..."But its halloween dad!" she said as she tried to justify her chipped filling in one of her teeth. My daughter had called to seek advise as to what to do about a chipped tooth situation and perhaps ended up learning about what traditions one must follow and which ones are best left out of her life regardless of how many generations have been doing this routinized ritual. Just because you have been doing something "like everybody else" for a long time does not make the act sane or good for you. A wrong act is a wrong act at any age or time. Learn my child to be free and aware; As bad traditions are just as bad as junk food in your mental body! Any tradition which encourages one to get stuffed with all manners of candy needs reexamining, at least the eating of all that candy part.
I am really trying to keep my usual positive and hopeful attitude towards our humanity and mankind in general, but recent events have brought the old anger back in me which is really frustration and anxiety about Politicians and the money mongers of the world about which I can take no real action of any significance. I see hunger and destitude in the masses of this U.S. of A, the richest country on earth, I see the very weak and the elderly, the homeless and the hard working class suffer while the political will of some nuts is runnning amock! God help me to accept what I can change and that over which I have no control, and please God give me the wisdom to know the difference. It is nothing new, just different land, different time in the history of the ignorant man and the greed of the fools!
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