Just as the Winged Energy of Delight

Just as the winged energy of delight
carried you over many chasms early on,
now raise the daringly imagined arch
holding up the astounding bridges.

Miracle doesn't lie only in the amazing
living through and defeat of danger;
miracles become miracles in the clear
achievement that is earned.

To work with things is not hubris
when building the association beyond words;
denser and denser the pattern becomes-
being carried along is not enough.

Take your well-disciplined strengths
and stretch them between two
opposing poles. Because inside human beings
is where God learns.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke Robert Bly, editor and translator

For E.

Take Your Seat, Senator

  The clown-car continues to fill. Senator Marco Rubio opened his campaign by saying- "Yesterday is over, and we are never going back." This offends me, not only as a Beatles fan, but as an American.
  What part of yesterday is over Senator?
  Yesterday, when Martin Luther King said: "I have a dream" and Rosa Parks said 'No' to a bus driver?
  Yesterday, when woman were given the vote and unions struck for safe workplaces and injury compensation?
  Yesterday, when we split the atom, and sent men to the moon?
  Or maybe you reject yesterday, when we said "We the People of the United States" and "We hold these Truths to be self-evident", and founded a nation?
  Yesterday, Senator, was when we built this great country.
  Today is when we repudiate your bankrupt philosophy.

Justice Delayed...

  A police officer has finally been arrested for murdering an unarmed black man. Police officer Michael Slager is facing a first degree murder charge for shooting Walter Scott in the back. It is long past time for this. The cop only got arrested because he was caught on video. Without that, who knows what would have happened.
  The cop was also fired. I think, though, that if he somehow gets off, the Detroit PD would hire him in a heartbeat.
  Still a long way to go.