Wishing you a happy one, be it a dandelion bouquet from a child or a flower arrangement from a friend, neighbor or loved one. I would just like to remind my readers that my writing is of my own opinion & not necessarily fact set in stone. Like all things, in time opinions can change, but these are mine for now. I do not wish any huge debates. That said, onward ho!
The "One day of blog silence" yesterday gave me time to lightly research a few things that have been on my mind as of late.
Various media forms lately have been using "the Rosetta Stone" as a metaphorical catch phrase, but not always accurately. For some reason it is currently a vogue colloquialism. It captures the attention & sounds important, which it is. I for one, didn't know much about it other than that though. I gathered some info from www.ancientegypt.co.uk/writing/rosetta.html as follows in summation. The stone was written on in 3 languages in use at the time, 2 Egyptian & 1 Greek, making it so priests, government officials & rulers could all read what it said, since these various classes used different languages. It was carved in 196BC & found in 1799 by French soldiers & named for the town it was found in.
Vogueness is a double edged sword. Be vogue or don't receive attention, receive attention to become vogue, a catch 22 as well.
I've also been seeing & reading more information on micro-credit loans. While it is relatively new it has been going on for some time. Only recently has it become vogue enough to garner more media attention. The SEWA Cooperative Bank of India has issued micro-credit loans to 800,000 women already. FINCA International is a Washington based non-profit promoting micro finance as well. Women Together is a non profit organization similar to FINCA which provides loans to low income women so they can produce textiles. W.T. sponsored an awards & Fashion show with high fashions on display made partly by women from Columbia, Panama, India, Uruguay, Bangladesh, Mexico, Morocco, Puru & Salvador de Bahia in Brazil. All wonderful & noteworthy efforts. This information was primarily garnered from www.Foxnews.com.
I see the Internet, software & related technologies as the Rosetta stone of our time. It is used almost universally, easily enough that children are quite adept at it. Various software I see as the writing on the stone-breaking barriers of blindness, deafness, paralysis & language. This Rosetta stone allows communication, among other things, globally of virtually anything & everything.
With a nearly universally accessible & understandable Rosetta Stone as the Internet in place one can learn of other vogue concepts such as foreign adoption opportunities. Micro-credit & foreign adoption are just a couple of many practices which may help create a Global Community (yet another vogue concept & fashionable buzz word) in actuality not just concept.
While I am all for a Global Community & its wondrous idealism I have to wonder about my own back yard. Grandma's "Charity begins at home" echos in the back of my mind. Is this narrow mindedness or profound wisdom? I've learned helping others at the expense of my own family & myself is quite detrimental & difficult to recover from. I may help a starving 3rd world child but do I do so by turning my back on my local homeless shelter & food pantry? Am I too worried about being vogue & following trends to see less noted yet equally important issues on my own continent? Do I let some other Global minded person from afar clean up my "home town" messes? Do I point a finger at my neighbor's yard & turn a blind eye to my own dandelion field? If I cannot do it all, where do I start?
Going Green - you guessed it, another vogue concept - to help Mama Earth & all of its inhabitants! Emitting less harmful toxins & bi-products would help globally in theory. This would bi pass my guilt of having to choose which causes to support. A theory worth a look into if I weren't so comfortably embedded in my ways. It is often easier to give worthy causes a few dollars or make it noteworthy by spreading the word - or as in yesterday's circumstance, with silence.
I am reminded of super heroes & red capes. They cannot live in those suits & often have alter-egos of mere mortals. No-one can be Super all the time. My "mere mortal" neighbor across the street was Super just the other day. He rescued Stewie, our black lop bunny, from the slobbery clutches of a rogue Rotwiller. Now Stewie needs a sedative & bunny-Rogaine but he is at least alive & hopping. He is still employed, all-be-it in a safer location, as our resident "go-green weed eater" mowing down dandelions now in the back rather than the front yard. we are all mere mortals. Our suits & capes get stained, they often need washing, on the gentle cycle at that. They are to be worn (in avoidance of flame, not actually allowing us to fly) by us - the common, mere mortal. While I cannot do it all, I can do something, even if it was only to be silent for a day.
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