Open the Door, and the Bats Will Fly Out

We are a family of quirky, open-minded people.

We flee narrowness of vision,

fences, ideologies that confine or prescribe.

We seek open pastures to romp in

(and we want the cows to romp, too,

and not be eaten.

We are equal-opportunity dreamers).

We have among us vegans and raw vegans

and even a raw vegan baby

who attacks her fruits and greens with hilarious gusto.

We have minimalists and the other end of the spectrum,

It's all good.

To each his own.

Just don't hurt the planet, or each other.

We have someone who has gone off plastic 

in a big way

because she knows the harm it has done to our world.

She lives in a tiny house, and is teaching us a lot.

We have people who have escaped from cults.

We know whereof we speak.

We have one who escapes the planet regularly 

in nightly interplanetary travels,

when the fetters of gravity prove too confining.

In other words, we cannot be convinced that

control, rigidity, narrowness and the Thought Police

will do the world any good.

A wall between countries

will never get our votes,

no matter how outlandish the toupee.

Bring on your spacious skies,

inclusiveness, love and peace,

and  kindness-revolution-dreaming.

"A better world is not only possible,

she is on her way.

On a good day, 

I can hear her breathing." *

*quote by Arundhati Roy

for Susan's prompt at Midweek Motif: Openness. I didn't have to look far for inspiration. Meet our family, LOL.