Monday, April 14, 2003
( 9:33 AM )
Monday, Monday...
Good morning, world. It's Monday morning...and for some reason my archives have disappeared. So now I will be off onto the template journey to figure it out. Another weekend of fixing, painting, cleaning, unpacking. Moving into a new place with a 10-month old is 1500x more laborious than without. But I'm not ready to return him yet. I still love the weekend just because I get to spend uninterrupted time with the Kid - while I'd also like to be getting the new place in order, I crave the time with him since I only get to see him a little more than an hour every day during the week. He discovered grass and flowers this weekend (the sun actually came out in Portland) - it was nice to just watch him squatting down to gingerly touch the flowers and grass - and I wondered what it would be like to discover something like that for the first time. It's too bad we can't recall the wonders of childhood discoveries. It make us all a little less cynical - and carry a little more human kindness around with us.
"An Owie to One
is an Owie to All"
- as modeled by
Mama's Little Activist
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( what War is good for )
"The point of revolution is to get away with it."
--Abbie Hoffman
"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine."
--Che Guevara
"Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep." - Gandhi
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
-Thomas Jefferson
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to teach him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently."
-F. Nietzche
"We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free."
-Epictetus
"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."
-Robert A. Heinlein
"Those who will give up essential liberty to secure a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
"As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place."
-Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
-Mark Twain
"It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
-US Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
"Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent."
-Bruno Jasienski
"The phrase "working mother" is redundant."
-Jane Sellman
In Mama Solidarity
Maryam & Sofia - Baghdad, Iraq
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