Recently I got together with an old friend (pun intended). The problem is, it took us a couple of tries to get it right.
"Get what right?" you're probably thinking. Although in retrospect it seems simple, I'm referring to both people being in the same location at the same time ... on the same day. Either I was a day early or she was a day late. When I arrived at what (I still think) was the pre-agreed place--a few minutes early, mind you, but on the right day--I used the cell phone to place a slightly irritated phone call. "Where are you?" I asked.
Observing a holiday now known as ‘Civil Rights Day’ I am reminded that it has been almost forty years since the Reverend Martin Luther King gave his last Sunday sermon. In March of 1968, Dr. King gave a talk entitled “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution.” His point was that while we were living amid a period of extreme social change, many of us were failing to develop the new attitudes and mental responses required by new situations. We were, in his words, ‘sleeping through the revolution.’
By now we’ve all heard of the famous ‘16 words’ that got President Bush into trouble during a State of the Union address. You know, the words about ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that mobilized a country to war? Since the President is on the list of national leaders who don’t call me for advice, I thought I would use this a space to offer all of them some other words.
It has been too long since I took my daughter on her pre-college visits. At one West Coast university, I purchased a sweatshirt, as a remembrance of our trip. There’s nothing fancy about it. It’s the basic model: pull it on over your head, slip your hands into the small pouch on the front and pull up the hood. Of course the name of the school emblazoned in large letters across the front...Mine is red.
“He wear no shoeshine he got toe-jam football….He got monkey finger… he shoot coca-cola…He say "I know you, you know me…."
Paul McCartney just turned 64 and he probably deserves my sincere apology for the lead-in but sometimes when I think about “community” the Beatles’ “Come Together” plays in my brain.
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