Image via WikipediaDid you hear the world is going to end in 2012?According to the prophecies of Nostradamus, and also Baba Vanga (sorry? who?), and also according to the Mayan Calendar, we are running out of time. Natural disasters on an unheard of scale (floods, earthquakes, plagues) are already occurring and World War Three is imminent.
Do you believe this? Do I believe it...? Actually, that's not the important question we should be asking.
IF the world is going to end, it will. If there are going to be natural disasters, then they will happen. Fear or panic won't make any difference. None of us know whether we'll be struck down tomorrow or next week by sickness or violence or random accident, so with our fragile mortality in mind, we should all ask ourselves the really important question...
How do I want to spend today?
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Big Circumstance |
One of my favorite songs from way back is Anything Can Happen by Canadian musical poet Bruce Cockburn It's on his album Big Circumstance (a really great album!) Bruce Cockburn is one of my favorite singers.You could have gone off the Bloor St. viaduct
i could have been run down in the street
you could have got botulism anytime
i could have gone overboard into the sea
Anything can happen
to put out the light,
is it any wonder
i don't want to say goodnight?
I could have been hit by a falling pane of glass
you could have had shark teeth write "finit"
we could have been nailed by some vigilante type
in a case of mistaken identity -- obviously
Anything can happen
to put out the light
is it any wonder
i don't want to say goodnight?
We could have been lynched and tarred and feathered --
been on a plane that crashed in flames --
could have done the neutron melt together
but here we are just the same!
You could have been daggered in the dead of night
You could have been gassed inside your car.
I could have been walking in the open fields
and been drilled through the head by a shooting star
Anything can happen
to put out the light
is it any wonder
i don't want to say goodnight?
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