This post is part of Stream of Consciousness Saturday 7/11/2020 #SoCS

This was so funny. The instructions were to locate the picture closest to me, and use the first song that popped into my head as the stream of consciousness writing prompt. So I grabbed my tarot deck, pulled a card, and voila!

The first song to pop into my head was Billy Thorpe’s Children of the Sun. I couldn’t help it, it just came to me. I haven’t heard this song in decades, and I think this may be a universe-speaking-to-my-subconscious moment.

This song is about hope, and the fantasy that we will be saved by an outside force. I think the real salvation comes from within us. We are thinking human beings and are capable of so much when we don’t get into our own way. It is comforting to think that someone or something might come to our planet and fix all that is wrong with it right now: climate change, the pandemic that continues to rage, bigotry and abuse, oppression, and the poisoning of our world with the byproducts of engineering and technology. Maybe some of what is going on right now is the result of the earth fighting back to save what is left of the natural world. I don’t know. These are all random thoughts that run through my head. So many of our problems are ones that we’ve inflicted on ourselves as a whole, and other problems are inflicted by individuals on other individuals. We all need healing on so many levels, and I hope we figure this out in time. The song that prompted these thoughts describes a science fiction tableau, and I loved sci-fi novels when I was growing up. Thinking about what could be, and who we are at our best and our worst, took up a lot of my imagination as a child and adolescent. I want to continue thinking about how best to move forward as human beings, and how to become Children of the Sun.