Why do we hide so much from each other?

We must be more honest, and we must have more emotional integrity, as my friend Thishi says. Poems, even works of non-fiction, too often obscure what people should be saying outright.

America has serious problems. Vietnam created a large group of homeless, sad people in our cities and now we are making a similar mistake with Iraq. Not to mention the fact that we are polluting the world far too much (stemming from our over-eating and wreckless energy abuse).

I wrote a whole year of blog entries on my time in Japan and, more often than not, did not write about what was really on my mind. Instead, I channeled those thoughts into much more abstract pieces.

I am going to work on being more honest with myself, and to other people, even if it hurts to do so. Being honest means more than you might realize.