Come Home Billy Budd!!

It's time for Billy to come home. Claggart is dead. There is nothing you can do about it. It has passed.

"Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it." HM

"The Care Of Human Life And Happiness, And Not Their Destruction, Is The First And Only Legitimate Object Of Good Government."

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Republican Citizens of Washington County, Maryland
Monticello, March 31, 1809

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As a life long student of philosophy, and political philosophy at that, these days are viewed with profound meaning and clarity. There is no mystic. It is clear as a rare winter’s day in Los Angeles. All of a sudden, to the east are mountains caped with white snow, to the north is the Hollywood sign, to the west is Catalina. Things never seemed so clear.


The impact of the "change" will reverberate throughout the world and have a lasting affect for America. I'm hoping that Americans embrace change responsibly and maintain it consistently. Environmental, health, economic and other changes most be held. We must not give up two months, two years or two decades from now. The change must be unwavering and part of our culture.

Happy New Year: Same Priortities with Greater Focus

Priorities really havent changed for 2009. Balance, happiness, decisiveness and compassion continue to be high values. However, focus on standing priorities will be greater this year.

There will be no time for hesitation. Attainment of Goals will be decisive-quick.


Fudoshin:
A spirit of unshakable calm and determination,
courage without recklessness,
Like a willow tree,
powerful roots deep in the ground
and a soft, yielding resistance against
the winds that blow through it.