The threshold between transcendental enlightenment and the perceived reality of our human consciousness is a very thin veil. If we all try to set time and energy aside each day for another being, we shall surely bring peace and love to the world around us. Humanity needs cooperation and tolerance of social diversity. We should seek out the deeper wisdom of our existence, admire and respect the things that helped our species to evolve Connect with the divine that exists in nature all around us, nurture plants and rejoice in the flow of a mountain stream...
Meanwhile, while I've been daydreaming the rain's still falling and the saplings are getting their richly deserved watering from nature. Germination is a wonderful thing, Arthur Hockstead would have said something like that in his "Hey day" (circa 1978) Those were the days of flowers in the hair and loose fitting clothing, the glam rock of glitter and the torn clothing of punk. Hedonistic times probably never to be experienced again.