PALM SUNDAY

Sunday, Palm Sunday.

Two days ago, we collected, as the British might say, Dear Wife and Dear Cousin form airport as they arrived back in the North from Florida.

Family assembled early evening at The Study to honor Son’s birthday and to visit.

One day ago we took Cousin back to her home town and returned on the same day.

As I look out on the world, I/we are aware that the weather person is threatening us with half a foot of snow overnight and into the next day.

And it is the end of the first week of April!

On the way to Cousin’s hometown, we stopped for lunch at our favorite car dealership, the ‘green one’ – a good green, not whacko - and I/we gave her a tour: the bistro restaurant, the gift shop, the beauty shop, the elegant showrooms, the service bays, etc., etc..

All of this inside the dealership.

Now, that is class.
Top drawer!!

And then on to the small Midwestern town.

And then home.

Talked with Wife about her two weeks in Fla.
We caught up on lots of family news.

Today after church we laid plans for upcoming Easter Sunday.

In other words, the life of the Family goes on.

We are tired, not from muscular exercise, but from the tired that comes from driving and planning and coordinating this and that.

A good ‘tired’.

In the midst of all this good stuff there was the news of the police ambush in Pittsburg; of the North Korean rocket launch; of b.o.’s continued pathetic efforts overseas and his programs working their ways on the economic and social home fronts.

And so it goes.

The life of the Nation goes on at many levels.

We have not been a command economy.
We have not been a totalitarian society.

We still are not degraded into either of these dependencies.

Long may it be so.

I recall a couple of ‘givens’ from school days:

A power vacuum does not long endure. If the US ‘stands down’ anywhere in the world, someone else will ‘stand up’.

And lots of ‘standups’ are waiting for the opportunity.

Actions have consequences.

We presently have a mixed economy, an economy characterized by a mixture of governmental, producer, and consumer inputs finalizing what happens, what is produced and distributed.

We are, without doubt, moving into an economy wherein the mixture is giving way to more and more governmental influence than has been the case.

I suggest that the US is poised at a turning point, at a precipice.

Whither will it go?

b.o.’s intentions at times seem so clear. Then questions arise. His actions and words often do not mesh, but sometimes they do, or they seem to.

But we will experience consequences.

The nation voted for them.

The nation may not like them.