When history spanks, Mark Morford

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I know this ol' boy is ready for some changes, lots of them already. dm



Where were you when that incredible thing happened? How will you respond?
(By Mark Morford)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/10/24/notes102408.DTL&nl=fix

You really only get a handful, a smattering, maybe three or four per lifetime if you're lucky or blessed or just so happen to be paying the right kind of deeper karmic attention.

Historic events, I mean. Major shifts, upheavals, great leaps forward, the Thing That Changed Everything.

Do you notice? Do you care? When history walks up and slaps you upside the head with a megadose of human drama wrapped in shiny evolutionary paper, do you do anything about it? Offer thanks? Hold a ceremony? Join in?

Do you, at the very least, pause in your day and take a deep breath and say oh my God, would you look at that, the world is shifting right this very moment like I've never experienced before, and I can feel it rumbling beneath my feet hang on hang on oh holy hell hang on? ...