in someone else's write

On 06/17/10, I posted a 03/21/00 Mindwalker1910 entry called In My Own Write (yeah, stolen from Lennon); this was the entry Mom posted the next day (March 22, 2000):

Subj: in someone else's write
Date: 3/22/00 9:40:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time

What to post into cyberspace tonight?

I am going to cheat and quote something from a book of daily readings, just a short piece that has been buzzing about in my brain. It is about willed ignorance. It comes from a book of daily readings that helps keep me on my toes:

"Naiveté is charming and touching in the young. But there is nothing charming about adults who refuse to see the writing on the wall. This kind of blankness is call "willed ignorance" because it's done on purpose, deliberately. With enough practice, willed ignorance can be indistinguishable from stupidity.

"On the surface, this condition seems absurd. Who would will themselves to be ignorant? But there are many reasons for this sad tactic. If we don't see what's going on, don't know what's happening, we won't have to deal with it. So we choose not to know. But the price of willed ignorance is always loss."

And to quote Helen Keller ~ "Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold." Be bold!

Love to all - Grandma L'

reposted in sweet memory of its author, KATHARINE REYNOLDS LOCKHART, by her scribe/daughter, Elsa Lockhart Murphy aka Deev, to honor the 05/14 centenary of Grandma L's birth