”
The American love affair with assault weapons is of course a love affair with Pluto. That’s the Charlton Heston movie I would have paid to see–Heston not as Moses but as the dark god of death, arms opened wide, jewelled cod piece rising in the flames.
Here’s wishing you a peaceful day.
Hare Krishna.
S.K.
Planet of the Blind 