Tell me and I'll forget.
Show me, and I may not remember.
Involve me, and I'll understand.
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Native American Saying
The most precious gift we as adults have been given to us?
Our youth.
Yeah its been said time after time and generation after generation that they are the future. It has been said so many times it gets over used.
But, They are our future.
What is the gift we can ensure all of our youth get plenty of and with fairness to all?
A question you ask many would get just as many answers.
More time with parents.
Discipline or maybe more values.
The list can go on. How about an education system that works with them.
We have focused so little of our resources on our youths education. Oh some get the resources but if you don't live in a certain zip code that provides a higher tax base then maybe you won't get the necessary attention.
If you live in the inner city maybe you will have to do with outdated material. Maybe you won't have an IPAD in your early years to use.
But if you life in the higher tax base you might have so much more.
We need to level out that playing field. Education is our path to a better economy.
A better value driven life.
We need to show our youth we care.
We need to get them involved with governing the country the way it should be not the way it has been for generations.
How do we do this?
We have no problems building 500 dollar hammers for our military.
We have no problems shipping out our young soliders to foreign soil to get rid of a dictator or protect our 'interests'. But yet we have trouble funding our future and the education of our youth.
Sad is it not.
How do we fix this?
We make it an issue. We vote for a change in our established practices. We worry about the economy and on jobs. Without a doubt we have homeless youth because the breaking down of our current job market. Yet we have corporations that are sitting on millions, no billions of dollars instead of hiring and putting America back to work.
We need to fix this, and soon.
We need to support our youth and their education.
We need to take charge of what our future holds.
We look at the occupy movement and laugh but yet they push on.
We need to find a better way and put our resources into involving our youth in their education. They will find solutions we just need to give them the tools and help them to understand how the tools can work together for change.
Sound easy, no its not but as an American, I do pray for change.
I hope you will join me.
Our youth.
Yeah its been said time after time and generation after generation that they are the future. It has been said so many times it gets over used.
But, They are our future.
What is the gift we can ensure all of our youth get plenty of and with fairness to all?
A question you ask many would get just as many answers.
More time with parents.
Discipline or maybe more values.
The list can go on. How about an education system that works with them.
We have focused so little of our resources on our youths education. Oh some get the resources but if you don't live in a certain zip code that provides a higher tax base then maybe you won't get the necessary attention.
If you live in the inner city maybe you will have to do with outdated material. Maybe you won't have an IPAD in your early years to use.
But if you life in the higher tax base you might have so much more.
We need to level out that playing field. Education is our path to a better economy.
A better value driven life.
We need to show our youth we care.
We need to get them involved with governing the country the way it should be not the way it has been for generations.
How do we do this?
We have no problems building 500 dollar hammers for our military.
We have no problems shipping out our young soliders to foreign soil to get rid of a dictator or protect our 'interests'. But yet we have trouble funding our future and the education of our youth.
Sad is it not.
How do we fix this?
We make it an issue. We vote for a change in our established practices. We worry about the economy and on jobs. Without a doubt we have homeless youth because the breaking down of our current job market. Yet we have corporations that are sitting on millions, no billions of dollars instead of hiring and putting America back to work.
We need to fix this, and soon.
We need to support our youth and their education.
We need to take charge of what our future holds.
We look at the occupy movement and laugh but yet they push on.
We need to find a better way and put our resources into involving our youth in their education. They will find solutions we just need to give them the tools and help them to understand how the tools can work together for change.
Sound easy, no its not but as an American, I do pray for change.
I hope you will join me.
Yes the weekly affirmation fits nicely here. I did not forget to share it and here it is:
I am a perfect creation and I have everything I need to obtain my dreams and goals. I have the time and I will find the time to make a difference today for myself and those I love. I am able to ask better questions and I will start today.
A few times to be said each day.
Smiles sent to you all this day and everyday : )
On this day in history
1660 – A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.
1907 – King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
1927 – The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
1941 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. and the Republic of China declare war against Japan.
1941 – Japanese forces simultaneously invade Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong and the Philippines. These happen concurrently with the Attack on Pearl Harbor, which was on December 7 in the United States.
1949 – United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is established to provide aid to Palestinian refugees who left their homes during the 1948 Palestinian exodus.
1953 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, and the U.S. launches its "Atoms for Peace" program that supplied equipment and information to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
1962 – Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.
1963 – Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by positive lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, United States, killing all 81 people on board.
1966 – The Greek ship SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
1972 – United Airlines Flight 553 crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45.
1980 – John Lennon, an English musician and peace activist, is murdered by Mark David Chapman, a mentally unstable fan, in front of The Dakota apartment building in New York City.
1987 – The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed.1987 – Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills eight people at the Australia Post building in Melbourne, before jumping to his death.
1987 – An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip border, sparking the First Intifada.1988 – A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.
1991 – The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1993 – The North American Free Trade Agreement is signed into law by US President Bill Clinton.
2004 – Dimebag Darrell, guitarist for Pantera and Damageplan is shot and killed at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio by paranoid schizophrenic Nathan Gale.2007 – Benazir Bhutto, first and only female former Prime Minister of Pakistan, had her PPP Office stormed by unidentified gunmen. Three supporters are killed.
2009 – Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq kill 127 and injure 448.
2010 – With the second launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
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Your Daily Prayer
Lord, thank you for today!
Thanks for the gift of understanding and the love that you have instilled in us at birth.
Help all of us to become better givers of self.
To share a simple sincere smile.
To reach out with our hands and arms to help another person get a foot hold once again.
Help us all to understand the importance of time and resources for our children and our youth. Help all of us treat all children with respect, value and love. No matter their status of color or from what neighborhood they live in.
Thank you for your promises and words of instruction.
May I use that authority of thought and spoken word for good, to do no harm and to protect my fellow man.
May gratitude always have authority in my life.
Help me to make a difference with a simple sincere smile, a kind word or even a act of kindness or love.
May we become filled with kindness and gratitude that overflows.
Thanks for the gift of understanding and the love that you have instilled in us at birth.
Help all of us to become better givers of self.
To share a simple sincere smile.
To reach out with our hands and arms to help another person get a foot hold once again.
Help us all to understand the importance of time and resources for our children and our youth. Help all of us treat all children with respect, value and love. No matter their status of color or from what neighborhood they live in.
Thank you for your promises and words of instruction.
May I use that authority of thought and spoken word for good, to do no harm and to protect my fellow man.
May gratitude always have authority in my life.
Help me to make a difference with a simple sincere smile, a kind word or even a act of kindness or love.
May we become filled with kindness and gratitude that overflows.
I give you praise and the glory for all of that
With humility and gratitude I thank you
Amen
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