Are We All Connected?

    This will surely result in a mere draft today.  My mind is swimming today with conflicting thoughts and it will be difficult to sort them out and make sense out of them for myself, let alone for others.

    I have been considering the idea that what we think and believe affects what we say and do, and further, what we say and do affects what others think and believe and eventually what they say and do.

    An even more challenging idea that has been nagging me is that what we say and do affects what we think and believe, just as much as the other way around.

    More concretely, if I say that I am a good mother and do kind things for my children, I will think in my mind and believe in my heart that I am indeed a good and kind mother.  As I continue to say and do what is kind and good, I convince myself further and believe more deeply that, without a doubt, I am a good and kind mother.

    Then comes the question as to whether my actions as a mother will be the cause of what others think and believe as they observe me.  If they believe that what they have seen is good and they think that it merits emulation, will their actions then reflect their mind change?  Will my original thoughts and beliefs ultimately lead to other mothers becoming kind and good?

   


   




  

  

Bill Clinton the Schmoozer at the Democratic National Convention

Listening to Bill Clinton's smooth words on stage at the DNC tonight, I had to remind myself not to be charmed by this schmoozer. 

I remembered something important as I watched this talented speaker lean forward across the podium and point his fingers at the expectant crowd.  I remembered that they were the same fingers he pointed while adamantly denying having had sexual relations with his young White House intern. 

I remembered that this former President who receives hundreds of thousands of dollars each time he speaks publicly at a college or university has friends in high places and the charisma to win many more.  I also remembered that this Bill Clinton is the U.S. president who favored the first law to allow abortion on demand through the ninth month and the sickening horror of "partial birth abortion."

I remembered also that during his first campaign for the Presidency, Bill Clinton asserted that he was indeed a "born again" Christian.  I also remembered that he lied to his wife Hillary and his daughter Chelsea for years on end while he continued to be an adulterer and use our tax dollars to pay for the secret service and others who covered for him.  And then he lied to all of us.  Our President.

This charmer might as well be a snake charmer.  He appears to be an angel of light but like the lying serpent on the tree, he is full of untruth and his name might as well be Lucifer.  He has been a known liar and has furthered the cause of evil in our nation.  I will not abide by his words.  I will not vote for Obama.