Hope
by Norm Parker
(synopsis of newspaper article)
We all hope President Obama and his staff have a real take on the nature and depth of America’s troubles, and will make the tough, wise moves necessary to create needed change.
The changes the government, and equally important, the American people, will have to maneuver into place in order to have a future, will be dramatic and, for a time, destabilizing — there really is no way around this.
The degree of involvement on the part of the people, in the social restructuring that must happen, will likely be of a nature we have never experienced before. I believe it will test the efficacy of the society we have cobbled together.
There are signs we may be capable of breaking the ties to long outmoded habits, beliefs, and resilient attachments that have numbed our awareness of the relationship we have to critical aspects of being human.
The immediate future at our doorstep is real life at its heaviest. It will rock us back on our heels. Most likely there will be no make-up scenario; we’ll get it right, or we will not get it.