Looking under my summer thinking-cap . . .

It’s a great summer here in the Southern hemisphere . . .

Had my thinking- cap on, not to guard against the sun . . . but to ruminate on some aspects in news, letters to editors, and those “user-friendly articles” that proliferate in the holiday reading season . . .

Ruminating on “the Right of Free Speech”

• “Free speech is a great principle, but it sure helps if you’ve got something worth saying.” 

Ruminating on “letters to the editor”

• “Its one thing to have an opinion, another to give it; but its really helpful if those its given to can actually get it.”

Ruminating over article on “tips for disciplining children”

• “Discipline is not a synonym for punishment; it’s the systematic and supported practice of formation.  It’s an open-ended and ongoing practice. Too often punishment is a stopping-point, whereas discipline’s an ongoing starting-point.”