As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way.
–Jack Handy, Deep Thoughts
Yes! So take a nap on Sundays, when in real doubt and confusion, make a pot of tea and sit for a while and stare out the window and taste every sip of the tea as it was your first sip or your last, do breathing exercises and concentrate on the rhythm of breathing. Done?
See it wasn’t so complicated?
Indeed things are complicated. Like Weeks said, something as silly as buying a car should not be as complicated as it is.
But for me, when it comes to organizations, politics, and issues, I will take the apparent complication.
Things have always been complicated; it cannot be otherwise with human beings - Shakespeare was brilliant because he knew this and used it. If things seemed less complicated before, it was probably because we didn’t have the whole story. Present only one side of things and it is very uncomplicated. With the truth… or at least with more information… comes complication.
Why do we have more information? For one, supposedly we have an independent media (although that’s questionable). I might also suggest that we as a people are somewhat less naive, less trusting so we question more and find what we did not look for before.
So I will take the complication because it means I am better informed. And being better informed will hopefully mean that I can make better, although not easy, choices.
Around here there is something called “Dress for Success” http://www.dressforsuccess.org/
Perhaps there’s one in your area?
Nothing uncomplicates my life like trying to figure out a new tune. Everything else just seems to drop away for a while. Mind you, I think I’m a hedonist.
I cried when I had no shoes
The dog ate them.I cried when I had no bread
Then I saw a man who had no milk.I cried when I had no shoes
Then I saw a man who had apricots for ears.Give a man a fish and he’ll eat today
Teach him to fish and you can stay home tomorrow.
peeplj
I think of abortion, pros and cons,
And the NRA and the debate on guns,The Drug War’s growing prison population,
And other issues that divide a nation,The charities that aren’t charitable,
Some preachers that are reprehensible;To me the message is clear as sent:
Fanatics harm the causes that they represent.
Were you guys rapping?
Tony
Well, if Gandhi were alive and played the whistle, I suppose
he would have written one of those letters. He
didn’t think things were so complicated. Best
Yes, and sometime you just have to ask why? 
You just as easily could have picked a charity that was opposed to abortion and received just as much (or more) complaining from people.
Dale’s site, Dale’s sales, Dale’s decision.
When I can afford it, I support charities even when they don’t totally agree with my own views.
Well, I blame myself. I remember thinking…Pick a charity that surely ALMOST everyone would feel good about. I definitely wanted to avoid anything controversial. And Unicef came to mind. I had no idea about the abortion thing. I would say that I should have done my research. But, after I learned about it, I went on the unicef website. I never would have seen a pro-choice statement there. Still haven’t found it.
Dale
There’s always the Nanohedron Foundation.