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Nineteen elementary school children and two adults in Texas were killed Tuesday by an adolescent with a gun after shooting his grandmother.
Welcome to America? Where is love, compassion, empathy, care, conscience? My journalism professor Buddy Davis at the University of Florida used to frequently refer to the milk of human kindness. It has been souring rapidly. The Age of Aquarious didn’t blossom as hoped for. A U.S. Representative has called on the “dark MAGA” to respond. to his defeat.
What went wrong is now less important than what to do about it. The Climate Change may humble us, but at what cost? What has the obscene scrambling for booty cost us?
A young boy teaches his little brother the art of lying while his parents feed the embers of distrust. It’s my understanding that we continue to be born with the same potential, although down the road our forced appearance on the scene may be increasingly resented.
I tuck away my fleeting suspicion that a great sense of masculine inadequacy feeds the attraction for guns.
The remedy is unclear. Any hopeful solutions?
of the terribleness of most communication: of people talking but not saying what they mean; of the contradiction between the outward words and expressions and the inner meanings and messages; of people looking as if they were listening without any real connection or contact with one another. When I am with such persons I experience deep feelings of loneliness, and I want to break through the empty words and come into touch with the feelings; I want to go beyond the icebergs on top , and into what is really happening deep down. I have become keenly aware that individuals rarely express what really matters: the tender, shy, reluctant feelings, the sensitive, fragile, intense feelings. Too often we receive the words but not the concrete, actual messages and meanings. What has happened to us as human beings that we can be so near and yet so far, that we can be so distant from each other and never know? Where are we anyway in those hours when the human spirit cries out in despair, when the hunger for sharing and for loving comes through in disguised and devious forms? What has happened when we have become so radically cut off from our own humanity that we kill the human need for compassion and understanding, when the longing for response is not even recognized or noticed?
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