For All We Know

Speaking of heart openings and such, as I did in my last blog, I got to thinking, on my (somewhat) Daily today, into the nearby leafy canyon, on a paved trail alongside a small creek, of a song popular when I was growing up in Southern California.  A gentle ballad, it was entitled ‘For All We Know,’ and the lyrics went, in part:

For all we know

This may only be a dream

We come and go

Like a ripple on a stream

So love me tonight;

Tomorrow was made for some.

Tomorrow may never come

For all we know.

That sums the ‘matter’ up, really.  Be in the moment, and all that sort of thing.  But there’s more to it, and in it, than that.  And here, let me make the observation that 

‘You’ - a lot of you - have broken my heart, America.  You would appear -

and note that I say ‘appear - 

to have lost sight, in the matters of the moment, of 

the long view.

The 'bigger picture'.

That there is Plan in and Purpose to the whole ball of wax, beyond -

far, far beyond -

the momentary matters.

But, appearances can be deceiving.

Can’t they.

Can’t they??

In the meantime -

in the mean time -

take a good, hard look at what is going on in this country.

Down to the details.

To the very details.  And know -

really know -

that the details

matter.

As we face

a Graduation 

time.

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P.S. As to that, and looking at the details of things: I see that the SCOTUS has blocked Pres. Trump from being able, via an Executive Order, to cancel Obama’s E.O. regarding DACA.  When the truth of the matter is that the President of the U.S. can’t make law.  He is the Executive.  Congress is the legislative branch of the government.   It makes the law, and the Executive enforces the law, as it is determined constitutional or not by the judicial branch.  

     We were heading towards this crisis at the least ever since Congress allowed Wm. J. Clinton to hijack their governmental role and get away with legislating from the Oval Office.  I forget the specifics of the particular E.O. that he issued, but it caused one of his aides to say at the time, “Stroke of the pen, law of the land.  Kinda cool.”  Not.  Rather, very dictatorial.  And now here we are, suffering from that ‘kinda’ highhandedness.

     Question, America:

     When is enough enough for you??

     To live by the rule of law, or not???

     And as to the latter condition:

     to suffer the consequences.

     As we are doing, right

     now.