68\u00a0 bar steady\u00a0 29.67\u00a0 3mph NE\u00a0 dew-point 56\u00a0 Beltane, cloudy and warm<\/p>\n
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“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt<\/a> <\/p>\n A wise thought from our third\u00a0 greatest president (after GW and Abe).\u00a0 What we doubt we can do today will not happen tomorrow.\u00a0 It may even fade from the horizon line of possibility altogether.\u00a0 A terrible example is the 3\/5’s compromise.\u00a0 The generation which founded our country had many leaders who knew slavery was a burden too great for the Republic to bear.\u00a0 Among them were Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.\u00a0 Too many, though, doubted a solution to slavery was possible at this time and so agreed to count 3\/5’s of the slave population when it came to census figures determining congressional representation.\u00a0 This doubt obscured\u00a0slavery’s tragedy,\u00a0a holocaust of freedom, in a nation founded on the principles of freedom and liberty for all.<\/p>\n The payment for these doubts came due in 1861 with the Confederate shelling of Ft. Sumter in\u00a0 Charleston, South Carolina’s harbor.\u00a0 The next four years would exact a price in blood so high and a rent in the body politic so deep that this nation has not recovered.\u00a0 The tragedy compounded during reconstruction as freed slaves became tenant farmers, sharecroppers in states with Jim Crow laws.\u00a0 Lynchings.\u00a0 The KKK.\u00a0 Segregation.\u00a0 Limited practical voting rights.\u00a0 Employment discrimination.\u00a0<\/p>\n Think how much further along our society would be in a movement toward a common culture, one shared by all Americans regardless of race, creed, gender,\u00a0sexual preference\u00a0or national origin if our founding fathers (yes, fathers) had set aside their doubts and made real the full promise of the American revolution.<\/p>\n With Obama’s candidacy we may be ready for a third movement forward toward such a culture.\u00a0 The Civil War was one.\u00a0 The 1950’s and 1960’s were another with Brown vs. the Board of Education, the Civil Rights act and the struggles of Martin Luther King, the Black Panthers, the Black Muslims–especially Malcom X, CORE, the NAACP, SNICC and grass roots uprisings in many American cities.<\/p>\n Take stock of the doubts you have today about what you may realize tomorrow.\u00a0 They are the great barrier reef in your psyche between the ego’s fears and the manifestation of your full Self.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Some time outside this morning laying down weed preventer.\u00a0 This is prologomena to a thorough weeding this week before I take off for Alabama.\u00a0 A major focus this week will be helping Kate.\u00a0 She’s going to be here with the dogs for 10 days, again, after 6 days last week.\u00a0 Anything I can do now to\u00a0make those days easier will be good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 68\u00a0 bar steady\u00a0 29.67\u00a0 3mph NE\u00a0 dew-point 56\u00a0 Beltane, cloudy and warm \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Crescent of the Flower Moon “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt A wise thought from our third\u00a0 greatest president (after GW and Abe).\u00a0 What we doubt we can do … Continue reading Cast Out Your Doubts. Carpe Diem.<\/span>