Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy. Working with Time. Directed and Edited by Thomas Riedelsheimer. Director of Photography: Mr. Riedelsheimer. (2001).

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 The Future Starts Now: We Must Create It Together                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Jubilation, Tears and Thanksgiving Barack Obama’s victory in the presidential race on Tuesday night was a time of jubilation, tears and thanksgiving that I will never forget. One of my most indelible teenage memories is of watching civil rights demonstrators being sprayed by fire hoses while my father screamed, “Get those niggers!”  To see this man elected President was the fulfillment of a dream for me and for so many others.                            Tsunami of New Energy Released The eruption of dancing, and joy on the faces of people all over this country and around the world was utterly remarkable. People saw a possible new future for themselves, for their children and future generations.  A wave of energy was released, which some have compared to a tsunami.  It is absolutely vital that this energy is not allowed to dissipate.                                                                                                                Problems too Complex to Leave All Up to Government The problems we face now are far too large and too complex. We cannot leave handling all these problems -from the financial crisis, education, health care, energy, transportation,- to the federal and state governments.  If we leave these policy decisions to Congress the lobbyists will descend on Washington once more and the money machine will start all over again. Then all hope for change will go out the window.

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Let’s think about this together. One might say there is the Old Conversation or the old way of looking at war and peace and now there is a New Conversation. The old way of thinking says “War will always be with us” and “There is nothing we can do to change the violence in the world.” It says, “We must defend ourselves from attack,” and, “You have to retaliate for attack or you look like a wimp.” You can go on and on with these examples. We all know this rhetoric. We all grew up on it, and not just Americans. It is a world-wide conversationand it’s thousands of years old.

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