You’ve won $100,000 – but have to give it all away. To which charity or institution would you donate it?
I will create the Laughing Gypsy Foundation and use the $100k as seed money to grow abundant endowments. The charities close to my heart will benefit infinitely more from the perpetual returns than from a single gift.
What do you think is the most soothing sound?
The sound of horses munching hay on a winter's night. The gentle breaking of waves. The hawk's cry from a clear blue summer sky. The constant conversation of a stream. I know, more than one, but this world is so full of wonders, why must we settle for a single superlative?
Does time heal all wounds?
That's a big fat lie. Time itself is an illusion, it heals nothing. But time does give a backdrop for growth to occur, the kind of growth that toughens abraded sensitivites and heals brokenness far stronger than unwounded flesh. Time also provides a platform for faith to work its glorious alchemies....
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Agh! It's black! Why is it black?! You haven't gone neo-Goth on us, have you? :-p
ReplyDeleteYou’ve won $100,000 – but have to give it all away. To which charity or institution would you donate it?
Same ones I do now: Missing and Abused Children, Heartly House, National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, and Lutheran World Relief. Spread the wealth, so everybody's wealthy in more than monotary means.
What do you think is the most soothing sound?
The wind on top of the mountains.
Does time heal all wounds?
Nope--sometimes, they fester and become deadly. Besides, time is finite, and if you're not careful, it'll run out on you. Better heal wounds on your own.
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ReplyDeleteGone neo-Goth or returning to my roots? ;-)
ReplyDeleteinteresting look on time. I would agree that faith and growth are the healers, but given long enough ALL wounds will heal. We unfairly judge time because we only have a limited amount in this form. Someone who lives for say 100,000 years might reflect that in general, all wounds, no matter how severe, are totally forgotten within 3,000 years. Most people would agree that events that happened on one particular day eons ago don't really affect our lives today. The same can be true about what happened 5 minutes ago, but THAT requires faith and growth and not just waiting for thousands of years. You can't necessarily change your destination over night but you can always change your direction in an instant.
ReplyDeleteAMEN to changing your direction in an instant.
ReplyDeleteAs far Time, that throws us into the thick of semantics: is forgetting the same as healing? To which I respond a resounding NO!
I agree re: time not healing all wounds. Some things are just impossible to recover from, and different people react differently to various situations.
ReplyDeleteHappy MM!
It's my first visit to Manic Monday and I love the questions. Your eloquent answers are fantastic! I especially liked your answer to "does time heal all wounds?"
ReplyDeletesiani, falling back on faith and science,i believe NOTHING is irreparable. but time does not deserve credit as the great healer...
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