[Mb-civic] Linda sent this good Reading.

[Lyle K'ang]

How befitting; 
An excerpt-

"The world gets better. It also gets worse. The time it will take you to address this is exactly equal to your lifetime, and if you're lucky you don't know how long that is. The future is dark. Like night. There are probabilities and likelihoods, but there are no guarantees.

As Adam Hochschild points out, from the time the English Quakers first took on the issue of slavery, three quarters of a century passed before it was abolished it in Europe and America. Few if any working on the issue at the beginning lived to see its conclusion, when what had once seemed impossible suddenly began to look, in retrospect, inevitable. And as the law of unintended consequences might lead you to expect, the abolition movement also sparked the first widespread women's rights movement, which took about the same amount of time to secure the right to vote for American women, has achieved far more in the subsequent 83 years, and is by no means done. Activism is not a journey to the corner store; it is a plunge into the dark."

full link here: http://www.oriononline.org/pages/oo/sidebars/Patriotism/index_Solnit.html

Lyle Kekahi K'ang, MBA/IM 
http://silomanagement.blogspot.com/
http://lyve-oasis.com

-- Michael Butler <michael at michaelbutler.com> wrote:


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Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 18:52:27 EDT
To: michael at michaelbutler.com
Subject: Happy 4th

Hi, Michael --
 
Thought you'd like to read this
 
_http://www.oriononline.org/pages/oo/sidebars/Patriotism/index_Solnit.html_
(http://www.oriononline.org/pages/oo/sidebars/Patriotism/index_Solnit.html)


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