I reckon it’s WAY more effective than voting!
Voting just elects the next bunch of recipients of lobbyist donations.
Voting with your spending removes power from the greedy and supports the local farmer, artist and artisan!
Every dollar you can remove from those who value their profit over your nutrition and health and the protection of our environment is a dollar well directed!
Not Buying War
I just watched on YouTube some trailers for upcoming movies.
One of them was of a returned US serviceman and portrayed how, despite not being physically injured, he was severely messed up from the war.
It occurred to me how much more destructive a game war is than I had previously acknowledged when the “victors” lives are also destroyed.
War is a covert admission of failure and incompetence at the highest levels of government. When you start to look at it in that light it becomes not just reasonable but mandatory that it should instantly result in the dismissal without recourse of, at the barest minimum, the President or Prime Minister and the Secretary of State/Foreign Minister and forfeiture of all pensions and entitlements from their government positions, past and present.
Rachel Carson Quote
True dat! In Oz as well.
Choose Your Hard
50 Of The Most Beautiful Sentences In Literature
Some inspiration and joy here!
(Update 29 June 2024 The original link is no longer valid but this one has some good ‘uns in it, as do others if you search the term ’50 Of The Most Beautiful Sentences In Literature’.
https://thefloatinglibrary.com/2015/10/31/50-of-the-most-beautiful-sentences-in-literature/
This longbow shooter has talent and maybe a little luck!
I enjoy seeing competence in action!
https://greatamericanoutdoors.com/2017/08/longbow-shooter-talent-maybe-little-luck-video/
In The Journey There Are Co-Travellers
Is your life a race or a journey?
Yesterday’s Procrastination Is Today’s Drama
Been there, done that.
Education Is Not Something You Finish
I can vouch for the truth of this. Between thinking you know it all so do not need to learn any more and not being able to learn is the happy middle ground of forever learning.
Never more true than in the field of health, if only because not all is yet known. Let alone unlearning the the lies told by those who profit most from our ignorance.
The Product Of A Parent
Not often enough I lie in bed on a Saturday or Sunday morning and consider the events of the week. When I do it can be very worth while. At least I think so.
The week my mind got to wandering over some of the things I read and a few conversations I had with people close to me and I arrived at a clear, clean statement of what I consider to be the product of a parent.
A sane, healthy, ethical, educated, intelligent, competent, productive member of society who has goals towards which they are working, knows what their basic purpose is in life and is working in that field and improves the conditions of their own life and of those around them. The ultimate objective being a person who achieved their goals in life and for whom people were happy they lived.