battle, not a crown for the victor,
not something you can build or buy.
honor is a way of life… and it begins
with respect.
we no longer respect the many forms
of life around us… hell, we’re so busy
just trying to survive that we dont even
see life, much less know it!
every person, good, bad, or ugly, deserves
our respect… for they are merely in all their
glory, and in all their human weakness,
reflections of us… a part of us!
every form of life… dogs, cats, elephants, ants,
whales, turtles, trees, rivers, mountains…
deserve our respect… for they are a part
of us, and we of them…
so many of us are experiencing financial
failures, hunger, poverty, and distress…
and we feel like we’ve lost any sense of honor…
but a man and a woman’s honor is not held
in these things…
it is held in the naked truth of what we do
next… whether we remain as self-oriented
islands, or whether we rejoin the sea and
the sky of life… together as one. only then
will we be an honorable people!