Patience, fearlessness, and a quick wit

from: Florida-style gun laws sub impulse for thought

"As a reporter who spent much of a 40-year career covering wars, crime, and prisons, I've learned that your best weapon of self-defense is your tongue. Rarely does one find oneself in a confrontation that can't be talked out of, and where having a gun would have made things safer."

"Stand Your Ground laws are perilous.
They get people killed, because they substitute impulse for intelligent thought."

"Patience, fearlessness, and a quick wit are more likely to save your life,
and they trump guns any time."

"Americans' faith in guns is sorely misplaced.
Ultimately, they encourage fear and fantasy, and they leave everyone more insecure."

Walter Rodgers
Florida-style gun laws sub impulse for thought
The Christian Science Monitor Weekly
April 30, 2012

Happy Mother's Day

 Leetes Island Garden Club's 40th annual plant sale.
 The money raised helps fill and maintain the planters on the Green, on Whitfield Street, at the Town Marina,  and the plantings on "Leetes Island Lane," the alley just off the Green.

"In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace."

Mother's Day Proclamation  by Julia Ward Howe, 1870
To read the entire proclamation go to:
http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/0000/1870_howe_mothers-day.htm