For a quick update on the last post, the stamp illustrating my opinion of what makes Kentucky beautiful is coming along. My son did know someone who is an excellent artist, but I wavered and then changed my mind about getting help. I determined to do it myself for two reasons, the first one being purely sensible: my son pointed out that I couldn’t very well ask this person to design a stamp for free. I hadn’t thought about that – my only thought had been getting help 😉 Then after I had agreed to compensate the artist and tried to convey to my son what I wanted, I struggled to believe that I had a great chance of being 100% happy with the work, and could end up paying and still not having a stamp image, not to mention that I’d be pushed for time with the days spent depending on someone else (and I am not good at that). So I commited myself once again to the task and am on the verge of having on paper what I had in mind. Most importantly, the work will be entirely mine, which was the other reason I changed my mind about getting an artist – I really want it to be mine, even if the artwork may not be noteworthy.
I have lots of little errands to do today which will do much to clear my to-do list of nagging interruptions in regular duties. Though I typically put such things off till the last minute, it is always completing them that makes me feel most satisfied with the day’s accomplishments. So why don’t I just do them as soon as they go on the list? Pshaw, if I knew that, I could council others on their procrastination!
I got an email this morning directing me to a news article about a North Carolina judge forcing a homeschooling mother to enroll her children in public school this fall. Without recapping the story or expounding on the apalling comments he made (because you can google it yourself if you’re interested) I must say that I am utterly disappointed in the increasing incidence of loss of rights in this so-called free country.
Now before you go making assumptions about my views on every aspect of freedom, let me say that this is just one more area, like gun-control and socialistic tax reform that some people’s views on are seriously off – and it ain’t mine! This is America – a country that was founded on rebuking unreasonable control by government, and we are inching closer and closer to becoming exactly what our founding fathers were rebelling against! It will be a dark, dark day in the Land of the Free when law-abiding citizens can’t buy guns, while the criminals would continue to get them the same way they always have, when wealth earned by hard-working, motivated tax-payers is “spread” to those who refuse to get off their butts and realize that the world doesn’t owe them jack, or when families who spend their own money on their own curriculum, often sacrifice a second income so one parent can teach, strive to offer their children an educational advantage in a competitive world, and commit themselves to being solely responsible for their children’s morals are told that they cannot choose this path.
Parents can beat, molest, neglect, and/or mentally and emotionally abuse their children and the government carefully tiptoes around their “rights”, often to the detriment of the child; but parents who choose to homeschool, which is in no way easier than plopping them in a government school where books, food and transportation are all free and if the kid doesn’t fare well in life, responsibility can be blamed on someone else to boot, are being targeted.
What is this country coming to?
I’m gettin’ down from the box now 🙂 I feel better!
Reflections 