A topless, toddler-sized doll with a magenta wig and blue eyes stood watch without blinking as the island of free stuff on my friend’s front lawn creeped toward the sidewalk.
The wonder of Artemis and the images of our beautiful planet from space is cause for pause. The famous astronomer Carl Sagan believed that if humans really saw the planet in its entirety, they might love and care for it more and perhaps even be kinder to one another. His thoughts are contained in his “Pale Blue Dot” speech. Worth looking up.
War is an enemy of civilization. It seeks to hate and destroy the beauty that the enemy has created. It has no appetite for understanding and asserts it authority and its uninformed point of view. War’s companions are chaos and blood. Trump’s unacceptable violent rhetoric seems to take us to the brink — to where we are not sure.
Even as the U.S. and Iran flirt with a return to negotiations, each appears convinced it can dish out more pain — and absorb more — than its opponent. They’d both be wiser to accept the compromises needed to bring their six-week conflict to a close.
With nighttime temperatures expected to drop well below freezing over the next few days, Longmont’s HOPE is opening overnight severe weather shelters through Saturday night.
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