3/10/2010 6:01:00 AM Letter: Less-tolerant residents might remember to 'forgive'
As a part-time resident of Port Townsend, Joan Fiore said, "I have heard many outsiders (outsiders?) speak of it (it?) as that cute town where the people are so diverse, so tolerant.…" Blah, blah, blah. She completed one of Port Townsend's newest and most visible constructions. Go to the corner of Washington and Fillmore to see her gift not only to the neighbors, especially the house directly behind her, but to all of us whose homes for the winter seem to be exact duplicates of our summer homes.
Others, also not even part-time residents of Port Townsend, have spoken on the subject of tolerance, beauty and even compassion.
"Anyone can err, but only the fool persists in his fault," said Cicero.
"A plumber's idea of Cleopatra," W.C. Fields said when describing Mae West.
Oscar Wilde said of beauty: "No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly."
W. Somerset Maugham said of beauty, "Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passerby to pick up idly?"
Possibly, we less-tolerant residents of Port Townsend might remember this: "Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do," by Jesus of Nazareth.
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