Plastic Farm Animals
In honor of Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza/Solstice, I’d like to share a message that has been firmly planted in my psyche by my mother: “Love is all there is.” The Beatles, pop icons from my formative years, said it this way: “Love is all you need.” Another famous version of this is, “Whatever you wish that men […]
We may think we invented Christmas but the Chinese are doing a darned good job of celebrating in the capitalist tradition. Americans and Chinese alike pour onto the street in shopping and partying over-drive during the December holidays resulting in a predictable increase in vehicular homicide. Here’s a brief account from the China Daily: Roads […]
I’m about to get a new sister! My brother James is marrying Kathryn in one week and Bob and I will have a new sister. Neither of us had sisters until our brothers started getting married. Bob has three brothers and I have five and after December 30th, we’ll have four sisters between us. Growing […]
Okay, or Holiday Wish or whatever seems right. I find it ludicrous that people are even worrying about what word they use when they wish their friends and neighbors well this Solstice season. So, that’s one wish – that people would feel okay about being kind to each other all year and not fret over […]
In 1948, George Orwell published the political satire “1984” in which Big Brother was watching us, (can you say Patriot Act?) and politicians engaged in Doublethink. Some examples of this: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH In a press conference last week George W Bush was quoted as saying: DEMOCRACIES DON’T WAR, […]