We Hold These Truths. . .

88 pages, 8.5 × 5.5 inches, soft bound, contains chapter illustrations by the author The New Age is old. The Now Age is new. The Truth Age is the future and We Hold These Truths… takes us there. This moving and amusing story of a Truth Bomb falling upon the world illustrates the positive, paradigm-shifting changes—-in fast forward—-that seem like a portent of 2012. We Hold These Truths… is an apocalyptic novel in rhymed verse, with a happy ending. Like a combination of Kahlil Gibran, George Orwell, and Dr. Seuss, the story in 20 chapters follows the lives of ordinary people—a tailor, a doctor, a teacher, a corporate CEO, a shop keeper, a housewife, a priest, a Senator, and an auto worker—and follows them through their trials, tribulations, revelations and rebirth in the aftermath of the most unusual bomb in all history: a bomb that compels the world’s peoples to live their Truths. For example… After the Truth Bomb, a village fool is recognized for his natural wisdom: Tom said, “All you need is the Golden Rule. / Its implications are awesome. / Reflect upon this simple tool / then take your other laws and toss ’em.” / How strange that Tom, once a repulsive bum / was now the guy who on the pulse had his thumb! The tailor who ends up creating his own reality of business failure moves on to something more personally fulfilling and… “Believe it or not he became a success / by the only true measure: one’s personal best. / Proving that sometimes you just never know /what wonders may happen when you go with the flow.” An oil company CEO decides to close his ecologically-destructive business in favor of teaching self-reliance: “Joe then decided his new occupation should be in the field of illumination. / He started giving his secrets away / about power from sun, wind, water and hay. / Though his client base tapered he had little concern. / There’s always another one waiting to learn.” Truth causes the old religious taboos about the topic of sex to come crashing down. The world becomes so open and honest that… “. . . Henry is a publisher now / of a yearly directory called ‘The Sacred Cow.’ / There is no layout, nor contributors to thank. / All 462 pages are blank.” A housewife inspired by the bomb decides to grow her own organic food: “Her Truth garden soon became so fanned out / that she offered each neighbor a free handout. / But she found herself with very few takers. / They too had grown more oats than the Quakers.” Although the Truth Bomb brings relief and euphoria, some are still wary of the changes, but. . . “No one wanted to go back / to that soon-forgotten state of lack / in which everything desirable / was held aloft as aspirable / but, like the carrot on the stick, was unacquirable.” The Truth Bomb is so effective that: “The next thousand years of learning was hastened / man’s inhumanity to man became chastened / a fatal blow to illusion was dealt / and now the love of God could be felt.” And in the final chapter, unemployed and disgruntled auto workers become inspired to utilize their own ingenuity, rather than relying upon the patriarchal corporation. By so doing they begin to generate micro-economies within their neighborhoods based on barter, sharing, and fairness. “When the Truth Bomb came it affected Jay’s head. / Instead of feeling useless he picked up some thread / and sewed some clothes then traded those / for Dean s tomatoes. / And Dean used part of his haul / to get shoes from Paul / who read the paper / he got from Draper.” all of this occurs, not through moralistic compulsion, deprivation, shame, blame and regret, but by the simple Truth of owning up to what one already knows inside and cannot in Truth deny.

2009-12-20T18:51:42-08:00

we-hold-these-truths 11803502

Book

2009-12-20T18:51:42-08:00

We Hold These Truths. . .

2010-02-03T17:06:12-08:00

Leslie Cabarga 88 pages, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, soft bound, contains chapter illustrations by the author The New Age is old. The Now Age is new. The Truth Age is the future and We Hold These Truths… takes us there. This moving and amusing story of a Truth Bomb falling upon the world illustrates the positive, paradigm-shifting changes---in fast forward---that seem like a portent of 2012. We Hold These Truths... is an apocalyptic novel in rhymed verse, with a happy ending. Like a combination of Kahlil Gibran, George Orwell, and Dr. Seuss, the story in 20 chapters follows the lives of ordinary people—a tailor, a doctor, a teacher, a corporate CEO, a shop keeper, a housewife, a priest, a Senator, and an auto worker—and follows them through their trials, tribulations, revelations and rebirth in the aftermath of the most unusual bomb in all history: a bomb that compels the world’s peoples to live their Truths. For example... After the Truth Bomb, a village fool is recognized for his natural wisdom: Tom said, “All you need is the Golden Rule. / Its implications are awesome. / Reflect upon this simple tool / then take your other laws and toss ’em.” / How strange that Tom, once a repulsive bum / was now the guy who on the pulse had his thumb! The tailor who ends up creating his own reality of business failure moves on to something more personally fulfilling and... "Believe it or not he became a success / by the only true measure: one’s personal best. / Proving that sometimes you just never know /what wonders may happen when you go with the flow." An oil company CEO decides to close his ecologically-destructive business in favor of teaching self-reliance: “Joe then decided his new occupation should be in the field of illumination. / He started giving his secrets away / about power from sun, wind, water and hay. / Though his client base tapered he had little concern. / There’s always another one waiting to learn.” Truth causes the old religious taboos about the topic of sex to come crashing down. The world becomes so open and honest that… “. . . Henry is a publisher now / of a yearly directory called ‘The Sacred Cow.’ / There is no layout, nor contributors to thank. / All 462 pages are blank.” A housewife inspired by the bomb decides to grow her own organic food: “Her Truth garden soon became so fanned out / that she offered each neighbor a free handout. / But she found herself with very few takers. / They too had grown more oats than the Quakers.” Although the Truth Bomb brings relief and euphoria, some are still wary of the changes, but. . . "No one wanted to go back / to that soon-forgotten state of lack / in which everything desirable / was held aloft as aspirable / but, like the carrot on the stick, was unacquirable." The Truth Bomb is so effective that: “The next thousand years of learning was hastened / man’s inhumanity to man became chastened / a fatal blow to illusion was dealt / and now the love of God could be felt.” And in the final chapter, unemployed and disgruntled auto workers become inspired to utilize their own ingenuity, rather than relying upon the patriarchal corporation. By so doing they begin to generate micro-economies within their neighborhoods based on barter, sharing, and fairness. “When the Truth Bomb came it affected Jay’s head. / Instead of feeling useless he picked up some thread / and sewed some clothes then traded those / for Dean s tomatoes. / And Dean used part of his haul / to get shoes from Paul / who read the paper / he got from Draper.” all of this occurs, not through moralistic compulsion, deprivation, shame, blame and regret, but by the simple Truth of owning up to what one already knows inside and cannot in Truth deny.

2009-12-20T18:51:42-08:00

manual

272 30125722

deny

Default 1 12.95

11803502

true

false Default

2009-12-20T18:51:42-08:00

2009-12-20T18:57:36-08:00

24348502 1

11803502

2009-12-20T18:57:36-08:00

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0013/5892/products/Truths-cover.jpg?1268158995