by Lawrence Cooper | Jun 26, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The Prisoner Within these walls, truth lies, so lonely, so forgotten. The guards, Fear, Anger, and Hurt, patrol beyond the bars, keeping truth here, lost and so alone, separated from the Self, beyond the warm embrace of arms and eyes and bodies of others who long to...
by Lawrence Cooper | Jun 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Lift Me Up a Little Higher Lift me up a little higher so I can see the light Above the fray of doom and gloom down here, Desperately I need this boost to ease my plight I’m afraid I am drowning in this pointless drear. Sometimes I think Apocalypse is looming near...
by Lawrence Cooper | May 30, 2022 | Newsletter
For the community of Newtown, Connecticut, where twenty students and six educators lost their lives to a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School, December 14, 2012 Now the bells speak with their tongues of bronze. Now the bells open their mouths of bronze to say:...
by Lawrence Cooper | May 30, 2022 | Newsletter
This May Newsletter is focused on the American gun laws that have led to the mass shootings of children. However, I have attempted to consider the bigger picture that is affecting all of us. We seem to be in a vortex of negative energy characterized by a prolonged...
by Lawrence Cooper | May 29, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Moloch “First MOLOCH, horrid King besmear’d with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents tears, Though, for the noyse of Drums and Timbrels loud, Their children’s cries unheard that passed through fire.” (John Milton, Paradise Lost) Moloch, the god of the underworld,...
by Lawrence Cooper | May 3, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
During the past two years of Covid (or is it three) I have been working on the meaning of love. Ultimately, as we progress as conscious people, we learn to have deeper and deeper compassion for those who suffer. One of the lessons I have learned from covid is to be...
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