Nonsynonymous

Pro-life means more than just anti-abortion.  I don’t know how they came to be known as one in the same, but they aren’t synonymous. Anti-abortion is just that: the opinion that abortion should be abolished. Pro-life much more broad spectrum.  When I say I am Pro-life, I’m saying that all life is precious. It encompasses more than fetuses. Its about young men and women in combat, its about animals in slaughterhouses, and its about starving children in Niger.

In my opinion, the terms coined for these issues are inconclusive. Pro-choice and pro-life mean so much more than pro-abortion anti-abortion.

Words are powerful. Say what you mean, not what society wants you to think is what you mean.

k·a·l

Rediscovering Your World

If you could step into another world, and meet its inhabitants, eat its food, hear its music, breathe its air, you would return to your own world with a different respect. A wider horizon, if you will.

Or, imagine your own world as a foreign place. Treat everything you experience as fresh. Monotony makes even the most incredible things seem dull. But you can revive the human experience.

Try to humble yourself for a moment, and realize that you are only a tiny speck in the whole of your world. When you begin to understand that, and then you look up into the sky and realize that your world is only a tiny speck in the whole of the universe, you become really humble. The amount of detail in every aspect of our universe is nearly incomprehensible.

Recently I began reading a book on this subject called The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore.  So far I’m enjoying it thoroughly.

k·a·l