Reflection from an indie movie~~

"God doesn't hate us... Because if he did he would not have made our hearts so bright."

I believe that protecting today's children--tomorrow's Mandelas and Mother Theresas and Aung San Suu Kyis--is the moral and common sense litmus test of our humanity in a world where millions of children's lives are ravaged by the wars, neglect, abuse, and racial, ehtnic, religious, and class divisions of adults.

--Marian Wright Edelman

I believe this includes adults who were once children too. Having lived such nightmares well into adulthood, we also count as well.

A quote by Benjamin Mays

"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim, is a sin."

It's time to do whatever it takes to make our nation treat our children right and to live up to its promise of fair opportunity. And we have the responsibility to ensure all children what we now provide for some children.

The chain of influence...

What experiences shape (our) outlook, forge (our) convictions? The links in any chain of influence are too numerous, too complex to trace. But being aware that such chains exist, that we can choose to join them, and that lasting change doesn't occur in their absence, is one of the primary ways to sustain hope, especially when our actions seem too insignificant to amount to anything.

--Paul Rogat Loeb

Honesty and hope

"Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, then watching the evidence change."

"The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while."

Good book to read: The Impossible will take a little while, a citizen's guide to hope in a time of fear by Paul Rogat Loeb

Have a hopeful week...