Even if you
read just a fraction of the posts on this site, it becomes fairly obvious that
there are some issues which confront us as a nation this coming year and beyond.
Often, a sense of helplessness can overwhelm our system of coping with events
that clearly are beyond our individual control. So what to do?
If you
somehow stumbled onto this blog site and are wondering what is going on here –
let me give you some quick pointers.
The contents
on most blog sites are usually written by the blogger or a group of bloggers,
many of whom are good writers. I claim no great writing skills. In fact, I
learn more from others and have done so now for well over 10 years. What I
often lacked was the ability to quickly retrieve something I remembered from
months past, so – why not build an archive of related material written by the
best in the business – and that is exactly what this site is all about. The
articles are categorized roughly by topic and are word searchable – I use it
almost daily in my conversations on line. All are fully credited to the
authors.
As to the
overall purpose of my internet presence, if you have not yet visited my website
home at - www.crushlimbraw.com – I urge
you to do so. It requires some reading time, especially the full text of
referenced articles by other authors.
The basic
bottom line action I propose is that we must all become mentors. Mentoring is a
process for the informal transmission of knowledge, social capital, and
the psychosocial support perceived by the recipient as relevant to work,
career, or professional development; mentoring entails informal communication,
usually face-to-face and during a sustained period of time, between a person
who is perceived to have greater relevant knowledge, wisdom, or experience (the
mentor) and a person who is perceived to have less (the protégé)".
Obviously,
the mentor has to stay ahead of those mentored, and thus the purpose of this
archival blog.
Finally, an
observation – what I observe most of all with most people of all political
stripes is the fact that they are usually ‘fighting the last war’ from their
perspective. That ‘war’ ended long ago – the situation has changed – but they’re
still stuck in a time warp of their own making. By some ‘magic stroke’ they
decided some time ago that they ‘now know daTruth’ and therefore nothing else can
change that. That is the perfect formula to become delusional and lose a sense
for reality. For us imperfect human beings – truth is a process, not an end
state.
I wish you well,
but it’s better to be prepared! - CL
