"It is not true that life is one damn thing after another - it's one damn thing over and over."
Edna St.Vincent Millay
Something you fear, is something you will have to face.
And a lesson unlearned, is one you will have to repeat.
Whether it be a people at large or one person in specific. The harder we run from what we need to know, the more we are faced with the same situations over and over.
The only way to get out of the loop, is to get into it, face the cycle and break it.
Facing those same damned things that have plagued and bedeviled. It's hard work. It's staying awake. It's not letting fear anesthetize. It's looking at the choices we make that put us in the loop in the first place.
And it's about making different choices.
What is the definition of insanity? That we keep doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.
It seems to me, fighting wars to bring peace is a lot like that.
It's not working.
How long do we have to keep repeating the same failed thing expecting different results?
War on a national level or a personal level will never bring peace or happiness.
There's got to be a better way, than over and over.
Latitudes and Lassitudes
Linda McGeary
About Me
- Linda McGeary
- Bend, OR.
- I live with my husband, Duncan, and our calico cat, Panga, also called the "Duchess of Leaf House", (she has two sr. servants. ) I have been writing one thing or another since I was a kid. Poetry, short stories, long stories, novels, devotional material. I've had some poetry published in small magazines. Never been brave enough to send novels off. I never feel like they're ever finished. Duncan and I both have bookstores. His is Pegasus Books, and has new and used, mine is The Bookmark, and is all used books. As you can see we love books. What better way to make a living. People and books. And I get to take my cat to work with me. Duncan's blog is The Best Minimum Wage Job a Middle Aged Guy Ever Had
I already like this blog. It's a nice antidote to a gloomy nature. I like how you take aim at problems yet with energy and hope. I was mistaken to say you look at the world through rose-colored glasses (but it wasn't meant as a criticism) -- I think you look through rose-colored *sniper sights*, or, for the doves, rose-colored magnifying glasses, evidently ready not just to discern problems, but to understand and act upon them!
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