Truth

Questions of conscience are the toughest ones of all, especially in today's post sixties world.

Ethics, morality, simple fair play, may all be construed in different ways by different people. Some people admire the crafty businessman, or politician, others find them repellent. For each action there are probably as many reactions as there are people aware of it.

Relationships should be simpler though. In theory people are friends, couples, lovers, because they have something in common. It is this commonality that makes them what they are and the more intertwined that commonality is in their lives, the deeper the relationship.

We are a complicated species, expecting more from each other than food and comfort and protection. We not only don't want you to eat our young, we would prefer that you not antagonize them either.

For me it all boils down to truth.

From Dionysus, "The truth is to be prized and reverenced above all things else."

To Henry David Thoreau, "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

To Emily Dickinson:

Truth— is as old as God—
His Twin identity
And will endure as long as He
A Co-Eternity—
And perish on the Day
Himself is borne away
From Mansion of the Universe
A lifeless Deity.

And many more before and after, it has been said by better writers than me.