The Human side of Humanity

Hello readers and followers.  Today is Thanksgiving day here in the USA.  The history of the day is not relative to this blog today.  I have always enjoyed Thanksgiving more than any holiday.  I enjoy cooking and entertaining and meeting with my friends and family.  I have used the day to thank my friends for being the most trusted small circle around me.  I have actually said "Thank you for being a friend," which is a song by Andrew Gold- the lyrics are timeless.  Those of you that read and follow know that I put significant meaning in how and whom I call my "friend." In some years I gave Thank You cards to my closest friends.  In one year I actually included a significant amount of the lyrics from Andrew Gold's song in a card to my friend Jill, it was done part as heartfelt banter and part in jest.  Jill had jokingly included an entire song on the back of a birthday card one year because she said it would be "much better than trying to li...

October 31,  2017...Halloween day in New York City.   The NYC- that vibrant city that many here in the USA consider the heartbeat of our country.  A city attacked twice by terrorist - the second time resulting in the collapse of the famous twin towers on September 11, 2001.  Once again NYC was the site of terror.  On a day that for many allows the children to be superheroes for a few hours we really needed one. Eight people were run over by a maniac in a rented truck for the sole purpose of killing Americans.   He took that truck on a bike path.  A place that is supposed to provide some safety for pedestrians and cyclists.  A place where the people were merely slow moving targets. I'm a cyclist.  I am disgusted, I am beyond angry...I'm at a point of frothing madness that someone has again stolen lives for nothing, no reason- just to kill. Everyone was someone's son or daughter, to Darren Drake's parents he was their only child....