http://onthewayhere.com Some thoughts on why we are who we are or at least think we are. Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:07:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://onthewayhere.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/feeds1.png http://onthewayhere.com 88 31 Some thoughts on why we are who we are or at least think we are. http://onthewayhere.com/2009/01/the-audacity-of-hope/ http://onthewayhere.com/2009/01/the-audacity-of-hope/#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:45:01 +0000 Martyrdog http://onthewayhere.com/?p=456 It’s going to be hard to give up my idealism. Oh, pragmatism, neither hot nor cold, I will spew thee out of my mind (apologies to John and Revelation 3:16). It has been so long. Was it JFK? LBJ? Or RMN who was the last Dem to hold the office? Matters little. They have taught us for so long to compromise that I might as well accept my fate. After all, the difficulty of reaching out across the aisle is dependent upon on how far you are away. I must find solace in the lyrics of the Stones that “if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.” Short of the moments with my family, the election of Barack Obama is the greatest moment I’ve heretofore lived. I mean it with all my heart. I love to hear this brilliant man speak and to believe this his glowing face will be the symbol of American for the world. But we don’t want for tributes of this moment, my heart is elsewhere... Read the rest of this story]]> http://onthewayhere.com/2009/01/the-audacity-of-hope/feed/ 2