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Words have power; great power.We have all learned through life experience what short and long range impact our personal actions have.
In times of stress, in time of decision making, we can find our way to clarity of thought through the use of words.
Watching the news, reading the headline stories can cause much angst and generate feelings of "I am only one person, what can I do?" As Margaret Mead once pointed out, everything of world changing proportions began with the work of a few.
We don't always want to do things of world changing proportions. Sometimes we want to clarify things for ourselves. We can find our way through words. And yet, in changing our personal world, we change the whole world.
Currently we are being besieged with those who would like to run for President, with news from active combat fronts, with climatic problems, with research for "bunker busters," with AIDS, with a whole list of things tough to make decisions about.
When these things start to overwhelm, writing it out, writing out your feelings, your visceral reactions to them, can help you clarify your thinking and center you to make rational rather than emotional, decisions.
A simple question to ask yourself about a candidate for the highest national office is a basic one: would I want this person to babysit my chldren? Now that seems at first thought perhaps absurd, but is that not what we do when we elect someone to the Presidency? He, and one day she, becomes the care giver for the nation. When you listen to a candidate, what kind of care giving are you hearing about?
More questions follow.
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