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The world is kind of a hard scrabble free-for-all right now, as greed and the lust for power seem to be clouding the judgement of many, often making the path forward unclear.
Again, using my photos from our little city, it is obvious that winter weather presents us with many impediments to block our path. Working together helps clear the way for all. Shovel your walks and those of your neighbour, help push out stuck cars and call the city to remove snow from the streets so the way is clear. I guess, I’m saying that life is kind of like winter in our part of the world. The path is easier when we all work together, instead of singing in the key of ME!
Help Clear the Way ©
Think Rationally
Listen Carefully
Speak Earnestly
Have Integrity
Report Truthfully
Act Respectfully
Debate Honestly
Behave Decently
Protest Peacefully
Give Charitably
Win Graciously
Lose with Dignity
Give Credit Freely
Criticize Kindly
Shun Atrocity
Live Responsibly
Comfort Misery
Fix Inequity
Allocate Fairly
Treat all Equally
Smile Repeatedly
Laugh Long and Loudly
Praise Gloriously
Love Whole Heartedly
Help Clear the Way
The poem above and all words therein are an original work by and the personal property of K.A. Gould. They are only to be reused with my express permission.
I couldn’t agree more!
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Thanks Marion. It is time to come together with kindness. We can not continue on shaming and blaming. Stay well. Allan
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Love those words! You better put your name on the bottom of them as I feel like they will be words that are shared. I might even link to my post today if that’s ok
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Thanks Bernie. It was such a contrast watching the inauguration today. I felt hope for the first time in 4 years. Thanks so much for reading and commenting. You have my permission to link them to your post. Stay well. Allan
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I somehow have a feeling people are sensible enough to not take credit for someone else’s work Bernie!
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Apparently, it is a thing. There are those around who copy entire posts and repost as their own. All that being said, not sure my words are good enough to be stolen, though. Allan
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That’s really bad, because if questioned about a good post — which is the reason they copy it, they surely won’t have the answers to it — it does take a lot writing a good post and moreover all that goes behind it is something they will surely get caught about, as they won’t have the answers to it! You should continue writing Allan, but you sure have a lot more potential that you can explore 🙂
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A very successful blogger I follow, who provides guidance and courses on blogging, explained a number of ways it is being done by those to lazy to write a post. There is even an editing software that grabs a post and revises words and phrases to make it appear different. Many of the bloggers who do this, do not care how they come across a post and many do not even try to explain. They just want content and likes. I agree that it is sad, but what can you do? There are also many who take photos and claim them as their own. That is one reason I resize and watermark all my photos. An even more insidious form of photo theft are groups (Weather channel and TV stations) who solicit photos from their viewers and while they may give them credit on the broadcast if they are displayed, will spin them off to stock photo providers who post them for sale as their own photos. Imagine my surprise when I saw one of my photos there. Small recognition is not worth this type of theft. I also do not use the cloud or Google for that reason. Thanks for your encouragement. I will continue to push the envelope. Stay well. Allan
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That’s really a lot Allan, they can just edit your photographs and put it under their name for all the efforts you put in to your captures. If it’s a big place, least they could do is contact you and apart from giving credit to your work, also pay you for it. That’s a sad state of things for creativity as a whole and such people should not be encouraged. You too stay well Allan!
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Well said, Allan. Excellent analogy.
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Thanks Lynette. Our street was cleared long ago, but I wanted to wait for this day of hope, before posting. Thanks for reading and commenting. Allan
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Beautiful words, Allan and fantastic winter photos. I can only imagine what it was like for Joe Biden’s presidential inaugurations organisers – managing COVID threat and risk of violence from Trump supporters. RTÉ was broadcasting live from the US capital, but we didn’t get to watch it. He’s inauguration speech was amazing :0 Thanks for sharing and have a good day. Aiva 🙂
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Thanks Aiva. As Joe Biden said, we can do anything we put our minds to. This applies everywhere and people need to realize what is important these days. We have been watching large portions of the inauguration and the departure of #45. The differences between the 2 Presidents is night and day. Night has now gone and day is dawning. I hope the U.S and the world never again head back into this dark place. Stay well Aiva and thanks for reading. Allan
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Nice lines and that’s quite some snow Allan. Hope you got enough help to get it cleared!
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Thanks. That was what they scraped off the street and it is long gone. Very little snow this year so far, but that could change soon. Thanks for reading. Allan
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As always, you have such a nice way of words (and pictures to fit the theme).
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Thank you. Yesterday seemed like the right day to post that, even though the windrow was long gone. Thanks so much for reading and your generous comments. Allan
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Well said and I agree!
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Thanks Eugenia. Fingers crossed we all get the message this time. Cheers. Allan
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Nice insights Allan.” Out of the Hearts Abundance the Mouth Speaks!”
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The biggest problem these days is that kindness seems to be in short supply. Hoping it makes a return soon. Thanks for your kind words. Allan
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