As a New Week Dawns.....

I had a "tad bit of fun" as I was working away visiting this Site on some thoughts that took what was on Facebook and formulated some edicts--it is actually pretty good!!

Onward to the new week w/all its' possibilities

Working Away w/Notations For the W-End.....

Abdul Sattar Edhi passed away.   He was not well known in the West--and I personally was  not  as aware of him as I should have been until I saw reports of his passing that was widely reported around the World.    He was 92 years old.

He was the founder of Pakistan's largest welfare organization.   When I saw the headline in Saturday's New York Times about deeming him Pakistan's "Mother Teresa", it prompted me to check on him.   It was striking to me that he only had 868 Entries in Google and 79 Entries in Bing.    As I read the reporting in +i24news EN, It struck me that he only owned 2 pieces of clothes.     It is the story of such people that gives me a sense of optimism and hope.      

As I was working away, I helped finish off a View of the Week on a sense of hope I was talking about--what John Legend is trying to do with the inmates in California was so moving.   These thoughts reminded us all of what we must embrace and be aware thanks to the great work +Jonathan Huie does:  

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping

the poor and the sick and the hungry

than he did about heaven and hell.

Shouldn't that tell us something?

- John Grisham

Jesus said: "When you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.

And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you."

- Luke 14:13-14

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

A new command I give you: Love one another.

As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)

Helping & Love....lessons to be remembered by us all....

Wishing all a fabulous Sunday & a fantastic Week......

Tragic Days.....

America has been witness to the tragic shootings of two African American Men within the past 24 hours.     However, I could not help but take to my personal space here as I note how ill I was to my stomach I was as I saw that 10 Dallas Police Officers were shot and three have died by snipers during a protest rally in Texas.   I helped finish an update for #Outsiders earlier tonight on it.    I can't even begin to imagine what the families of the fallen officers are feeling.   Thoughts and prayers for those families are just not enough more for them--is it?   

Some will say this is not a time for politics--especially the folks at the NRA, Gun Owners of America and their supporters in Congress.    Over the last number of years, we have seen shooting after shooting.   Kids got shot in Sandy Hook.   Nothing was done.    People of faith were shot in Charleston.   Nothing was done.   A lowlife subhuman  madman massacred 150 people in Orlando.    Nothing was done.   Now, 10 cops have been shot and three have died.    This is as the President spoke to the profound challenge that African American Men Continue to face consistently in the hands of law enforcement while on his last NATO Summit.     Although some  arguments by Brooklyn College's Corey Robin has merit,  it is critical that we all collectively make a concerted effort to not just make sure the African American Community is safe, but all Americans are--and the insanity is pervasive ever more.

Yoda's admonition is ever so true now: 



The time to do something is Now.    The time for trying is over.   The tragedy of it is that Congress is not even trying (despite the best of intentions) as it talks about the Constitution and their claim to protect "due process".  What about ensuring public safety?    As the Benghazi obsession was finished by Congress after millions spent, now they've got another one:  The Clinton Emails.     

The need to govern is ever so evident.     Will that happen?   I wonder....