The HometownAnnapolis.com had a slide show from the Ann Arundel County Homeless Resource Day some of us went. Here is the actual link in case you can't watch it properly...[ HomeTownAnnapolis.com ]
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
3 yrs old's logic
"Papa, I promise I'll keep my bed dry tonight"
This is what my 3 yrs old told me as I was brushing his teeth to put him to sleep. I was so proud with his strong words and the look of determination...
few hours later
I found him sleeping on his carpeted floor
son.... please go wet your sheets... it's so much easier to clean...
This is what my 3 yrs old told me as I was brushing his teeth to put him to sleep. I was so proud with his strong words and the look of determination...
few hours later
I found him sleeping on his carpeted floor
son.... please go wet your sheets... it's so much easier to clean...
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Amazing Grace
I used this clip as the opener for our community service discussion meeting... the movie has so many wonderful quotes I don't know which one to showcase... this is a must watch if you are a person of faith who are passionate about social change. Forget those institutions that think staying away from our civic duty is a good idea!
Thursday, April 2, 2009
I found this image in one of my favorite blog site.Love to know what series of unfortunate events happened to get into this situation [click to enlarge]
ETHICS? What ethics?
I did a quick search on the definition.. type "define: ethics" on google and you will get:
# ethical motive: motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
# the philosophical study of moral values and rules
The reason I bring this up is because lately I have been listening to a lot of conversation about corporate-ethics, finance-ethics and bio-ethics and all sorts of 'ethic-tists' on NPR [National Public Radio]. It appears that a lot of people are finally realizing that we are in the mess that we are in because our 'lack of ethics' or 'lack of morals'.
So in order to FIX the situation, many universities are trying to incorporate more ethics classes in their curriculum, corporations are holding mandatory ethics awareness....but I just have to go back to the fundamental questions.
1) Exactly how does anyone know what is right and what is wrong? and
2) Who/What defines the moral values and rules?
In this country which have lost its founding value, with leaders who are afraid of invoking the name of God (afraid only for political reason, mind you), how can it possibly answer those two questions? Without moral baseline, how can you EVER define ethics?
It was fun and sad in the same time listening to these shows on NPR; discussing ethics without any baseline. Some of the guests had difficulties answering why it is wrong to torture animals, mutate a chicken for fun or even explaining why these corporate CEOs were wrong! No wonder we are in the mess we are...
And by the way, for those who think that us human can determine the rights and wrongs by how we 'feel', should study the history of humanity.
# ethical motive: motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
# the philosophical study of moral values and rules
The reason I bring this up is because lately I have been listening to a lot of conversation about corporate-ethics, finance-ethics and bio-ethics and all sorts of 'ethic-tists' on NPR [National Public Radio]. It appears that a lot of people are finally realizing that we are in the mess that we are in because our 'lack of ethics' or 'lack of morals'.
So in order to FIX the situation, many universities are trying to incorporate more ethics classes in their curriculum, corporations are holding mandatory ethics awareness....but I just have to go back to the fundamental questions.
1) Exactly how does anyone know what is right and what is wrong? and
2) Who/What defines the moral values and rules?
In this country which have lost its founding value, with leaders who are afraid of invoking the name of God (afraid only for political reason, mind you), how can it possibly answer those two questions? Without moral baseline, how can you EVER define ethics?
It was fun and sad in the same time listening to these shows on NPR; discussing ethics without any baseline. Some of the guests had difficulties answering why it is wrong to torture animals, mutate a chicken for fun or even explaining why these corporate CEOs were wrong! No wonder we are in the mess we are...
And by the way, for those who think that us human can determine the rights and wrongs by how we 'feel', should study the history of humanity.
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