Today is special?

OK, it’s been a while. Much to long actually. I have been busy and sort of nuts. (Surprise!)

Work has been SLOW! I have been phone pirating up a storm, very coast-of-Africa sort of thing with little to show for it. It was, “After the first of the year” for while. Well damn it – it has been twenty days – take out the check book and get to writing.

I am sitting here thinking about taking the day to watch the entire CNN coverage of the inauguration. HISTORY, as it happens. When I was younger I never thought much about the things happening that would someday be considered ‘History’. Every passing moment actually qualifies and we should all live in the moment, not the past nor the future. I get that. However, there are things that do need, deserve special attention.

I spoke to a man once that had lived long enough to see electricity come to his home town, to get his first ride in a automobile when he was old enough to remember it, to see a man walk on the moon. Long enough to recall sharing a phone to cell phones.

I have missed a lot by being too wrapped up in my moments. The forest, the tress, the roses, the coffee, there a zillion cliches and such – most will work – I prefer to say, had my head in my ass and the view was limited. (No to mention the lower back pain!)

So today I endeavor to watch, listen, savor something I have lived long enough to have missed ten times. Is it truly more historic that the new President is Black? Well, I guess it is. The MLK day was yesterday is just a cool irony too. I wish I could feel what it must be like today, to be black. No matter my level of attention, I am missing something. I wonder if anyone else, for the very first time in their lives, has said today, they envy someone for being black?

I have some other things to talk about but – that last sentence, being stream of consciousness post, took it all out of me. I need to considered that for a while. It makes me feel a bit like a bigot, that I stereotype. I believe on some level everyone does but, I though I was further along than that. Did it read/sound racial on a negative or just a fact of what life in these United States has been like? What do you think?

Tomorrow, same sex marriage, my funny shaped head, trade show experiences, dreams, goals and some other stuff maybe.

Then again, who knows – I am living in my/the moment, not the future!

Peace, Ant-Knee