When you lie about another person

I felt violated in some fundamental way.  I think I've hit it on the nail now:   



When you lie about another person, you violate 

that person's integrity.  


You violate them.



It doesn't matter your gender, color of skin, religion, political creed...

No one ever told me that.  I had to learn it on my own.  

Thank you, downtown YMCA Seattle.  A very painful lesson, though.

-Lily H.



http://www.yelp.com/biz/ymca-of-greater-seattle-downtown-seattle

Pierre Ronsard

preface du Chapitre 2, La Chartreuse de Parme de Stendhal

Puis alors que Vesper vient embrunir nos yeux, 
Attaché dans le Ciel je contemple les Cieux, 
En qui Dieu nous écrit en notes non obscures 
Les sorts et les destins de toutes créatures. 
Car lui, en dédaignant (comme font les humains) 
D'avoir encre et papier et plume entre les mains, 
Par les astres du Ciel, qui sont ses caractères, 
Les choses nous prédit et bonnes et contraires ; 
Mais les hommes, chargez de terre et du trépas, 
Méprisent tels écrits, et ne le lisent pas.


http://www.poesie-francaise.fr/pierre-de-ronsard/poeme-elegie-a-helene.php#Outv5CJMW3vSjjYy.99

They speak with an American accent.

 

I know that many, if not most, Americans think themselves quite interesting, but do they have to insist upon it so by talking loudly in public?



-Lily H.
    

费力不讨好

大树底下好乘凉

Time:  that enchanter
who does not enchant 
(especially as one gets older).

-Lily H.

Our generation...the young generation

Our generation wanted to challenge convention.   The young generation today wants to enshrine it.

You can't know in advance the answer.

-Lily H.

"Are you a Republican?"

I keep getting asked

"Are you a Republican?"

(a reflex question a Seattleite poses about something s/he does not understand and/or is not interested in hearing)

when I beg to diverge from liberal orthodoxy in Seattle, my hometown.

We baby-boomers believed in the idea of diversity before it became ossified into liberal catechism and conformity.