Come on Up for the Rising

Today we celebrated the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. and tomorrow the Dream comes true. I stopped flying the flag in 2001 after it was clear in the response to 9/11 that we had an incompetent man for a leader. After November 4, 2008 I went out a bought a new one and built a new bracket holder. The purchase in itself was difficult, I couldn’t find a flag here in town and instead found one at WalMart, made in the USA.

I feel a new sense of hope. and pride. I means something positive again to be an American. The level of incompetency in government during the last eight years created a crisis. We are a nation of creative energy. We will stand up and do more than shop at the mall.

After the presidential election in 2004 we tried to frame events as necessary to achieve a better outcome in the future. That future is now and, as Barack Obama has said, we are the ones we have been waiting for.