Making Amends
Practice Pause I used to think amends meant apologizing for everything I felt guilty about. Now I’m learning to slow down, look at what’s going on inside me, and stop creating the same damage. A wise person is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless.Proverbs 14:16 I was in a meeting last night and the topic was Step 9, making amends. It’s been a while since I made my initial inventory and worked it all the way through to amends. That first time was […]
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/ai-jobs-college-graduates.html
So... on top of #climatecrisis ; #loneliness because of #socialmedia ; lack of #affordable #housing ; #pollution ; and now this lack of #jobs because of #ai - what else has been piled on the heads of the children?
#thoughts from #parents #grandparents about how to make #amends
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Finally, the cagey mooks who thought up AA's 4th step totally failed to credit Leviticus or whomever first laid down atonement instructions to self and all.
#JohnCage
#InALandscape
#YomKippur
#Nietzsche
#Amends
#SoberAsFuck
@shlepcar I remember my mom telling me about the kids from #tuleLake playing #football against the kids from #alturas, and I remember having my mouth washed out for using the n-word before I knew what it meant, but I don't remember my mom telling me that the kids from tule lake, some of whom lost their lives fighting in @WorldWarii, were #incarcerated wrongly. And I wish she had.
I think she assumed I would understand, because she hated the #incarceration, but I think that though I understood, i, and the rest of my early 60s late Boomer cohort, would have benefited from having it spelled out.
When I feel #old, it's because I realized that so many of these people have already died and apologies are too late. Making #amends? Too late.
One day after #Pride #flag was #stolen, the #thief returned it, stuck to it was a blue #Postit #note with a short message: “#Sorry.”
— The first crucial step in making #amends is to #sincerely #apologize and truly #meanit!
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Utah #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia #Transphobia #Pride #PrideMonth #Representation #Culture
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/06/15/pride-flag-utah-stolen-apology/
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