 Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
–Henry David Thoreau |
 Snow Blind |
Category: Community
Feb 02 2011
Muse in the Morning
Feb 01 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.
–Henry David Thoreau |
 Snow Globe |
Jan 31 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
–Mark Twain |
 Fuzzy 3 |
Jan 28 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
–Alexis de Tocqueville |
 Fuzzy 2 |
Jan 27 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
–Friedrich Nietzsche |
 Fuzzy 1 |
Jan 26 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
–James Baldwin |
 Masque 5 |
Jan 24 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson |
 Masque 3 |
Jan 21 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is; and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.
–Alastair Reid |
 Pink and Blue 5 |
Jan 18 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| “To be one’s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.”
–Irving Wallace |
 Pink and Blue 4 |
Jan 16 2011
Shooting Safeguards. A Society Armed
copyright © 2011 Betsy L. Angert. Empathy And Education; BeThink or BeThink.org
Once again, Americans are up in arms or perchance, better armed and dangerous. Only little more than a week into 2011, citizens have had to confront their fears, feelings, all at gunpoint. It began on a calm, clear Saturday. In a Safeway Store Tucson parking lot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords held one of her customary Congress on the Corner events. It was January 8, 2011. Friends and admirers from each political Party turned out. Suddenly, cordial chatter turned icy cold. gunshots shattered the calm. People were slaughtered. Some survived. However, as a nation, we were all wounded.
Retorts followed. Seemingly, a culture was changed, or was it? Just as has occurred, many times in the recent past, people quickly took sides. Blame was ballied about. Solutions were also presented. Some argued for stricter gun control laws. Others used the occasion to validate a need for less restrictive restraints on gun ownership. Persons who held a position similar to the most prominent victim proposed a need to protect themselves.
Jan 14 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
–Jane Rule |
 Four Winds 5 |
Jan 13 2011
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
–Peter Ustinov |
 Four Winds 4 |