Mmm sounds like a treat :) I am just stopping by here, but I enjoyed reading a little bit about your life. I'm sorry to hear you've facing a lot of challenges lately, but you've got a great attitude about it.
I wish you had been outside the walls in the aftermath of 9/11. There were no party lines...just Americans and I was never more proud then at that time to be counted amongst such a people.
Maybe I've grown somewhat cynical since then because it seems that when we tackle crisis, it all seems like a giant united front while the cameras are rolling. The minute they are diverted to the next disaster, interest falls off. As I child, I caught my first glimpse of this craving for sensationalism, to be noticed doing something good as if without the notice, it's just not as worthwhile. I'm as repulsed by it now as I was then.
I don't think we've ever lived in such selfish times as we do now. There's no demographic for it though...I've seen it in the young, the old, the rich, the poor, both political parties, atheists and religious zealots. We believe we're entitled to what another person has, whether we worked or sacrificed for it as they did. We are so easily offended...as if it were a god-given right to have the world exist to placate us. Technology imprisons us while giving us the illusion of free time, easier access to what we desire and cloaking us each in anonymity.
The reason mankind will fail utterly, unless it wakes up (and I'm optimistic about that really)is because it always takes the path of least resistence. I mean sure...there are individuals out there...those people that don't quite fit the accepted norm and find their own path instead...but they are becoming a rare bird. If that day should ever come when the species becomes extinct...then we are all doomed.
But I don't think that will happen. I truly think that the scales will start to tip again...as they tend to do when we reach one extreme or another. I would love to be alive to see it...I have a feeling that the opposite of "me" is "we" and won't that be something?
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hey it yashua, ive been in a program the past year and i just wanted to let you know im doing very well. i kinda remember what i wrote to you a year ago but i was really spun out so whatever it was im sure it was nonsense. hope to hear back from you.
I apologize for not writing for so long. Things have been hectic. I did recieve your last letter, and I enjoyed it very much. I will definitely send you something soon. I hope you are doing well also, and that you had as plesant a Thanksgiving as possible in your position. Because your last letter included so much info and a few questions which required lengthy answers, I've tried to sit down to write you back and I've had to can those letters to start over for one reason or another. But, I really just want to get back to you, so I may not comment on everything from your last letter or answer everything you had asked, just so that I can get something sent out. I really am not trying to be ignorant towards you. And, I will get around to all your answers over the course of my next few letters. Thanks for reaching out to me via this sight and I'll be in touch with you again shortly.
Did you hear from your mom in the meantime? I hope so.
Just maybe express that a little different. "I got one letter which wasn´t from the person I wanted to hear from" - could hurt the other one who wrote you. Just express it another way: "I got one letter. I hope to hear from my mom too, I´m worried about her" - or something like that. Don´t combine those two things. Hope you understand what I mean. (Especially as in other blog entries you were sad when you didn´t get any mail at all. ;-) )
About your heart breaking when women sit in prison - well, mine breaks whenever a person is in prison because that means that there has been a crime before. Would be much better if we didn´t need jails at all....
But as long as women commit crimes too, I don´t see any reason why they shouldn´t sit in jail. There are horrific crimes that have been committed by women - should they be allowed to without punishment just because of their sex? Sorry, can´t agree with that.
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Maybe I've grown somewhat cynical since then because it seems that when we tackle crisis, it all seems like a giant united front while the cameras are rolling. The minute they are diverted to the next disaster, interest falls off. As I child, I caught my first glimpse of this craving for sensationalism, to be noticed doing something good as if without the notice, it's just not as worthwhile. I'm as repulsed by it now as I was then.
I don't think we've ever lived in such selfish times as we do now. There's no demographic for it though...I've seen it in the young, the old, the rich, the poor, both political parties, atheists and religious zealots. We believe we're entitled to what another person has, whether we worked or sacrificed for it as they did. We are so easily offended...as if it were a god-given right to have the world exist to placate us. Technology imprisons us while giving us the illusion of free time, easier access to what we desire and cloaking us each in anonymity.
The reason mankind will fail utterly, unless it wakes up (and I'm optimistic about that really)is because it always takes the path of least resistence. I mean sure...there are individuals out there...those people that don't quite fit the accepted norm and find their own path instead...but they are becoming a rare bird. If that day should ever come when the species becomes extinct...then we are all doomed.
But I don't think that will happen. I truly think that the scales will start to tip again...as they tend to do when we reach one extreme or another. I would love to be alive to see it...I have a feeling that the opposite of "me" is "we" and won't that be something?
I apologize for not writing for so long. Things have been hectic. I did recieve your last letter, and I enjoyed it very much. I will definitely send you something soon. I hope you are doing well also, and that you had as plesant a Thanksgiving as possible in your position. Because your last letter included so much info and a few questions which required lengthy answers, I've tried to sit down to write you back and I've had to can those letters to start over for one reason or another. But, I really just want to get back to you, so I may not comment on everything from your last letter or answer everything you had asked, just so that I can get something sent out. I really am not trying to be ignorant towards you. And, I will get around to all your answers over the course of my next few letters. Thanks for reaching out to me via this sight and I'll be in touch with you again shortly.
Jessica
what a really beautiful painting!
Did you hear from your mom in the meantime? I hope so.
Just maybe express that a little different.
"I got one letter which wasn´t from the person I wanted to hear from" - could hurt the other one who wrote you. Just express it another way:
"I got one letter. I hope to hear from my mom too, I´m worried about her" - or something like that. Don´t combine those two things. Hope you understand what I mean.
(Especially as in other blog entries you were sad when you didn´t get any mail at all. ;-) )
About your heart breaking when women sit in prison - well, mine breaks whenever a person is in prison because that means that there has been a crime before. Would be much better if we didn´t need jails at all....
But as long as women commit crimes too, I don´t see any reason why they shouldn´t sit in jail. There are horrific crimes that have been committed by women - should they be allowed to without punishment just because of their sex? Sorry, can´t agree with that.
Greetings from over the pond!!!!