http://mediaroots.org/nuclear-meltdown-occurred-day-after-quake/ Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:55:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 http://mediaroots.org/nuclear-meltdown-occurred-day-after-quake/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:55:39 +0000 http://localhost/mediaroots/nuclear-meltdown-occurred-day-after-quake/#comment-20 Mark I personally think the only time sontehimg makes a difference is when the effort to change is made from any position…at that single moment. Once gone, nothing i did a heartbeat ago matters, not to me, not to the recipient of the fruit of my efforts and not them who have come to know things just are as they have ever been. In short nothing makes a difference after the perception of it is arrived at. As a therapist, I had more than one client tell me I was mean for telling them the truth. I had more than one client stomp out in anger. I had quite a few I fired. At that moment, the moment the catalyst (my words, thoughts, deeds) entered their lives, the client felt only rage and rejection.A year later, maybe ten years later, the same people who told me I was nothing or mean or a bitch or whatever are the people who say I changed their lives. I grew more with you than anyone else, they say. Sometimes, I think we plant seeds and they lay in wait until the soil, water, rain, and sun are ready to support them. All I can do is plant seeds. I think sometimes about Johnny Appleseed. Did he know he planted apple trees across the US? Probably not. Did he know that apples contain the cancer and disease fighting agent, Quercetin? Probably not. In my imagination, he planted seeds because planting apple seeds was what he did. I write because that’s what I do. You poet because that’s what you do.That’s all we can do.

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