A new time

It has been a long time since i have written anything at all. A lot has taken place since December 2009. I moved to a new church, met several persons along the way. Overcame a depression of sorts that made me inert, then found my first love again. Not the easiest of times but as I have aged another year I reflect on the life behind and give thanks for it. This is the bane of old age that we do more reflection than moving. Is it a question of understanding the futility life ? Or is it the fact that youth is wasted on the young?? Either way last year was not a positive one and this year has shown me the possibilities of growth as I learn along with others to get out of the way and go with the flow.

The challenge is to salvage life after mistakes and to seek new challenges, hobbies or just bask in the force of living. This is something that boomers are being forced to look at. Gone are the care free days of Woodstock, Summer of 69, and cheap living. As some pundits correctly suggest: we thought it would last forever. Our generation endured the booms, the bust and made the best of it believing that the party would last forever! I mean what can you say about a generation that wanted to "die before we got old" ( by the way the Who are in their late 60's so much for an assertion or declaration). No we are going to be here for a long time to absorb the medicine of our collective profligacy the waste of resources and the inability of being thrifty as our parents were by experience.

It is our turn to carry the mantle of missed opportunity: to grow a society better than was left; to build a bridge to somewhere attracting others regardless of who we are, what color we happened to be or who we love. It was left to us to destroy all the societal ills and be liberals: setting people free from the weight carried. And, while strides still can be made, walls removed, and barriers destroyed I wonder if the will is there. It is easier to curse the dark, to rail against the efforts to make change; reducing argument to slogans. Declaring through racism hatred and mask it as conservatism and unchecked government growth an intrusion into the lives of others. Arguing the tenth amendment as a way of blocking what is a way to save us. As Jesus said" forgive them they know not what they do."

This is the destiny before us. Will this generation given so much, endowed with such promise, be up to the calling we studied in schools? Will we apply to our children and grandchildren the Great Society that has faded and aged? Or will we leave to others after we have eaten the fruit leaving nothing in the fields. Time will tell ....Later