Splendor Found

An old friend, Greg Swann, has a blog called SplendorQuest, and on his “About” page one of the ways he describes splendor is as follows.

...untainted, fully-conscious jubilation…

Here’s a piece from The New York Times which I think fits the bill.  It is titled Uneasy Rider, a story of troubled pasts, the consequences of those pasts, and rising above.

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Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 01/24 at 04:35 PM

  1. I honestly don’t know if that story was supposed to be “touching” or not.  All I could think about is what a shame to die so young because we “allow” drugs to be available to preteens, teens and young adults.  We ALLOW it.  I know I will cacth hell from everyone who wants to do drugs/smoke pot and all this “we are free to choose to do drugs” yada yada.  I agree, tey are correct, we have a constitutional right to do drugs and our mean nanny state is trying to stop us.  But what most people fail to understand in this arguement is that in 99% of the cases for young teens the drugs are given to them for one purpose only; to have sex with them.  These teens aren’t making an informed choice to use their constitutional right to do drugs they are being used.  But I can ignore that and get on the band wagon so I can appear to be hip and urbane so others will look on me with approval.  Peace out!

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  01/26  at  10:42 AM

  2. I honestly don’t know if that story was supposed to be “touching” or not.

    GWTW, I understand your viewpoint in regards to the individuals within the story.  I found the story “touching,” but in a jubilating way, even though their lives, DeStefano and Fran’s, wandered courses most individuals would not necessarily willingly choose.

    DeStefano and Fran paid the dues required for their choices, but even as the harshness of those dues were called in for collection, they chose to live.

    As to the views expressed in the remainder of your comment, wall upon wall of legislation has been erected, fortified, and modified, over the decades, futilely, to prevent the use of drugs by individuals.  The drug “problem” cannot be solved by the State.

    Posted by John Venlet  on  01/26  at  02:47 PM

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