There are folks that I like to imagine drifting around us, who've gone on, the giants on whose shoulders we stand and I think about what they've said, the visions that powered them...
I've been ill, and the wretched boredom of chronic pain circles like shadows. I couldn't read, and still have trouble with too much computer time. So, I'm left to my own thoughts: horrors!:-)
Seriously, the last thing I want to have to do is occupy my own mind without a book or a blog...
But, when forced, as life will, to do something I really don't want to do, I found in it a kind of...not peace, exactly. Just a sense that there are large perspectives to this fight we have, to get to the bottom of what ails America and effect a lasting cure...
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