"If you're going to San Francisco?
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair....."                                                              Scott McKenzie

There was a wedding in San Francisco. I attended, having known the groom since he was born.

Such hopes for the future, optimism, dreams and plans, surrounded me, from all those young men and women.  

I met a man, a few years older than me, who said he's lived his live with no regrets.

For a while, it felt like - we might be alright.  Things might work out.  The best possible of worlds, without end, amen.

But I forgot to wear flowers in my hair, to ward off this looming despair.

I can't find a source of optimism, inside or in this world.  It still feels like a mundane apocalypse, devoid of supernatural purpose, is coming upon us.

When I was young, I believed things could change - that we could change the wrongs of the world, like war, poverty, injustice.  But the change has consistently been for the worse.  

Blessed be.