Dropped this ball - Too much going on and little discipline. It seems worth rekindling, and perhaps breathing life into, getting it to flame. No promises, no regrets. Get on with it.
This fiscal cliff show is like an 8th grade play - bad script, bad lines, bad acting before an audience that is captive in the auditorium until lunch. All semblance of good governance has been exposed and shown vacant.
In an interesting little book I was reading today, "Opting Out of War", by Mary Anderson and Marshall Wallace, they posited that successful leaders were able to help their communities from falling into conflict when that were accessible, listening, consultative and accountable. I am afraid we have become so distanced from leadership, and leaders so impotent in the face of corporate power and individual wealth, that Democracy waivers on the edge of failure, and perhaps conflict is where we are headed.
Hope lies in local, where neighbor helps neighbor to live as best as they can, and we tune out the chatter and the banality, even as it encircles and imposes.
More soon.
Friday, December 28, 2012
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