with their backs to the sun...they see only their shadows.
What is the sunlight to them, but a caster of shadows?
... all things move in half embrace; the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which they would escape...
But you who walk facing the Sun, what can hold you?"
(very loosely quoted from Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet)
copyright paul kane 2007 all rights reserved
If you asked ten people "what was the key transitional moment in recent history", you would surely get ten different answers. For me, it was the transition from Carter to Reagan, because of the different visions of community that they expressed/represented. Reagan called his age of misrule "Morning in America", But I see it as a time when America turned its back on the Sun, by which I mean, faith in Community.
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