MORGAN'S MOMENT...
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It’s that time again…
when I go back on the clock
after a summer without even a watch.
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The setting sun told me it was summer
time
when it reach that
notch in the mountains
where it turns south again.
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The setting sun now tells me that it’s
near fall
when it has gone so far south
there are no mountains to measure by.
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We live by the tides that tell us lots
of time…
like when we can launch the sailboat
or when we can hunt mussels on the beach.
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Dawn tells Jean it’s time to get up
to start her campfire
for quiet morning reading and writing.
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Blackberries tell us it’s time to start
picking…
also time to think about end of summer
and to start packing.
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Squirrels and blue jays tell us time
is flying
as they are busy stashing
Hazel nuts and fir cones.
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The air tells us it’s time to move inside
after a long summer living
at our outside kitchen and decks.
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There are lots of ways to tell what
time it is…
when you don’t have a clock…
but the most important time is a good time.
– Art Morgan
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BOOK CORNER
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I thought I was getting the biography
of Harry Truman, but instead got a travel - Harry Truman’s Excellent
Adventure – A True story of a Great American Road Trip by Mathew
Algeo - report based on his first trip after leaving the White House.
Hard as it is to believe, Truman went back to his old family home in Missouri.
He had no pension and no more security protection. He drove his own car
and paid his own expenses. The trip reveals the difficulty of an ex-president
traveling with any privacy. It also shows Harry Truman to be a pretty humble
individual who liked people. Lots of nice anecdotes by the author who retraced
Truman’s first road trip.
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ON REPRESENTATION - #3
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I started this line
of thought several weeks ago, thinking about the role of representatives
to represent something beyond their own self-interest.
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As I watch the way
representatives are lining up on the health care debate I find little to
encourage me.
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Moving on, I just
finished “The Red Tent” by Anita Diamant. It’s a novel that
opens up the place of women in Old Testament literature. Not appealing. Where
males dominate society and make the rules, women don’t count.
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We like to think
that things are far better in our time. Well, maybe. On the other hand. we
have to admit that males still make most of the laws and regulations regarding
women.
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If you read the other
part of the Old Testament, and the New Testament as well, you find outstanding
evidence of women in heroic positions. The Apostle Paul, often derided for
his words about women, could never have accomplished what he did for the
Christian religion without women.
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The Old Testament
seems to enjoy the places where women played a major role. I personally
like the story of Jael and the nail in which she seduces the enemy general
into her tent, and then drives a spike into his temple.
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That all being said,
women have done best when they stopped waiting for men to wake up and recognize
their worth. When women have represented themselves, like my grandmother
did when demonstrating for the right to vote, they have gained ground.
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In fact, when people
stop waiting around for politicians to represent them, and stand up to represent
themselves, things happen. Martin Luther King stands as an example.
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The fact is that
expecting elected representatives to truly represent the last and lost and
least is an often futile expectation. Blessed are those who work to make
the powerful care.
– Art Morgan, Sept. 16, 2009
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