Wednesday, May 16, 2012


A recent email I posted in reply to a cousin when he said “life was unfair”:
I've come to think life isn't about fairness. We're presented with gifts of joy as well as struggles along our journey we call life. It seems to me that life is really about our relationships with one another. Growing our character to be able to recognize and embrace joy for ourselves and others. It's about deepening our ability to know when compassion is called for and it’s about us knowing that without truth, the quality of our relationships will decline and crumble as well as the quality of our society and all it represents. And all of this, it seems to me, is important to if and how we love.










Friday, April 6, 2012

Truth

You tell me it's a dream and dreams are of little value
But you speak nothing of truth
Dreamlike qualities not grounded in reality
So you say
Cannot be taken seriously
Truth often resembles the dream
Hard to grasp, hard to hold
And often difficult to separate from the lie
Truth's value intrinsic to life lived as a free people
Visualized by the dreamer, truth may hold the greater virtue
For without it, Justice, Compassion and Love cannot be nurtured
Nor the reality of a free people sustained

~paulette thibodeau-baker~

Thursday, April 5, 2012

The Lie

True, true, truth…

Do not lie, nor allow the liar to be

How do we measure the value we place on truth

If we the voter, are not outraged

Nor fear the depth of corruption

That often finds its root

Reflected in the snake charmer’s mask

How can a people alter their course

When all who serve are tainted

By the broad stroke of the liar’s brush

“Don’t you know, they all lie”

Comes the politician’s cry

Voters who discern truth from the spoken word

Eventually cannot be deceived

Liars ultimately show themselves

For they just can’t help

But to lie and to lie again


~ paulette thibodeau-baker ~