From Wally’s Pond. 12/20/2017
Christmas is coming… in just a few days… Again. Amid all the rhetoric -of the socio-political kind- there are many issues lost and perhaps, this being the special time of year it is ( for those who profess Christianity as a belief ) there may be some time for reflection, and for reviewing what we have done and said and how these actions may have impacted others. It is hard not to imagine that, with all the finger pointing and yelling and with everyone wanting to appropriate a slice of the ever-diminishing pie, there are some who are left to slide down the inevitable cracks, to be lost and forgotten. Although it would be simple to pinpoint several scenarios which could easily and quietly fit into the above last description, there is a group of people or perhaps, a “subgroup” of people, who are in an eternal limbo, where any shorelines of hope or safe port are always just beyond the line of sight. Yes, coming to this country ( or any other, for that matter ) withou...