The Polar Bear

mother bear and cubs sleeping

There was a point in the earth's history when the arctic and antarctic, the terrestrial poles symbolized the cold frozen expanse of eternity or infinity. In the meanwhile global warming is literally breaking the ice as far as the conversation about time is concerned. It’s all now a mish mash that’s lost its significance. Polar bears and seals seek to spare themselves from the destruction of the habitat which keeps them alive. Still the idea of forever, a cicerone of time that is timeless is alive and well in the cosmos where Einstein showed gravity warps space time and where magnificent displays of creation and destruction, dying stars or supernovae, offer a blinding efflorescence of light before they they suck everything into the ultimate embodiment of oblivion, the black hole.

read "Pet Buddha" by Francis Levy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

listen to James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti singing "It's a Man's World"

and listen to "I Love to Love (But My Baby Just Wants to Dance)" by Tina Charles (1975)

and listen to "Band of Gold" by Freda Payne with Belinda Carlisle

and listen to "Twenty-Five Miles From Home" by Edwin Starr