Sunday, January 31, 2021

WAKE UP, SATCHEL !

 





     Recently I was talking with a long-time friend who has read these blog posts for many years.

"You haven't written anything recently", he noted, then  went on to say that " 'Satchel' needs to 'wake up". Well, he  is correct. There has not been a lack of stories for reflection of late.  Politics, politicians and Covid have been daily companions.

  There have been many pundits writing endlessly about these important developments and I have  chosen not to clutter these posts with my sentiments about those topics ...although I have strong feelings and opinions.

   A maxim learned somewhere along the way asserts that "You cannot replace by reason and logic opinions that were not placed there by reason and logic originally."

I have frequently found that to be correct (sometimes painfully so).

   Hence, the  cause of Satchel's lethargy .  There are SERIOUS challenges facing us . . .  as individuals and as a civilization.  In light of those . . .what to write about ? (or to be grammatically correct ...about what to write?) 

  At the risk of simplicity . . . how about this: Be Kind !  I think it was Henry Adams who told his nephew that there were three things of primary importance:

"Be kind; be kind, be kind". 

  Glen Campbell sang it in "Try a Little Kindness" :"And if you try a little kindness

 Then you'll overlook the blindness

 Of the narrow-minded  people

  On the narrow-minded streets . ."

Heaven knows, we all could use more .



  Ian and Stroud 

           Satchel

  










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