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.

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It must be a world where people can dream.

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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😐

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Ready for a better world?

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If anyone in Russia wants to have tea and discuss peace and other forms of joy even philosophy I would be up for it, but I would not stand a chance at a chess game. I dream that all will be well.

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I'm happy!

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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.

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Dear Elon Musk thank you!

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I understand cern is on again and is finding more out about the higgs. I want to be there.

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Aggression on ukrain is troubling to me because it seems so violent, I can't seem to process the war. There are few words to make sense of what's happening.

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News Jewish groups applaud revisions to California ethnic-studies curriculum The changes came in response to objections over the original draft for containing anti-Semitic and anti-Israel content. Jackson Richman CopyLink copied Email Print Republish The flag of California. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. The flag of California. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. (Nov. 22, 2020 / JNS) Jewish and pro-Israel groups have applauded revisions to California’s proposed ethnic-studies curriculum, which were approved this week by an advisory board to the state’s board of education. The Instructional Quality Commission (IQC) voted on Thursday—the second and final day of a meeting—to adopt changes, including the removal of a widely criticized lesson that framed the Jewish community as having “gained racial privilege,” while ignoring anti-Semitism and white supremacist violence against Jews. The IQC meeting included two hours of phoned-in public comment on Wednesday. A number of Jewish students stressed the importance of educating about all forms of anti-Semitism and the diversity of the Jewish community. Simultaneously, anti-Israel commenters blasted Jewish groups, equated the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the Holocaust and opposed efforts to make the curriculum more balanced and inclusive. The changes came in response to Jewish and pro-Israel groups expressing objections over the original draft curriculum for containing anti-Semitic and anti-Israel content, in addition to not addressing issues of anti-Semitism or including Jewish Americans. “Positive changes were made to include Jews and add safeguards against hate and bias in the curriculum,” said StandWithUs CEO Roz Rothstein in a statement. “While the curriculum is headed in the right direction, there are still key changes we all have to fight for. Among the most important is a strong definition of anti-Semitism in all its forms, rather than a weak definition that caters to the biases of anti-Israel extremists.” Sarah Levin, executive director of JIMENA: Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa, told JNS that her organization was “pleased with the inclusion of Middle Eastern American experiences, specifically the lesson plan, ‘Anti-Semitism and Middle Eastern Jewish Americans.’ ” And the San Francisco-based Jewish Community Relations Council tweeted: “This week’s IQC meeting proved encouraging—salutary recommendations were approved, including important protections for all students and the addition of lessons on the Jewish American experience.” The California Department of Education is expected to post the next draft of the curriculum for public review in December.