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Sometimes I think if we had paid better attention to basic math 

it would be easier to follow our hearts….

and the Earth would be one whole…

instead of broken into parts.

I imagine in elementary school we could not contemplate

the importance of basic math in terms of love and hate.

Even now I have to wonder: as to what might be your reaction

when I tell you love and hate come down to simple addition and subtraction?

I draw your attention to those math lessons…the ones on basic facts…

Love as a plus…adds beauty to the world

Hate, as a minus…subtracts.

And if I may take a moment to extend this view, this perception…this vision

love and hate also relate…to multiplication…and division.

Hate divides us, it tears people apart…

it separates us by color, shape and size

Love brings us together…

it accumulates…it multiplies.

Perhaps some of us should go back to school and re-learn our basic facts

because until their connection to love and hate…we are all able to see

The Earth will remain only a fraction…

of the whole Earth she was created to be.