Last night I had to explain the word "executed" to Jack. As in, "We have a confirmed report that Saddam Hussein was executed fifteen minutes ago."
The news this week is filled with death. Saddam Hussein. President Ford. James Brown. The family from Cedar Hills, Utah, that was lopped in half by a drunk driver (the mother and two children were killed, the father and two other children survived).
While reporters are recounting the atrocities Saddam Hussein committed during his lifetime and interviewing people who are either celebrating or utterly indifferent to his death, they are recounting wonderful things about Gerald R. Ford, James Brown and the family from Cedar Hills, who has expressed an amazing spirit of forgiveness toward the man who shattered their lives.
In this new year (and forevermore), may we all strive to live our lives doing lots and lots and lots of good and very little harm.
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"... may we all strive to live our lives doing lots and lots and lots of good and very little harm."
Amen Margy, Amen.
And sadly, this day Jack had to become a little more the grown man and a little less the innocent boy. But me thinks he has good teachers.
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