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.
But this is just wrong!
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On my other blog Alchemy of Clay (about art) there're some great sculptures!
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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
I love your van story and I love the piece of art you made to give tribute to it. I think it is becoming quite popular for women to live a van life or to travel frequently in vans. I know a woman who is vanning all over the country. Another friend just spent a lovely long time driving across the country, not in a van, but in a Subaru she has set up for sleeping and cooking. The internet is a place of support and information. YOU were a pioneer. I am not surprised.
ReplyDeleteGlad you have women friends who love to travel and are doing so! You don't exactly stay home all the time yourself!
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ReplyDeleteI would have loved to travel around the country in a van like yours. Great memories!
Take care, enjoy your day and the new week ahead.
I'll have to find the post I did years ago about our big trip in the van. I should have included it already. But yes, many great memories. And I did all the driving myself. I only had a few friends with me who I trusted to drive my "baby."
DeleteFaith is indeed a cop-out--for people too lazy to think. It's why we are where we are today.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet I imagine it's been so ingrained in people's minds, that they are offended at being asked to consider thinking for themselves. I'm so very grateful that even though I was raised a conservative Christian, I was taught in school to examine things critically and ask for answers, not just say "if he said so, it must be true."
DeleteYour van is SPECTACULAR!!! What a great way to keep the memory.
ReplyDeleteI think I used to be more trustful. I always thought of myself as a trusting person. But I suffer from the same slips as you do. I try to tell myself, don't judge unless you want to be judged. But I am getting pretty judgey.
Trust has certainly changed in my life. All elders are warned of scams, and I keep having phone calls asking for me to donate to this or that cause. My social media is pretty easy to figure out...no Nigerian prince will catch me up. And already having almost nothing to my name, it's easy to say no. But I am subject to having been hurt by believing a caring person was truthful, and so I'm very cautious of most men these days.
Delete...Trump is putting the military in a tough situation.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if hearing about the many people who have broken public trust has swayed us?
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