..Memory...Memory..Memory

Some fellow life travelers pass back into my mind today.....It was nice thinking about my father, my friends who have died and left this world..

Nice on a certain level....

For Them..

"Closed my eyes today and the world was wide open..

Moments became vivid I wanted to stay...

"Closed my eyes today and the world was wide open..

Nice seeing you again...Really is...

"Closed my eyes today and the world was wide open...

Post Racial Anger....America's True Colors

America is such a fickle nation one moment we are obsessing over Obama and the notion of a post racial society and then in the same breath we call a Black PHD a nigger..

The anger over health care reform has now reached nasty levels I fear the specter of an Obama backlash.....

Life Cents....

Recently in the marketplace there has been a flicker of economic recovery one hopes when our nation retains some solid economic footing that folks will bring back to the marketplace the values of family, decency, warmth, patience, passion that many embraced and returned to when the recession forced all of us to remember these items are more life affirming than the quest for materialism....

Voter's Smarts not Apathy...

According to the sage wisdom of conventional political pundits low voter turn in the city of Detroit reflects not only apathy but evidence of despair and decay. However these same politico talking heads have been wrong so many times in their appraisal of city voters that the voices of political pundits are ridiculed and righteously ignored.


The fact is city voters are very intelligent and astute they understand lousy candidates and shallow options are the significant factors which reflect voter turn out not the idle chatter of pudits and talking heads. Superior voter turn out which yields impotent public officials does not serve voters or any community nor democracy at the end of the day.


The right to withhold one's vote is as democratic and productive as the casting of a vote . What drives a productive democracy is not the volume of the votes but the quality of the winner......