Wide-ranging thoughts and observances offer the following statements:
• Clarity can evolve out of chaos of any kind. Those who make better efforts find more peace.
• Chaos between police and protesters can evolve into understanding, if given an opportunity.
• Each must seek understanding and not be rigid in its self-righteous attitude.
• Peacekeepers should be the mindset for those we today call police.
• Feeling forced into choosing sides leads to delays in finding answers and peace.
• Protesters should not accuse peacekeepers of doing what isolated peacekeepers wrongfully do;
• Officers must absorb a mindset of truly keeping peace and not using police force;
• Qualified immunity for peacekeepers is counterproductive. The field should be level;
• Level field is what the retirement should include for our governmental representatives;
• Social Security is adequate for retired governmental persons, not today’s lucrative packages;
• Our society pulls continually further and further from an egalitarian society;
• Those consequences are partially responsible for today’s conflicts;
• How many do not understand that conflicts of many are not discouraged by the top one-percent?
• This year likely will be seen as a socially-special year similar to cataclysmic events in 1968.
• Can we eventually see 2020 as a year of clarity as in 2020 vision?
• Youthful fireworks in the night are a product of youthful restlessness and annoying to rest-seekers;
• The fireworks produced now, never will be a substitute for canceled Fourth of July fireworks;
• One step at a time for Illinois which has a top rating for surviving COVID-19;
• Summer schools with safety guidelines will open as tests for Fall semester matriculation;
• Landmarks Illinois grants will include Aurora Regional Fire Museum and Elgin Area Historical;
• The Aurora Education Commission seeks equity within its institutions;
• The census 2020 Complete Committee in Aurora will meet remotely Wednesday, June 24;
• Aurora Farmers Market’s 108th season will start Saturday, June 24 at Water Street Square;
• John Ross of Batavia reminds us that Children’s Day was June 14, same as Flag Day.
Clear and concise, week 24:
• Words which are spelled the same for singular and plural forms are interesting. There may be more than 100 such words and include: Binoculars, clothing, deer, E-mail, mail, bison, cattle, elk, moose, fruit, jeans, kudos, sugar, and wood.
• Why use first-ever, when first is sufficient?
• (Repeat) Normality is correct, normalcy is incorrect.
• City should be a reference to the community involved. Too often those involved with governments make references to the governments as the city, which is only partially true. City should be a reference to non-governmental functions and the individuals within its boundaries, as much, or more, than governmental bodies. Shorthand can lead to a lack of understanding.