{"id":304208,"date":"2019-07-22T06:06:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T20:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=304208"},"modified":"2019-07-22T06:06:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T20:06:13","slug":"sonnets-in-search-of-your-synaptic-stimulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sonnets-in-search-of-your-synaptic-stimulus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnets in Search of Your Synaptic Stimulus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brain Food for Thought: \u2018FUN\u2019 Buns and \u2018SAD\u2019 Soup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>F.U.N.: Forgiveness, Understanding, Negativity<br \/>\nS.A.D.: Sympathy, Altruism, Determination<br \/>\nIt was 19th-century French philosopher August Comte (1798 &#8211; 1857) who came up with the word \u201caltruism\u201d when he said \u201c\u2026the religion of humanity whose great moral principle is altruism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All major religions preach love and forgiveness<br \/>\nAll philosophers try to help us reach understanding<br \/>\nPositivity and negativity are part our daily aliveness<br \/>\nProgress through life\u2019s ups and downs is demanding<br \/>\nSympathy for the Devil is an old Rolling Stones song<br \/>\nSympathy for fellow human beings we need to stress<br \/>\nForget about being absolutely right or absolutely wrong<br \/>\nFind solace in altruism, determine to clear up life\u2019s mess<br \/>\nFor the short time that we have here on our planet Earth<br \/>\nFind understanding, fun, and hope in our lives and labors<br \/>\nMove eagerly towards kindness, caring, sharing, and mirth<br \/>\nMake peace with enemies, family, international neighbors<br \/>\nYes, there is vitality and strength in understanding what is sad<br \/>\nYou make our world a better place doing good and fighting bad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thumbs up thumbs down at Roman gladiator fights<br \/>\nthumbs up thumbs down now smiley face or frown<br \/>\nthumbs up thumbs down drunk filled days and nights<br \/>\nthumbs up thumbs down online for a narcissistic clown.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly there must be further human depths to plumb<br \/>\nthan the announcer saying, \u201c lets get ready to rumble\u201d<br \/>\nand watching boxers getting beaten till they\u2019re numb<br \/>\ngetting brain damaged, K O as they fall and stumble.<\/p>\n<p>Judging what others do, what they think and say<br \/>\na simple thumbs up thumbs down to close an issue<br \/>\njudging countless moments of life with aye or nay<br \/>\nwithout so much as stimulating our brain tissue.<\/p>\n<p>Through life\u2019s great immensities we must stay humble<br \/>\nfor between birth and death we all frequently stumble<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Septet of Conscientious Couplets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I say I think most of your ideas are great<br \/>\nI want to eat from your intelligence plate<br \/>\nI mean the food for thought inside your brain<br \/>\nthe meat of what you mean and care to explain<br \/>\nWhen I say that I love you forever and ever<br \/>\nand try hard not to ever use the word never<br \/>\nwhen I say forget about it give me a break<br \/>\naccept my misgivings understand my mistakes.<br \/>\nWhen father said there is good and bad in every race<br \/>\nhe took us children beyond color to a humanistic place<br \/>\nWhen mother protected us saying wait till he gets out , it was<br \/>\nbehavioral protection against whipping from father no doubt.<br \/>\nWhen I feel your upset, anger, confusion, hear emotional cries<br \/>\nI begin understanding the humanity in you that no one denies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain Food for Thought: \u2018FUN\u2019 Buns and \u2018SAD\u2019 Soup F.U.N.: Forgiveness, Understanding, Negativity S.A.D.: 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