http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jack-schimmelman/thank-you-senator-kennedy_b_695007.htmlToday as we swim through the flotsam and murk squirted from octopi embodied by the tortured rhetoric of
Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, et al.; people who troll our culture, the blind seeking the bottom, we must stop, raise our spirit and listen to the light that diminished on this day, one year ago.But let's be frank -
when was the last time you heard anyone passionately plead and goad their colleagues into supporting a simple idea of a living wage or universal health care or civil rights - just a few of the multitude of abodes in which Senator Ted Kennedy comfortably lived. Most likely, if you heard it at all in the past 20 years, it was Ted Kennedy's powerful baritone lighting up the room in such a way. He didn't have to have a camera pointing at him or a microphone recording him to feel profoundly or to fervently express that justice was intended for all.
During the last Presidential election, I was thrilled to know that my Goddaughter might have a chance to inhale that same feeling of unlimited possibility that I had at a similar age when John F. Kennedy was elected President, in the person of our current President, Barack Obama. She was 16 and she will vote for the first time when Mr. Obama runs again for office. There is a lot of her in this country. I pray that her generation gets the opportunity to soar.
Now that prayer is threatened by pretenders. They play with passion and righteousness. They prey upon our fears, insecurities, and xenophobia, which must be cultivated as carefully as a delicate rose. We cannot tell where is heaven where is earth and cannot see the North Star. We have vanished.
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