"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me."
Walt Whitman (1819-92)
"When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break."
Akhenaton (d. c.1354 BC)
And now, the current weather, from some random person we pulled off the street:
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Touching Base
Just figured I should say...
The reason I haven't been posting regularly is that things are happening in a big way here, and so fast I'm amazed I've not lost my hat! The bad thing is that, even though these events are very, very good for Cliff (or look to be anyway) I can't actually SAY anything about them here yet.
Talking Point After a friend’s 15-year-old son died from a heroin overdose, Dominic Vecchio decided to get the boy’s peers to confront the problem of drug abuse in their school, Maine South High School in Park Ridge, Ill. He did that by buying a full-page ad in the local newspaper repeating allegations from other students that they could buy heroin and crystal meth in the hallways. “I don’t want people to wait,” Vecchio said. “How many more kids have to die before someone does something?” Principal David Claypool complained that Vecchio’s charge was “an unfair accusation.” Students at the 2,500-pupil school were aghast too. “Irresponsible,” complained one boy. “About 99 percent of the school doesn’t do heroin or crystal meth.” (Chicago Sun-Times) ...Which leaves about two dozen who do. Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 11
