Excellent as usual, Peter! You rose to a crescendo, with this: "If we lose our national identity, if we allow the values of liberty to be relegated to ancient history, we lose what made the American Experiment the greatest example of human self-organization ever conceived, and we will all suffer for that loss."
-- OUTSTANDINGLY well said! May many, many others pick up this very cry, and shout it from rooftops all across America!
"The Kreutzer Sonata." I'm guessing you know the story, but if memory serves, Tolstoy and several friends challenged themselves to write a story given only, "The Kreutzer Sonata" as a prompt.
The point being that as soon as something clicks, as you say, it comes easy.
A similar phenomenon: I used to tell my daughter a custom bedtime story each night. Before I started I had no idea what I was going to say, or where the story would go. However, I knew that if only I could get out a couple of minutes of SOMETHING, then I'd hit a point where the clouds parted, and I could see the next few minutes clearly.
At that point, THOSE few minutes of story would point to several different directions, and my only task was to pick one. Writing like that, where "it comes easy" is such fun! My daughter heard THOUSANDS of unique custom stories in her younger years.
Apologies! I don't want to step on this thread, but your remark put me in mind of "The Kreutzer Sonata," and I figured you'd know about it. Then the rest just... came easy. 😁
“...in the last couple decades, disdain for the nation itself, and for its founding principles, has grown. More and more people don't even believe in freedom any more, and they're inculcated and encouraged by destroyers such as George Soros, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Richard Delgado, Bernie Sanders, The Squad, and too many others who reject the values of the Enlightenment that birthed the Constitution and its Bill of Rights. Our educational system doesn't even teach civics any more, replacing it with Critical Theories and the hate they contain. The nation's great historical figures, including Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, Paine, Franklin and more, are derided for their flaws and imperfections far more than recognized as part of the essence that is America.”
Excellent as usual, Peter! You rose to a crescendo, with this: "If we lose our national identity, if we allow the values of liberty to be relegated to ancient history, we lose what made the American Experiment the greatest example of human self-organization ever conceived, and we will all suffer for that loss."
-- OUTSTANDINGLY well said! May many, many others pick up this very cry, and shout it from rooftops all across America!
Thank you.
This started with a friend's comment about "why do we care," and took on a life of its own as I typed.
Sometimes, they come easy. :)
"The Kreutzer Sonata." I'm guessing you know the story, but if memory serves, Tolstoy and several friends challenged themselves to write a story given only, "The Kreutzer Sonata" as a prompt.
The point being that as soon as something clicks, as you say, it comes easy.
A similar phenomenon: I used to tell my daughter a custom bedtime story each night. Before I started I had no idea what I was going to say, or where the story would go. However, I knew that if only I could get out a couple of minutes of SOMETHING, then I'd hit a point where the clouds parted, and I could see the next few minutes clearly.
At that point, THOSE few minutes of story would point to several different directions, and my only task was to pick one. Writing like that, where "it comes easy" is such fun! My daughter heard THOUSANDS of unique custom stories in her younger years.
Apologies! I don't want to step on this thread, but your remark put me in mind of "The Kreutzer Sonata," and I figured you'd know about it. Then the rest just... came easy. 😁
Well said! :
“...in the last couple decades, disdain for the nation itself, and for its founding principles, has grown. More and more people don't even believe in freedom any more, and they're inculcated and encouraged by destroyers such as George Soros, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Richard Delgado, Bernie Sanders, The Squad, and too many others who reject the values of the Enlightenment that birthed the Constitution and its Bill of Rights. Our educational system doesn't even teach civics any more, replacing it with Critical Theories and the hate they contain. The nation's great historical figures, including Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, Paine, Franklin and more, are derided for their flaws and imperfections far more than recognized as part of the essence that is America.”