A Warm Wind Blows

At this writing our fellow American, GW, is presenting his last snake of the union speech. If only it were his last day in office.
I have decided I'm not worried about the future of this country. It will fall to each one of us to become engaged in the welfare of our neighbor and the planet. I came to an epiphany of sorts this weekend. A weekend spent in the brilliance of my daughter.
She hails from a generation in their late twenties, for whom I have a new found understanding and respect. My own generation of cynics, and rightly so, might do well to heed the wind of change coming up behind us. This wind carries open minds and insight into the human condition.
Mr. Bush rants on about chasing people through the deserts of the world, his apparent empathy with what the average American faces at his kitchen table , and when he's done saying nothing, I'm suddenly filled with the idea that we might just survive this moron.
I did not raise my daughter but it is apparent she was raised by people who gave her a heart. Gave her a conscience.
The people I gave met through her are as equally engaged and engaging. The old timers that lost their dreams in the sixties and seventies can take comfort in having raised children who know how to love. An American majority that face hardships beyond all reason to straighten this country out. They know they will have to come together as one people to face the concerns we have left them.
The divisive nature of politics has not gone unnoticed. The corruption in government and business has not gone unnoticed. The threat to environment and the human condition have not gone unnoticed. None will be tolerated.
They know they must make a conscious decision to address and respond to the long list of dirty laundry that will lead them to a world that lives in peace with one another. A world that will not turn it's back on what's hard to look at. They have begun to emerge as a significant force for decency. They are not afraid to be active in a system that has let them down.
I seem to embrace a faith now that I have not realized for over thirty years.
Thank you Alexis and Whitney.
You inspire me.