On My Mind - Thoughts on Learning, Growing and Evolving

Remember when you were in Kindergarten and the teacher would hand out a paper with dots on it and tell the class to trace the dots and see what you would find.  We all did this and suddenly an elephant or a tiger or a tree would appear.   Well, we are no longer kids in Kindergarten and the dots we need to connect have not been set out on a plain piece of paper by someone else, but this skill is still extremely important.  But now we have to do this on our own.  There is even a poem and a book,  All I Really Need to Know I learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum which is exactly what I am talking about here - he took the basics we learned back then and applied them to adult life. But what happens now that we are adults is that we may do a fine job of connecting most of the dots, such as how to make a living, how to create and a maintain our relationships, raise our children, be a good citizen, and have a little fun as we go along, because even Kindergartener's had recess an

This past weekend two more mass shootings happened.  This makes me angry!  Sitting in our homes watching another one of these stupid, horrific and unexplainable choices made by these young men flow out of our television screens or computes is something our intelligent nation has to do something about and we need to do it now!  We need to get angry about this!   We can't wait  until a new president is elected and we can't spend our time wringing our hands and hoping for the best.  The best is not happening, the worst is happening.  As a nation and as individual people we need to take some action.  We need to get off our butts and go do something. Now!!! Anger as Motivator When we get angry about something, that anger can and often does motivate us to take some kind of action.  If we are, as the name of this blog implies, learning, growing, and evolving people, then we need to use this anger in a positive and productive way.  Unlike the immature, mentally ill people who com