Question of the Day...........

QOD: Aren't vacations wonderful? And is anyone and everyone to blame?

I know it's not an awfully ponderous question, but it's true, isn't it? Vacations are meant to rejuvenate the soul and energize your chi. Just having arrived back from Poipu, Kauai, the garden island of Hawaii, I can say I am rested and relaxed. Now it's back to the grind and what's really on my mind.

Have we become a society of victicrats, as the Sage, Larry Elder often says? Long ago, I signed up to receive the weekly overview of Michael Josephson's daily commentary from his Character Counts! website.....I particularly liked last Friday's account entitled, 'We Need a Moratorium on Blaming" about the Virginia Tech shootings - which ends like this:

"Perhaps there is no one to blame but the killer himself.

Despite our greatest efforts and highest hopes, horrible things will happen
at unpredictable times in unpredictable places. That includes the scary reality
that mad people exist and will sometimes find their victims."

It seems to me that the balance of man is not achieved in laying the blame, but in laying the foundation for a better world. And that, my friend, begins, and ends, with each and every one of us. In a recent interview with American Way magazine, John Mellencamp offered this takeaway about his new album 'Freedom's Road'. The most important thing a listener [can] take away... "Forgiveness. Forgive yourself. Forgive your children. If we want a better world, it starts with us. Of course, all of us are beasts inside, but we don't have to let that beast out at every emotional turn we take."

Now that's when my son would say, "Nighty-nighty, Aphrodite!" Amen!