Today's prompt was a quote: "Too much sanity may be madness" from Don Quixote. We wrote for ten minutes.
Rick's Free Write
It seems half the world has gone mad, both anger and insanity. Drunk with power and no apparent guardrails. And it’s driving the rest of us up the proverbial wall.
How can it be sane to bomb and starve people, non-combatants, mothers and children? How can it be sane to strip families and the elderly of vital medical support, then hand the ‘savings’ to billionaires who waste it by blowing up rocket ships? How can it be sane to detain and deport 2-year-olds undergoing cancer treatment?
Madness indeed.
Thank the lethal combination of ideology, racism and cowardice.
Don Quixote was on a futile quest, myopically battling inert windmills which he thought were the enemy. But he was harmless, except to himself. The zealots of today are a danger to everyone, both those they target for retribution and those in the blast zone.
We want to believe their phase will pass and the modern day Stalins and Hitlers will be relegated to the history books they try to burn. Let’s hope it happens sooner, rather than later, before we all driven sane beyond measure.
Rick Adams is an aviation journalist and publisher of www.aviationvoices.com, a weekly newsletter reporting the top stories about the airline industry. He is the author of The Robot in the Simulator. AI in Aviation Training.
D-L'S Free Write
Lia slammed her laptop shut.
Shit. So near and yet so far.
The end of her dissertation, the last period. She saw herself in her crimson robe. She saw the letters D and R in front of her name.
Dr. Lia O'Malley
All she needed to do was to hit send to her advisor. That she could defend her thesis about Don Quixote, she had no doubt. Her research had taken her to Spain. She'd walked where the character had walked.
Was it worth it? Forcing herself into following all those rules of years and years while a little voice told her to do things differently
She'd tried to break out of the academic mold once by writing a shrink-type analysis of the poem "My Last Duchess." Oh, how she had felt for that woman. She'd received an F and was admonished to never do anything like that again.
How many stupid rules had she followed since kindergarten like not breaking out of line to pick sunshine-yellow flowers?
When she had her doctorate would she be able to leave the sane world rules behind and give in to her real mad self?
Yes? No? Maybe?
She hit send.
D-L is the author of 15 fiction and three non fiction books. Check out her website at: https://dlnelsonwriter.com Her 300 Unsung Women, bios of women who battled gender limitations, can be purchased at https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/300-unsung-women-d-l-nelson/1147305797?ean=9798990385504
Julia's Free Write
How many seconds are there in a lifetime?
How many minutes in one of our years of that same lifetime?
How many hours of joy, of pain, of sorrow, of boredom?
How many days of help to others, of others help to us?
How many weeks of labor, of pleasure, of relaxation, of stress?
How many years of being helped, how many years of helping?
A lifetime: how to measure it? How to account for it?
Who or what judges us in the end?
Our family, our friends, our community?
Perhaps we are our most important – or not – judges.
What brought on these reflections this particular morning?
A simple quote from Don Quixote : "Too much sanity may be madness”
Dealing with that subject has made me realize that sometimes we are all a bit mad! to tackle this quote for one!
Julia has written and taken photos and loves syncing up with friends. Her blog can be found: https://viewsfromeverywhere.blogspot.com/
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