dave goodrich

I am long past due on bragging on Lindsay's cooking. Simply amazing.

Tonight she made Cheesy Chicken Tetrazinni for the first time (she often experiments) and another huge success.

Thanks, Lindsay, for being the best wife ever.

• Seize the moral initiative
• Find a creative alternative to violence
• Assert your own humanity and dignity as a person
• Meet force with ridicule or humor
• Break the cycle of humiliation
• Refuse to submit or to accept the inferior position
• Expose the injustice of the system
• Take control of the power dynamic
• Shame the oppressor into repentance
• Stand your ground
• Force the Powers to make decisions for which they are not prepared
• Recognize your own power
• Be willing to suffer rather than to retaliate
• Cause the oppressor to see you in a new light
• Deprive the oppressor of a situation where a show of force is effective
• Be willing to undergo the penalty for breaking unjust laws
• Die to fear of the old order and its rules

"The issue is not, 'What must I do in order to secure my salvation?' but rather, 'What does God require of me in response to the needs of others?' It is not, 'How can I be virtuous?' But 'How can I participate in the struggle of the oppressed for a more just world?' Otherwise our nonviolence is premised on self-justifying attempts to establish our own purity in the eyes of God, others, and ourselves, and that is nothing less than a satanic temptation to die with clean hands and a dirty heart."

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To be in nature and to let it be just as it lets you be.

Listening.

Benefiting one another mutually and appreciating the other exponentially as time progresses.

This is true life when shared with others.

What is better than getting together with old and dear friends and sharing laughter, stories, and the best tea in the whole world?

If there is any moral precept shared
by people of all beliefs, it is that we
owe ourselves and future generations a
beautiful, rich and healthful environment.
—Edward O. Wilson, The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth.

The art of praying, as we grow, is really the art of learning to waste time gracefully—to be simply the clay in the hands of the potter. This may sound easy—too easy to be true—but it is really the most difficult thing we ever learn to do…. This is the real reason why so few of us ever come, in this life, to the full experience of God’s love for us.

– Thomas H. Green
When the Well Runs Dry

Today, they begin to run across the back yard. I think this will make me laugh every year.