"THE POWER OF LOVE"

                                                            It may be acceptable to Rejoice .   You may be able to locate and hear Donovan's "Season Of The Witch" off of the album "Sunshine Superman" , and I STRONGLY recommend Huey Lewis and the News'  "THE POWER OF LOVE" for surely those that LOVE America have fought for and WON the Right to EXPRESS VICTORY over the Dark and Hideous .   Also, Cream's "THE SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE" off of "Disraeli Gears" .    

                            I'm gonna BASK in Sunshine, today---ALL DAY and monitor the Results with quiet Enthusiasm I WILL take "Delight" in the Woe-is-me tears of fallen trumpists .

                           

                                                          Tare Forward and Keep the Faith 

...inwardly superior to fate...

                                                                           11.  T'ai  /  Peace

                                    "Everything on earth is subject to change.   Prosperity is followed by decline :  this is the eternal law on earth .   Evil can indeed be held in check but not permanently abolished .  It always returns .  This conviction may induce melancholy, but it should not ;  it ought only to keep us from falling into illusion when good fortune comes to us .   If we continue mindful of the danger, we remain persevering and make no mistakes .  As long as a man's inner nature remains stronger and richer than anything offered by external fortune, as long as he remains inwardly superior to fate, fortune will not desert him."

                                                                    I CHING  or   BOOK OF CHANGES 

THANKS GIVING

                                                             I am shying away from "Inner Exaltation" but I WILL allow myself to feel >Elation< .   I will NOT Express >Exuberance< , "IT" 's unbecoming .   It is IMPERATIVE to Understand that this "THIS" is simply "The Beginning", the Beginning of REFORMATION .   I use Reformation because Reconstruction is >Suspect< meaning, there is an aspect of Reconstruction that salvages bits and pieces, remnants of the Status Quo that, if repositioned, will remake and RESTORE the Status Quo thereby DENYING   True Change .   2 words :   WE CAN'T GO BACK !  

                              Today is a Day to THANK those that Sacrificed in order to "Take It To The Street" in what amounted to the HARDEST kind of Combat =  DOOR-TO-DOOR . 

                               Folks BELIEVED and they s-----p----r----e----a----d their Belief IN AMERICA AND ITS DEMOCRACY to those "in need" of Safety, Security, and an Existence FREE of Turmoil, Tumult and TERROR .   To Those that SOLDIERED ON, and shouldered the MASSIVE Weight of CHANGE, WE THANK YOU .   

"The Season of the Switch"

                                                             I apologize for this early start .   I awoke after a few minutes of sleep, the Midterm Election at the fore and whether or not trump deployed troops, I.C.E. or the F.B.I. to seize ballots and otherwise try to foil, in any way possible, the outcomes of  Election .   One word :  NOT YET .   

                       It would appear that America has gone from "Seeing Red" to "Having the Blues" .   My second BIGGEST Fear was that Victories would be achieved with only minimal success, meaning, the margin of Victories would be so slim as to render the Victories themselves ---> negligible <---  thereby diminishing their Value .   That particular "IT" did NOT happen ;  the margins of Victories were SIGNIFICANT which ENHANCED the Value {dare I use the word} >>DRAMATICALLY << .  

                      I strongly Urge the Victors NOT to Celebrate as if democrats have SAVED THE WORLD .  I don't want to see anybody "spiking the football in the End-Zone", a childish [immature] display of enthusiasm best left to nit-wits and morons .   

                      Rite-Now*  everything looks good >>>>>ON PAPER :   there remains the mechanical aspect of Transference, the Transition from trumpist held Authority to Democratic Oversight .   Nothing can begin to "Happen" until the Swearing In Ceremony is completed and the Newly Elected "Take Their Seats" .   

                      However, for the remainder of THIS Day, MODEST Celebrations are in order :  we can 'catch our breath', and lay our Weapons down for a brief Respite .

Today

                                                            Elsewhere I have stated rather emphatically, we are living in the Future of the Ancient Past .

                                 If Sallust were to time travel to be here now, he would shake his head head in both HORROR and BEWILDERMENT .

                                I shake my head for him .

                                We have a chance to change ~~~~~~~~~~ .

"The more things change..."

                                                                     Sallust continues :

                            "But the nobility, thanks to its cliques, was more powerful, while the  strength of the people, dissipated and divided so many, was of less avail .   Military and domestic administration was in the hands of the minority; the treasury, the provinces, public office, military decorations, and triumphs were in the hands of the same men ;   the people bore the burden of military duty and poverty ; the generals divided up the spoils of war among the few ;   meanwhile the parents or the little children of the soldiers, if they had one of the nobles for a neighbor, were evicted from their homes .  So, along with power, selfishness without limit or discretion invaded, desecrated,  and laid waste everything, holding nothing important or sacred, until it wrought its own destruction .   For as soon as men from the noble class were found who preferred true glory to unjust power, here began  movements in the state, and strife between citizens began to arise like an earthquake ."   

Future-Past

                                                             "Even slaves who are bought for gold do not stand for  unjust orders from their masters ;  are you, citizens, who were born to rule, going to tolerate servitude meekly ?    But who are these men who treat our commonwealth like an occupied country ?  They are arch-criminals, whose hands are bloodstained, whose avarice is monstrous .   They are guilty as sin and proud of it, men to whom loyalty, decency, duty, honor, and dishonor are all merely matters of profit and loss ."

                                   Further along : 

              "For to do what you please with impunity is to be king .  What I urge upon you, citizens, is not that you should take more satisfaction in wrongdoing than in the uprightness of your fellow citizens, but that you should avoid ruining the innocent by pardoning the guilty .   Besides, in public life it is far better to forget a good turn than a bad one :   a good man simply grows more reluctant to do good if you neglect him, but a bad one grows more vicious .    Moreover, if there were less lawlessness, you would not be in such constant need to barter liberty for security ."