We use words to indicate affection.
We use words, with difficulty, to convey what our soul is experiencing.
We use words to defend our beliefs.
We use words to help others.
Unfortunately,in a 24 hour period, we have to 2 'happenings' that are the culminations of the good use of words, and the inexecusable use of words.
We tend to blame others when they take our words the wrong way. Yet what are we to do when words, or pictures, or actions, encourage others to take actions that harm others.
We reach for words of tenderness when we need comforting.
Sarah Palin knows how to use words that hurt.
Debbie Friedman enabled a world to use words that heal.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Friday, June 4, 2010
This from an editorial in Ha'Aretz online:
"We will soon mark five years since Israel's disengagement from the Gaza Strip, but Gaza refuses to disengage from Israel."
Very pertinent - and this was 5 days before the flotilla incident.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/taking-gaza-seriously-1.292075
"We will soon mark five years since Israel's disengagement from the Gaza Strip, but Gaza refuses to disengage from Israel."
Very pertinent - and this was 5 days before the flotilla incident.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/taking-gaza-seriously-1.292075
Thursday, June 3, 2010
New LIfe with Dad
Moving my dad's center of his world from his adult community 3 bedroom ranch home of 10 years, 60 miles from my home, to a studio apartment in an assisted living complex 3 miles from my house in a span of 5 weeks takes a toll on one's daily ability to thrive.
Observing for years that it would be best to have my dad, I have felt frustration at the physical distance, I have felt frustration with my dad's stubbornness, not to create a new environment closer to me, allowing the family to do life together, more enjoyably, more effectively, or, must more.
Now we have that, yet the conditions created, while meeting needs for my dads safety and well being, and my needs to be able to support him more easily, are not ideal.
Yet they will do.
Observing for years that it would be best to have my dad, I have felt frustration at the physical distance, I have felt frustration with my dad's stubbornness, not to create a new environment closer to me, allowing the family to do life together, more enjoyably, more effectively, or, must more.
Now we have that, yet the conditions created, while meeting needs for my dads safety and well being, and my needs to be able to support him more easily, are not ideal.
Yet they will do.
Have you ever felt this way?
I want to see/do/live/breath/taste/touch/smile with all that I observe
I want to acknowledge/get jazzed/get stoked/get angry/get active with all that I feel
I want to paint/generate/help/leave a place, a person better than when I started creating
I am Doing
I want to acknowledge/get jazzed/get stoked/get angry/get active with all that I feel
I want to paint/generate/help/leave a place, a person better than when I started creating
I am Doing
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