Responsibility On-line

"While I can appreciate the democratic nature of allowing anyone online to share his or her thoughts, the surfeit of wrong grammar, erroneous assumptions and the downright MEANNESS of some of what is written and expressed in cyberspace is both appalling and revealing...ultimately, we should RAISE THE BENCHMARK (in our cyber blogging enterprise) out of courtesy, consideration, and respect to the public, who, after all, we invite to view what we say and what we write."

Adel Tamano, Mano-A-Mano, The Age of Rant
(F-2, Sunday Lifestyle, The Phil. Star, July 11, 2010)

HOMAGE

Yesterday, in Louisville, at the corner of 4th and Walnut, suddenly realized that I loved all the people and that none of them were, or, could be totally alien to me. As if waking from a dream — the dream of my separateness, of the “special” vocation to be different. My vocation does not really make me different from the rest of men or put me in a special category except artificially, juridically. I am still a member of the human race — and what more glorious destiny is there for man, since the Word was made flesh and became, too, a member of the Human Race!

— from A Search for Solitude: Pursuing
the Monk’s True Life (The Journals
of Thomas Merton, Volume
Three, 1952-1960)