Many, many apologies for devoting a diary to a single link, but this article,
Our Velvet Revolution, by 95 year old Doris 'Granny D' Haddock is so beautifully written and contains so much profound human and authentically American wisdom that you simply
must read it.
Trust me, this thing is an instant classic.
And this phrase, the pursuit of happiness, the central red magma of our collective political souls, the energy source of all our revolutions including this one, calls not for our selfish enjoyment of other people's labors, but for the freedom to live meaningful lives in a land of justice‚ where our democracy is our tool to better the earth as a happy human outpost in the cold universe; a warm reprieve from the heartless and fatal logic of time and space, and a reflection here and now of God's love, or, absent that according to your beliefs, our best make-do substitute. For brotherhood is enough, and democracy is our belief in brotherhood and our commitment to it.
Granny D will be speaking at the January 20th Inauguration Day Protests in Washington, D.C.