Martin Luther King, jr.:
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
quite a powerful set of speeches were unleashed last night in the pepsi center in denver. words and thoughts and praise and prose ribboned their way into america's ears and minds with the swiftness and specificity of a flood plain being refilled.
perhaps i'm a liberal. perhaps i'm jaded. but good ole bill can toss a speech in the ways that few in his political ballpark can muster. as he stated- america must remain "a place called hope". it may be far from perfect, but this place is still home for me.
no doubt, the speech we are all really waiting for will happen tonight. it's a huge deal for so many among us. but i also know that the real work is only beginning. we have lots of work to do in this country. so many things are in the toilet. there is a lot of clean-up ahead of us. there is a whole lotta work to do.
i got a call yesterday that informed me that i did get a part time counseling position doing dui groups. the extra income will be fantastic and the opportunity to keep my counseling skills fresh too. it was really good news.
