Sharing Is Sometimes More Demanding

Caring Can Be Learned By All Human Beings, Can Be Worked Into The Design Of Every Life, Meeting An Individual Need As Well As A Pervasive Need In Society.

I Had Repeatedly Accepted Inappropriate Burdens, Stepping In To Do What Needed To Be Done. In Retrospect, I Think I Carried Them Well, But The Cost Was That I Was Chronically Overloaded, Weary, And Short Of Time For Politicking, Smoothing Ruffled Feathers, And Simply Resting.

Orthodox Judaism Is A Thicket Of Detailed Injunctions, Biblical Commandments Elaborated During Centuries Of Prohibited Proselytizing, Functioning To Limit Interaction With Outsiders. At The Opposite Extreme, Islam, Still The Most Rapidly Expanding Of Faiths, Demands Little Immediate Knowledge From Those Who Would Convert. The Convert Is Permitted To Enter And Then To Learn By Participation, Although There Are Plenty Of Detailed Regulations And Abstruse Theological Ideas To Be Pursued Later, And The Regulations Do Effectively Separate Believers From Nonbelievers.

Rarely Is It Possible To Study All Of The Instructions To A Game Before Beginning To Play, Or To Memorize The Manual Before Turning On The Computer. The Excitement Of Improvisation Lies Not Only In The Risk Of Being Involved But In The New Ideas, As Heady As The Adrenaline Of Performance, That Seems To Come From Nowhere.

We Are Not What We Know But What We Are Willing To Learn.