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Post details: Bold Contemplations

11/02/06

12:27:59 pm, by

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Categories: From The Desk of Sue

Bold Contemplations

Today I am feeling bold! Revolutionary!

I tend to surround myself with people who make me think, people who are unafraid to ask tough questions and demand equally well thought out answers. I thrive off of intellectual challenge and if I don't receive it I will easily become bored. I do not have to agree with someone's point of view on any given subject, but if they make me think they will at least gain my attention if not earn my respect.

Matthew's father used to say that people who preferred McDonald's hamburgers to a steak "did not like to chew." We often apply this train of thought to those who dislike having their opinions challenged and their own thoughts stimulated. So, if you don't like to "chew" you may wish to pass-by this weeks renter.....

.... but if you are like me .....Bold Contemplations is everything I love in a good blog read. It is challenging, unafraid, stimulating...provocative...

Today's question is based on this quote:

The world distrusts [America] not because we are rich and free.... They distrust us because we are deaf and blind, because we too often don't understand and make no effort to understand."

--Cardinal Francis George

Do you agree? Can the US change the way it is perceived in the global community? How? Or, has too much damage been done?

Not an easy question to ask, especially by an American, nor one that should be easily answered without serious contemplation. If you too are feeling bold click on the link provided and let Angela know your thoughts on these questions and please help us welcome her to One Old Green Bus!

Honourable mentions this week go to:

Women Diary.Net (previous renter)

A blog for women and women's issues

A Templar Knight - The Quest Begins ...

Just don't ask where the "Holy Grail" is hidden ...

From The Pot-Stirring Desk Of Sue

The standard last note on the old blog... PLEASE SUPPORT THE DREAM!

This blog is here to help promote a dream that an entire family shares... that dream is to rescue an old London Double-Decker bus.

Please, if you have a few minutes, take some time to find out more about this bus and the kooky dream by clicking here.

This bus is VERY special to myself and the whole family, and any help any person can lend us would be most gratefully accepted.

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Comment from: admin [Member]

· http://www.doubledeckerbuses.org/

"They distrust us because we are deaf and blind, because we too often don't understand and make no effort to understand."

...it also doesn't help when so many media pundits AND people visiting other places openly say, "Why do we need to understand? Who cares? It's not like it means anything to us!" which, although not the opinion of everyone from South of the border says, it is something I've head more than a few times in various circles. (Ann Coulter being a prime offender using comments similar to this... but she ain't alone...)

Thoughts like that combined with the (apparent?) general apathy about the rest of the planet that is so often expressed by some doesn't help the world view of the USA.

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Comment from: Angela [Visitor] · http://boldcontemplations.blogspot.com

Sue, thanks for the kind intro! Hope everyone will find a minute to stop by and say hello!

Permalink 11/02/06 @ 13:01

Allow me to start with we do not own nor are we selling a bus. Just had to get that out...

This blog was started in April of 2006... during a very bad time for me and my family when money was very tight and life was very hard.

We maintained a happier outlook on life by fantasizing... talking about what we would do when times were better... and as Sue and myself are Anglophiles, England factored greatly into our "plans".

During these bad times, while looking at news items which, at the time included items about London removing their venerable old Routemasters, I came across one photo of an old green bus... and somehow, my whole family adopted it. It became very much "our bus". (Details about "our bus" are available by clicking here.)

Like most of you, I'd heard about the fellow who'd made a million dollars selling tiny ads online... and the fellow who did trades and turned a paper clip into a house... so I thought, since we couldn't make our bus actually into "our bus" (well beyond our means,) I'd try an "online" appeal... to make the focused item of our hopes into a tangible thing in our lives...

More specifically, in a burst of adult/juvenile optimism, I had hoped to show the youngest member of the family, who at the time was still very youthful and impressionable, that dreams really could become reality if you hope and, more importantly, try.

Well, I'm pretty sure you figured it out... we had limited succes in this venture... and the youngest has now reached an age where she is more traditionally "teenaged" cynical than much else about the world, which isn't a dreadful thing... but there's a "good news" portion to this... our personal situation with money is better, life has improved, and some people really liked my rambling here... so, I decided to keep things going... Yes, I will "give up" on asking for help on a bus... and have to give up on even trying as hard to get the bus through online means... and yes, be far more realistic... but I don't mind this "turn" of things as I actually enjoy venting, trying my hand at humour, and generally keeping on online presence outside my usual things.

Thanks to those who were/are "Busly Dream" enthusiasts... I suppose that our buses for now will be single-deck with the letters "TTC" emblazoned on them... but this blog will live as does our dream! (It's just a little quieter on that latter bit...)

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