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WORLD WAR III: that’s what it felt like, w/a hint of depression.
Wednesday, September 26, 2001, Age 20 Sometimes I don’t understand how this world just keeps on turning. There are so many people living right now without their mothers or fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, husbands, wives, lovers, fiancés, best friends, etc. I don’t understand how the world just keeps on turning. Everything just…
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT: social responsibility.
THE MORAL BASIS OF DEMOCRACY: Chapter 7/Circa 1940 The war-ridden poverty-stricken world of today seems to be struggling essentially with problems of economics and its ills seem to be primarily materialistic. Yet, I believe, that we do not begin to approach a solution of our problems until we acknowledge the fact that they are spiritual…
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J.D. SALINGER, MY LOVE: words to live by ;0)
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, Chapter 24, Circa 1945 “I don’t want to scare you,” he said, “but I can very clearly see you dying nobly, one way or another, for some highly unworthy cause.” He gave me a funny look. “If I write something down for you, will you read it carefully? And keep…