Images and thoughts. Convictions and conjecture.
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My daughter called me this week because she heard that there would be an ICE raid in her town. This was a problem because her neighbors, and her 6 year-old's best friend are Hispanic. She wanted my advice as to what she could do. She said that she had thought of having them stay with her until "the danger" had passed. Please understand that all in this family are citizens of the US, but other persons in their community are are pointing fingers at any persons of color claiming that they "may be illegal". She said that if worse came to worst she could hide them in her basement. When we finished I realized that our country was now reliving "The Diary of Anne Frank". And no one seems to see the problem with this.
The 200 yd shoot house.
Some days are exactly like this!
The Greatest American writer. He spoke truth with a sharp tongue.
“I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse.”
— Mark Twain
A poem to the past.
“Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours.”
— Unknown
How are you doing this weekend?
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
— Albert Einstein
“The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing you had.”
— Unknown
"Stand by Me" cover
I love this. Seeing all the smiles this brought on this ✈️.
To find home in another soul,
to feel home in another heart.
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”
— Nicholas Sparks
— Mahmoud Darwish
“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.”
— Dalai Lama