My father-in-law said

"Een lopende hond 

vindt altijd een bot." *

* loose translation: "A walking dog always finds a bone."

You are on LinkedIn

The contraction for you are is you're. 

 

This public service announcement is for my highly-educated, extremely articulate friends and colleagues on the LinkedIn professional networking site.

Variations on a Theme

Follow-up to my recent post, "Heads up, Writers":

Five or six people in each age of men  
Express something true with the brush or the pen 
And others repeat it, again and again.

And falsehood, if clothed in a nice-enough rhyme 
Is also inscribed in the marble of time.

Poem by Rani Kaye - All rights reserved.

Heads Up, Writers!

Heads up, Writers! 

It’s time to save the world! We need a Charles Dickens, to show us what the census numbers really look like walking; we need a Thomas Paine to tell us just what might really work; we need a Rachel Carson to bring us to our senses; we need a Martin Luther, to bring us back to God.

We’ve had plenty of minor players.  Who’s going to write the story that brings us fully back to center?

People who are great in their various professions, skills, and callings think profoundly but narrowly.

Only writers think of all the connections and the what-ifs; and some of you must wrap your imaginations around all our ideas, events, and characters, and write the words that will save the world.

You know who you are.  Heads up!