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pecuniumI'm moody.
I dreamt ill, and awoke to be accused of all sorts of fell things.
Which I am used to. Ideologues and I don't get along. I am broad-minded, but willing to speak my piece, even to bearding lions in their den. This makes all stripes of the pure of heart and mind, less tolerant of me than otherwise. Even when we agree on ends, they tolerate means I can't abide.
They, in turn, see my sense of compromise as betraying the cause. Politics being the art of the possible makes my way harder. What injustice is so severe it won't wait. Civil rights? It waited. Too long, and it took odd little nooks of the society to make it happen (Don Newcombe relates "We were paying our dues long before the civil rights marches. Martin Luther King told m in my home one night, 'You'll never now what you and Jackie [Robinson] and Roy [Campanella] do to make it possible to do my job.). It's still waiting, even in Baseball, where so many of the races being run today took their first solid strides.
I suppose I strive for a happy medium. Work, as hard as I can, for the things I believe it. Be as pure as I can in how I live my life.
What brings this up today? In another forum I have been accused of things I'm not. Of things I rail against. It stings. Do they know me? Not as much as most of you. Does it matter? A bit. Because those who read me there, know me no better. Which is the problem of bearding those with religious fervor for "The Cause", in the halls of their church. The audience is pre-disposed to believe the orthodox. The heretic can be lampooned, but the heterodox must be put beyond the pale.
So, I'll go and make some coffee, toast some of the banana bread Maia made last night and prepare for a trip to the grove of monarch butterflies this afternoon.
I dreamt ill, and awoke to be accused of all sorts of fell things.
Which I am used to. Ideologues and I don't get along. I am broad-minded, but willing to speak my piece, even to bearding lions in their den. This makes all stripes of the pure of heart and mind, less tolerant of me than otherwise. Even when we agree on ends, they tolerate means I can't abide.
They, in turn, see my sense of compromise as betraying the cause. Politics being the art of the possible makes my way harder. What injustice is so severe it won't wait. Civil rights? It waited. Too long, and it took odd little nooks of the society to make it happen (Don Newcombe relates "We were paying our dues long before the civil rights marches. Martin Luther King told m in my home one night, 'You'll never now what you and Jackie [Robinson] and Roy [Campanella] do to make it possible to do my job.). It's still waiting, even in Baseball, where so many of the races being run today took their first solid strides.
I suppose I strive for a happy medium. Work, as hard as I can, for the things I believe it. Be as pure as I can in how I live my life.
What brings this up today? In another forum I have been accused of things I'm not. Of things I rail against. It stings. Do they know me? Not as much as most of you. Does it matter? A bit. Because those who read me there, know me no better. Which is the problem of bearding those with religious fervor for "The Cause", in the halls of their church. The audience is pre-disposed to believe the orthodox. The heretic can be lampooned, but the heterodox must be put beyond the pale.
So, I'll go and make some coffee, toast some of the banana bread Maia made last night and prepare for a trip to the grove of monarch butterflies this afternoon.
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buttrflies, ambivalence, journals
Date: 2005-03-01 07:27 pm (UTC)I am adding you to my friends list...
for the butterflies if nothing else on your
fine journal!
I do have a question on today's post, in what
way are you 'ambivalent' about Iraq? (I imagine
I would describe my own feeling that way sort
of becuase while I did not favor the action, I
do not think one can tract alternate histories
and say in easy retrospect of courses of action,
of most courses of action this is better or wors)
but I ask because you seem fairly on the side
of the negative to it...
else, of course you are welcome to visit mine and
add if it seems or not and in every case yours
lj=seraphimsigrist
+Seraphim Joseph Sigrist.
Re: buttrflies, ambivalence, journals
Date: 2005-03-01 07:39 pm (UTC)Ambivalent.
I thought it was clear. The war was a bad idea. Never should have begun. It can't be ended by fiat. The problem is, so far as I can tell, our presence is making the situation in Iraq worse.
Had we been in, and out, in a matter of months (not really doable) or had we given an end date, and a scedule to go with it.
Had we spent the money we are pouring into the coffers of those who are there, wisely... had we done those things, it might not have been the disaster it is becoming.
TK
no subject
Date: 2005-03-01 07:45 pm (UTC)today. +S.
no subject
Date: 2005-03-01 08:08 pm (UTC)It's nice to have a trumpet.
I shall, with luck, have some photographs of the monarchs to share. If you look at my pictures you will see, not butterflies, but other interesting things.
TK
zoo
Date: 2005-03-01 08:13 pm (UTC)of my dad being told by the reptile house
keepers in the bronx zoo that he was the
only writer who came there who seemed to
like the reptiles.
I was born in, oriental zodiac, year of
serpent myself...
else photography is wonderful as I have late
discovereed and been clicking like a fool
since May...
a typo
Date: 2005-03-01 07:47 pm (UTC)which is not easily translatable as most
are so it should be "trace" that I do not
think one can easily trace alternate histories...