Hate! Hate! Hate!

Today's Link
Lettuce-Eating

Today's Saying
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. ~Henry Emerson Fosdick

Today's Picture
Ella finding and eating from her Easter basket

I hate that Group

They dragged the young man to the tree and hung him.
Why
Because he was black.
They hated blacks
They threw the old grandma and grand daughter on the train and sent them off to die.
Why?
They were Jews.
They hated Jews.
The dragged the little guy to the public square and killed him.
Why
He was a Christian
They hated Christians.
When you hate the group they cease to be human.
They cease to be real like you.
They cease to be good.
They cease to have feelings.
It is okay to kill them.
I have some friends who would wring their hands and denounce all the actions described above.
They know better than that.
But they have the groups they hate . They just aren’t the same.
My liberal friends (not all of them) pour out hatred every day.
They know the group it is called conservative.
In their eyes all Republicans belong to the group.
Every day they insult , demean the group.
They rejoice at every bad event that happens to the group.
The group is fascist. It hates the poor. Made up of hypocrites. Greedy people who ruined the economy.
They don’t have to hear them.
They don’t see them as people.
They are part of a group.
They hate the group.
My conservative friends ( not all of them) pour out hatred every day.
They know the group it is called liberal.
In their eyes all Democrats belong to this group.
Every day they insult, demean the group.
They rejoice at every bad event that happens to the group.
The group is socialist. It would enslave us. Destroy the very things that made America great.
They don’t have to hear them.
They don’t see them as people.
They are part of a group.
They hate the group.
But in truth the groups are only in our minds.
We create them to have somebody to blame.
Because they are evil we are good.
We are right and they are wrong.
We need a group to hate.
But hate destroys the one who hates . Little by little the soul shrivels.
Love vanishes.
In the end sheets and swastikas.

News from Pigeon Falls

The little town in my basement where the trains still run, dragons fly, and life is back to normal
Today the McGregor twins are nine months old. Bonnie says it is hard to believe she has lasted this long. Russell , of course, has been a big help. But the twins are a handful. What with both of them crawling and Russell Jr. trying to walk you have to watch them all the time. Little Russell still succeeded in pulling the tablecloth off the end table breaking one of Bonnie’s favorite knick knacks. .
Last week she was visiting her neighbor with the twins and little Russell crawled away as fast as he could while she was picking up little Bonnie. The basement door was open and Russell Jr. fell down the basement stairs. He hit his head on something at the bottom and had a nasty gash. Her neighbor took care of little Bonnie while Mrs. McGregor rushed him to the hospital. They put in several stitches and made some tests but he is doing fine.
Sometimes Bonnie thinks she is too old to be the mother of twins or even the mother of one. But then they smile at her and hug her and the world is a wonderful place again.
Her daughter from Iron Mountain comes and helps out as often as possible. At least they are healthy.

Wrap UP

The pictures of Ella are from Easter morning. Notice when she finds her basket she is so excited her hat falls off. Also notice in the second picture where she is sitting with her basket and watching everybody look for theirs that she has already eaten her chocolate rabbit and half her peeps. No wonder she was so sick on Monday.
People who use Raven's words for the week should scroll down and see my poem for the day. There Longfellow meets Raven's Words.
It was a good day. Breathing was good. We went out in the afternoon. Did some shopping. Got some new clothes for Ella. It is my daughter's birthday so we got her a birthday cake. I visited all of the blogs that left a comment yesterday. Now I need a breathing treatment,
GBYA

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