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My grandmother had an old milk cow she called Ole Heart. Ole Heart helped my grandmother make ends meet. She would sell excess milk and butter to various folks around town that preferred their milk straight from the cow rather than the supermarket. She would get a calf from Ole Heart once a year that she raised for beef and put in her freezer. She and the cow had been together many years.
During the day Ole Heart roamed Continue reading “A Bit of Wisdom from Ole Heart”
I am starting a campaign to save the paragraph. I may get bumper stickers printed up.
Email and other electronic forms of instant communication have done much to butcher and change written communication. One of these is the loss of the paragraph in such writings.
For me, at least, it makes some of these hard to read when they run for 100s of words without a pause or logically grouping thoughts.
SAVE THE PARAGRAPH
Here is the link to the article in the Wall Street Journal Saving Mexico
I’m not a big fan of drugs. I’ve seen them ruin too many lives. I’m also not a big fan of keeping drugs illegal. That is also wrecking too many lives. Add to that the amount of energy and resources being wasted enforcing the criminalization and it equals crazy. The energy/resources could be better used elsewhere.
We tried alcohol prohibition and that did not work. It created vast criminal enterprises. It is the same with drugs. I appreciate that there is a moral argument here. Continue reading “Objective should be to make the U.S. self-sufficient in marijuana”
Heard outside my apartment window on a rainy day.
There was the patter of little feet running.
Then a woman’s voice commanding loudly, “Stop, don’t do that.”
This was followed very quickly by the sounds of splashing and a little girl’s voice softly saying, “Ooops.”
Nearly simultaneously following was the woman’s voice even louder, ”OoooooooAGGGGGHHHHH…Damn!”
Next the little girl’s voice saying meekly, “Now what?”
Now the woman’s voice with a frustrated tone, “We have to change your shoes and pants. We need to leave in 10 minutes.”
Finally, the little girl’s voice asking/saying brightly, “It’ll be alright?”
Here is my premise:
Mankind is busy destroying the ecosystem to a point that it may drastically affect our quality of life. It will probably also cause untold suffering and deaths in the next 30, 40 or 50 years if we do not change our course of action.
I think we can agree that there are numerous societies and countries across the world that are pretty screwed up. I am not going to except the USA as I believe that we are a society based on capitalism. The heart of capitalism is greed, one of the worse human traits.
The well being of individuals are based on environmental and societal conditions.
My question:
To me the above implies that any God does not care for the world or societies at large. Continue reading “What is up with that?”
I just watched Mr. Obama’s speech to Congress. What a refreshing change to have a leader lead, to have a leader concerned about the run of mill citizen, to have a leader paint a picture of a shared future.
Obama gives me hope.
The 4 things that concern me most are health care, the deficit, energy, and education, seem to the the things that concern this president most.
Obama gives me hope.
It is time we forgot short term gains, and made long range plans. It is time we quit ignoring the problems. It is time we started attacking the problems.
Obama gives me hope.
I believe that our government should govern scientifically. We do this by identifying the problem. Gather whatever information, experts, etc we need to come up with a solution, implement that solution, and most importantly put it on a feedback loop. If the solution does not work, then we go back to step 2, but we keep working on it. And we do this until the problem is solved. I believe this President will do that.
Obama gives me hope.
I’m in the process of trying to learn/relearn Italian. Many moons ago I lived in Italy for 3 years during my Jr. High years. I was never fluent, but I spoke enough to not be cheated in the markets and play with the Italian kids.
I would like to revisit the country for an extended period, and go to places off of tourist road. So that is my motivation for studying the language.
I asked an Indian friend of my mine who is bilingual about language. He has been in the USA for 7 years, and of course, English is widely spoken in India. I was wondering about whether he thought in English, dreamed in English, did he need to translate English to his native tongue, etc. Below is his well thought out answer: Continue reading “Adding a second language”
A good friend passed these on to me… Thanks Robin
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our Attitudes.”
~Charles R. Swindol
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