https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2018/10/new-work-y-is-for-yearning/ find joy, be inspired, create beauty Thu, 25 May 2023 21:31:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2018/10/new-work-y-is-for-yearning/#comment-348291 Thu, 25 May 2023 21:31:43 +0000 http://lyrickinard.com/?p=10441#comment-348291 I do and always will advocate for open immigration. We are extremely privileged to live in a country with decent education, some level of security, and opportunity. We did not do anything to deserve it more than those who were born into places without those things. Many of my ancestors, from before we were a country up through my parents generation, were pretty freely allowed into this country. It can be done. We can ALSO care more for each other here. There is abundance if we are willing to share and to care about each other instead of always seeing “us and them.”

]]> https://blog.lyrickinard.com/2018/10/new-work-y-is-for-yearning/#comment-348205 Sun, 02 Apr 2023 14:32:56 +0000 http://lyrickinard.com/?p=10441#comment-348205 Two issues we need to get a grip on
– what are the goals and tune policy accordingly, along with
– addressing realistically that no, not everyone who wants to move to the US can, which is not new.
The statue of liberty is in NY harbor because it was rejected by first nation it was offered to. Its script is by a poet romanticizing it. And many a migrant was turned back at that very location, due to disease, no fiscal means of support or job offer.
In my tiny state alone, 20K homeless. Cars w/license plates from far and wide, unusual this time of year, I presume looking for work. I question priorities of this nation.

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