My mind is a centrifuge; a vortex of questions consumes my every moment. It seems like the world is spinning out of control and we are living in a blur of incomplete thoughts. My world has become thoughtless and fixated on meaningless, wireless communications. We have an aversion to recognizing truth and an addiction to personifying strength in our weaknesses. False any things are tickets for pleasurable living and the forte for our constitutionally threatened justice system. Lying has become the panacea for success. We have become a confectionary world that thrives on sweet distortions and sugarless counterfeits. Healthy living has been replaced with a diatribe of generic, cheap promises. We are physically and spiritually digesting toxins and then swallowing antioxidants to purge our reality.

Science fiction has become the homepage for family life. Our traditional family life is consumed with the hum of technology. Nature used to nurture us; now we are nesting in the cold, stainless steel arms of technology. Our high school students are hooded and plugged into the idle chatter of non-stop noise as they move from class to class. Our youth are afraid to surrender their thoughts to the quiet, stillness of nature and the blessings found in solitude and gratitude. Our children are so connected to technology that they cannot pause to catch a butterfly or climb a tree. Their childhood has been uprooted by the push and shove of marketing monsters. We cannot grow up in a world that values toys more than each other.

Education has become a playground for politics. Children are rewarded for doing what they are supposed to do and administrations are governed by parasites that thrive on the cash value of each child. More and more children are recipients of free breakfast and lunch programs; what happened to the principle of teaching people to fish instead of giving them the fish. Free meals are being discarded in district trash cans and this raises a question about the ethics of our free lunch programs. If we were to make children pay for even half of their lunch, we could pave the way for better schools and more teachers. We have become emotionally and financially bankrupt in our quest to ignore the obvious. We have paralyzed our schools by ignoring simple truths. Education provides the building blocks for our nation and we are electing to throw the blocks away. Schools impatiently yield to the latest technology and reject the traditions of what history has manifested. We have more technology but do we have a smarter, safer, kinder world? The human spirit should be grounded in each other, not wires.