pacifier whose large handle emitted many haphazard flashing lights. Sadly and looking at the baby’s forlorn face one realized that an infliction of brain damage was likely occurring to this child. Later and by 2012, one became aware of other apparently less obtrusive “lighting systems” being marketed to babies and young children. For examples lighted pillows, blankets, and wall lights depicting various designs and changes of color, likely results in producing illusions to tired children, that affects a child’s way of defining reality. Also these lights could have a hypnotic effect on the young child’s developing brain.
During the winter of this year as I was driving to work but stopped at a traffic light, I noticed children standing at street corners apparently waiting for school busses in below freezing weather, wearing no winter coats or jackets. I further and increasingly understood at this time the urgency of correcting societal immoralities.
One read an impressionable and disturbing story in a Sunday newspaper magazine supplement about an African woman who gave birth to twelve children but was left with only one or two children because the others had died of malnutrition and disease. She spoke about her plight with a reporter where it was explained that she relied on periodic charitable distributions of rice to sustain her family. She spoke of how often times her large bag of rice was stolen from her hut shortly after obtaining this food thus leading to the starvation deaths of some of her children. The village where she lived, in the past, was a self sustaining village based on an agricultural economy where most people living in the village planted and harvested their food supply. This food supply was stored in a cooperative community type of warehouse where it was recently repeatedly stolen by a few people living in the village and then sold in a city market to the benefit of those few, which left most of the people living in the village without food. The reporter asked her why she did not leave the village to live in a more prosperous area. She lamented that she was too confused and too weak to leave. Some of the comments written by readers of this article shown in the magazine the following week were extremely wicked. Some people wrote that she should not be giving birth to children and if she finds herself expecting a child, she should abort that child. No comments that I recalled offered good advice or a possible solution to this poor woman’s and the honest villagers’ plight. Perhaps through the abiding by The Ten Commandments, avoidance of Capital Sins and Abominations the villagers can gain God’s assistance to restore the village to a moral foundation and thus prosperity.
There was a story in the local newspaper about a single parent with several children who was financially incapable of providing enough financial support for his family. He lost the place of his and his family’s residence and so social services intervened in this family’s plight. Apparently, since no affordable housing was available, the family was placed in a motel for about six months. At the end of this time period, the bill to taxpayers amounted to close to $60,000. I stated to spouse that this large amount of money could have likely come close to purchasing a condominium for this family with little or minimum mortgage. At about the same time, a large parcel of land owned by the State of New York containing many quality multi-story grey stone buildings in a wooded and natural area became available for purchase by the county or a town. A town in the county purchased this expansive property and officials asked the public for their input on how this property should be used. A meeting was scheduled that I