Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Just as I have blogged on the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, racism, and intolerance previously (as found via my blog tags), today I am doing it again.
Warning: This post contains some graphic, or disturbing photos.
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An owl's eye view of forests and trees
Now, at the risk of alienating many, a divergence into the Christian religion.
Critical Thought Exercise: Learn to Set Aside Discomfort to Discover Reality
People use words and phrases to persuade us, not with the truth, but with feeling comfortable. If it sounds good, we want to believe it. As long as what gets said doesn’t fall in to the “too good to be true” category, alarms do not go off, and words lull us down the path laid out for us.
Let me give you a small example of what I mean so that you can try to be on the lookout for it in the big scale. Think of this as another critical thought exercise.
The Power of One Knee
Kneeling on one knee changed everything. Kneeling like that for about a minute-and-a-half, the average time it takes to perform the national anthem, ended Colin Kaepernick’s career. Kneeling like that for close to nine minutes ended George Floyd’s life. Both times that knee bent because of our society’s deep-seated racism. The results shame this nation’s white majority.
Kneeling for nine minutes changed me too, hopefully for the better.
Warning: Post Contains a Disturbing Image
I look back at things I have written previously, things I thought might be too harsh at the time, and now see them as too gentle and too indirect.
An Owl’s Random COVID-19 Thoughts
What it says on the tin. Just a collection of thoughts that pop in my head over the course of a day as I watch people react to COVID-19.
I wrote a piece over at Torchlight Media setting out the many reasons you should vote in the primaries. Please take a read:
Torchlight Media – Use Your Voice: 9 Reasons to Vote in Primaries
An owl’s intense gaze feels like it sees into the depths of your soul. Yet humans also end up reading into owl eyes a range of other expressions. Let’s take a closer look at the magnificent Strigiformes’ orbs.
Owl Facts: 3 Toe, 1 Toes, 2 Toes, 2 Toes
And now a nature interlude about owls. Did I count those toes correctly?
Where are decades of corporate and government trends leading us?
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