A NEW WORLD?

I look out the window of my study and I see bright Sunshine. It is beautiful! The two amaryllis on my windowsill continue to thrust skyward. One is already about 14 inches tall, I think it will bloom before Valentine's Day which was my goal. My eye flicks over to the thermometer that registers 4.3 degrees F. We are about 4 degrees higher than the official temperature so it must still be close to zero. Yup, were in a little cold spell and it is supposed to last the rest of the month.

That should be a segue in to some profound comment on the world, but I am unusually un-creative. I would rather look at the bright Sunshine out my window than peek at the world. The madness continues. Couldn't we be like Rip Van Winkle and sleep until the craziness is over? It is puzzling that the governments of the world can behave so madly at the same time folks are waking up.

Yesterday I said to Jamie, “Where do you want to live when I am president?” She answered as if it was a serious question. I was [amusingly] speculating on the idea. No, I wouldn't want to do it. And I don't think I have the talent. Years ago, during the Carter administration I did more serious speculation. I loved Carter deeply but I was frustrated that he couldn't make headway in the direction we both thought the country should go.

I imagined about a four year plan where I would knock on my neighbor's doors and present them with my intention to run for president and my plans if elected. I would continue in concentric rings until I had covered a significant area. I would seek no press coverage and ask for no money. I would assume enough interest would build up that the press would seek out what was going on because of the interest and energy that would be created. I imagined attending meetings and functions where people wanted to discuss how we could have a sane world. I imagined myself as the learner as well as the teacher. I knew I didn't have more to say than the average person. How do we want to live? How do we want to treat each other? What is the government really for? We enjoy living in a loving family can we extend that idea to a loving world? Do we want to support an empire or do we want to live in a world where nations help each other like we would expect family members to do?

I imagined people coming together and forming a wave of energy that would energize others and multiply to the point where leaders elected would be those most committed to creating a loving world.

Of course these ideas stayed in my mind. That was about forty years ago. There have always been people who teach we could have a sane and loving world and as long as they don't have a significant following they are safe and remain as 'proof' that we are a free people. However if they dare to create a movement of any power, the cabal or whatever we want to call those who are perennially in power, have a way to deal with them; witness Martin Luther King, John and Bobby Kennedy and several others. Perhaps it is good that those ideas stayed in my mind or I might not be typing this today.

Lick your finger and stick it up in the wind. Is it time now? Is it time that the people demand to have a world led by the most loving and wise among us? Aren't we very, very, tired of living in an insane asylum?

Let us go ask our neighbors what they think. Loving each other is just not that hard. We might learn to enjoy it.

HAPPY FRIDAY!

Love and Peace, Gregg