Birthday light.. -09006026-

My heart feels like a stone in still water,

sinking with your absence..

Another year of empty chair, and a cake with a candle burning for two..

I'm sending my love as light, and may it find you where stars go when they rise..

Keeping the flame in the lantern, tending it daily as a guide, letting it warm the dark you left behind..

Happy birthday, my little sister..  I miss you..

~J. Sunga

Deep Thoughts -09004026-

There's a certain type of person you encounter in today's polarized landscape; someone who has become so entrenched in their own bubble that they've lost the ability to engage with the world objectively..  They don't care to hear opposing viewpoints and they don't listen when presented with new information..  Quick to dismiss any topic that doesn't align with their narrow worldview, they find themselves reacting emotionally against facts while simultaneously ignoring social issues that actually matter to the broader community..  Looking only straight ahead with tunnel vision, they operate with no context and no evidence to back up their increasingly extreme claims..  Somewhere along the way, they went down the rabbit-hole of conspiracy theory, embracing wild ideas with no justification for why they believe them..  Too consumed by pride to admit when they're wrong, they shut themselves off from different religious beliefs and cultural perspectives, subscribing only to a rigid transactional mindset where everything must be a strict 50/50 give and take, nothing more and nothing less..  Worst of all, they've placed their faith in chaotic, politically corrupt leaders who exploit their fears, even as that small, nagging voice of conscience whispers to be careful of who they were rooting for..

- J. Sunga