Random thoughts on Four S Words Sad This is a sad moment in the U.S.—so many people support hate, and it’s discouraging. How do you combat that? The bad excuse that they just don’t realize what they are doing makes no sense in a time when you literally have all the info at your fingertips. No. Hatefulness is real and exists in your own neighborhood. This is profoundly sad to those of us who have always assumed that people are […]
R is for Recycle When I was a kid, I was threatened with dismemberment if I tossed trash out of the car window or left messes–she was probably joking, but then again…. This seemed unfair since my dad had enough metal machinery parts lying around to tilt magnetic north by at least a degree or two. That early training may be why I value a good trash bin now and why recycling has become near and dear to my heart. […]
Q is for Question Q gave me a bit of trouble. Quisling made the short list because we may have at least one of those in our government. But I thought a post about that would sound a bit conspiracy theory-ish—though if it walks like a Russian asset and talks like a Russian asset….. I tried and tried to make Quantum work as a topic, working on the theory that it may take change on a molecular or atomic level […]
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.”― Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 9: 1 September 1815 to 30 April 1816 P is for The Press A Free Press is essential for a robust democracy and guaranteed by the First Amendment, but some say that journalism is dead. Back in the day when I studied journalism with the idea I might one day be a journalist, the idea was to present […]
O is for Outrage Ok—organize is the obvious choice for this O day and I was all set to write a post about how we need to organize and protest and organize our lives to get rid of the stress of clutter and organize for change and while all those things are true, the word that kept popping into my head was OUTRAGE. I am outraged that innocent people are being snatched off the streets by my government, in my […]
L is for Learn The thing about Grannies is that even though we’ve been learning all along the way, the vast amount of knowledge in the world is well beyond the capacity of even a Grannie to encompass totally. There’s always plenty more to learn, and there are always plenty of reasons to keep learning. Yes, we are wise and we have a wealth of experience, but life comes at you fast. One thing that has always really annoyed me […]
