Today’s Life-Line is:

One of the harmful clichés of modern life is the exhortation to be nonjudgmental. Judgment is essential to the improvement of the world, the protection of the good, and the destruction of the bad. The responsibility of a freethinking adult is to learn how to make the right judgment. To demonize judgment as some reactionary and hypocritical move made by bullheaded fools is to betray the vocation of democracy and surrender it to those too eager to judge—bigots and demagogues in love with the sound of their own voices.

~ David Masciotra (November 2, 2012)

~ Friends, I am taking some time off from posting any new writings. I will keep offering Life-Lines on Mondays and TUESDAYS WITH STORY each week. Feel free to check previous writings from the TOPICS listed in the right-hand column. Keep checking, I will be posting essays and articles again before long. Thank you for visiting THE SACRED BRAID and for reading The Almond Tree. ~ Dan