Blog Title: OpenDepth | Words as landmarks.

Tyler Frost

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read more.. missed it, and admittedly, have been taken up with the election of President Elect Obama - something I felt quite personally - and I wonder at how his use of the media has not had the same effect as your own. You are a read more..

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You were not here, Taran - so I will tell you what you could not see. This has been the most exhilarating election day that I have ever, in my 61 years, ever-ever seen. Walking around, there were few people who did not sport an "I voted" sticker somewhere on his person. There were high fives at the voting place, friends seeing one another and glad to be seen. People who have never voted in their lives voted today. They did not all vote for PE Obama.

Some had not done the research and believed so many of the lies that were circulating throughout the campaign. I spoke to a young lady that I love dearly and was told she had voted against Obama because he didn't put his hand over his heart during the Pledge of Allegience. She never checked with Snopes.com - my standard for truth or lie; nor did she check the Washington Post fact-checker site for background, for facts. When I heard this beautiful young woman say this, I was struck with a fleeting feeling of guilt - I should have told her how to check this stuff, I should have realized how young she is. When she told me her mom voted the same way - I was aghast. I feel that I failed them somehow. Then I realized that it is not only up to me to crawl into their minds and show them the referenced answers to their questions and the dirtiness of the mudslingers. They were supposed to be doing it themselves. I'd forgotten that someone needed to show them how.

And today, in television interviews, I am still hearing partial truths, like the man who spoke of "spreading the wealth around" as an Obama policy that would take the hard work of his small business and fling it out to the masses. What he has been fed by the Obama Opposition is just that. In fact, there has been a system intact for decades that does just that. The IRS tax brackets require those who earn more to pay more. It is that simple. But reworded, as those supporting Mr. McCain did and publicized, it sound horrid. That was their purpose, perhaps knowing better than I that so many of us will take their word for it and not check the facts.

But there is time to check them now. The young lady I spoke to last night said she wished she had gotten the e-mails that debunked the information she had been fed. I could have done that, and I feel bad that I did not. But she can check now, and I hope she and many who were lied to about this fine man will do just that, and allow the unity to take place in this country that is going to move forward in a far different direction than the direction in which we have been pulled in the past eight years.

But the feeling of exhilaration continues this morning - in me and in those around me. We finally have a time coming, very soon, when the deciding figure in the White House will be considering those of us in the domestic trenches who have been robbed of our dignity, some of us our jobs and homes and savings, in the last eight years. There are still high-fives, smiles and a sense of joy rampant around me, and I am going to go to work now and enjoy it. But you should have seen it, Taran. It would have made you proud to have been born in the USA.

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In reply to Blogging & Writing:

I have a friend who still refuses to read blogs. According to him, blogs are personal things, diaries that tell more about a person than he really wants to know. He's a friendly man, my friend. He can maintain and nurture friendships like no one I have ever known. He maintains friendships - not mere acquaintances, but back-and-fourth relationships - with people he has known since kindergarten. He has been my friend for nearly eighteen years, and only once read even a portion of my blog - and I had to copy and paste it onto an e-mail and send it to him to get him to read that much. He would prefer a phone call.

I have a blog. Sometimes I feel guilty for not writing more than I do. It indicates that nothing is going on in my life to write nothing, but things are going on - I am not spending the in-between time in a coma! - but it makes one look a little closer at her life and interests, views and impressions to keep a blog. In the earlier years of my blog, I would bounce off someone else's blog - like Taran's or some random reading I had been doing. I don't do that so much anymore. In my own right, I have ideas and opinions, some of which are worth writing about. I don't have a flock of readers of my blog to consider when I write. There's a freedom in that. Still, most often when I write for my blog, I save a draft for a week or more, re-read it, and if it still has merit, I publish it. Much of my blog-writing lately has fallen short and been discarded. Maybe the passing of time has taken the point out of the matter, or maybe it just sounds dull.

I cannot imagine writing a daily blog at this time, much less an hourly - and who wants to know what someone who writes every hour has to say if he/she cannot leave the computer long enough to live his/her life and have something real to blog about? Anyone can research on the Web. It's simple. I don't need some blogger to do it for me.

But then - I am not in the competition that raged a few years ago to see whose blog had the most readers, the most comments. I don't care, especially. It is not one of the awards of the world that I chase or value.

I blog when I have something to say in a blog.

I write (not blog) when I have something to say, something I want to remember, and when what I have to say is not for everyone to read. Not exactly like a diary, my friend, but something that requires more than a phone call.

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In reply to Hybrid:

Raising a hybrid - human or canine, rose or corn - is all about seeing what it will become on its own. If thought has orchestrated the hybridization, or if it has taken place by chance, interest and curiosity should be the prominent mindset of one who would take the raising a hybrid on as a vocation, habit or hobby.

It is important that the hybrid be given every and all chance to develop as it will. He who is responsible will take on the care and feeding of the hybrid with interest, paying attention to the health and training according to the growth and development of the hybrid. Basic manners and respect are necessary, of course, but it is important that the hybrid be allowed to become what it is.

The hybrid will amaze and surprise its owner as it develops, but as long as there are no preconceptions, the hybrid will never disappoint. If a trait develops that is undesirable, the wise developer will redirect it, or use it to advantage, in tune and in keeping with the integrity of the hybrid.

Knowing you, Taran, I am confident that your hybrid will become all he is; Tesla is a lucky dog.

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In reply to Blogging & Writing:

Taran!
At the risk of incurring your wrath, I take but one/two lines to say, thanks for yet another very provoking (thought-provoking, that is) commentary. Bless!

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He's a cute dog! - meadysmusings

That would not be informed consent.

In reply to Humanity:

There's a rulebook to play by. The patient denied himself treatment, and this was reinforced by everyone else (but me) denying him treatment.

Further, wasting an ambulance run is not something I would encourage. An ambulance picking him up isn't picking up a true emergency. People who haven't worked in Emergency Medical Situations do not seem to understand the limits of resources. Wink wink nudge nudge.

The one way I could have gotten a form of consent would have been if he became unconscious. While I am unfamiliar with the laws about this in Trinidad and Tobago, there is an ethical issue here that is worth noting: Forcing someone to do something that they do not want to do is unethical.

Even when you really want to help.

Especially when you really want to help.

EHS

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One call to EHS would have brought salubrious solutions. Next time, forget the status quo.