Let's Hear It for the Purple

Yes, yes, yes.

Barack on the cover of Newsweek and purple. That is the future. Or the future of the present. The third way is together—mixing and matching. Going deeper instead of farther. And that’s the whole thing.

I got a chance to meet Barack working for his campaign last fall. Personable in person as well. He’s got an ego but seems to know it and have mechanisms to keep it in check. As we’re in transition and will have to fight our way through the material world to get into the spiritual this may be a common theme for the immediate future (I know it is with me). In one sense your ego is the only thing that gets you through to a belief deeper than “us or them”, “left or right”—but as soon as you arrive and get strong it’s no longer of much use.

Also—from Chicago. The only thing I’ll say about that is that when I decided to move a few years back I looked at NYC, SF/Oakland, LA, and was living in Seattle. There’s something going on in Chicago. We’re deep right now but as the Boston curse has been broken it’s only a matter of time before our does. And the deeper the curse, the greater the possibilities. It’s not in the middle for nothing.

Also in Newsweek (I don’t go far for my outside information) is Fareed Zakaria’s excellent piece on “Good News from the Arab World”—finally someone seeing the forest for the trees. The overwhelming evidence from the last 200 (or 2000) years is towards personal freedom, autonomy, and democracy—even in the middle east. I don’t understand why so many choose to focus so adamantly on the worst news they can find in the whole world. The sunbeam that just topped my keypad is as true as the whole morning paper. Maybe more so—it’s a primary source.

All the love in the world,

Eben