For shame...no posts for a month and no one spoke up to request more? It's ok this time. I know you're too busy to be upset. Perhaps I should write more engaging words and sprinkle the themes with a little craving pepper in anticipation of building more reading desire.
Let's ease back in with a little local/regional weirdness. Today's commentary results from a scanning of the local headlines in this morning's online version of the newspaper. Top stories: a shooting just a few blocks away from our college campus and the center of the small city, and a drunk guy hits a deer and tries to drive it to the hospital for treatment. http://www.stargazette.com/
If I understand this correctly, we're very, very concerned about the well-being of any animal with four legs, but those with two, should the circumstances warrant, are in serious trouble if they cross a dude with a knife or gun. Just last week our local newspaper reported that we are among the safest small cities in which to live (and I actually still believe that). I'd hate to live in one that isn't! Luckily for me, no matter which way i walk home I always see at least one patrol car in the neighborhood so I'm confident that on my well-lit, well-traveled path, if anything ever does happen near or to me, someone will find me.
It really irks me that we have people wasting their time and talents on things like drugs, weapons, thievery and fear. I know that times are tough but i look around and see so many things people could do to make this world a better place. I would love to see "thugs" making improvements to dilapidated housing, or building new living spaces, or tending gardens, or cooking and delivering meals to those without, or tending parks, or creating "legitimate" business that could be sustained if people knew it existed.
In the new year i shall be working on some more articulate descriptions of ways i think we can do better. Some of them might make it to my brightdays blog and some might just make it to people who can create more momentum toward achieving these lofty goals of community, accountability, self-respect, and universal love. Until then, make some choices for yourselves about what "news" you catch (if any) and how you plan to react to the information you receive. We've got a week left to this year...that's time to start to think or act.
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