Love your neighbor AS yourself….
“Now if I hear the sound of the genuine in me, and if you hear the sound of the genuine in you, it is possible for me to go down in me and come up in you. So that when I look at myself through your eyes having made that pilgrimage, I see in me what you see in me and the wall that separates and divides will disappear and we will become one because the sound of the genuine makes the same music." – Howard Thurman
— Faith After Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It by Brian D. McLaren
Would Putin do the same?
On War
War should not be watched or consumed as entertainment. One ought to consider how it is that one or a few people can make the decision to start a war with seemingly little to no regard for loss of human life and the suffering it causes. I think at the heart of it is the sin of supremacy that convinces that the other’s life is not valuable nor legitimate.
Even in democracies, as we know all too well in the United States, one man or woman has the power to wage war. We have decided that expediency is so important we must empower one human to such power, a power that frankly we should never allow to just one human.
The power to wage war and it’s consequences is why character matters so much when deciding which human should be elected President of the United States. Anyone who treats the power to wage war as a political tool should never be allowed to hold the office.
I think Federated Wiki could be used to for Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups because federation is a form of interoperability.
Turns out that the U.S. government’s intelligence about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was correct. Doesn’t that make you think that the intel about Russia interference in the 2016 Presidential election was correct?
We in the U.S. should learn by now having endured two years of a pandemic that started on the other side of the world that we are all connected and thus a war in Europe is going to affect us here. My point is to not to say we should rush in to that war but that we cannot bury our heads in the sand.
It is really nice and warm (nearly 50 degrees) outside, and while I was walking this afternoon it occurred to me that I should be excited about the upcoming baseball season, with pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training. Alas, because the MLB has locked out the players, causing a shutdown and therefore we don’t know when the season will start.
The sun is shining again today, but the wind is howling. Accuweather app says it is 13 degrees that feels like 2.
We have a wall of glass in our condo that was built in the 70s and How Insulated Glass Changed Architecture provides the historical context of that construction.
Their hypocrisy makes it difficult to take anything they say seriously. When everything in government is political you end up with a pandemic unnecessarily killing people.
The second significant snow fall of the season fell yesterday, and the sun is accentuating the result.
You might have heard that Google is bring back Android for tablets, and many are asking why. Of course, I have thoughts on the news.
Day 2,555
The problem with our politics today is that it is obsessed with the past. Conservatives want to go back to the “glory days” of the past (surely this what is meant by “Make America Great Again”) and Liberals want go back and fix the past. (surely cancel culture drives this). Both poles have an unhealthy view of history, it is neither to return to nor fix but to learn from. The majority of us are busy dealing with the present and see the obsession with the past as less than helpful.
We did not get the foot of snow predicted, but I think we got six inches. Below is at 8:30 AM this morning.
Nothing like walking outdoors with fresh now. Here are a few pics.
Here is the 5 PM update. During my walk I noted about four inches on the ground. Picture here doesn’t give the best view.
Let’s call this the 3 PM update. Snow continues to fall with more accumulation on the ground.
Noon and not much change. Starting to think forecast was by groundhog
Not only has today been groundhog day, and my niece’s birthday, it’s 2-2-22.