Who do you trust?

First a note about the new header (a  duplicate below because eventually I'll change the header)

The underside shows how I built the ceramic van  with slabs, painted with acrylics, and indicates the 12 years I drove that really cool van! Not sure which of my sons might like the clay version when I'm gone... 

I called it the Rovin' Toad...a play on Open Road which made the conversion set up. It slept 4 (2 children or small people up above). had a gas stove with oven, water heater, furnace, various configurations of seating/table/bed, a chemical toilet in a little closet, which we didn't use, and a few seat belts. It wasn't air conditioned, and I lived in Florida most of the time I owned it. I dream about it frequently still. The engine block froze over a long weekend in Gainesville FL over Christmas in '84.

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Back to trustworthiness.

My lifelong attitude is that people are naturally trustworthy. So a stranger is just as good as a friend who I just haven't gotten to know yet.

That's not exactly the case in all situations. Look at ICE and how people are being treated. I sure wouldn't trust anyone wearing that gear and a mask.

Strangers who give services in my home are sometimes the hardest for me to say I can trust them. A recent new cleaning person did an ok job. I'll hire her again.

But this morning I couldn't find my jewelry box (aka a glasses case.) I looked all over where it is usually kept, and nearby, and remembered the last time I picked it up and put things in it, prior to the cleaning woman, so she would be able to dust easily.

Where did I put it? Did she take it? I hate thinking that, but as I struggled with opening drawers and cabinets, that came to my mind.

I finally found it of course. And I asked myself, do I trust strangers any more?

More questions might be lurking in our social networking sites... 

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Yes, I have one of these, but mine looks different.

Just saying...

We have a president (note no capital letters) who lies continually. And now he's not only called a female reporter a "Piggie" but said members of congress should be hanged (due to the above).

Remember the Mi Li incident in Viet Nam? Look it up if you don't.

What about things that just don't add up?

Social media loves  to show us the short-comings of others... or maybe in their world cats can say Woof!

But this is just wrong!

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Today's quotes:

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. 

-Gwendolyn Brooks, poet (1917-2000)

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits.

 -Dan Barker, former preacher, musician (b. 25 Jun 1949)

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Today's goddess:

Amazon Goddess by Barbara Rogers, 2011