Moral Obligation:

"We don't have a moral obligation to everyone in the world, that would be impossible.  But we do have a moral obligation to everyone we come up against, those in our "moral space" so to speak." 

Andrew McCall Smith

Have we in America lost our sense of moral obligation to each other?  As the generations pass are we growing more and more selfish?  Have we come to consider each other as less valuable and more trivial in our strive for personal independence?  Are we coming to lose sight of the fact that we must both give and take, need and be needed by those around us to fully express our own humanity?  Anything less than that is a hypocritical assumption that our lives could be lived most perfectly when we manage to avoid giving or asking anything from anyone.

Jesus fielded a similar question, you can read about it here

Haiku

I remember learning about Haiku in grade school and disliking it.  Now  I get to teach it to Eliot.  He was supposed to write his own but I "helped"

Wind
scrubbing my face red
moving leaves with one sneeze
cold harsh autumn wind


The only Haiku I have ever liked is the following:

Haikus are easy
but sometimes they don't make any sense
refridgerator

- anonymous

Rolly Polly Ollie

That's Isaac!  This week he cut his first tooth, learned to roll from front to back and from back to front.  He is also getting up on his hands and knees.

In other news ...

My dad is getting back from Africa after being there for business for the last 7 weeks.  Also, scientists have discovered a ring around Saturn and my house is a mess again/still.  In case anyone was wondering ...