Browsing archives for November, 2008
Re-Adapting
The act of adapting to a new set of cirumstances. Sometimes it takes a negative toll, it sucks our creative energy and our happiness away. Re-adapting can tint the world in a gray cast: it all becomes muddled shadows under sickly yellow streetlamps. … but sometimes it becomes a brightening filter: the grass starts looking [...]
It’s more than a win
Simply put: Barack Hussein Obama won the presidency of the United States. It’s a victory for the Democratic Party, indeed. It’s a victory for the African-Americans as a minority demographic, also. It’s a victory for common sense, peace, hope…
It’s also much more than a win. What I see in the expressions of the people captured by the cameras of the press is not simple glee for having won this round.