I confess...I'm continuously shocked at the level of stupidity I see in my small world. We had a school bus driver tell an elementary school student that she'll be a good pole dancer when she grows up. They tried to brush it aside until the mother wouldn't let it drop, so they pulled the videotape and it was clear as day. He's been fired.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.