11/30 #40

we can only judge what is right and wrong on our own standards.

Faith vs. Goodworks. If people grow old doing bad things, but before they die, if they are truly sorry, they are forgiven. In the catholic belief anyway. this reading calls out to me in a different way because the way he words the passage, he doesn't judge anyone else, he accepts them for who they are. people are who they are, they do not just change.

#38 11/15/16

they are truly industrious, money money get money, get rich, and be a gentlemen

They have good intentions, but there vision is clouded by greed. Money is the root to all evil. It what makes the world go round but it's only a piece of paper. It only has value because someone says it does.

#37 11/11

you approach us inappropriately, they say their country is better than mine, but why did you leave it?

The indians are happy, the french are not. It's reminds me of the election. some people are happy Trump was elected and some are protesting. In the end change is coming, weather one group likes it or not.

#36 11/10

Our ways are fading. 

The way of life for the natives has changed. The ones who have lived feel displaced, and the ones who didn't live in their ways don't know the difference. The white people have transformed their whole culture, they beat them up until they could take no more. and now we are all the same. 

#35 11/9

we are like a bird with a broken wing, i am old, my eyes are dim.

The spark is dying. The natives are losing their hope, and their fight slows down. The white men are killing the buffalo trail, and their medicine is stronger. The Natives don't know what else to do, they have lost hope.

#34 11/4

when i was a boy the Sioux owned the land. where did they go?

People judge people and include people in a group before they truly know them. The cliche saying comes to mind when hearing this reading for the first time, "never judge a book by it's cover". You can't tell someone apart from another by just the color of skin. people are people, and everyone is different, you and I are not the same.

#33 11/2

Do not grieve. misfortunes will happen to the best, death will come always out of season. 

We know for sure only two things in the time we spend here on this earth. One, we were born. Two, we will die. people cannot control the future and we don't know when that final day is going to come. So the best thing to do is to live your life to the fullest, and enjoy it, because we only have one.