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YOUR TWO CENTS

Occasionally, we select your most interesting comments and ideas, and incorporate them into a feature called YOUR TWO CENTS. It is the writings of you readers, un-edited (unless they make no sense as written) and posted here, for all the world of cyberspace to see.

We just got this from JIBBY, a housewife from a suburban town east of the Mississippi:

"You've gotta admit, things are getting surreal lately. I'm not trying to buzz mangle or anything: Yay Red Sox and all that. But the fact that the Red Sox won the World Series last night after 86 years of unsuccessful attempts, ending a "curse", under a total lunar eclipse-- it's enough to give you the allovers.

Then when you think about the upcoming election-- just days away now-- with the country evenly divided and everything too close to call, the feeling of hope and possibility coupled with the feeling of impending doom is enough to make you run mad in the street.

The winds of change are blowing: Eighty-year-old Chief Justice Rehnquist has thyroid cancer. Pope John Paul is 84, and struggling with Parkinsons. Nobody denies that 78-year-old Fidel Castro just fell and broke his knee and arm, but there's no confirming or denying rumors that he has advanced cancer. And today whispers conflict about whether Yasser Arafat is near death or already dead, or whether he's fine and had cornflakes for breakfast.

And so as this Halloween weekend approaches, I'm trying to exorcize my own demons: worries about the worldwide changes on the horizon and concerns that we might not elect a president who is equal to the challenges these changes will pose. But I will try to have faith-- I'll take my inspiration from RedSox Nation and BELIEVE. Miracles DO happen.. perhaps the curse is lifted for us all."

Posted by on October 28, 2004 5:15 AM |

Comments

It is the dawning of the age of Aquarius. Change is life! "He who isn't busy being born is busy dying"...

Posted by: robert tonucci | October 30, 2004 6:02 AM