tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post3062488370691241616..comments2024-03-18T15:17:26.003-05:00Comments on l'astronave: Graduation Saturday, & EllingFrescahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-73462011169602710702008-06-10T08:56:00.000-05:002008-06-10T08:56:00.000-05:00I went to a graduation party last weekend too, for...I went to a graduation party last weekend too, for a niece (in law). I was struck by two things:<BR/><BR/>1) how much the world of sports has opened up this girl's life (and her family's) to the Big World, and<BR/><BR/>2) how the price of gas is really beginning to impact people's choices. One of my brother's in law (retired) is now bicycling around town to do errands. Okay, so he's got a battery-powered bicycle (who knew they even existed) for going up hills, but it's not a car!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-8826331778889725752008-06-09T14:25:00.000-05:002008-06-09T14:25:00.000-05:00I want to add that my first comment is really my r...I want to add that my first comment is really my responce to people I know who have babies... so it doesn't express my full philosophy. What I want to add is that some of the best people--who improve and change the world--sometimes come into life unplanned, unwanted, and unloved. <BR/>So who is to say where our hope should spring from?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-85416767689347938022008-06-09T11:29:00.000-05:002008-06-09T11:29:00.000-05:00By using a sailboat instead of a set of jet ski's;...By using a sailboat instead of a set of jet ski's; by recycling, by trying to get media reform, by using a bike instead of the car when at all possible..or trading in the SUV. <BR/>By reading and understanding different cultures, by practising tolerance, and paying attention. By speaking out against injustice. <BR/><BR/>And by navigating your life as fully and beautifully as a spinnaker sail in the sun on a wind-blown sea.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-85823295805672112032008-06-09T08:24:00.000-05:002008-06-09T08:24:00.000-05:00Anonymous: Welcome! I'm glad you can comment on th...Anonymous: Welcome! I'm glad you can comment on this non-pop-up comment format. (But don't forget to sign your name, if not signed in--I figure this is Mary.)<BR/><BR/>Poodle & Bink: You both express my [contradictory] feelings: distress and awe... + a sense that human life has always been thus. <BR/>(And heck, even bad people unwillingly bringing kids into the world contributes hope--who knows who will save or delight us, eh?!)<BR/><BR/>So, how do *we* best navigate these treacherous waters?Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-26412400965739115052008-06-08T21:39:00.000-05:002008-06-08T21:39:00.000-05:00hey, i can comment. thanks for changing format. ...hey, i can comment. thanks for changing format. but i could only see one of your pics, the piano hands which i liked. after i viewed that one, all the little red "x" went away. intereting bike ride. i want to get a scooter once i land whereever it is that i'm going to land.<BR/><BR/>in a previous post. i loved your description of little 3 yr old you pulling up the poeny by the roots!<BR/>and the peony pic was lovely. so glad you changed your comment set up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-3113301798843921712008-06-08T19:24:00.000-05:002008-06-08T19:24:00.000-05:00Commenting on poodletail's comment...when wasn't t...Commenting on poodletail's comment...when wasn't the world a scary and dreadful place to bring children into? The horrors are different but really--on an individual level--no more dreadful than before...I mean if death/dying in misery is the biggest fear people have for their children does it matter weather the cause is globel warming and Iranian bombs or a Trojan horse and the black plague?<BR/><BR/>Of course we can damage such large parts of the earth all at once now, we certainly should be working to charge that and make the world a better place. When good people willingly bring children into the world I see that as contributing hope for the future--and the very children who will be the best agents of change in that future, because they were given the blessings of love as a birthright.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-27472540542278041422008-06-08T18:04:00.000-05:002008-06-08T18:04:00.000-05:00Regarding Brundtland's point no.2, it's getting ha...Regarding Brundtland's point no.2, it's getting harder for me to express joy at at a friend's or friend's child's pregnancy. I wonder what people tell themselves about the world we're leaving for children and grandchildren. If I know the person well enough I ask them if they're not worried. So far the answer has always been a nervous laugh and "I try not to think about that". Cripes.<BR/> <BR/>But ... my sweet niece, Catalina, graduated from high school last week and I'm thrilled and awed by her attitude that the world is her oyster!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com