"Primum non nocere."

"The cure for boredom is curiosity.  There is no cure for curiosity."  

~Ellen Parr

"The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren."

~Doug Larson

Happy Days

Jennifer and Mckinlee came over tonight and the family celebrated Jessica's 28th birthday together.  Jessica is holding Mckinlee who is 15 days old today. 

Jesse and I watched little 6 day old Mckinlee last night for awhile.  I had put on the new Muppet movie because I didn't want to hear political commentary shows in the background while spending time with her.  The movie reminded me of the claims that I heard on FOX "Noise" that the Muppet movie is communistic and anti-capitalistic - gotta watch out for those muppets, trying to corrupt the country, one movie at a time! 

Voices

Every day I am reminded that there is so much goodness in the world.  The key way I am reminded is through other people - their kindness, compassion, their intelligence that is able to see beyond one little corner of the world, their world.  Seeing this gives me so much hope.  The important thing is for these people (myself included) to be heard, and not let the louder, uglier, more minor in number voices drown out all the other voices, or intimidate the other voices into silence.  I've never had much confidence in expressing a dissenting opinion, but I am learning in my old age!  This issue of equality is more important than my comfort level.

Check out website Faith in America

Okay, I've edited the last two posts, hopefully less typos and a bit more coherent.  I have terrible insomnia these days, but my sleep aid induces terrible spelling and run on sentences along with falling asleep. 

Check out the website Faith in America - really, really good info.  If we keep talking (respectfully) without backing down one of 2 things will happen, we'll piss people off and they won't talk to with us, or some, we can engage in a dialogue where we agree to respect and listen to each others differing views and we might actually learn something. 

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