Actually I’ve got a better word for it, but that is what comes to mind when I hear the main stream media justifying what we’re paying at the pump in the United States. In a segment on the one of the big media outlets yesterday prices paid by consumers were offered. In Saudi Arabia gasoline is selling for 91 cents a gallon Continue reading “Baloney”
Willoughby’s Coffee
This week through my affiliation with Ubuntu Linux I met a new business and I’m happy to recommend them to readers of this blog. I’ve added them to my links. I hope you give them the business. They are Fair Trade Certified. Be sure to visit Willoughby’s Coffee online. You can visit my business website at DGW Enterprises.
Soldiers
Today I picked up the wrong lunch on my way out the door. I was on the road for my day job and I picked up a brown sack with what I thought contained two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Continue reading “Soldiers”
Remember when?
Whenever a civilization perishes, there is always one condition
present. They forgot where they came from. –Carl Sandburg
I read the this quote and I thought of it’s application to many areas of my life but also our lives as people and as citizens of the world and our particular countries. Failure to remember when can cause us both individually and corporately to relive failure or peril.
Open Office v. Microsoft Office
This week a fellow member of the faculty where I work suggested that our use of Open Office with students was actually prohibiting those students from getting employment when they left our school. Continue reading “Open Office v. Microsoft Office”
Living for others
Sunday was one of those beautiful days of mid spring that abound in Western New York. May is a time here when Mother Earth comes back to life. Continue reading “Living for others”
Nonviolence invites us to…
I first read this a year ago and it is true or truer now than then.
Nonviolence invites us:
* To learn to recognize and respect the sacred in every person, including in ourselves, and in every part of creation. The acts of the nonviolent person help to free this sacredness in the opponent from obscurity or captivity.
* To accept oneself deeply, “who I am” with all my gifts and richness, with all my limitations, errors, failings and weaknesses. To live in the truth of ourselves, without excessive pride, with fewer delusions and false expectations.
* To recognize that what I resent, and perhaps even detest, in another, comes from my difficulty in admitting that this same reality lives also in me. To recognize and renounce my own violence, which becomes evident when I begin to monitor my words, gestures, reactions.
Lemmings
In the past couple of days I’ve experienced some frustration and I found release from it in the writing of another blogger. The guy referred to lemmings. Continue reading “Lemmings”
Living for others
Today was one of those beautiful days of mid spring that abound in Western New York. May is a time here when Mother Earth comes back to life. Continue reading “Living for others”
Bill Maher
Bill Maher often has some truly funny monologues. Continue reading “Bill Maher”