Love Leaps

From Mark Tonra's James

Happy anniversary, CarolinaMom.

Slow Down

Robbie Shaefer (of Eddie From Ohio) posted some powerful stuff on his MySpace blog this week:

"Slow down.
Pain begets pain.
Violence begets violence.
Love begets love."

Read Robbie's full post here.

Update: props to CountryMouse for drawing my attention to Mary's post and the fantastic excerpt of a speech by Robert F. Kennedy on April 5, 1968; that would the be day after Martin Luther King Jr.'s senseless and violent death. RFK's words resonate just as strongly now as they did then. Walking In Your Footsteps by The Police keeps tripping through my head. Lessons unlearned.

James, by Mark Tonra

Differences

James, by Mark Tonra

A debate is afoot over on Whitenoise's blag.

Brings to mind a few quotes:

"Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political."
- Ignazio Silone, author (1900-1978)

"It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable."
- Moliere, actor and playwright (1622-1673)

"To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another."
– Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila."
- Pundit Mitch Radcliffe

And ...

"Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities."
– James L. Frederick in Journal of Ecumenical Studies

James, by Mark Tonra

All of the quotes above found their way to me via A.Word.A.Day - another reason to subscribe.

"That’s all hearsay." "Yeah. And here I am sayin’ it!"
- Rob Wilco to Bucky, Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley, 04-Oct-2006