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Archive for July 4, 2008

Don’t you dare

Dear chehaw,

Hope you’re having a good Fourth. Don’t eat too many hot dogs.

I have a piece of advice for you. Even if somebody wants less of you, don’t seek less of yourself. You give everything you have of yourself. You give only the best of what you have. Don’t stop giving it.

Don’t you dare stop.

Your heart, your soul, your soul have to show all that they have, and all that they can be.

I didn’t forget

(hat tip)

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

More fantastic wisdom

from our friend…

A warrior of the light is reliable. He makes some mistakes, and sometimes considers himself to be more important than he really is. But he does not lie.

When people gather around the fire, he talks to his male and female companions. He knows that the words he utters will be kept in the memory of the Universe, as a record of what he thinks.

And the warrior reflects: “why do I say so much, if I am often unable to do everything I say?” This is an important matter for reflection.

The heart replies: “when you publicly defend your ideas, you will have to be strong in order to live up to them.”

It is because he thinks he is that which he says, that the warrior ends up becoming exactly that.

Rain man

Ok, so I am hiding. Behind a camera.

But…

While my identity is hidden, my words, thoughts, feelings, emotions, passions, spirit, heart, soul, are not hidden from view.

(2nd video from the channel)

Rain walk

In the quiet of a holiday morning

Gravel crunches underfoot
A man casts for fish
Cycles roll down the path
Birds chirp in the damp air
A feather falls to the ground
Rain dances on the leaves above