Your Love is Fading, Oh Lord, I'm Losin' You

I am still confused about the differences between Yams and Sweet Potatoes.  This was labeled a Japanese Yam.  The inside is just slightly yellow so the gorgeous sweetness was a great surprise. It isn't mealy at all but smooth and silky.  This did not need butter, only salt and pepper - very moist. I stuffed with ground turkey, black beans, red peppers, baby spinach, garlic, onions, and toasted cashews.  It was huge.  Looks like a ship.  I'm calling it the Love Boat.

So the other day I awoke from one of those long naps where you forget what planet you're on. I had been dreaming that love was dying.  It was met with a huge wave of sarcasm and dismissal, thanks hon!  You know, like most of my ideas.  But I can't get the concept out of my head. I don't want to believe it could be true but looking at similar die outs, there could be something to it.  Let's compare the story of the bees.  There are so many factors to their struggle including pesticides, poor diet, climate change, habitat loss, and more.  But if those bees can't do their job, then we may lose our food supply which is giant - showing the connection of Everything.  Similar to the poisons on the crops, could there be a link to the toxic effect negative collective media is having on our character?  There is a mass desensitization going on.  Due to the overwhelming amount of information we are absorbing into our minds it's impossible to react appropriately.  What is the price of scrolling past a picture of a dead child on the beach or watching high school girls throw down for entertainment purposes.  Compassion, empathy, consideration, thoughtfulness, originality, although certainly not dead are sometimes completely missing from conversations nowadays on television, the news, movies and in person.  The most ignorant, loudest bullies are becoming the heroes of our masses.  Group think can be a giant rolling ball of poop that picks up momentum continually.   On the net, it's entirely easy to be void of niceties, even spread hate across the miles quickly with no apparent repercussion.  But that energy goes somewhere.  In person, it is becoming more common to be rude or disengaged in our interactions.  People are walking around as if they are not even in the world anymore.  

And lots of folks are eating so poorly these days.  Sometimes by choice others due to financial means.  Our brains need vital nourishment in order to perform at higher levels.  What happens when they get only foreign waste depleted of any real nutrients?  If your stomach is sending negative signals to the brain - who pays for that?

Our top radio music is like fast food, plastic and toxins all mixed into one.  That can't be healthy to pipe into our noggins.  It certainly isn't producing cooler people. 

Not to sound like a patchouli wearing hippie but I don't think love can survive without substance?  And I don't doubt one bit that mass amounts of it can change circumstances and individual actions.  So lack of it may be causing a domino effect of historical proportion.  If people aren't doing loving things, acting in caring ways, then those actions turn into a different kind of energy.   Love has to be spread around like pollen.  It requires good intent, sincerity and more individual truths.  It needs to be vibrant and strong in relationships, even in quick exchanges with strangers.  And for these reasons, I feel it actually could diminish.  With the bees, suddenly all the associated actions proved to have very real consequences. Nothing is hopeless I just think its a significant new concern that could use some study.  But apparently I'm just some goofy girl whose thoughts are just fodder for fools.