new day, end of an error

so far
so good

new President
with all black wife
a basketball game

and a plan of getting things done:

hire good people
don't be afraid to hire people smarter than he is
low tolerance for turf wars and ego trips
therefore smart people are focused on real goals

and as he says,
"some things get done."

......
his speech:
laying the groundwork:
new ways of thinking, the old are bankrupt,
time to make hard decisions
time to stop squabling and work together

could we any all
of us
use this in
"everyday life??"

finally

finally:

it's not a sin
to be
intelligent

welcome
Barack


Baraka: the invisible stream
of lumination
from a deeper world
the other world
the invisible world

whatever

welcome
blessings
intelligence


good

Is it safe to be smart, yet?

Ah yes,
the question no one is asking:

Is it safe to be smart, yet?

Remember in the song,
My Funny Valentine,
there's a line to the effect
that one of the gal's problems
is that when she opens her mouth
to speak,
she's smart.

And, until recently, in Presidential
elections,
having intelligence
was scorned as elitism,

which actually,
it often was.

And then Barack Obama comes
along,
and raise discourse to the level
of intelligent people looking
at things in a broader
and more fair way

He's speech in response to the Rev Wright
imbroglio
was a model of treating people as if
they were adults, who could think
and reason

no sound bites

intelligence
I actually posted the whole thing back
then
at
Barack's Speech on Race and America
and dream's deferred

And then the question:

is it safe to be smart, yet?

Not quite

but it's almost safe to be intelligent,
especially if you can be
calm
and intelligent
the way our new President elect is

wow, what a miracle

We Did it

we,
the American people

elected a black man
to the Presidency

some voted for him
millions

some voted for the other
guy
a once honorable man
who imploded to his lowest
level

that's fine
we most of us
do that sometimes

and the other other guy
the black man
stayed calm
smart
focused:
how can we break
through into
new possibilities

many, many wanted
that shift

he is black and that wasn't the point
he is smart and that's part of the point

the point:
to use that intelligence and calm
and the organized focus of millions
of people
to create
something better
for us all

we the
people

did something amazing:
good for us