"When you begin to think outside the box, you often become some other "leaders" lousy follower. That usually costs something" (Andy Rayner)

"Our guardian angels are bored." (Mike Foster)

It's where I feel I'm at these days. “In the second half of life, it is good just to be a part of the general dance. We do not have to stand out, make defining moves, or be better than anyone else on the dance floor. Life is more participatory than assertive, and there is no need for strong or further self-definition” (Falling Upward. Richard Rohr.120).

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Romanticising Poverty

The poor have all kinds of relational problems, attitudes, and issues too, just like the rest of us. How true this is, we sometimes romanticize poverty by mistaking it for "Simplicity".....

"It was a romantic conception, because at that time I thought that poor people were somehow better, more honest and more alive, than people with money, not realizing that the absence of money in a society built around it could be as corrupting as money itself. The little village was going to be romantic as hell."(Living Poor. A Peace Corps Chronicle. Moritz Thomsen. Pg 24) 
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