241113 What I learned in my studies this morning 4

Today's Meditation(s):

Tao Te Ching, 53 (Deng Ming-Dao and Jane English)

When the court is arrayed in splendor,

The fields are full of weeds,

And the graineries are empty.

Yes. True twenty-five hundred years after stated.

One thing I am forever grateful for is my utter lack of desire to tell other people how to run their lives. Fuck that.

Earlier in life, I mistakenly thought I could participate in politics and help my community. I even moved to DC and worked on the Hill. I ran campaigns. I was involved in a gubernatorial race. I ran issues campaigns. I did it all.

Then I ran. I ran from this pit of treachery and inhumanity as hard and as fast as I could.

I saw behind the curtain and feared for my soul. If I stayed, I was lost. I went.

And now I'm here. Reading words from a different time and a different culture, and finding the same situation.

No more. No way.