Don’t Look Back

Excerpt….

Friends and neighbors:

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for allowing me this special opportunity. I stand here before not as a politician seeking office, but as a man who has a dream for America, as a man who wants nothing more but to help us be the best nation we can be. I want to talk to you about a new kind of politics, a politics of the heart and of the soul. As a nation, we have experienced great pain and bloodshed, but also great joy and bountiful prosperity.

For almost eight long years, we have witnessed our great nation’s ideals and accomplishments get washed in a sea of corruption, malfeasance, and incompetence. The powers-that-be have sent our young men and women into a war under false pretenses. They have damaged our standing in the world as the beacon of moral fortitude and have plunged our national surplus into disgusting depths of deficit. Our jobs are on a one-way ticket oversees and our people are losing their homes, partly because of the dirty hands of some unscrupulous power brokers.

We are the best nation on Earth and we deserve better. The American People deserve respect from their leaders. They need to go to bed at night knowing that government is not their enemy. How can people take care of themselves and see to the success of their families if their leaders are engaged in assault on all they have worked for? Government need not be an enemy. It need not be the sole answer to all our problems either, but instead should be partners with the people. Children should be able to study in school without worrying about where they will get their next meal. Parents should not have to worry that their children will not get the healthcare they need to succeed in life, nor should they have to worry about being able to provide food and shelter for their families.

Once we take back this country from the lobbyists, the greedy utilitarians, and the dispassionate corporations that send all our jobs oversees and proceed to drive us further into debt, we will be able to take the mantle as the leaders of the world we once were.

I Hope This Works

A look into the center of humanity
And feelings of something good arise
Even the arses have hearts somewhere beneath
Their wretched, sinful exterior

Smack dab in the middle of optimism
Is that fear of error
That perhaps we won’t all end up
Cheery and elated
But instead
Weary and deflated

The kicker is the risk
The chance to do it right
To not succumb to the dirt
And to never give up the fight

Smack dab in the middle of pessimism
Is that fear of error
That perhaps we won’t all end up
Weary and deflated
But instead
Cheery and elated

__Amen__

Why?

I am trying to figure out why I need a blog. I am also trying to figure out what to write about and to what extent I should be revelatory. I guess as long as I don’t use my name or the names of others I am fine.

Infrequent

So I have already violated my posting frequency aspirations. Oh well, I’ve been overwhelmed lately by dealing with moving and my ridiculous landlord. Never rent from Mint Properties (of Edina, MN). It isn’t the worst, but it makes enough mistakes to lead you to wonder if it is a property management company or a bunch of glue-huffing teens doing a sociological experiment.

Consistency breeds

In college, I had a weekly column about music on two different occasions. That was hard to do. It sounds silly, I know, but news is variable, whereas having that guaranteed column can ensure that some weeks’ content is either insane or just plain terrible.

Other than the Vehling Abroad travel blog that my wife and I had when we were out and about on this Earth, I’ve never been able to keep a blog consistently updated. I am challenging myself to post at least five times a week. Consistency breeds success and a sense of connection, afterall.

Inauguration

It’s over there

Under the stairs

In a box under a box under a box

Filled with love and memories and pain

Do you remember this at all?

I Put Brains in It