Author Topic: Nine minutes of color  (Read 9440 times)

Alan Dale

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Nine minutes of color
« on: March 18, 2014, 06:34:14 PM »
Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny.

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Approaching speechlessness
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2014, 04:48:04 AM »
My older, wiser brother who ran engine rooms delivering ordnance to the men facing death at the orders of their commander in chief, who'd described the rooms of WWII propaganda posters in the American Legion headquarters basement as he engineered the comprehensive upgrade of the HVAC systems, sent me the link;

I recommend it as slipping into a pool of human experience almost beyond description;

certainly beyond our incessant talking-as-buffer-to-experience.

Peeling off the layers of whatever, we feel again