Int’l Drum Month Day 328 of 2007 37 days left in this year

HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “

YESTERDAY - November 23:
UH Warriors remain undefeated and win the WAC college football championship by defeating Boise State 39-27 in Oahu’s Aloha Stadium.  UH Quarterback Colt Brennan, passing for for 495 yards, sets an all-time college passing record while continuing his quest for the Heisman Trophy. The Warriors hope for a Sugar Bowl bid after the season’s final game against Washington next Friday. Read full story in the Star-Bulletin …

The human being of 2007 seems totally incapable of seizing and using time for the purpose of a more deliberate evolution of its consciousness.

Men and women seem to undergo a kind of psychosis, when they find themselves temporarily free of appointed tasks, or when their minds momentarily cease their meaningless chatter. People lack vision, direction, intellectual curiosity, moral courage, imagination and intuition. They seem to have lost their resourcefulness.

Instead of thinking, they are distracted by coarse spectacles. Often, they sit transfixed before blinking screens, which seem to mock their own flickering consciousnesses. Technology, as well as pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs, darken and enfeeble our consciousness.

Mechanics (technology) and mind-altering concoctions have removed us from our unexplored, but innate spiritual principles. Religions of our fathers, and the distractions created by commercial interests have reinforced the notions that we are passive, dependent, predetermined and thoughtless creatures.

How different we would be, if only we re-allocated wasted phone, screen, gossip and tavern time, to higher purposes. Killing time deadens us. Inviting millions of time-killers to a small island distorts or destroys cultural expressions of life and delight.

Humanity is not a hopeless, irreparably damaged, sadly dependent or an endarkened race. Humankind has simply turned foolish in the face of danger and opportunity

– Raphael O’Suna,  Haiku