I used to joke that my dream job would be that of a weather person in Maui.
Everyday all I would have to do was say.
.
.
"Today it was 80 and sunny.
Back to you Chet.
" I sometimes wish the news was that way .
.
.
"TODAY EVERYONE IN THE WORLD GOT ALONG HARMONIOUSLY.
" But we all know that wouldn't sell very many newspapers after a while.
The press' job is to report news.
Unfortunate as it is, a big part of what is newsworthy isn't always sunshine and lollipops.
It can sometimes be an arduous task to look for silver linings in our daily life when we are bombarded with world and local tragedies.
Nothing brought this to light more than 9/11 and now the wars in the Middle East.
But for every story that we read about some heartbreaking occurrence, we must remind ourselves that there are a gazillion stories where people of all hues come together in peace and harmony.
As I attend plays, concerts, movies, fundraisers, sporting events, school functions .
.
.
I watch people interact.
Different hued people dancing together in front of a stage at a concert, cheering together for their team to win, sharing stories in bookstores.
All with great eye contact as they discuss everything from their favorite foods and books to movies, music and spirituality.
As I watch this I wonder what the next day's headline would read, "PEOPLE GETTING ALONG -Just another concert where people whose skin was every hue of the rainbow came together and had fun without incident.
" The hue of the skin of my friends range from chalk to ebony.
Their religions range from Jewish, to Christian, to Muslim to Buddhist.
We all have so much in common including the fact that we are of the boomer generation.
We are all appalled and frustrated with racism and the resulting hate.
What can we do to end it? How can we help? How can we show solidarity? How can we shout to the world that we are living proof that hue-man beings can get along? One way is financially.
So we donate to funds set up to help those victimized by hate and organizations intent on stopping this deadly disease called racism.
Another way is to try and influence by example, by treating all others as we would want others to treat us ...
by loving our fellow man.
We recently included classes in our Hey U.
G.
L.
Y.
curriculum to help teenagers see the world in a hue-manistic way.
Everyone comes from diverse backgrounds where their parents range from liberal to racist.
We can choose to open our eyes and hearts to the hue-manist part of each other instead of living by our parents false sense of order.
We can make the conscious choice to change and hope and pray that others choose to change too.
We can call upon others to remember how unification helped us end a senseless war in the 60's.
We can call upon each other to finally put an end to the insane notion that one person can somehow be better than another.
Everyday all I would have to do was say.
.
.
"Today it was 80 and sunny.
Back to you Chet.
" I sometimes wish the news was that way .
.
.
"TODAY EVERYONE IN THE WORLD GOT ALONG HARMONIOUSLY.
" But we all know that wouldn't sell very many newspapers after a while.
The press' job is to report news.
Unfortunate as it is, a big part of what is newsworthy isn't always sunshine and lollipops.
It can sometimes be an arduous task to look for silver linings in our daily life when we are bombarded with world and local tragedies.
Nothing brought this to light more than 9/11 and now the wars in the Middle East.
But for every story that we read about some heartbreaking occurrence, we must remind ourselves that there are a gazillion stories where people of all hues come together in peace and harmony.
As I attend plays, concerts, movies, fundraisers, sporting events, school functions .
.
.
I watch people interact.
Different hued people dancing together in front of a stage at a concert, cheering together for their team to win, sharing stories in bookstores.
All with great eye contact as they discuss everything from their favorite foods and books to movies, music and spirituality.
As I watch this I wonder what the next day's headline would read, "PEOPLE GETTING ALONG -Just another concert where people whose skin was every hue of the rainbow came together and had fun without incident.
" The hue of the skin of my friends range from chalk to ebony.
Their religions range from Jewish, to Christian, to Muslim to Buddhist.
We all have so much in common including the fact that we are of the boomer generation.
We are all appalled and frustrated with racism and the resulting hate.
What can we do to end it? How can we help? How can we show solidarity? How can we shout to the world that we are living proof that hue-man beings can get along? One way is financially.
So we donate to funds set up to help those victimized by hate and organizations intent on stopping this deadly disease called racism.
Another way is to try and influence by example, by treating all others as we would want others to treat us ...
by loving our fellow man.
We recently included classes in our Hey U.
G.
L.
Y.
curriculum to help teenagers see the world in a hue-manistic way.
Everyone comes from diverse backgrounds where their parents range from liberal to racist.
We can choose to open our eyes and hearts to the hue-manist part of each other instead of living by our parents false sense of order.
We can make the conscious choice to change and hope and pray that others choose to change too.
We can call upon others to remember how unification helped us end a senseless war in the 60's.
We can call upon each other to finally put an end to the insane notion that one person can somehow be better than another.
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