Freedom

The President is dubyad the "leader of the free world." American women and men in foreign made uniforms are thanked for "protecting our freedom." Janis sings that "freedom in just another word for nothing less to loose." Nirvana is freedom. Moksha is freedom. Free in Christ. Thank God almighty, free at last.

Sometimes I feel trapped. Trapped by the obligations of life - obligations mostly self-imposed in the quest for freedom.

What would life be like if it was all gone? What would be left? Would life be any better, any more free?

To have is not freeing. To have-not is not freeing.

Stuck in the middle, oscillating, juggling, making sense of what has stopped making sense, searching for freedom within the traps and the traps of freedom...