In God We Trust

Lies. Lies are like planks of wood we bring together to surround ourselves, to make sense of our world when it becomes overwhelming. I have seen this in more contexts and places than one. The fear is usually not of the terrible or the worst possibilities in the world or in people. Its strangely the opposite – the fear of the good, the fear of truth, and the fear of light. I cannot counter these fears in the whole world. However, a practice that maintains my faith in the good these days is sitting outside in the warm sunlight each afternoon, in my basic cotton attire smelling of pure unadulterated herbal oil, looking up at the truthful sky.