It seems to be human nature, to mechanize – structure, organize, routinize – what up until then had been a dynamic, free, unstructured movement…to build a machine that ensures that X is done at Y time.
Aaron spotted what he initially thought was a scarecrow next to a fence. Then he noticed a glisten of blood. The sun sparkled on what he barely recognized as a face. What Aaron had discovered was the 22 year-old Matthew Shepard, clinging to life.
The abilities of Dr Williams have disguised, to a degree, some of these impossibilities. The cost is incalculable, being paid in decisions made too hastily, consultations unsought, mission opportunities declined, and, of course, personal wear and tear.
In the high crime Chicago neighborhood studied, social distance to a homicide victim is negatively and strongly associated with individual victimization: each social tie removed from a homicide victim decreases one’s odds of being a homicide victim by approximately 57 percent.
‘But I say to you that listen, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those