Finding truth in today’s world
is like panning for gold.
We gather our pan full of sand
our minds swirling around;
Washing out the stones and gravel
sifting through bits of silt.
Hoping to find a glint of truth
in the bottom of it all.
Sometimes // we find a speck
here and there;
Other times, all we end up with
is fools gold!
Photo: Dwight L. Roth
All the rhetoric and different agenda’s at play in the current news cycle is giving me a gigantic headache. I no longer sift for hidden nuggets, I’ve stopped panning. Insightful and succinct, as always, Dwight.
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Thank you! I agree.. I have turned off the news completely! It is too disturbing to watch!
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Reblogged this on johncoyote and commented:
True and honest words written. Seek the truth, words can be twisted.
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Thank you John, You are right most of what we hear are only pieces of truth cemented together with opinions! Thank you for the reblog!
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I agree my friend and you are welcome.
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super cute and so profound, I also stopped panning ages ago …
it’s all fools gold manipulated to try and mould us 🙂
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Sifting through the truth
Is like pulling a sore tooth
Leaving a gap as wide as a mile
And a chasm of empty smiles
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Ivor, you should be a poet!! LOL
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My dad ended up in a nursing home and of course I would always be visiting…. he had a gorgeous sense of humour…. I worked with him as a plumber for decades…..and he loved to hear my story about how my plumber jobs were going…. then one day he said to me, “Do you know Ivor, if you stick at it, you’ll make a good plumber one day”(absolutely priceless, I was then 63yrs-old)…… with a big smile on his face…. So I suppose it’s a bit like my poetry…. “If I stick at it, I’ll make a good poet one day” 😀😄😊
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Priceless indeed! This one for sure! I love it. Maybe we all will get there one day … if we keep at it!
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So true!!!! Can so relate!
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Thank you! Especially true on Network News!
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Amen, Brother!
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Fools Gold… a great analogy! Help us learn to be more discerning, Lord, in order to sift the real stuff from the BS!!
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You got that right! Thanks!!
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Excellent use of metaphor! BOOM! Direct hit.
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Just came to me this morning!
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🙂
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That is so absolutely true. I love the image of the truth being specks of gold in a bucket full of muck.
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That seems to be the way it is much of the time! Thank you!
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So apt, Dwight.
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Thank you Derrik! So hard to find these days.
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