A Simple Happy Truth

Surfing channels yesterday afternoon, I passed everything from prison shows to half-hour ads for floor clearners and exercise machines to ancient movies to extreme and ridiculous talk shows.  However, in the middle of it all came one bright ray of useful positivity.  After confirming it was NOT my projection lamp  exploding again, I lingered to listen.  Purposely ignoring the station and network, I took in a short rant on how America still has all the good stuff, ALL the good stuff.  Creativity, ingenuity, intellect, compassion, fairness and more, America has everything it takes to fix every problem we face.  Our people have the capacity to heal and strengthen the economy, to mediate conflicts and even stop wars, to care for the helpless and give hope to the hopeless, to educate our children and reeducate our adults, to refresh the American dream and stop telling our youth it's dead...and the list continued.  You're smart; you can add to it.  See what mean?  The power lies in us, in the way we do our daily business, the way we love our friends and family, the way we handle our own problems.  Now, the commentator pointed to politics as the only thing broken in America, and in a strange way, he wasn't blaming politicians.  Clearly, the system depends on raising money.  Anyone who cannot do so has little chance of winning a place at that table.  Well, you can look into that and see what you think.  My bottom line here is that positive outlook I found on a Sunday afternoon.  I do believe the American people have "what it takes" to heal what ails us, to move past the chatter and sound bites, past the biting and mindless sarcasm to real solutions.  Any regular, informed American knows this takes true compromise, shared sacrifice, and tapping into every aspect of our core spirit.  We remember what that is, don't we?  We remember that it is in ALL of us, yes?  Could we just take a few moments to celebrate that, to believe it, to embrace it, to move forward with it?  Like applauding to keep Tinkerbell alive, we must join the chorus of positive voices and encourage that lovely winged creature called the American spirit to fly, fly, fly!