Dear friends, may 2012 be a year of many blessings for you and yours and may it be a time to reflect on how fortunate we are to live in this wonderful country where we are free to speak and write what we choose without fear of retribution from government. Celebrate our freedom! Peace.
we have altered our convictions to stay in government
It is not that we have abandoned our principles to hold onto office, they will say, in a tone of wounded dignity. Not at all. It is merely that we have altered our convictions to stay in government. - Andrew Coyne
GRATITUDE IS BORN IN THE HEART. AND IT LEADS YOU TO ACTION.
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“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers” (Charles Peguy 1873-1914)
"Indifference, after all, is more dangerous than anger and hatred. Anger can at times be creative. One writes a great poem, a great symphony, one does something special for the sake of humanity because one is angry at the injustice that one witnesses. But indifference is never creative. Even hatred at times may elicit a response. You fight it. You denounce it. You disarm it. Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response." Elie Wiesel, April 12, 1999
Joe Hill’s last will
My Will is easy to decide, For there is nothing to divide My kin don’t need to fuss and moan “Moss does not cling to rolling stone” My body? — Oh! — If I could choose I would to ashes it reduce And let the merry breezes blow My dust to where some flowers grow Perhaps some falling flower then Would come to life and bloom again This is my Last and Final Will