Stupid or Wise?

I have been blessed by knowing some very sacred women.

They don’t always KNOW they are sacred.

They have their moments of clear light.

And then again they have their long times of doubt –

And that is when they are vulnerable and when certain people

May convince them they are not sacred at all, but simply stupid.

I am remembering now a German American girl with blue eyes and blond hair.

Well, I always THOUGHT she was a blond,

Until one day I saw her as a brunet and asked her about it

And she laughed and explained it was her natural color

--And she at last preferred it.

Not only did I photograph her, but I became excellent friends with her and her husband and children.

And this friendship has lasted all these years since.

Well, they and I have a mutual acquaintance who is a murderer,

A very evil man,

Who is well liked by some of the idiots of our world.

We are all idiots when we do not see such a man for what he truly is.

And in the beginning, I myself only thought he was a lousy human being,

But had no idea he was capable of murder.

So many numbbrains are convinced he is simply a beautiful long-haired hippie.

One day though I stood outside his campfire and listened to

Bloodthirsty conversations and knew him for what he was.

Later that day he boldly admitted to me that he was not a hippie at all…

– He said he was simply a redneck and that is all he ever was.

He just grew his hair and beard long to look like us and fool us, to be accepted by us.

He hated us and on one occasion tried to murder me and my wife.

But Providence saved us.

It was then that I fully realized what manner of person he was,

And I tried to tell people.

But many or most of them rather ignored me.

Four years passed.

At the moment he sits in prison for attempting to murder another person.

And strangely enough, there are some deluded hippie people

Who go to visit him in jail, thinking he has been unjustly treated.

Back before I knew him for what he truly is, I had a conversation with him

In which we were discussing the gentle German-American girl.

He said everyone knew she was stupid.

I told him I thought she was a heck of a lot smarter than him.

He looked at me then as if I had said something quite audacious and incredible.

I know that whenever she came up in conversation with people

He found occasion to say she was dumb.

You see, one of the reasons he considered her stupid was

Because she loved my goddessheart art.

And she loved me too, as a good friend.

And she loved my wife Ellie too.

And she knew we loved her.

And he hated us and our art.

So that is why he called her dumb.

What is funny is that the man is the spitting image of

Omar Bin Laden!

And like Bin Laden he deplores nude art in Western society

And considers himself a protector

And is willing to use terror and threats and violence

When it serves his purpose.

But she is not what he says she is.

She has beautiful children.

She teaches them herself,

All the good things. And they are smart.

She works hard at a regular job 5 days a week

To support her family.

And she is a vegetarian.

And she does not do drugs

And she does not allow drug dealers around her kids.

And she believes in God

And she takes her children to church.

And when she hugs me it’s like we melt together.

And when she looks at me her eyes are clear and good.

Because her heart is full of love.

She doesn’t entirely fit into this world,

Where so many people favor the deceiver,

So she has gone home with her babies to live with her parents

In a state far away

Where they all will be safe

And where people will consider her to be what she is:

Simply, a hard working and wise mother.