Sunday Morning Proverb

"Through wisdom a house is built and through understanding it is established."
~ Proverbs 24:3

More thoughts . . .

My good friend, TopCat in Seattle, reminds me that columnists and writers around the world are documenting this historic moment often from a highly personal point of view. I'll try to gather links to many of those articles on this blog; in the meantime, here are a couple of TC's favorites.

These lines were in Le Monde by Robert Solé, who has a daily humor column:

"Sorry. No column today. The keyboard is not responding. History is a page being turned. Three words on the screen: "Yes we can." While it is impossible to joke with genocide or disaster, it is equally impossible to joke with an event that makes you weep for joy. The first worldwide good news since the fall of the Berlin Wall in
1989 needs more than a pirouette or an amused wink. At this moment - but for how long ? - we can say with far more conviction than on 11 September 2001 : we are all Americans."

She also loves this last paragraph from Anna Quindlan in the current Newsweek:

"But I suspect that, like many others, I wept for myself, too, because I felt I was part of a country that was living its principles. Despite all our prejudices, seen and hidden, millions of citizens managed, in the words of Dr. King, to judge Barack Obama by the content of his character and not the color of his skin. There were many reasons to elect him president, but this was one collateral gift: to be able to watch America look an old evil in the eye and to say, no more. We must be better than that. We can be better than that. We are better than that."

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