I have a healthy respect for law enforcement having spent five years as a teenage volunteer, including a full year as Captain of a Police Explorer post in California. In my senior year, I held the position as producer of the first video yearbook. I also spent a year as a volunteer, as a Journalism News Explorer (photographer) where some of my photos were published in the local newspaper. Having lived overseas in southern Germany for 14 months, my position was to facilitate caring for USA military men and women and their families during R&R (Rest and Relaxation).
Interest in other cultures led me to travel-Europe, China, South America, Asia.
As a former membership coordinator for a non-profit, educational Constitutional Association, I realize the value and importance of re-instututing civics back to United States classrooms.
Have you ever got into a heated family discussion, AKA argument and wondered, how can my sister, brother, crazy Uncle Louie ALL think this way? Maybe they were ALL adopted! During these emotional times it may be hard to take a deep breath and remember, let alone recite to ourselves the Saint Francis of Assisi prayer:
Lord, OH LORD, please help me not kill my idiot sister and slap her upside the head!
Actually I meant,
"Lord make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek...To be understood as to understand, to be loved, as love..."
- Monday, June 14, 2021
In the California high desert on Saturday July 24th, I discovered Liberty Sculpture Park.
Unfortunately so did at least one other with sinister intentions. Only one day before I found myself heading past this park, an unknown arsonist(s) burned down a statue that had taken seven months to create on a desert park that stands against tyranny.