Let cool heads prevail on our busy streets
Re: “Good Drivers deserve thanks”, Rant//Rave, Dec. 23, 2014.
Keith Freeman’s words are all we ever need and I think the Westender could reprint his wisdom again with seasonal adjustments. Respect to KF and may we all continue to have mutual consideration and foresight when we are sharing the roads.
–Gary Jarvis
A kind act brightens spirits
On Dec. 22 at the Mucho Burrito restaurant on Davie I began chatting to a nice gentleman in front of me in line. We placed our orders and when I got to the cashier he said he had purchased my meal!
I would truly like to thank him. He made my Christmas so bright!
For a stranger to do this small thing for me really made my day and my holiday season!
I didn’t get to thank you properly. This one act of kindness really meant the world to me and I still smile when I think about it.
–Andrea
Holiday hypocrisy
I’m wondering how much gold, silver, copper and other valuable metals were purchased this past Christmas in the form of jewelery and electronic devices? I suspect it was in the billions of dollars globally. But how many consumers ever stop to think about the monumental effort that went into bringing those metals and manufactured goods to the consumer marketplace?
Before anyone can buy jewelery and electronic devices, someone needs to locate the geological deposits that contain these metals hidden in the vastness of planet Earth. Those metals then need to be separated from the rocks that contain them and refined to a suitable state of purity. And before that, the mine operators have to jump through a series of regulatory hoops before producing even a single ounce of gold, silver or copper.
What will it take, then, for consumers to start making the connection between the consumer goods they desire and enjoy and the mining industry that produces the raw materials essential to these consumer goods? How many of these people hypocritically denounce mining while coveting and acquiring the products that mining makes possible? Give mining its due for all of the amazing things and the comforts it provides us with.
–Donald Leung
