Jan 6, 2015 – YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD IS GOOD – Are you sure? – I am very sure – In previous posts I said such things as: It is OK to act silly, You can freely walk about and discover mysteries of nature, You can enjoy a pet, You can worship when you want, You can see a new president’s face on TV (that you helped elect) with some new ideas every 8 years or less, You can have a park to walk in (and to take photos in) with a pretty good feeling of safety, You can decide how and where to live, and You can travel around on pretty good roads with pretty good cars and without having to go through check points. To us, these are “Basic Rights”. Ponder, the creative thinking and working relationships of Washington, Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, Franklin, and Burr (and many of others) that 230 years ago made it possible to have “Basic Rights”. Generous, hard working, smart people made decisions 230 years ago that gave us in USA this beautiful Basic Right!
This pondering bird got me to pondering about our Constitution – What if we really had to start over – the constitution got destroyed. – The US was made into an empty frontier again, our population was held constant but 95 of every 100 of us was replaced by folks from other ways of thinking (from other countries) – Would we be generous, hardworking,and smart enough to create a constitution as great as those guys did 230 years ago? Would we have the basic rights that you have today in your neighborhood?This is doggy world in our little community – a dog party every day at 4 o’clock – we decided to build it and have a daily doggie party – it is our basic right to do that – the Constitution said local folks could decide to do that – it is our Basic Right to decide ourselves how to smile and have fun. Thanks to those hardworking founders of our Constitution – “That is what I say! Ben Franklin said “The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” Not all countries allow that pursuit.A segment of Christian community folks decided to build this church. If the wanted to, they could , allow other religious groups to use it for their services, work with the total community to help maintain services such as sewage, water, and landscaping – How could they do this – The Constitution gave them the Basic Right to do this. How many of the other 95% of the worlds population could do what this church membership did?If we decide to preserve and maintain conservation areas like this, we can pursue that – We can work with local donations, local government, State government, and the Federal government – The Constitution gave us that Basic Right.230 years ago those guys did pretty good – Don’t you think? – Hope you catch some happiness today!
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