Stellar observation by an Average American

Okay, folks. This is another political thesis on why Obama is not doing the part we thought he would but its angle will surprise you. Although I discern the administration to be awry, I'm always trying to see the side that could make the American public take more responsibility by including themselves in the imbalance of our country. After all, we are the receptors of what the world sells-be it merchandise, jobs, attitudes, and even beliefs. Why shouldn't we take inventory? I also believe in praying for our leaders so that God will get His way according to his order and plan.
Still, I am not like my friend, Paula Harrison Gatewood (Facebook member and political rally leader) who seemingly is answering the call to arms in the campaign against unfair government. My call is evangelism. But it took my sister-in-law to discern the hot topic of Obama's faulty identity that stirred me up on the nearly exhausted issue of religious labeling. So here is her brilliant statement which I will post as best as it was told to me with a little embellishment:

" The reason our country's a mess is not as much about what our president is doing wrong. It is about who he is NOT! It's not even as much as becoming president on the coattails of his cultural popularity. No. What kind of man has the guts to become president and change his religion to be accepted while the very people who voted for him are finding out something pretty serious. He's not who he is supposed to be. He's from a Muslim background; he turned Christian for the label and won and now the world is learning he is a fraud. He got away with something pretty spineless because it is important 'how' presidents are identified by their faith claim. He won't stand by what he is because he knows it won't go over. I'm very mad about that!"

So, folks, my sweet simple country girl sister-in-law breaks ground again and puts the fire back in the bull's feet. Tell us if you think it is important to claim what you believe? Why or why not?
According to Donna, it is not about an issue, really. It's about who someone IS. And in this light, who someone is NOT! ( No inflamed debates, please. Just practical and passionate suggestions.)

Chow down on that one!


M. Dianne Grotius Berry - Senior Editor for "Rantings From River Bay"

Using Poetic Patches, haiku, or haibon

There are little voices that must burst out with a kind of inaudible volume. This allows there to be no limit to its comprehensive. This is the form of poetry.
For example, let me example the Poetic patch;
Between certain paragraphs while bookwriting, this special poetic
device helps to concentrate the meanings with fewer lines while
summating plots, characters, and other focus points for the reader.

In my essay, " Struggling With the Antagonist", an in-depth study of
how an author's real personality and demeanor are brutally challenged by
a novel's antagonist, it breaks away from the narrative and inserts the following poem as a 'patch' that extends and strengthens its details:

"I used to drip down the wall
like a stupified drunk;
but the music of poetry led
me to its wide open door.
Now, the jealousies of great
prose are merely strings of beads
around a sweaty neck."

The story goes on, but after another page, or at the end of each chapter is a poetic patch.
You see? There are more to come.
Leave your thoughts, examples or questions here!