Sunday morning......Saturday night was spent around the fire with about ten people, little scotch, little beer, good conversation, shrimp, cheese & crackers, sliced apple and smoked gouda. So, getting up this a.m. was a little difficult and then the phone rang. It was my oldest daughter. My niece's baby died. Her father was holding her on the couch and gave her a bottle at 11 p.m. When he awoke, she was beside him on the couch dead. They don't know if he slept on her and she smothered or died from natural causes. She was 2 months old. We don't see as much death in little children as we once did. We have very old cemetaries tucked in throughout New England with many little children, sometimes from the same family that died from disease. This kind of death is different. How does anyone deal with this? If it is ruled an accident due to smothering, how does the father manage? How does my neice ever be able to look at him? Damn, I hate bad news......
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I have an idea myself, but might be crucified as being unpatriotic... anyway, I'll say it. Like you said on my blog earlier, "To thine own self be true."
I think patriotism can be good or bad, depending on whether or not it creates division.
I am thankful - so VERY thankful for the freedoms I have - but sometimes feel imprisoned by the label "American", mostly because it seems to associate me with other Americans who don't exactly represent America in a way I'd like to see it represented - that is, as open-minded individuals without any discrimination against religion, color, gender, etc., not just for our country, but the entire world.
Do you know why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. Krishnamurti
"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." ~Socrates
Does that makes sense?
I do believe that the creation of this democratic experiment that we call the United States is a marvelous notation upon the ongoing evolution of the progression of mankind.
How treasonous, how blasphemous, how arrogant, to believe that a government could be by the people and for the people. That we could be audacious enough to believe that one could form their own view of God; that we could support the separation of church and state. The quest for external power, whether it be Pope, King or Potentate continues under the guise of "the love of money is the root of all evil" big business.
But we press on.