Perspective

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I can see clearly now... right?

Perspective is all about how we see things. What I see is not necessarily what you see even though we are both staring at the same thing. I believe that people perceive things differently based on the inner feelings as an individual.

I don't like pets so to me they are an inconvenience. To other's they are a part of their family, a companion, man's best friends if they are a dog. So, my feelings towards animals will not let me see what others see but that in no way shape or form means that pets are bad or ugly or despicable or a nuisance.

Some Americans don't like illegal aliens, we are an inconvenience at least to some, yet to others, we are an important part of their world, of their daily lives, we are companions, friends, workers, and most important of all... human! Yet, some of the feelings portrait on TV towards us show hate, discontent, distrust, and even jealousy. Hummm I can't help but wonder where this attitude we all have on both sides of the equation will take us. It is definitely interesting to say the least.

Democrats and Republicans may be staring at the same thing and yet they see it so differently. Americans and Mexicans, yep differently, males and females, Bingo! we all see things differently. Boys and girls, yepper differently.

So, I will just concentrate on one perspective, and that is the one of survival for me and for my family, I will continue to do whatever it takes to make sure my family is provided for, that my kids continue to have a happy life in this their country even if for me at one time was foreign. I will make sure my grand kids are always surrounded by love and will hope and pray they will see things my way so that they will not grow up thinking we are all different people. In Gods eyes we are all the same, so we'll just follow that great example.

"What part of "Illegal" you don't understand?" Oh I understand it very well, but sometimes in life there comes a time when you must decide to break a rule or even a law if the outcome will benefit your life and the life of your family. How can I ever not thank my father for breaking that one law, that one rule that allowed us to have a better life. If judgment has been passed on him now that he is in heaven I am sure that he has been forgiven.

So hate all you want, or accept us with love. Become our friend and discover that we are not at all that bad, or wish for our deportation. While we know we are survivors, you can keep thinking we are law breakers. It's your choice, your prerogative, your right.

In the end we are all individuals with different feelings so I understand that my perception of things will differ from yours but life goes on and we must do with what we have and continue to play the cards we have been dealt.

In the end it's all a part of His master plan for all of us.

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Don't read this post...

...unless you're prepared to have your feathers ruffled.

Without getting into the whole issue of whether offshore drilling is right or wrong, it's obvious that oil corporations aren't equal to the task of dealing with what happens when their wells blow, as we saw this year during British Petroleum's accidental oil spill disaster, now viewed as the worst in history. Now, 4.9 million gallons of oil later,  the well was finally capped last month, and stressed BP executives, having announced their victory to the press, are no doubt off on decompressing vacations, somewhere far from the Gulf of Mexico.


Cut to a scene on a beach, where dozens of pelicans and cormorants are frantically preening themselves, attempting to remove a black coating of oil from their feathers, meanwhile ingesting the gooey substance and poisoning themselves. 

Would you know how to rescue them? There are step-by-step instructions at WikiHow's  "How to Clean Oil Off Birds."

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Prepare yourself for weeks of backbreaking effort and discouragement, should you accept this mission. You thought you could just shampoo, rinse and cut them loose? First, you have to undergo training in how to calm birds that are already stressed beyond belief, then you don layers of vinyl to prevent contaminating yourself, and begin a series of sudsings that could take each bird through ten or 15 tubs of 1% Dawn and water solution (Proctor & Gamble is donating the Dawn). You learn to use a WaterPik to clean his head and eyes. You use a spa nozzle to thoroughly rinse the bird and a veterinarian's blow-dryer to dry him. 

You monitor his recovery for days afterward,  tube-feeding him with a mixture of food, vitamins and medications. You check that the natural waterproofing of his feathers has been restored by placing him in a therapy pool and watch to see whether he's able to swim and float. Then put him in cool water so he can acclimate himself to natural surroundings again. Find a place where he can be released without exposing him to yet another coating of oil.

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Multiply this procedure times a thousand. Or move on to sea otters, seals, turtles.

 

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