never underestimate the power of good
I was reading in a book about Rosa Parks. Do you know the story behind her. She had boarded a bus after working a long shift and sat in her designated place. She did. But the rule then was if the white area filled up the blacks had to vacate their designated space to give it to white people. She didn’t. She made history because she refused. Thank you Sister Rosa Parks – your history is our history and in our music now.
Today Barak Obama said he believed that gays should be able to enjoy the same legal rights to marry as any other people in this country. Do not underestimate that the United States has a black president, who has just said he believes that gays have the right to marry. Anyone who doubts that a single drop of water exerts the most force, is underestimating where we have come.
The Times Picayune front and second section was filled once again as it is daily with people killing people, parents killing babies, and the whole onslaught of how corrupt governments are, but there are times when other news cast a greater light than the shadows that lurk and cling and darken our lives.
I spent the evening at the house of friends, our kids playing, we counted our losses, three dead parents since Katrina, trials and tribulations, and then we counted our blessings.
On the scale, the good outweighs the bad. And so we begin another day.