Today

Thought For The Day

Looking across the Seine from a construction walkway on Notre Dame

In 1417, if you happened to live in Germany, what you were was designated at birth and it was pointless to attempt to alter the facts of your life. Born rich, poor, regal or simple that was your lot. That was 600 years ago you say? Yes, indeed it was but in the greater scheme of things what is six hundred years in a world that measures its growth in not hundreds but thousands of years? As I wander back to the beginnings of things and see how we have lived upon this spinning globe, how we have treated each other, who and what we believe in and how we pay out our short lives, I am humbled by the good fortune I have to live here and now. I am especially pleased that you are here too.

Herb Ratliff, March 30, 2012, All Rights Reserved