“Compassion is an unstable emotion, it needs to be translated into action or it withers.”

It wasn’t until I wrote the tag line for this morning’s musing that I realized how many of us these days are confusing posting to FaceBook with standing for the right. It’s a lovely, but wrongheaded notion…

There is no substitute for doing the kind deed or offering the kind word.

And the world is in need of kindness…

Susan Sontag, you wonderful woman, thank you for your words of wisdom throughout the years. I miss your voice.