A Short List of Things That Are More Important Than Fighting This War.........

....the call of warm spring soil for new seeds
...the soft bump of a single heartbeat
...the next season the next sunrise the next sentence the next song
...a single unshelled sunflower seed
...the last remaining individual of the rarest species on earth
...the rings of Saturn and reason for climbing Everest
...a liter of liquid sunlight
...the rotation of an owl's head
...all the math you learned or didn't learn in high school
...each one of the countless neglected peaceful solutions to this conflict
...the need to do something about our ridiculously short lives
...alpenglow and chiaroscuro
...the prehistoric cry of a startled Sandhill Crane
...winds that blow over sun-blistered sea waves
...the second hour after midnight
...one leg of a millipede
...the tenderness needed to properly care for today
...the knowledge that a list a thousand pages long would still be...

....A Short List of Things That Are More Important Than Fighting This War.

Leonard Nolt