"It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is he knows everything." (Joyce Cary)
And I will add, if I may, the fact that the less a person knows, the more stubborn that person is in insisting that he does know everything. The truth is, that when that happens all shuts down, one does not hear the words or meaning or thoughts of an opponent and progress comes to a great big halt! So how long must we be patient? Evidently a real long time.
As short a time ago as ten years, our waterways were blue, scenic, no odor, filled with fish that remained alive, thank you very much, and turtles, little ones and big ones that lumbered along. Today? Well, one can see the dead fish, cannot see the turtles, perhaps can see an alligator - or so they say - and can watch some seemingly demented fish as they swim in circles and do not move from that spot, usually near a real big gunky green spot.
We have been promised that these waterways would be worked on. We can ride around the areas, near and a bit further around, and see waterways that are healthy looking, blue enough as they reflect the sky and there are no dead fish floating around. Why is that? Is it because we have that County water coming in? Are we the only ones doing that? And if so, then perhaps we need to do without for it does not seem to have benefitted us at all, and indeed has harmed us what with its ruining the quality and the mineral contents of our waterways. Why, I ask, are we wasting money on more foliage and flowers when there is a rotten heart in the waterways? What difference will it make if we have a stunning mural or not in our indoor pool if people have to hold their noses before reaching it?
Our monies must be allotted in a needful manner, prioritized by importance and time necessity but that is not happening. We spend thousands on mics for the theater but the waterways are still corroded and as a first impression - not so good. So how long must we be patient? How long must we wait? How long must we get sprayed by gross water as we walk to the Clubhouse or even past a grassy area getting watered? How long? Until it is too late? Or is it already? Why are we not thinking out of the box on this issue if the answers given already DO NOT WORK!!!?
How long must we wait in between statements that finally were heard from UCO on the fact that post Millennium time was a comin' and a new contract would have to be drawn up - how long must we wait till we see some real work being done. Not lip service that we need to hire an attorney but that we DO hire an attorney, one of note, one of ability, one with knowledge in this area, and not a stooge or a half dead one or an incompetent or inexperienced one, but one that can stand up to the barrage and I am sure already planned pathways and premises and demands of the Levys. Where are the details? Wendy's used to ask, "where is the beef", and we ask where are the plans, the preparations? The beef was found, but our plans and actual steps? In the mists of nowhere - at least to our knowledge.
How long must we wait till we actually have a totally correct and tamperproof election system, from start to finish, with no hands of a UCO person involved? How long must we wait before we state openly and honestly and do so with a plan in mind and actions ready that the system of counting waving ballots in the air and hoing people can hold their hands up all the while or sitting there and wondering by how much there has been a miscount? The whole world has gone way past that, David sits and yowls ad infinitum about Broadband - but how about a simple electronic board for the voting? Where is the work on that? How long do we have to wait?
For close to three years we have been waiting by Andover and Wellington to fix a bus stop, to make it even, not with rocks, not with dirt, but by paving it to the level of the road. I thought we had a final answer on that, was told that it would be "next week" but that has come and gone two weeks ago and......How long? We have been redoing bus stops since the year of the flood but this one seemingly disappears from everyone's to do calendar. Wonder why? Hmmmm
And might as well add in a question from the outside. How long does it take the world to realize that if a diplomat, if we stretch the point, cannot condemn terrorism and specifically mention the people of the country of Israel, those who are the specific targets of their homegrown terrorists, their children whom they have raised to hate and kill, if that "diplomat" cannot say it right there in the UN, cannot recognize that Israel is the country, the state of the Jewish people, cannot accept that though there are 50 Moslem countries, many of them including that fact in their official name, but this one tiny country bothers him and the rest of his hate filled brethren - then how long must we wait for that moment, for peace, for no more terrorism, for recognition of Israel as that state? Even as the past arose again, with the bombing of a bus, with flames that engulfed another bus and a private vehicle as well, right on the street that thousands use daily - including Gerry and I on our recent trip there as we drove on it twice a day in order to reach my grandson - even as the flames rose and the cries of the wounded, the maimed and the burned pierced the heavens once more - still, no condemnation from the diplomats, no words of condemnation from the UN. Nope. Only words of hate and demands made of Israel. And more tunnels, of course. Using the cement that they cry for, that they "neeeeeed" for the rebuilding of homes. Really? How many people live in the tunnels or is the world again turning a blind eye as what the hey, it is only Jews being killed again, been there done that so what's the biggie here?!
How long must we all wait? Sometimes it seems forever - here and out there. At least here we stand "only" to lose our homes. Out there? Our lives and those of our friends and families. On May 4 at 7:30 there is a commemoration of Yom Hashoah, The Holocaust, at the Traditions. We attend every year as we mourn those of our families that we never got to know, only thru some remaining pictures and the stories of those who survived, but are now gone, as we mourn the people whose very names we carry and whose memories and traditions we remember and carry on as well. How long? It seems forever, does it not.
" A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again." (Horace)
Perhaps these words of hate, these empty promises, must be examined before we spew them out. We have to start somewhere. So start by listening to the words of love and hopes for peace of the husband and daughter of Dafna Meir, killed in her doorway as she fought with a terrorist who had his knife in her neck. Hear their words as they spoke at the UN, as they remember that heroic mother and wife who gave her life to protect her children, not sending them out to kill other children. Words of hate lead to acts of hate. When does it stop?
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