Allentown

On Friday in the 8th-grade career classes at my school, we listened to the song "Allentown" by Billy Joel. (Fabulous song, by the way. Listen to it, or at least look up the lyrics.) We got into a discussion about whether or not the American Dream actually exists. Some people thought yes, some no, some said sometimes.
I think that it does, but that it's a lot harder than most people think. I also don't think it's all that simple. Like, a person kind of has to know how to make the American Dream happen--the rules of the "game" so to speak. People who have it easy tend to think it is easier than it really is for others. It's hard to see life through the eyes of another person. I think we tend to judge people who are poor or homeless as being lazy or as having something wrong with them. It makes it possible for us to hide from the fact that we are all just a few steps away from homelessness and poverty, too.

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Introduction

I believe that true learning comes not in finding the right answers, but in asking the right questions.

This blog is going to serve as a forum for asking questions that can lead to self-discovery and understanding. As we come to a greater understanding and appreciation of ourselves as individuals, many of the ills in our lives may be healed, we will be more able to reach out to others and to give more of our own uniqueness to the world. There is so much healing to be done!

This poem, by one of my favorite poet/philosophers, sums up the purpose of this blog beautifully:

LOAVES AND FISHES

This is not the
age of information.

This is NOT
the age of information.

Forget the news,
and the radio,
and the blurred screen.

This is the time
of loaves
and fishes.

People are hungry,
and one good word is bread
for a thousand.

~David Whyte


Come to this blog daily for a "good word."
Love to you all.

~Cathryn