If in doubt about what you are doing, pause and look around you

 As you know, like you, I am openminded; I think , Maybe, thinking about what i just wrote , I don't really think, therefore I lie. so many liars in one house and not an ounce of confession.  
Best I keep moving or I might realize I am on the wrong track  ..... and need to go back .. at least a step or two. 
Like you, I am probably too busy to really think , and as old as I am,  am not only stuck in my ways , but you refuse to budge. 
Well same here . which why,  nearly legless myself,   I suggest you just pause and look around around you. Read something that you have never read because the label really annoys you. 







You are not getting too old for this ( glory be to them's that coined that expressio) but No 
 YOU were meant for this ( at any age but particularly in old age when you have time for it )   Confession will do all of us good .


I really hope this note i posted TODAY makes your day Know love: How to jump back into the idea of Marriage

   

If you knew a way to make the world a much better place , would you do it?

 I truly hope so. If you are young, I pray you will seek both the wisdom to find and follow that path. 
Let me suggest that most of us have at least three reasons why we might not do this 

1. We don't actually know the identity let alone HOW to achieve that goal
2. Even if we know the goal, we can be expected to be easily discouraged by the profound application difficulty and dedication required to reach that goal. There are easier things to do for yourself and defining public good goals that can be achieved takes great wisdom. 
3. We are most likely to be presently doing something else at the moment. 
   
   There will be other discouragements like- the goal may look small compared to some,  but let's just ignore them because I believe self-satisfaction is the best kind of reward any of us can expect and one achievement can be expected to drive the desire for more.(cf the lack of rewards in self-serving ) 
   
   Lots of questions . I hope, in subsequent posts to describe how we can keep in touch with a sound goal in our own patch (cause that is the only way to see and achieve that goal) 
   
   
   Let me list one goal ( listing contraints may take the focus off the objective here and start the not so critical reality that there will be discouragements ) 
   
   WORTHY and achievable GOAL 
    1, To pay to farmers the margin required to make food production profitable and their use and investment in
   the land more sustainable, Some background Some background  to the present realities in the West 

Whatever you do , do it and do it well

 My generation of Australians are confused . They aim naturally , like most human and their families ,  to find economic security, but find themselves with two houses and their children with none . 

It's a form of madness ( denial?) to focus on the obvious  yet thats all the wannabes ever seem to do ; that  house prices are unaffordable; that's mere economics and we can fix that if we want to . As Sorell reminds us, its only when we accept there are only tradeoffs and not solutions  on the housing issue , we can find a way through there . Its predictable machinery . 

Not so with good work - envisioning that takes wisdom - and not the trite nonsense that says being a lawyer will bring you home . This is is more of the bread that never satisfies.  

Its a form of denial to get distracted and name call when the problem is in the too hard basket for all the rabbits assembled in parliament .
The problem is not housing but homing and the deeper problem is the lack of community commitment to careers . Even teachers talk carelessly for decades about having  3 jobs is a lifetime as if that is the reality or the  desirable outcome.
The fear ridden rabbits are afraid to even mention the word career  when it's blatantly obvious we need doctors and people to help them manage the huge work load.

Something is still wrong when we now in 2024 are no longer producing credible doctors of the environment credible doctors of the environment .
When instead of offering solutions our leaders are offering fear  fear 


I will finish here for now cause while the need for doctors is my thing , we let our kids fall into a deep pit by NOT talking and finding out worthwhile work and NOT getting them ready for the variety by teaching them how to anticipate it ---- and cope with it when it comes along .

As one who has also  spent decades dealing with poor attitudes to any work by tens of young people in my care, I will leave the next chapter  of my  "Do whatever you do and do it well" talk      because it is the most inspiring one of all.
None of us will be happy with just a house or three, but a job well done CAN really help everyone of us find home.   find home.  

You know even rabbits are adaptable .Why aren't we?
These rabbits don't need a warren. There mobile home is under the cars at our depot  ,They have more exists and entries than an earth warren and no preditor can touch them . provided they dont go deaf and blind they won't get rained on , flooded or dug out, 


Why are so many of us living in the richest country in the world BUT without a home   Copyright EA 

  

Anger can be a real killer

We need to be far wiser in responding to angry people. 
To do that well, we need to recognize that we get angry too. 
Infact all parties involved need to think through why many new ideas in this area are NOT WORKING - see below. 

Let's start by reviewing the history of ideas and what i am saying is common neglect of what works.

In the West we know , or used to know, the power of good words . Verbal assault carries similiar import in our culture to physical assault , yet nowadays an aside or a putdown , gas lighting , cancelling or a taunt , is seen as" no big deal" ( even though it s against several of the 10 commandments)

its true  that unless we can FIND a positive ,we will all go down in the negative . But short circuiting life to avoiding negative means we restrict ourselves to non resolution with reality ; we don't face reality and then move,  on as we need to .
Holding onto anger is a curse  and we need to show young people how NOT to do that.  

 The common counter accusations about whose loving and whose hating ,mean we are confused and confusing each other ; most people are not thinking or acting deeply here . 

We have an effective centuries old answer to preventing wrath .We just have to use it .The miracle is that with anger , being strong and direct with it YOURSELF can diffuse it on both sides.

If you practice dissipating it ( Its natural not naughty -by talking before the sun goes down) you can LEARN that its not good for YOU THEM or anyone to hold onto it ---- Is not this the big deal . hanging on to it!

Don't be harder , be smarter. For everyone's benefit. 

Young people  have a particular problem, because real life can seem too hard.  Do what you do well son and you will find the way to progress for yourself  .

BUT Some with some age still have lots to learn 

Take some who would try to control our media and wannabes in government . 
Some of the more assertive think , quite wrongly, they can change the attitude of others by lecturing us about how bad we are and where we should treat each other better .

Such a technique simply doesn't work ( try it at home-- the angry wife is right but she won't control him by swapping chairs) and because it doesn't work, those using it in power, push word control and group "racism "even harder .
We must resist those who force such ineffective tyranny.

In real life there is always conflict
Free speech is the way to prevent all out warfare and many reactive controls imposed by fanatics to control it are wrong .

The reactionary position which just says anger is a sin are wrong. Anger can be a natural response ( adrenalin and nor adrenalin) and we need our worldview to help us manage it.

Many families will struggle to teach their children about how to deal with anger when 80% of marriages in Australia break up-often over it . 



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