Sustain Ability

Sustain Ability
 
Some things I can imagine but not see.
Some things I can see, but not imagine.
 
Einstein says imagination is more
important than knowledge. I  know
about Haiti—and see it. But it’s
beyond my imagination.
 
When I would bump into Mark Hare
on  campus, I would always ask,
What’re you up to?  and he’d
say, About 5’7.
 
I’ve received his agricultural missionary
news letter & photos & deeds & needs
from Haiti all these years but  never sent
a dollar.
 
I figured he was doing his mission,
I was doing mine. Be rational.
Reasonable. .
 
“Brighten the corner where you are”
Sunday evenings  my old Nana used to
play this song on the  piano at the
Johnstown soup kitchen while my Dad  
preached to the homeless before their supper.
 
Someone far from harbor
 "YOU" may guide across the bar;
    Brighten the corner where you are!


Missions Impossible.
 
In the Olympian case, it would appear
that each of the gods has a tendency
to perfect herself or himself and. in that
perfecting, to solidify all a boundaries.
 
The goddess of  chastity allows no
licentiousness,  the god of reason allows
no muddle, the goddess of the hearth
allows no [immigrants or], strangers in
the kitchen,  the god of war  allows no
cowards.
 
To  the degree that  each sphere  is thus
 protected, it will draw apart from the others,
and the larger structure lose vitality.
(Lewis Hyde)

Do not wait until some
 deed of greatness you may do,
Do not wait to she'd your light  afar.
To the many  duties ever near you now
be true, Brighten the corner where you are.

“This disaster plays right into Obama’s hands,”
announces Rush Limbaugh.  “The devil
made them do it,” says Pat Robertson.

Brighten the corner where you are!
Brighten the corner where you are!
Someone far from harbor "YOU"
may guide across the bar;
Brighten the corner
where you are!

Natural disaster on the one hand.