random musing
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Participation Awards
I have some words. First, if you cannot make your point without misrepresenting “the other guy” then you need to sit back and re-evaluate your point before you make it. But that is not what I want to talk about today. I want to talk about the Participation Trophy. Some people, when they want to smear those younger than them (especially those in the 18-30ish age bracket) discredit what that they have to say by pointing out that these kids are entitled and therefore what they have to say is irrelevant. “Those entitled millenials”. It’s been said enough that’s considered a fact, and whenever you point out someone who isn’t…
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Beauty.
Can we all agree that beauty is in the eye of the beholder? I know that the midget will see something and tell me how it is beautiful…and I’ll confess to her that I’m not seeing it. On the other hand I’ll remark how cute something is…and she asks why is it touching me. Different artforms touch different people. Beauty is diverse, and it has been argued that it is part of beauty that we are not all the same. Marketing tries to fit us women into a little box and tell us ‘this! this is beauty!’…and most of us can’t fit into the box even if we wanted to.…
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Encouraging one another
Yesterday I read this post. I had two immediate thoughts, one was that I end up reading alot of blog posts that I am not the target audience. Two, was that what they were writing about is a great reminder for all us. “The woman whose husband is gone for an overnight business trip has no idea what it’s like for the woman whose husband is gone for a week at a time. The woman whose husband is gone for a week at a time has no idea what it’s like for the woman whose husband is gone for 5 weeks at a time (our longest separation so far). The…