Life - simple but, always complicated!!

An opinion piece that should be read by all. The Nazis also managed their encaptured people  by violence. No similarity ? Both the US slaves & the Jews were denied freedom , forced to do labor , and members of both were murdered. The reasons were simple, they were of the wrong race, ethinicy, or religion. There is no justification to deny people their personal freedom.  A few years ago my daughter and I saw the movie,  Twelve Years A Slave,  it won the 2013 Oscar for Best Motion Picture. I highly recommend it, you'll be both saddened and educated , both Kristen & I were. Yes, Even George Washington Charles Blow On the difficulty of American slavery, I’m an absolutist: enslavers have been amoral monsters. The very concept that one group of individuals believed that they’d the correct to personal one other human being is abhorrent and wicked. The undeniable fact that their management was enforced by violence was barbaric. People usually attempt to c...

Today, June 26th, I just happened to be at the Mass that was for the Fairport Angels. It's the 13th anniversary of the tragic auto accident that claimed the lives of Hannah Congdon, Bailey Goodman, Meredith McClure, Sara Monnat, and Katie Shirley.  All members of Fairport HS Class of 2007.  Feelings of sadness & sorrow immediately hit me when I found who the Mass was in rememberance of. Today, those girls would be young women either 30 or 31. But, no they are forever frozen in time, 17 or 18.  A young boy & girl were receiving the Holy Eucharist for the first time, a celebration. I wonder what thoughts were going through the minds of the parents of the Fairport Angels. I'm sure their thoughts floated back to a time of innocence for their girls. "Just one more day", is a wish the Fairport Angels & parents probably hope for. Never to be  I walked out of Church with a pit in my stomach, and just a saddened feeling. So in today's troubling time both in the...

This is not a fictional tale, nor a little bit of reality and then embellished for a TV movie, no it's about two men , actually three men, of different economic backgrounds, races, ethnicity, and how they didn't see differences  but commonality. The commonality was they were all football men, Chicago Bears, one a coach/owner, the other two players. They had a common goal, win football games for the Chicago Bears. Actually, maybe win a few games for the Bears, because in the late 1960's the Bears weren't a very good team. Gale Sayers was one of the best running backs to ever play in the NFL, Brian Piccolo was second string all the way. He had the heart and determination better than not only of most in the NFL, but better than 99% of the citizens in the United States. Nothing stopped that guy except cancer. Brian Piccolo was pre Jimmy V, there was no ESPN in his time, But, his message, Gale's message, George Halas's message was eloquently told in the TV movie, ...