ASK NOT what your country can do for you...

... ASK WHAT YOU can do for your country...

Sometimes words carry a feeling, a way to see life
and our place in it; a grand mosaic of dots linked by time
to create the face of humanity. In a moment- in each moment-
we have the potential to realize such a state of being;
a well placed gratitude for the life of liberty granted
by accident of birth in America.
It is enough to be thankful, to realize the grace of good fortune.
It is exceptional to act upon this amazing stage
and bring something greater that that which we found
The idea of progress is such, an empty canvas before each eye;
We can inscribe a lasting art that knows our name
or flinch away let waste
the simple wonder of time under the sun.

To contribute to a Nation,
is to connect the tiny life we have
with the limitless possibilities of a faith joined.
It is a faith in a better, more just tomorrow, in

precious wisdom, that tomorrow has already begun ...hdm

at the end of the whip...

So the Biblical wisdom  rings true, sow upon the wind and reap the whirlwind. For me there is another and more apt analogy; at the end of the whip the sting is felt.  For the rest of the world watching Typhoon Haiyan was like the flight of a whip through the air, where the storm struck, its sting has left an indelible scar.  Surrounded by the seas, the seas may never seem the same.

It recalls times in every place when the whip's sting raised anguish.Times when all the things we have made seemed to melt away, and we are like the man who turns to the stone to hide and the stone speaks- there is no hiding place. Since we have fueled the air with carbon and moisture, sown heat and
energy, the whirlwinds are upon  us all.  There is still the persistent myth that Western money, denial, and ignorance will prevail.  In this ignorance then, we wait for the whistle of wind and the sting of the whip....hdm