The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.
Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.
A crystalline moment shatters, and the world is a different place. Where there was confinement, now there is release. Recoiling from my sudden liberation, my left arm flings downcanyon, opening my shoulders to the south, and I fall back against the northern wall of the canyon, my mind is surfing on euphoria. As I stare at the wall where not twelve hours ago I etched “RIP OCT 75 ARON APR 03,” a voice shouts in my head: I AM FREE!
Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.
Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.
May your boulders be your blessings. May you be able to embrace them. And may you find what's extraordinary in yourself.
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon,for each day to have a new and different sun.
I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.
We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say "common struggle" because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.
Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?
. . . the first sign of civilization is always trash.