Articles For Heart Mind Soul

Letter to the Editor, Rocketeers or rioters  After a storm, some people look out their window, raise their gaze up and see the beautifully colored rainbow magnificently spanning across the sky; while other people look out their window, hang their head down and see the mud, muck and mire that is savagely strewn across the landscape.  Both scenes are the reality of the aftermath of a violent storm.  There is the reality of the rainbow and the reality of the ruins.  Some people only focus on the rainbow and are oblivious to the ruins, while others only spotlight the ruins and are unaware of the rainbow.  The storm created both the rainbow and the ruins.  Those who see both of them have the hope that the rainbow brings while diligently working to clean up the mess that the storm created.  There were two news stories: one was heavily covered while the other was hardly covered at all.  The riots rece...

Letter to the Editor, America re-opens with riots The protesters were able to do what no herd immunity, what no vaccine, what no safety guidelines were able to successfully accomplish; they re-opened America. It was not the peaceful protesters who wanted to respectfully re-open America; because these peaceful protesters were doing a bad thing according to everything we were told. No, the protesters who effectively re-opened America and took the spotlight off the cursed virus were the protesters who wanted to rebelliously riot in America; because these protesters were doing a good thing according to everything we were told.  Suddenly everything just changed. By getting out of their homes and not remaining in mandatory lockdowns; by not wearing face masks, uncovering their noses to breathe and their mouths to scream and shout so that their voices could be heard; by not practicing social distancing, instead congregating in large groups that overpowered and ...

Letter to the Editor, Where was Antifa?  How quickly Antifa, the so-called anti-fascists, folded during the pandemic.  Shouldn’t they have the most viciously vocal about resisting the government imposed lockdown?  Weren’t they the ones who screamed and shouted about how much they were against extreme authoritarianism, oppressiveness, and intolerant practices? Wasn’t the government imposed lockdown considered to be by them an egregious example of extremely oppressive and intolerant authoritarianism? Weren’t these the same people who called Trump all sorts of derogatory terms and compared him to Hitler?  Yet not a peep was heard from them throughout the pandemic, as they obediently and frighteningly remained lock downed in their parents’ basement. What happened to their bravado and bluster? Why did they not resist? Why did they not radically rebel? Why did they not refuse to go along? Why did they not rise up and revolt? Were they so scare...