When the AP cabal first began discussions a few months ago, I mentioned that my overt activism was approaching an anniversary on Independence Day. Fifteen years ago, I drove a long way to nowhere in a little town in central North Carolina and told the proprietor that I was there to learn how to shoot and to save America.
Good news?
I did learn to shoot competently – at times.
Bad news?
Sadly, I actually believed such a thing as “saving America” was possible back then.
Youth, even aging youth, is capable of hope far out of proportion to the body of evidence and experience to the contrary.
Fifteen years on, I have learned how to tamp down my heart and focus on reality, no matter how painful that process is.
Here’s what I believe today:
Nice to hear from the gang .. I’m in whatcha need
Riding the storm out.
Well I hope you’ve learned to enjoy the rain ! Either that or how to make it rain on demand