A Time For Critical Thinking

Fall brings a Sea of Change. Gustav churns in the Gulf of Mexico on Labor Day weekend, Russia enters onto the landscape with a voice of command and China races ahead with the Gold. Democrats dance with a renewed eagerness and Republicans play a familar song. The State of Independence beats loud for a change teasing humanity with HOPE. August certainly delivered a wave of beginnings and endings with two Eclipses. Solar and lunar. Right or wrong. Faith or fear. Past and present. Male and female. Blue or Red! August 08 became the signal from above. Are we listening now?

The weighing scale of the number 8 teaches lessons learned or lessons repeated. Do we go forward with faith or do we remain with our familar fear. The Ancients teach that Zero (0) embodies God Above. Eight (8) corresponds to makind below. Merge the two earliest numerical symbols (as the Ancients did) and you create 0 8 or 0 00. Zero will always come back to Zero. Cause and Effect. Karma! What caused this to become a travesty? And what effects did it have on its citizens? The thread of our past will revisit our memories so that new choices can be made. How uncanny that Gustav calls on the wave of Katrina's anniversary during the Republican Convention. Do you remember the Hero's? And where were the political Nay-Sayers? No judgment. Only observation. How many lives were lost? How many saved? Do you remember the cry of thousands of dogs and cats? How broken Levies shattered a city and how water was kept from the starving and weary? Past Shadows are asking mankind to remember the Big Easy. The Towers fell twice and the damns broke. Let us remember August come September. Lessons are meant to grasp so that we don't revisit what should have never been. I recall a message from two powerful leaders at the DNC. Perhaps by merging their inspirational tenore' it becomes one song. "Give them HOPE so that we are on the Right Side of History. Yes we can! Change is coming. Sounds like a signal from above.