I just realized this (maybe I'm dreaming, or drunk), but something special happened at the Bill Richardson endorsement of Obama rally that made me think some things in this country really are changing.

Okay. Confession. I do believe in God.
I don't believe in anything else, actually.
I believe God made us as we are for many educational purposes.
I believe that many of those educational purposes are really spiritual.
I believe that people may choose eternity. Or not.
I believe the Seller has better "got the goods" that the "Buyer wants".
All that basic economic stuff... just math, or grammar... school stuff...

Actually I figured that all out without school.
What I found out in school is that people would do anything that they thought would work to get them credit... And, so it is.

We give great credit when it serves our interests. We retract it, or ignore those promoting it when it doesn't. It's all a matter of advantage, aye? Yeah. It is.

We use such negative terms when describing other cultures, don't we?
It's always, Us or Them.... and like any fairy tale, "They" are always about to "Get Us."

Isn't that quaint? Child-like, really. Our faith in Our Great Leaders.

Our Tribal Chiefs.

And, so history goes...

Recently my one and only daughter, called and we were discussing a book her husband is writing on Ancient Egypt and some ideas he has of the utility of the pyramids.

She suggested that I should write a book about my life.... Well, put a stop to that in nothing flat.

Then turned the tables on her and told her that she should also write a book, after all she has been editing her husbands books, and even tried her hand at publishing once "Sunshine Publishing" which cost them a chunk of money and little results.