When natural forces wreak havoc, does it help to know you are part of a shared calamity? Or does the magnitude of nature’s devastation isolate you in a feeling of despair?
Have hope, for if you are still alive to hope for a tomorrow, then today is still a blessed day.
* shared the clip later.
The moment you care, somebody rather than nobody cares.
When we are young, emotional molehills seem like mountains and physical mountains seem like molehills. When we are old, it reverses.
It is so blasted dry, I am afraid to fart for fear it would light a fire.
The practice of eugenics is a scar on our nation’s character. This scarring should be a warning to us of how easy it is for “good intentions” to go too far. During a war, some may feel the good of the whole outweighs the good of a few, but this is seldom justified during civilized peacetime. Providing for the general welfare of a population may infringe on the monetary rights of the citizens, but should not infringe on the human rights of the citizens. The practice of eugenics crossed this ethical line.
For the most part, I agree with the philosophy that money does not undo injustice, as North Carolina’s Senate determined this week in regards to monetarily compensating the victims of forced sterilization. When injustice is isolated, a few are victimized and should be compensated. When the injustice is widespread, we are all the victims and there is no compensation equal to the harm which was done.
As a society we tend to turn away from how injustice has been part of our nation’s “modern” past. In doing so, it is easier for us to ignore injustices still in practice. When the ideology of one group, no matter how large the group may be, infringes on the rights of others, we are in danger of ignoring the lessons of the past and we may try to justify the unjust.
It is through remembering the past that we become empowered to work for a better future.
North, south, east or west, a half mile hike is relatively the same. Up and down…
The gentle incline… steep was yet to come.
…well that is another matter.
Today my husband ran 6 miles for the first time. As he has reminded me, it has taken 19 years for me to convince him to attack such a feat.
His comment at the completion of the run was, “After covering 6 miles, I have determined Nike, Suacony, Asics and Brooks are all fine, but Honda is still better.”
I don’t usually wear the ball and chain when I am at home.
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Context: the son asks, “Dad, where is your wedding ring?”
Of course the son only asked because honey dos and kid lists were being handed out at the time.
The most important person you want to please is the person looking back at you in the mirror.
It is certainly better to be disliked and respected, than to be liked but held in contempt.
Just remember to be respected does not mean to be feared; and if everyone seems to dislike you, you might want to take a good hard look at your own nature.
However, if you are virtuous and kind to yourself and the world around you, yet still are not liked my the masses, you must be doing something right. Keep up the good work, and maybe the masses will learn something from you.
I am not sure if my blogging will change the world, but it makes my husband happy. Now he can read my mental meanderings rather than listen to them.
