Necessary action . . .

Tuesday, February 4, 2025. It's Freya's day . . . chilly Northerlies and a cold front are moving through TulseyTown. Forecasts indicate mid to upper 40's and rain chances, particularly tonight, dwindling into tomorrow when Southerlies return. The February rollercoaster continues. The wind chill enroute to the mailbox was in the low 30's with a mist that had focused the jetsam on the topic of ethics. I'll leave it to you to figure out the intricacies of that metaphor with the following items.

Today is the birth date of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident was born in 1906 Breslau, Germany (now Poland). His writings on ethics continue with world reaching influence.

Betty Friedan, cofounder of the National Organization for Women and author of The Feminine Mystique was born in 1963 Peoria, Illinois.

It's the birthdate of Rosa Parks. The activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the civil rights movement in the United States was born on this day in 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama.

And, George Washington was elected to serve as the first U.S. president by a unanimous vote in the first electoral college held today in 1789.

If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I find it astonishing that I have been part of a movement that in less than forty years transformed American society -- so much so that young women today seem to find it impossible to believe that women were once not seen as equal to men, as persons in their own right . . . . Men weren't really the enemy -- they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. – Betty Friedan.