precious stones

There is an ancient story out of the Middle East which tells of three merchants crossing the desert. They were traveling at night in the darkness to avoid the heat of the day. As they were crossing over a dry creek bed, a loud attention-demanding voice out of the darkness commanded them to stop. They were then ordered to get down off their camels, stoop down and pick up pebbles from the creek bed, and put them into their pockets.

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Award Shows??

Nope.

Not. For. Me.

I had to recently google the latest star-studded event, the Golden Globes,  to simply understand what was the ‘dress in black’ theme all about? As well as the ‘me too’ hash-tag.  And finally listen (for myself) to the homily given by Oprah, which I found on youtube.  But, I only did any of this because I saw so much chatter going on in cyber-space that I was utterly confused.  Why were the Golden Globes, and in particular Oprah Winfrey, a prolific topic for so many posts?  And what I determined was… Continue reading “onlyTHEtruth”