Posted on 03/17/2008 9:07:39 PM PDT by Orange1998
Yeah, I know what you mean. We get a lot of puppies and kittens dumped on our road. However, the coyote population has reached sufficient numbers now that they usually don't last long. One of the my neighbors near my farm started feeding two stray cats. Turned out, both were preggo. That was about a year ago. Now, they have about 15 cats. Nary a mouse to be had, though.....and it certainly keeps my 3 Labs entertained....
thanks
There are a lot of starving people in different parts of the world and massive amounts of aid are flowing in. These people are living in areas that will not support them and they will not move. They will have more babies if they are fed and taken care of so more aid will be required. What happens when the need far exceeds the supply?
I’m talking about helping people in your own neighborhood.
Ooops, wrong “west end”. It’s at the WESTERN west end. I didn’t even realize my mistake until I found an article with the street location, Jefferson Street and Cucamonga Avenue.
If hope is fragile, how is it that the desperate immigrants from India, china, Russia, Africa have it, and those who grew up here don’t?
I think hope is an outlook, and those are chosen/ set by your belief system. If you think you are a victim, if you think you are powerless to change your life, if you think sad-sack droopy drawer thots, your life will reflect that cynicism. Or not. Choice.
I’m not at all certain that you can muster hope by force of will. Immigrants tend to have it because all of the effort of immigrating would have been for nothing if they didn’t have it. The people who don’t have it here — who were born here — tend to come from environments where hope is a scarce commodity.
It’s a very simple formula — you either believe tomorrow will be better than today or you don’t.
So, What makes you think this isn’t happening in my neighborhood and yours?
You make decisions by force of will. If you wait until you FEEL hopeful, you will accomplish nothing, and you might well die, because the reality of life is that life is hard.
“Pick up your mat,” the Good Lord said. He didn’t say, “Wait until you feel hopeful.” The whiners are not only not picking up their mats, they are blaming others and expecting others to pick up their mats and rescue them, too.
Life doesn’t work like that.
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