Thinking differently

Back in the City on Saturday, meeting up with Buffalo Buddies, we walked about, ate such good food, and wandered into an exhibit, a labyrinth of words, where there was just so much to read ... think about. These are but a few of my favorites (scribbled in haste all over the train schedule between Trenton and New York Penn Station):

"If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know." Mario Vargas Llosa

"When you get there, there isn't any there, there." Gertrude Stein

"I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not." W.E.B. DuBois

"We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust." Margaret Mead

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; The real tragedy of life is when adults are afraid of the light." Plato

"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." Rosa Luxemburg

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality." Dante Alighieri

And then ... home again ...

A year ago at Tamarika: Maid of Constant Blogging

Comments

[tamarika]

Yes, joared. Isn't it interesting how some will choose to repeat the abuse and others will break those patterns? I think about that a lot. Last night I heard how congress wants to spend 20 million on a victory party about Iraq. It made my blood boil! Let's first work on making children safe - somewhere, anywhere.

[joared]

I couldn't agree more with this line:

"We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust." Margaret Mead

There is no greater sin than the violation of a child's trust. The repercussions can linger throughout the rest of that child's life.

As you say, they do not have to perpetrate on others what was done to them. Seems to me that as adults we have something known as free will.

There seem to be fewer and fewer places and maybe even people, that children, adolescents, young adults can trust.

This is a sad commentary on our culture and society in general.

[tamarika]

Hi MaryB,
Our time will come - you wait and see - just you and me! Hang in there!
Smiles.

Semina,
Thank you.

[Semina]

"We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust." Margaret Mead

This is so true ~~ I wish all children could have such a place.

Your posts are inspiring :}

[MaryB]

You have GOT to stop sneaking into town and not letting me know! :-) Glad you had a good weekend here. Thanks for the food/exhibit tips -