The 4AM Test

Paradoxes are best paired, actually the pairing is the paradox. This comparison of what you do with your child in the early morning. Time with the son before the sun is one way of saying it, though a partial way in this genderfied english day. Anyhow, this week we have clearly seen that what a parent does with their child will form their life view. You are your child’s first goal. This may be the clearest difference between the american poles. The Arch Conservative Momma Palin went hunting at 4AM. The Arch Activist Obama spent the 4AM hour studying. Hmm, pick up the gun, pick up the book. Learn to kill. Learn to learn. A gathering of our hunters past, or passing onto a gathering global good. Which is the dream you give your child? Which world do you want to spend your last breaths?

even tho we come from a bloody past, we do not have to paint our future with it — webionaire

My past was marked by blood so that yours doesn’t have to be– laughlin

Lies We Tell

An exercise for the weekend. This long weekend, take a long look at what you believe. This weekend is the pause between political conventions. It can become a perfect fulcrom to our beliefs in America. In america, about america. Why not list the lies that Conservatives tell — then, tell the lies Liberals tell … Are they about the same things? Why did you list these things? Did you think them up, or did you just use someone else’s list? Which ones do you believe? do lies reveal, or do they hide? Is the world of these lies the best you can do, the best we can do?

Where Brooks Is From

Perhaps (note only to myself) Brooks, during his teens didn’t understand the fronline interview… did not understand the genius of the poet ginsberg. came from a place where you have to like someone to understand them. came from a fear that to understand someone you will like them, will become them. so he took the easier path to the other guy in the interview, the moderator. buckley was easier to understand. the OED holds all the meanings, unlike the frames that poets use, the dictionary contains, explains or so it seems.