“Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” Here is a more complete context for that quote: “But denunciatory rhetoric is so much easier and cheaper than good works, and proves a popular temptation. Yet is it far better to light the candle than to curse the darkness.” William Watkinson The second, more inclusive …
Month: July 2017
Concern about religious liberty, practiced or impeded, is a hot topic today. People on all sides carry strong opinions. Some fear return to medieval days of intertwined church/state dictates while others fear further erosion of first amendment rights. Not content to rest on puzzled laurels, RhymeLovingWriter™ went searching for facts. Discovery continues, but today’s post …
Series of Fortunate Happenings (SofFH 2) Last week I introduced the plan to write blog posts focusing on positive stories. This week the focus lands on stories featuring neighborly love or unexpected gifts. Each of us has likely been recipient of both at one time or another. Unexpected Gifts First on the list of beautiful …
Are you a thinker – or a doer? Or both? Somewhere amid the days of growing older we come to realizations about ourselves. One of these might be that we think about things – a lot. The doers of the world frown upon excessive thinking, and vice versa, but the world needs all kinds of …
Being PC – Making things better or worse? A person finds few news items published today, exempting presidential tweets, subjected to politically correct (PC) filters. Careless, uncharitable speech causes problems, it’s true. Censored speech, on the other hand, leads to an entirely different sort of problems. Nonconforming verbiage, spoken or written, is attacked, deleted, or …
What is “A Series of Fortunate Happenings”? Each day television or radio reports and social or print media blast negative news around the globe. No dearth of dire behaviors exists among nations, including our own. Placing focus primarily on this type of information colors our concept of reality. It eventually crushes our future hopes and …
Ideas Too Many to Count – Working toward Order on the Blog How many of you subscribe to one or more blogs? Of the ones you follow, have you noticed a particular order on the blog, with specific features landing on certain days of the week? Have you come to rely on a unique style …
A Nation Born – on the 4th of July This 4th of July, 2017, we remember the 241st anniversary of the date when America’s forefathers signed on the un-dotted line, declaring independence from Great Britain. We marvel again at the courage of those who pledged their “Lives…Fortunes…and sacred Honor“, to redress wrongs being suffered. They …