Fresh and clean
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 05:44AM It's been several weeks since we've had fresh snow, but we still had a solid covering of hard, sharp, icy, gritty, gray snow. The whole world looked dirty and grimy and bad-tempered.
We awoke this morning to a fresh, clean, fluffy white blanket of snow. I can't tell you how my heart rose to see the beauty of winter again!
I'm taking it as a harbinger of good things to come. Today is our primary election and we have a chance to elect our candidates for this November's gubernatorial and senatorial races. We live in Illinois The State of Corruption; the state that brought you Rob Blagojevich, Dick Durbin, Roland Burris, and Barrack Obama, Rahm Emmanuel, and David Axelrod. Six former governors have been charged with crimes of corruption either during or after their time in office. Just yesterday, a Chicago Alderman was either charged, indicted, or convicted of an act of corruption (just like his Alderman father, who served time in the 70's for the same offense). I couldn't remember his name, or how far he had gotten on his way to jail, (after a while it's like white noise--it barely registers) so I called up the Chicago Times online edition, thinking it would be on the front page. But no, political corruption and the fate of another crooked politician didn't make it to the front page. A minute or so on the Sun-Times website revealed that it was a man named Ike Carothers. Headline: Carothers cops plea, admits taking bribes.
We need a miracle in Illinois like the one in Massachusetts. Come to think of it, we need more than a light snow cover to make the political climate of our state 'look better.' We need a clean, fresh season of change. Kinda like spring.
Reader Comments (2)
My dear cousin. I love to read your writings! There are always very good and interesting to read. It makes sense as to where your son John gets his talent from. Keep up the good work.
Aw, thanks, Belinda! I'm glad to know you're reading!
Ahh, may it be!