Green Lantern/Green Arrow Month focused on the popular series that changed the face of comics in the 1970′s! The Monthly Feature showed how we can miss seeing some problems in our own neighborhood while we’re tackling bigger issues in our nation and world. But without addressing the needs of people close to home, our family and friends can start to wonder if we’re really helping at all.

Similarly, the first Weekly Blog demonstrated that if we pursue a noble cause but refuse to listen to wise advice, we can end up doing more harm than good, all the while seeing ourselves as a persecuted martyr. Keeping wise friends around us, and remembering what we know to be true, can help us also avoid being deceived by others, as in “A Kind of Loving, a Way of Death”.

Hurts from the past – especially those suffered from prejudice – can give us a biased view of people and events, as learned through the reverse-racism discussed in “Beware My Power!”

Finally, we discussed the importance of teaching our kids about choices that matter, rather than worrying about the styles they follow, in “Snowbirds Don’t Fly”. And in the story’s conclusion, “They Say It’ll Kill Me, But They Won’t Say When”, we saw the need for pursuing true freedom instead of the so-called “freedom” to do whatever “feels” right.

Remember, August 10th is the deadline for submitting your short story to the Character Entertainment Short Story Contest, for the chance to win a full year of FREE LESSONS in a Character Entertainment Creative Writing Class!

Have a great day!

-RAD

Green Arrow loses it when he learns that some bikers left his girlfriend, Black Canary, for dead. Fortunately, Green Lantern is there to help him rein in his temper. Even heroes can lose their cool at times. … which is why it’s good to have a partner to keep you in check.

Green Lantern/Green Arrow Month continues with blogs about testing out the truth, to avoid deceiving yourself or letting yourself be deceived by others!

I get a thrill every time Hal Jordan recharges his power ring to become the Green Lantern: “In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil’s might beware my power: Green Lantern’s light!”

Construct your own oath. Say it daily.

What are your core values? Write a mission statement for your life. You don’t have one, you say? You just go with the flow, wherever it carries you, with no clearly stated defined goals? You’re in serious danger.

Write your mission statement. Laminate it. Read it every morning.

- Cary A. Friedman, Wisdom from the Batcave (abridged quote) 

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