Accountabletofacts Quotes

“Truthiness.
Alternative facts.
White lies. All kinds
of deceptions
that ultimately do not
serve.

Tell someone you love a meal they've made
that you actually loathe
and you may be eating it
for the rest of your life
(or will you end the very relationship
rather than expose your ostensibly harmless untruth)”
― Shellen Lubin

“Sixth grade, I remembermy best friend Wendy
whose parents were fighting, harshly, loudly,
and we sat on the curb outside so she wouldn't have to hear it,
and she cried, believing her world was falling apart.
I made up a kind-of game:
to everything she would say, I would respond
"Is that a fact or an opinion?"
and she had to figure it out and say it outloud--
we played it for hours,
ending up laughing
but she also began to separate
what was actually happening inside the house
from her feelings about it
and her fears.

I feel like I'm still playing "Fact or Opinion"
in my writing,
in the world--
with family, friends,
and, of course, myself.

Wish I could play it with our governmental representatives,
our institutions,
our courts.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Sixth grade, I remembermy best friend Wendy
whose parents were fighting, harshly, loudly,
and we sat on the curb outside so she wouldn't have to hear it,
and she cried, believing her world was falling apart.
I made up a kind-of game:
to everything she would say, I would respond
'Is that a fact or an opinion?'
and she had to figure it out and say it outloud--
we played it for hours,
ending up laughing
but she also began to separate
what was actually happening inside the house
from her feelings about it
and her fears.

I feel like I'm still playing 'Fact or Opinion'
in my writing,
in the world--
with family, friends,
and, of course, myself.

Wish I could play it with our governmental representatives,
our institutions,
our courts.”
― Shellen Lubin