We love ourselves too often and need reach out much more often. It is a social responsibility and it effects the environment also.
I had a friend in Chico named Dereck who eventually told me what being gay was like for him and it brought me to compassion like nothing else could. You need to get into peoples shoes for a few minutes. Then about a year later I read some Christian writing about gays in someone's front office. I saw the shock of my life. The writer was smarter then most bigots and no less hateful.
There is no sound from a tear drop and baby screams can be complex but a bad war is not hard to make clear. A bad war is the sound of the grinding sounds of rusty machines doing reversals if the buttons had nothing to press if all the living were not dead and brothers hugged each other and wept😐
Underpinning of this b!og is much like what came before it. The website began as love-of-comfort and morphed into Uplifting Thoughts which began to insist on the theraputic value of poetry exploring what is not coming from happiness. I actually got a thumbs up from Depac Chopra on this. This is significant because the negative was mostly taboo.
Perhaps America is very different now. As if given a chance refuses and then again. Perhaps we bear the weight well and trudge forwards. I imagine our bright stars still shining, but I don't know where except at the last stop, the real oasis. A spirit of lincoln beckoning our better selves.
The spirit of service gets fun in a shiny sad way after years go by. At Alphi Phi Omega and CSU Chico I became fully pledged to service. To get gratitude from others is a wonder, but it is the work of miles that never seems to end that makes me truly smile.
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For this land of the free A land deep in my heart I have risked to save More than once To California we came My great great grand...