There are billions of people and a version of normal to go along with each one of them. No two versions are exactly the same. There will be hundreds of thousands of little things that make up your version of normal. With any luck you can find people that have close to the same idea of what normal is that you do. These are your friends. Anyone else you try to tolerate as best you can.
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The exact definition of normal depends on who's running the asylum.
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
6352 - TED talk - Bryan Stevenson
I just saw Bryan Stevenson on PBS. I'd never heard of him. He's a great talker. I thought there must be something on Youtube that he has done. Yep. A TED talk. This is a 24 minute video that will be over before you know it.
Incredible how this was filmed in 2012 and yet here were are almost 14 years later and these problems of injustice and racism are the worst they have been in my lifetime.
Bryan started EJI Equal Justice Initiative. The are responsible for The Legacy Museum, which deals with the terror blacks endured with slavery. Associated with it are:The National Memorial for Peace and Justice plus the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park. I strongly encourage to go down to Montgomery, AL (yeah, not practical, but look online.) He's written a couple books. He is a lawyer who tried(s) to get death penalty convicts retried if innocent. Great man ! Please investigate more with some of your interns time.
Thanks for this site. Gawd I love the jokes and folks who leave comments, Peace.
The video doesn't play so I began reading the transcript, but gave up, I don't know how far I got into it, just past the number of people in prisons.
ReplyDeleteI just tried it. It took a minute or so to load and start playing.
DeleteHe wrote an excellent book - Just Mercy - which was also made into an excellent movie.
ReplyDeleteIncredible how this was filmed in 2012 and yet here were are almost 14 years later and these problems of injustice and racism are the worst they have been in my lifetime.
ReplyDeleteBryan started EJI Equal Justice Initiative. The are responsible for The Legacy Museum, which deals with the terror blacks endured with slavery. Associated with it are:The National Memorial for Peace and Justice plus the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park. I strongly encourage to go down to Montgomery, AL (yeah, not practical, but look online.) He's written a couple books. He is a lawyer who tried(s) to get death penalty convicts retried if innocent. Great man ! Please investigate more with some of your interns time.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this site. Gawd I love the jokes and folks who leave comments, Peace.