The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ectasy. (Abraham Maslow in Thinking Outside the Church by Jennifer Leigh Selig, p. 305)
Things are going to happen, and you have a choice: you can be a witness or a participant. A witness observes and learns. A participant creates drama and stress. (Iyanla Vanzant, Faith in the Valley, p. 257)
Since my working days I have always liked this phrase, Plan is a Four Letter Word. The Bush administration is asking the American people to buy into a brief plan to bailout the financial institutions of this country at taxpayer's expense. Once again the "so called" leaders want us to accept what they tell us without discussion and debate and without a detailed written plan. They say it's an emergency and if we don't act with haste the world, as we know it, will come to an end. Didn't our mother's read us this story about "Chicken Little" when we were kids. It's interesting that everytime President Bush has needed our support he's been in a hurry and critical of anyone who asks hard questions and persists in trying to get straight answers.
If the situation wasn't so serious it would be comical that the president thinks most of us have forgotten the debacle of how he and his cronies got us into the war in Iraq. Didn't he use the same argument then, "Trust me! The situation is grave! We must act without further thought, discussion or debate."
As baseball manager Leo Derocher once said, "It's deja vu, all over again."
We should be "Mad As Hell."
Mr. Dickie
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