Between the ears

Comments from successful people seem to draw me into a reflection of our failed President. The daughter of Bob Evans, the successful restauranteur and conservationist, observes that “greed and power are the hallmarks of self -absorption, wilfulness and unchecked pride.” Who might fit this bill? Bob Evans himself noted that people who find ‘success’ through unchecked ambition, “know the words but none of the music.” Then too Ralph Waldo Emerson points out that “to know even one life has been breathed easier because you lived; this is to have succeeded.” Again, who might not fit this bill?

Rush Limbaugh hopes Obama’s policies and ideology fail. Don’t we conservatives too? When I really get depressed I remember to fall back on a contemplation of the Arabian proverb: The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears. Not Obama’s.