TOGETHER WE SHALL THRIVE

Rip Parker
2 min readJan 20, 2022

With a birth certificate approaching 85 years (I’m not nearly as old as that piece of paper), I find myself longing for more time on this sometimes seemingly God forsaken planet. There is so much more to learn, and to do.

Yet, I then look to the condition of our political divides, and the apparent insanity afflicting about half our citizens, and I wonder, do I really want to go through what I think I see coming?

Yes, emphatically, I do. I want to be here with my children, my grandchildren and perhaps great grandchildren so we may support each other, cheer each…

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Rip Parker

Geophysicist, lawyer, mediator, student of Jung, phenomenology, semiotics