windthread

perennials,  along the road fence in front of B.    This,  their second year.   All summer they held their own but with the coming of the cool month of November they became Vitalized…not REvitalized but Vitalized…    Becoming FULL,  lush and a deep deep GREEN and when Rain began,  they blossomed.   And continue to Blossom.   so.  Third Chakra.

last night,  after dark fell,  i finally read the sentence i'd been  hoping for….the one that would Click !!!  

NYT   Jan 8, 2021   America in 2021  Racial Progress in the South,  a White Mob in the Capitol     Astead W. Herndon

"….the idea at the core of the American experiment – that,  in time,  the country's commitment to democracy will over take the history of intolerance".

Experiment.  the American experiment.   We are deep,  deep into the Experiment.    we are now,  with great momentum,  just beginning to see clear results from this     Experiment.   and momentum.   there is momentum  FROM those results that are creating the movement Forward.

I thought about all that had become so different in my own lifetime of 75 years….1945 to 2021….just my own life time.  I remembered my father.   looking at his face as he talked so casually in my childhood about niggers,  polacks,  jews,  japs. Casual conversation.   There was no reason for his racist concerns when he moved the family from Detroit to the suburbs where there were none of the above.   He was the only child of a very normal American family that had a home and a breadwinner.  But he held these sentiments.   So when i watch the people's faces now,   they are not foreign to me…i've seen their look before.  But…this is the American Experiment.  The experiment of

Democracy

that ALL are entitled to equal place.   just that.      Not a lot to ask,  right?   There's room.   We all fit.   Even them.  They can fit in their miserable pinched up places.   They're  not going to go away with the inauguration.  They live here too.   So..ok…live here. But give it up,  share.  This seems so elemental.  How you teach children.    And i think fortunately,  the young ones now are so past  so much of this.  Their concerns are of more substance.  like how will we Breathe.