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How True
"It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human." - Will Rogers
 
Savor
Lingering moments
Stolen
Seductive seconds
Ticking
Forget all else
Sweeping
Give yourself over
Little white house and a picket fence
The American dream. Work hard and you will be rewarded. Go to college get your education and you can write your own ticket. Rewarded with what? And if I can write a ticket doesn't that mean I'll have to hand it in before it will be accepted?
As I was pushing my mower through the extra high grass at 7am I thought about the idea of the American dream. Does it still exist? If so, in what form does it exist for most? I don't think I'd mind a spa day or a massage especially after pushing that darn mower for two hours!
Pampered, having it all, arriving. What does this mean? Have I arrived? Well, whenever I look around I realize I'm there so I must have. Being there is different from "arriving" though. It's the there that eludes me.
There is a very firm sense of what being there, arriving and having it all means in our culture. The very notion is that one has accomplished, acumulated and accessed. Yet, there is also the very opposite and for those in the counterculture to arrive is to have failed, sold out, lost your edge.
The very sense of worth being wrapped up in what you own or who you know is sure to ultimately become your noose; is it not? As I gently clear the clutter from my life both figuratively and literally I wonder about this. As a nation of consumers have we not consumed ourselves?
That brings me back to the very idea of: what is the American dream? Is it accessible to most? Can it be defined by all?
Fay,Fay go away
You came on Monday
You've brought rain each day
Now you'll be here until Sunday
All I have left to say
Is I'll be glad when you finally blow away!
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