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Loggerhead shrike - note his beak |
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Not sure what will come off the tips of my fingers today. Haven't been in the mood to write lately but I've forced myself this morning. Went for our usual IHOP breakfast and Linsey our 30ish Japanese American Cajun waited on us. She always makes us smile. I know it isn't polite to point out someone's ethnicity but I think it's our mixed up American selves that make us wonderful. I enjoy going to church here because the congregation is a slice of the melting pot and it seems to me our society no longer wants a melting pot. Society wants to separate the peoples that infuse this great land with character and bright, good, hard living into stereotypical blasé, indifferent know nothings who only know how to disparage those who dare to be individuals with their unique ways of dealing with God's earth, its animals, physical nature and peoples. I'm sick and tired of not feeling as if I can just accept a person based on how that person presents himself to me in whatever capacity I meet him. Needless to say I am also speaking of women. I still believe that when I write man I'm including woman because I'm an old fashioned lady who's sick of having to be careful of how I use words so I don't offend anyone. I'm at the point that if someone is offended by my notions of man I will choose not to deal with that person. I'm tired of hearing that this race is superior to that race; men are superior to women; women are superior to men; Yale is superior to UCONN; cats are superior to dogs; Loggerhead Shrikes are nasty, disgusting birds because they capture live prey just like eagles and hawks but they don't fit the accepted role of a small, bug or seed eating bird. Yep, I've decided to forget all of the misery that is portrayed in the media and just go along with my own up and down life. I'll just enjoy what I have and pay no heed to the doomsday scenarios that are always in the forecast. Still looking for the silver lining.
Well there now. There's more pent up emotion in me but that'll do for now!
Quote: True philosophy is that which makes us to ourselves and to all about us, better; and at the same time, more content, patient, calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment. ___Lavater
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