The Incomplete Truth....

For those who think of Saskatchewan as flat....

Oh, I don't deny there are places within our province that you can, indeed, see your dog run away for days etc....  there are also places like this.

Sometimes, when you repeatedly think of something in a certain way, you tend to make assumptions. Then, over time, you simply begin to believe everything within those assumptions are true. But, when you take the time to dig a little deeper, look a little closer, most assumptions, although they may not be proven completely wrong, they, more often than not, prove to be incomplete.

From a distance, Hollywood looked like a shiny symbol of what a lot of people aspire to. In recent years, the curtain has been pulled back, revealing to us a more complete truth.

Bill Cosby- One of the most popular TV Dads of a generation.
Harvey Weinstein- A movie project dream granter/career maker.

From a distance, they looked shiny too, but when the curtain was pulled back, the masks pulled off, a more complete truth was revealed.

Predators, wielding power as weapons, manipulating people and situations for the sole purpose of hunting future survivors, feeding endlessly their gluttonous appetites, devouring the self-worth of countless innocent souls.

Unfortunately, the previous paragraph could be used to describe many, far beyond the reaches of tinsel town.

Predators hunt for different reasons, use different weapons, plan different outcomes for their prey.
They manipulate, intimidate, threaten, willing to anything to get what they want.

From a distance, and through a fear filter, stringent border security can look like safety, but when you peek behind the curtain, you find screaming children being stripped from the arms of their sobbing parents.

A glimpse into the rearview that frames a horrible history no one should ever want repeated. Prey of a different kind for a different sort of predator.

From a distance, it's easy to look at all of these predators being brought to light by the shining bravery of their survivors and see the world as a place infested by evil.

But if we look behind the curtain, we find random acts of kindness, people selflessly giving of themselves to make the lives of others better in whatever way they can.

In all cases, in every case, we can only hope justice is truly served. That karma feasts upon the bones of those who prey on the unprotected, and bestows every imaginable good fortune on those who live their days in the pursuit of gifting joy.


Without looking behind the curtain, every truth we get can be nothing other than incomplete.

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May you have the courage to look behind the curtain, to face the complete truth of what you find.
May you consider beliefs unencumbered by assumptions, stepping ahead with an open mind.

May you be willing to accept the complete truth, whether shrouded in darkness or bathed in light.
May you see that even though it may not be what you first perceived, the truth is always worth the fight.

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