revealed to us by Mr. Shakespeare. His monolog in particular has much merit for me and always wells tears in my eyes when I think on it. He is truly the heart and spirit of the trickster and yet ever as wise as he is foolish. A spirit of jest and of joy, of wondering What if we could make our frivolities but a day dream… and create for ourselves absolution for our failings among our fellow man.

In the end we have to remember all the intents no matter how strange, how deep or how sorrowful they were also probably done with good intentions.

Perhaps it was the good intentions of my family pediatrician that caused him to check me for hernias when I came to see him about a complaint for a common cold. I want to believe that he knew what he was doing but I always had the sneaking suspicion that he was just an old pervert that liked to grasp young boys’ genitals.

I want to believe it was for reasons with good intentions when we went to war in Iraq, or when people protest in front of abortion clinics, or when we stop allowing kids to come to school with body piercings.

It all begins with good intentions and then comes misunderstandings, foibles, morality issues, religious issues, Jihads, Wars on Terror, Britney’s latest tragedy, etc.

I want to believe that the many citizens of our planet earth are fed up with petty tyrants of all shapes and sizes, especially with our own. I want to believe that we are fed up with rehashed stories with a hip new cast of the same old stereotype characters on slicker magazine covers.

Sadly I know the truth; I imagine you probably figured it out as well.

The world is full of good intentions.

A pocketful of good intentions and 75 cents will still buy you a doughnut down at the Krispy Kreme, It’s a good thing there is one place you can still go that understands honest good intentions.

Peace seems to be a rather elusive thing in many people’s lives. Peace is a quality that is usually sought after by those of us who have the least amount of it in our lives. More often than not, it is sought from sources other than where it needs to begin, and like all things, it begins from within and not without.

The first step in finding peace begins with a simple lesson, a lesson that all of us will have trouble in learning… how to shut the fuck up. That’s right… shut the fuck up. That means you, and that most assuredly means me.

Shutting the fuck up is not as crass as it sounds.

Simply put Shutting the fuck up means just that… If you want peace, you have to stop talking, stop doing, stop changing and start being. After all most everything we do in the name of peace is not as important as what we do once we have our own inner peace. Sadly, we cannot have peace if everyone is so busy doing and not one person is being.

Therefore, I will say it again.
If you want peace… stop doing, start being.
It begins here….
Shut the fuck up.

Don’t you think it’s about time we all just tried to shut the fuck up?

It’s time to Stop explaining our individual perspectives, it’s not as important as allowing another perspective to exist in tandem to our own.

Think about it,it’s actually very simple…

Stop trying to change the world and start trying to change yourself, if others see… not hear… but see that your way is better then they will change of their own free will and not by coercion or strong arms tactics that always seem to fail anyways. Perhaps you may even conclude that your way could use some adjustment and you might be able to address the mote in your own eye that you have been avoiding by scrutinizing at the boards over the eyes of others.

Stop thinking about how bad things are; stop invigorating the problems of the world by creating new paradigms of horror. Stop believing in the negative hype that is dreamed up to cloud your mind to the truth of you as author of your own existence.

Stop killing each other in the name of your individual truth, screaming your platitudes as you die as a martyr or kill thousands under the umbrella of being a Hero.

If you want peace, you only need to listen and then listen some more. Keep listening… truly listening until you begin to understand that there is no real difference between yourself and your so called enemy other than a lack of communication or even common sense.

So now, I take my own advice and end this piece by simply…
Shutting the fuck up.