“If you can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, you’re not in a tunnel.”I don’t know who originally said this. Hey, maybe it was me!
Written for this week’s One-Liner Wednesday prompt from Linda G. Hill. Photo credit: Tom Grimbert at Unsplash.com.
Author and Lutheran Minister Nadia Bolz-Weber
Ah, but it sure does feel good for that moment, doesn’t it? Um, self-righteousness, that is. I wouldn’t know about the peeing thing.
Written for today’s One-Liner Wednesday prompt from Linda G. Hill.
American Novelist Thomas Pynchon
This quote came from Thomas Pynchon’s 1973 book, Gravity’s Rainbow. I’ve never read it and I’m almost certain that Donald Trump hasn’t either.
Yet this seems to be the approach Donald Trump and his sycophants have been successfully using since he began his campaign for the presidency. Create distractions and diversions so that people are focusing on and discussing what he says and even how he says it, rather than what he is doing. We are asking the wrong questions, while he is getting away with not having to answer for all the wrong things he’s doing.
Written for the One-Liner Wednesday prompt from Linda G. Hill.
Clarence Darrow
Today’s One-Liner Wednesday comes from the recorded transcript of the Scopes (Monkey) Trial, which took place in a Dayton, Tennessee courtroom in July of 1925.
Dayton teacher John T. Scopes was being prosecuted for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in his high school class, despite a new Tennessee state statute banning the teaching in public schools of any theory that denied the biblical story of Creation.
Chicago criminal attorney Clarence Darrow served as the defense attorney for Scopes and former presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan acted as opposing counsel.
It was day seven of the trial and Clarence Darrow had called William Jennings Bryan, as an expert on the Bible, to the stand.
Darrow was asking Bryan when the “Great Flood” took place and Bryan said he couldn’t fix the date, although he did say that some biblical scholars put it at 4004 BC.
Darrow then asked, “What do you think?”
Bryan responded, “I do not think about things I don’t think about.”
Darrow then asked Bryan, “Do you think about the things you do think about?”
Theodore Roosevelt
So what do you think? Are you the finger pointing type who blames everyone other than yourself for most of your problems? Or are you the type of person who takes responsibility for your life, both the good and the bad?
Written for Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday prompt.
