This Less Perfect Union: Guest MINDSETTER™ Jim Wright
Friday, February 03, 2017
Erosion.
The gradual destruction or diminution of things.
Countless waves stroke the shoreline of our democracy, rendering an unfamiliar landscape. A home of the brave, to be sure... but not exactly free.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTStill, I find my bearing. Using landmarks... gone, but not yet forgotten. Cautiously, I make my way.
The surface still hums with brilliant light and sound. Ever more immersive, the distractions beckon.
Illusory wiles supplant the liberties, once cherished. I struggle mightily with the vocabulary of this less perfect union.
My son asks why. how.. who...? Relentless as the tide that shapes this new America. I struggle to answer questions that were once second nature.
All my theorems have been disproven. Truths I thought to be self evident, lay open to doubt. All states of my union are in turmoil.
A pronounced lack of clearness and distinctiveness.
Confusion.
Jim Wright is the National Director of Catch a Rising Star Comedy Clubs. He lives in Providence.
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