I wrote this pre-Trump, but I think it still covers a lot of the right ground. Let’s not attack each other. Let’s lay aside our differences and work toward a stable future. Let’s try to not dismantle the things that matter out of our fear.
We are all children together looking for answers,
Cheered by beauty, gymnasts, athletes or dancers.
We look for family, love or a release to our pain,
For food, comfort, or shelter from fear and distain.
We are all alike: blessed by every sunny day,
Then cast down by ice storms and endless gray.
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Keep sharing and caring. Hopefully, someday, more will feel the same. We are all one.
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That’s right, Toni. You’re one smart lady.
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Such a wonderful suggestion! We simply have to also respect opinions which don’t much our personal point of view and sometimes accept things as they are. We are in charge of some stuff and some other doesn’t realistically require that. Attacking and labeling each other is terrible. There are so many other sides of life to be concerned about.
I finally found the moment when you were online, too. Have a good year Brenda!
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You have a good year, too. Your tree is a constant joy to me.
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Walls have no future, this is a historic fact, and they also never lead to the intended results. So just remember: the Berlin Wall, the Roman Hadrianswall in Old Britanny or the Great Chinese Wall have all been blown away by the waves of history and migration. And we are all migrants, otherwise our human species would still sit on or under a tree in Africa.
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Yes, walls just feed into the “us” and “them” dichotomy that is the source of so much confusion and violence. My ancestors migrated. My family is spread across a huge geographic area even today. I’m restless, always thinking about new places. If only we could all be tolerant rather than scared. Then we wouldn’t need so many walls.
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We have to accept what is, for we cannot change the now. Only how we handle it. And how we work the future.
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Hi Claudia, Thanks for your wise words. We can be the best people we can be. We can speak up when we see wrong. We can try not to marginalize minorities in our daily lives.
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“let the sun set on hatred.” Yes!
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Thanks, Theresa. Let’s hope for peace. 🙂
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We *can* hope!
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Well said!
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Thanks, Resa!
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I agree with you on hatred though. There is no room for it anywhere. Freedom of speech, right to protest, and differences of moral belief are rights protected under our constitution.
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That’s right. We need for people to stop taking people to task for protesting. People have a right to protest. What isn’t right is taking away people’s voices.
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On Martin Luther King Day I will leave it to him to speak, “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We all need to speak out against evil. You and he are so right.
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A positive note we all need on a Monday, thank you 🙂
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Thanks for commenting, Andy. It’s hard to know what to say these days. Everyone is so angry. I try to remember that silence is still a statement. So I try to speak, even if I risk drawing fire.
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