Knocking On Death’s Door

Although the death scenes in these two well-produced tubes were selected for their cinematic qualities,  they can still set the mood for a more serious contemplation of your own mortality. Check’m out. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tqh2drbzZs&feature=related[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvtm06DYhBo&feature=related[/youtube] I don’t need to tell you how large the idea of death looms in our collective consciousness, in our daily lives.  After all, people are dying …

Palintology 101

Sarah Palin will never hold national office, nor will any Republican at the presidential level for a long time to come. Why? Because America has uneducated jerks in it but is not a nation of uneducated jerks. The Republicans are done, hoisted on the petard of their own “southern strategy.”

American Brotherhood

• Ebony And Ivory Live Together In Perfect Harmony Side By Side On My Piano Keyboard, Oh Lord, Why Don’t We? —Paul McCartney It strikes me as an unfortunate bit of necessary shorthand that Barack Obama has been thought of almost exclusively as a “black” man.  Barack is biracial.  He’s not the first “black president.”  He’s the first “black and …

Dancing Shoes

Sorry, no time for blogging today!  We have our dancing shoes on, and many miles to go before the next dawn. Play the healing music. Pretend Bush is already packed, and breaking out his chainsaw down in Crawford.  Get your good on today and everyday, from now on. Ain’t nothin’ gonna stay the same.

IT’S ABOUT TIME!!!

Everything must await the coming of its time. You are born into the world, but no amount of anxiety and no manifestation of impatience will help you to grow up. You must, in all such matters, wait upon time. Time alone will ripen the green fruit upon the tree. Season follows season and sundown follows sunrise only with the passing …

Being the Change

g Barack Obama has said from the beginning of this campaign that it is the people who must believe— not just in his ability to bring about change in Washington— but in theirs.  He has couched these exhortations in what he calls the fierce urgency of NOW.  It’s as rousing a call to the responsibilities of citizenship you’re likely to …

Waking up on November 5th

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML1OZCHixR0&feature=related[/youtube] Will the monkeys wake up to a new “Dawn of Man” on November 5th? Perhaps. Either way, it’s a rough new road ahead; a paradigm shift of change unfolding.  Prepare to do your part. • •