Elizabeth

Soap!

Anyone who doesn't know 
what soap tastes like 
never washed a dog.

Franklin P. Jones

To Think

A person doesn't need to go to college to learn facts.
He can get them from books. 
The value of a liberal arts college education is that
it trains the mind to think. That's something you 
can't learn from textbooks.
If a person (has the) ability, 
a college education helps develop it. 

Albert Einstein  
(from "Einstein: His Life and Times" by Philipp Frank)

Sow

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap 
but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Lewis Stevenson

Disconnected

Oxfam‘s January 14, 2024 report, Inequality Inc., explores the disparity between the uber-wealthy and the rest of society.

Since 2020, five billion people have become poorer, while the world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes—at a rate of $14 million per hour.

This election is not about Harris, Trump or an individual issue. It’s about what the United States of America represents, for us and the world; how it provides for its citizens and the environment; how we care not only for the living and those who have sacrificed for this country, but also for those who will follow, which one could interpret in line with the Native American-Iroquois law: “In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.”

This election is not about the next four years or a party; but instead, whether we choose that “all…are created equal…with certain unalienable rights…life, liberty and… happiness,” not merely as pursuit, but experienced (as described in this Emory U. article), or if we want something different for our nation.

Each vote matters, which is why so many have literally sacrificed or died to protect this right for every eligible citizen.

Fragile

I broke 
       something      today,
   and I realized I should break
       something      once a week
               to      remind        me
      how fragile life is.

Andy Warhol

Ubiquitous

In every religion, there's love
yet love has no religion.

Rumi

Soul

One of the most important discriminations we can make 
… is the difference between things that beckon to us 
and things that call from our souls.

              Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Goats!

video by Elizabeth

Let’s hear it for the Goats!: preventing fires and saving lives.