Tuesday, December 5, 2006
One of the many insightful lessons and wisdoms my parents and grandparents passed on to me is the old addage's about:

"Ignorance is a blissful state".....For the sake of just trying to survive in a world made up of varying forms of negativity, you have to allow people (personality types) to remain in a certain state of bliss by not bringing their ignorance to their attention. In the long run, it saves you a lot of grief and for being misunderstood.

"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions".... One day you could be feeding a well-prepared meal to the hungry and the homeless and the next day, feel compelled to pass judgement on the person who sought you out for providing a free meal.

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One of the things that makes my work here at the University of Notre Dame so rewarding is that I get many opportunities to be around students and some of the faculty who come from many parts of the United States and very remote and exotic places from all over the world. I find it extremely troubling, and down right discouraging to find out that there is a segment of students in the Law School who are compelled to be discrimatory and elitist. I was literally "broken-hearted" and partially "disappointed" to hear about an incident in passing this afternoon from one of my colleagues. ....... Which puts me in the mind of remembering one of my grandmother's wisdom:"That which does not kill you, can only makes you stronger".