on this week's On the Media. A look back on the 2000 election storm.
Wow! In some respects 2000 feels like yesterday, 2001 feels like yesterday and five hundred years ago. 23 years. Two decades and three years. 365 x 10 + 365 x 10 + 365 x 3 = the number of days.
Our elections, presidential, come every four years. Four years like a turn in high school. Time has different feelings to me, usually depending on "productivity" and "challenge".
blink of an eye
spinning my wheels
hitting head against wall
moving forward
HALT!
Stop or I'll say stop again.
It's often with profound and great relief that young people hear from other age groups on cause and mission. And certainly human-to-human sharing of experience has benefitted cavemen to contemporaries. Even when we are losing a battle, it's essential to remember longer-term life, different focus at different times. That was part of why people named an academic degree: interdisciplinary arts. Allowing for different focus at different times; different tools for occasions. Dîfferent combinations of scholarship and field practice for activism, disengaging, just living...any and all professions. Part of it was answer to that old frustration of round hole, square peg.
Some things change, and some stay the same seems to be an anchor and overarching theme in life and American politics.
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