The beauty of fragmented government

I read this morning about the passage South Carolina legislation criminalizing the implementation of centralized health care.

I then reflected on how wonderful it is to live in a country under a Constitution that limits centralized power in favor of fragmented government. It is so refreshing to live in a country wherein one state (Massachusetts) embraces mandatory participation in a health care system and other state reject such a system summarily. If you want to live in a state with universal health care ... you can. If you don't want to support state imposed and implemented health care ... you can live in a state that matches your conviction. This is the essence of freedom ... tolerance in diversity.

It is so disturbing that there are individuals in our midst that reject the freedom of fragmentation for the imposition of centralized control by the federal government.

Again ... the foundation of freedom is tolerance. I tolerant those who do not wish to live as I with the expectation they will tolerant my state of being.


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Bushtit young leaving nest

I captured this event on video last year. This builds up to the moment the Bushit young leave there nest. The experience is wonderful.

Showing up

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote:
"It is easy in this world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he, who in the midst of a crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

This morning I thought:

It is easy in this world to lose ourselves in the things and events that press upon us each moment of the day. It is easy in solitude to know and experience personal transcendence. But true freedom is, in the midst of a crowd, the perfect sweetness of sustained transcendence.

A Beautiful Creation

Imagine ... leaves, lichen, downy plant material, spider silk worked and woven in such a fashion that a warm home manifests were nothing existed.

Location:Oregon Coast Hwy,,United States

Welcome to Ripples in the Quiet

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in an essay:

"It is easy in this world to live after the world's opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he, who in the midst of a crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

Sustaining the sweetness of solitude in day to day existence is human Being transcendent.