This Morning In America
This morning as I drove my 47 minute drive to work, I kept thinking of an image from a classic film. It was an easy image to conjure, given the blackness of the unlit rural roads I travel at 4 AM, and what I kept thinking about was the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. I was reminded how whenever it arrived it brought to the beings around it an elevation of being. A quantum progression along their evolutionary path. And I wondered how many people this morning, other than myself, woke up from their beds and for some reason just wanted to become a better human being. Felt like they wanted to try a little harder, to feel a little braver and more responsible, and to focus their eyes just a little bit quicker.
Today will be a very productive day in America. Regardless of what job or unemployment line people will be traveling to, today most people will be incredibly focused. We will be standing up just a little bit straighter, and after a very long period of schoolyard paltriness and hunched bitterness we will feel like we've finally grown.
Today will be a very productive day in America. Regardless of what job or unemployment line people will be traveling to, today most people will be incredibly focused. We will be standing up just a little bit straighter, and after a very long period of schoolyard paltriness and hunched bitterness we will feel like we've finally grown.