1999 • tuned June 2026
Faster than the speed of Life is God’s forgiveness of our misgivings. Nothing outruns the light, the books all say. One thing does. It arrives before the asking, the way the dawn forgives the night. The Speed of Light still carries its message. Look up: the sky is a letter ten thousand years in the mail, and every line of it reads the same: you are born star bright, void of lies, the Tao of Peace shines in your eyes. And here is the strange, lab-tested news: two things once joined are joined for good. Stir one, and its partner answers, across any distance, across any dark. That is you and me. That is everyone who ever shared a song, a meal, a street. We are tangled up in one another. Nature has nothing to hide. You have a lifetime to seek, finding the Truth and letting it go. The game is the same for the strong and the meek. Some nights I stand out under all of it, missing somebody. You know the kind of night. The star I love best, the books say, may have burned out long ago, and still its light keeps coming, still it crosses the long dark to find me, faithful as an old song on the radio. Gone is not the same as over. The light is still arriving. So is the love. So be not afraid of pleasure. Allow yourself to love at your leisure. The Love you came from is beyond measure: no instrument can take its reading, no spending ever runs it down. All in all there is nothing left to do ’cept smile smile smile. Light up, toss a bum a dime, bum a song and bum a line, play “He’s Gone” one more time and sing along with the arriving light. Travel freely all the while. Rob Chavez © 2026 Rob Chavez. All Rights Reserved.