Proud to be an American

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Saying for the Day
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Picture of the day

Somewhere Abraham Lincoln is smiling. The nation he loved. The nation he lead through a great war to preserve is growing up. It is becoming that place where “All people are seen as created equal”.
To be honest, I’m not sure I would have voted for Obama if I hadn’t gotten my registration all snarled up and voted. I am still not sure he will make a great President.. But that’s not the point. He didn’t have to be my candidate.
Thousands of people put aside party and prejudice to vote for him. That’s the point.
I am so proud to be an American.
I know that this country has such high ideals and such great dreams that it is easy to find its failures. It is easy to see where it falls short. It is easy to knock America and lots of people do.
But just for this moment I can be proud.
We lived our dream.
We acted out our great expectations.
We did the right thing.
For a week I’ve been reading from both right and left about the wonder of this time.
Right and left they will be fighting again. That’s what they do. All that anger, fear, hatred has to go somewhere.
But for this moment the wonder of the moment overwhelms them both.
Good does that you know.
The time will come when they will look at Obama the man instead of Obama the symbol.
The time will come when they will debate his decisions and philosophy.
But that time is not now.
Now is the time to rejoice as an American.
Now is the time to join Lincoln in smiling.
I am

News from Pigeon Falls

The little town in my basement where the trains still run, dragons fly, and life is back to normal. .
Tommy MK ( Miner’s kid) shared with the Tommy Club his research. He looked up the Greater Cormorant instead of birds as symbols. He discovered that the bird is depicted in the Bible as abomination" of birds not to be eaten, part of the desolation of God’s judgment, and in Milton’s “Paradise Lost” as a symbol of greed and deception.
In the brainstorming session which followed it was suggested that the Cormorant on the roof might be a symbol for how sinful Pigeon Falls is and the shadow in the driblet is the beginning of God’s judgment on the entire world. It could be Armageddon . The chair could be a symbol for the empty thrones of mankind, and the cow the false God’s to which men sacrifice.
The rule in the club is that no comments are allowed during a brainstorming session but Tommy UK made a mental note to talk to Pastor Joan about Armageddon.
Nancy keeps the picture of the three things on the Masonic Hall roof on the wall of her coffee shop and asks people what they think they mean. She isn’t getting any better answers than the Tommy Club. Her poltergeist has stopped juggling pumpkins and is now juggling ceramic cornucopias . It has ten of them flying around her shop. She doesn’t know where they came from and, of course, you can’t ask a poltergeist. She just hopes they weren’t stolen. But they do point to the next holiday which is Thanksgiving. At least her poltergeist is not like the big stores and juggling Christmas stuff. It’s too early for Christmas stuff.

Wrap Up

We started the day by going to the clinic and getting blood drawn. Then we went to Wal Mart and bought some cows for the layout. The rest of the day was spent with e-Bay. We hauled stuff up, took pictures, decided on a starting bid, and posted twelve different items to e-Bay. If were lucky half will sell. But they will be gone from my basement forever. Then I visited a few blogs. Now I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA

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