“I’ve got change for you,” said to my photography customer this afternoon, reaching for my wallet in my side pocket where I carry it so I’ll always feel it and not throw my back out sitting on a lump. But it wasn’t there! “My wallet’s upstairs,” I said, then running up the stairs to my bedroom. It wasn’t there! The customer left, saying he’d get the change when he picked up the picture. Now I had time to look, I thought, going back upstairs, but I wasn’t worried. Read More…
Posted under General Observations
This post was written by ed on December 20, 2008
Several times this week I have had to use my GPS TomTom to navigate into unknown territory, and I found myself going through a process of surrendering to the instrument and not relying on my own sense of direction (which is most often wrong, I might add, but nevertheless, it is my own).
I can’t help but see the yin/yang mandala when I see Obama standing like a bridge between the black and white racial identities we are so conditioned by. When the pundits say this election is about race and we find ourselves wanting to avoid that tag, we shouldn’t. If race is our nation’s original sin—the sin that was there before our constitution was formed and was not addressed by our constitution and put off until a later day (like the Civil War)—then now is the moment when we must look at the root of this weed that has been choking our garden since the day it was planted.