• Find cause, not blame.
• Pain is inevitable, suffering is voluntary.
• I can always make another dollar, but I can’t make another minute.
• If you don’t blow your own horn, there is no music.
• Logic makes you think but emotion prompts you to act.
• We have no right to consume wealth and happiness without also creating wealth and happiness.
• You don’t cure poverty by creating more poverty.
• Prospects know what they want but not necessarily what they need.
• “Tough love” is empathy without the sympathy.
• Humility isn’t self-degradation, but rather appreciation of the worth of others.

Mother’s Day has gone by this year, and Father’s Day awaits. The former was begun in 1905, the latter in 1910.

Are we headed for one day, given these times? I guess “Parental Day” to try to keep it sanitized and non-gender affiliated? We combined Washington’s and Lincoln’s birthdays into Presidents’ Day, after all. Perhaps Christmas and Hanukkah and Eid into “Annual Gift Giving Day”?

I recall a wonderful event hosted by Alpha Phi Sorority when my daughter attended Syracuse University: Bop with Your Pop. Fathers danced with their daughters and had drinks (I learned how serious sorority sisters can drink when one offered me “Sex on the Beach” until I realized it was a cocktail) for an hour, and then the mothers joined the party. Alas and alack, it is gone.

In Providence they are introducing free school lunches for everyone, even those who can afford them, so that those who can’t aren’t “stigmatized.”

I’m all for understanding and accepting varied lifestyles and identities, though I am perplexed at the policy of drag queens reading to kids in the third grade. (I am not making that up.) I’ve read that the Jewish people of two millennia ago had identified seven or more genders. This isn’t a new circumstance, but as in all things over the past few years, people who consider themselves out of the majority or mainstream demand constant recognition, not just equal rights.

A theater here precedes its plays with one of the actors on stage announcing that we need to all be aware that this is not our land and our wealth derives from, in effect, theft.

Religion is on the outs these days, of course, not consistent with the new “in crowd,” but I find one of the tenets, in any religion, especially appealing and relevant in these times: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

And I’ll close with Billy Joel, the troubadour of our times, much more so than Taylor Swift. “I am an innocent man.” I am not guilty, no matter what your agenda is.

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