Thoughts about being human and correcting course in the shifting wind
Welcome to Edging Towards Decency - by me, Tobias Venar.
I’m an IT Project and Program and functional manager. Guitarist and composer. Writer and Food Lover. Human. In personal terms the journey is generally the destination.
This space is to discuss and explore current issues in context, relate and exchange ideas. I’ve been blogging for a few years now am moving to Substack as a more modern and useful platform than what I’ve used previously.
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“We are all the same in our makeup, with variations being a very small fraction of a percent - we share the same genetics, a set of specifications that allow this organic machine, the human body, to function, to some degree similarly to others. And to a large extent, we are also similar to all of the living organisms we coexist with.
We differ in cosmetic ways and in our thoughts, perceptions, opinions – and yet we congregate around ideas like love, friendship, peace, religion, government, war, poverty – some successes and failures – and even war and disease – so within our collective differences, we vary slightly – so that at a distance, one could barely perceive them.
I can go on diatribes about those that would manipulate some portion of mankind to put themselves above others (and do and have) but they are in fact, less pervasive than the norms of love and peace. Evil stands out because of its agonizing reflection against Love and Peace.
I am reminded constantly – every day - Love is the answer. By my wife and family. By my friends and by this wide world. That doesn’t mean we don’t falter or take offence or get mad. It doesn’t mean that there aren’t atrocities or that we don’t play some unintended part in them.
It means that when we pull back, we understand when we’re wrong and that love is both action and being. We further it. It is how we can live, laugh and prosper together.
I wish you and your families love, peace, laughter and prosperity in 2020 and beyond. Pass it on.”
New Years, 2020
In the meantime, I would appreciate it of you would tell your friends!