Using your power even though we may feel powerless these days

“Mastering others is strength,” wrote Lao Tzu, “mastering yourself is true power.”

Tom Sightings of Sightings Over Sixty refers to this quote as he introduces the articles for our blog roundup this week.

Sightings saw an article by someone who was mastering the power in himself. He wrote that for most of his life he had never voted in any elections. He thought that politics was dirty, and he didn’t want any part of it. He changed his mind mind when he realized that politics doesn't affect him very much, but they do affect many other people he knows - people with disabilities or chronic illnesses, people fleeing domestic violence, people suffering from racism, genderism, ageism. So he decided to support these people.

Sightings said maybe because we all feel so powerless these days is why we’re writing about power. Articles include:

• A simple exercise the make-it-happen generation to discover the (sometimes painful) gift of sitting with a blank canvas during the coronavirus era.
• An analysis showing that price gouging persists on Amazon.
• Two remembrances of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, supreme court justice, who died Friday at age 87.
• A vlog on “Today Is a Good Day to Live.”
  
• A dog named Libby who does what she wants whenever she wants.

This is the Best of Boomer Blogs #668. Click here to get the links to the articles. And be sure to join in the conversations. Bloggers love to hear from readers.