I am frequently left with a sense of the utmost sadness and despair in all that I see of the horrendous levels of the worst and most sickening kinds cruelty and insensitivity towards each other. A couple of similar current news articles which include the eating of a man's face by another man in Florida, who was said to be on drugs at the time. Then there is the incident currently under investigation in Quebec, Canada of the 29 year old male subject who has dismembered another young man sending parts of his body to various political parties and even directly to the police in Quebec. Add this to virtually endless other things going on in the world around us, including the horrible scourge of human losses in Syria, and one is left to wonder what is happening to humanity presently. In stark contrast, it is deeply touching when the opportunity arises to read of some random act of kindness or compassion shown by one (or a group) of caring people towards another, and there are many such beautiful and inspiring things which take place as well. Sadly those acts (of random kindness) don't seem to generate nearly as much news coverage as all of the horrible negativity because I suppose most of the media doesn't feel that it will gain as much readership as all the sickness and horror going on all around us. In spite of the on going sadness and all of the sick perversions that we see in our present state of affairs, it remains that each of us... you and I and others who honestly care, have a very real opportunity to reverse the current trend and by our individual choices and actions facilitate making our world a far better place for all of us. Remember please, that it takes only the light of a single candle to entirely dispel the blackness of even the darkest night. We can each choose to be a candle. Either we are a part of the solution, or we're a part of the problem; there simply is no "middle ground". There is far too much at stake for our global family to allow ourselves to be deceived into thinking that we can merely choose not to participate one way or the other, in which case we have resigned ourselves to become a part of the under lying problem by default. Be a candle... A single, simple random act of kindness requires to little time or effort, and yet it can mean everything... even the difference in life or death to a fellow human being. Be a candle... Choose to walk apart from the darkness around you at any given time, and move in the light of something greater for everyone. Be a candle. Ghandi once said that we should "Be the change you want to see in the world," and in the end it is all about individual choices. Change happens one by one... one person, one heart, one mind reaching out to touch another, one by one... moment by moment... action by action. One candle lighting another, and then another.

shame on you Dawn for posting an unrelated pic...

The picture seems unrelated to the topic. It is a demonstration against nuclear power.