Lessee… I woke up, checked my mail. There was a letter from Western Alliance Center for Independent Living, asking me to join their Advisory Board…
“Your name was one of the first to come to mind when considering our consumers and contacts, mostly because you take an active interest in helping others grow, improve and share their skills … I hope you will share both your perspective and your knowledge with us and become a Western Alliance Advisory Board Member.”
Made my day. But it wasn’t over yet… Between spending time helping Mary, Singer, and James and Laralyn today (Laralyn needed a new mouse for her computer, and James and Laralyn both needed help with their websites), finishing catching up on my enormous load of email, receiving and making several phone calls, and editing a document for The Kindness Campaign (1.5 hours on the document), I also had to do things like eat, ride a bus around town, and, just maybe, relax a bit. I think that last one got lost in the blender somewhere.
Tomorrow is Asheville Homeless Network, Drinking Liberally, and Open Mic Night at The Courtyard.
They say if you want something to get done, grab somebody who’s busy… in my case I worry about having too much, but I do what I can.
Hugs,
Me
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
– Ernest Hemingway
How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder…. But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?
– Adin Ballou, The Non-Resistant, 5 February 1845
There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used…. Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.
~ Gil Bailie
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.
– Charles Sumner