Just Say No To Name Calling!
There’s an author that has impacted my life with MANY of her books: Madeleine L’Engle. She has written across many categories of books ranging from her famous Newberry Award winning children’s book, A Wrinkle in Time to a Two-Part Invention based on her loving marriage. This lady tells it like it is. No spoon feeding, mind you, you do have to think. I just read a blurb I’d love to share from Glimpses of Grace. She makes a stand on customers that I agree with wholeheartedly!
“…perhaps the most dehumanizing thing of all is that we have allowed the media to call us consumers- Ugly! NO! I don’t want to be a consumer. Anger consumes. Forest fires consume. Cancer consumes.”
AMEN! That C word is Ugly. Let’s not say it, think it or be it! Who wants to be tied to a word that is first defined as “to spend wastefully” as it’s number one definition?
You know where I’m going with this right? Dr. Flower has customers that have little or nothing to do with that word up there…
Happy Washing!
~Regina
One Comment
Donna Maria Coles Johnson
This is a great post and so in line with my philosophy of life. Consumers are mindless, brainless blobs that buy this or that and do this or that. I agree with you that we must be producers, contributors! Add some things to the world, not just take from it. I wish for everyone to have a chance to enjoy this kind of contributory mindset and existence. Thank you!