Totally foolish

I know that this might seem a little off the wall for what else I have written about in this Blog, but here it goes.

I cry for things like weddings, TV commercials, movies, songs. Just today Butterfly kisses was playing on the radio and what was I doing? Crying. Or the fact that I can't look through a American Girl catalog with out feeling a little choked up. So what makes me so tearful? Sometimes I just blame it on being a sensitive person. But I'm wondering if there is something else.

When there is something that gets to me, some great at of love or perhaps a song like Butterfly kisses. I just get to rapped up in the story. Do we do that any more? Get rapped up in the story? Do we really let our selves feel things? Or have to many of use become robots with informational input, output and no real ability to understand what we are hearing, saying? I guess I'm glad I can still cry, even if it is totally foolish.

Drawing the Line?

I was reminded this morning of the horrors of War. A solder hit in the stomach with shrapnel. Now what does that make you feel? Anger at the person who set the bomb that did it? Anger at the government that put that soldier in the war in the first place? Anger that we all can live in peace? Do you feel pity for the person who set it or the person who might die because of it?

Whether or not you believe we should be at war or not. We still need to care for those who have been in that war because they care enough to put their lives in danger for all of us. If you live in the USA pray or do something nice today for someone in the arm services, without them we would not have the freedom to disagree or agree with any war. And for all you who are in the armed services thank you.

Moving out, moving on

So it looks as though I might finally be moving on to better things. Since my graduation from College, I have been living at home (hey free rent). My parents have been great. I don't need a car, I have a full time job, and I have been paying of my student loans (there are a lot of them). But it looks like finally I might just start doing what I actually went to school for, Theatre.

I know big surprise. Here I am a conservative, a christian, and I want to do professional theatre. I might be just a little off the wall. Maybe. But hey its what I have always wanted to do. So for all you well wishers and prayers, please wish/pray for my wish to be a starving artist some where in some city trying to do what I love.

Defacing, Destroying, Disrespecting

The Supreme Court is deciding right now whether a cross, which stands on State land, is against the idea of Separation of Church and State. But that is not really the issue here. The real issue is that this cross is a War Memorial for the Soldiers who died in WWI.

Is there a difference you ask between a Cross just hanging out on state land and one that was set up as a memorial? Yes. Do we really want every bit of history, every memorial, every grave that resides on State or Federal land to be defaced or Destroyed because it is against the idea of Church and State? What about all the Stars of David in the Holocaust National Museum? Or all the crosses that mark the graves of the hundreds of men and women laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery? Will we destroy this history? Will we disrespect the dead?

I'm sure that there are thousands of different sites that have some kind of monument which has some religious symbol on them. Most of these monuments are owned by villages, towns, cities, States and the federal government. How far will we let this go?

And were in the world does it say anything about separation of church and state in the constitution?