We had hope and then came change. Hope of a delicious harvest has faded. Grasshoppers devoured our tree and ate the bark from it as well. Hope changed and change may prove to be the end of my once luscious tree. Hope has changed and now our hope is that the tree has strength to survive.

Hope and change are elusive and ambiguous terms at best. Yet, in a mind numbing mantra, devoid of context, hope and change swept the current regime into power.

In my mind's eye I see our nation symbolized by this tree. Hope has changed and change leaves us with not a hope of a bountiful harvest, but hope that we merely survive.

A poet of old said, " Three minutes of thought would have told us it was so, but three minutes is a long time and thinking is irksome."
My great hope is that in November we have change, but change within the context of the principles that are the foundation of this once great nation.

"Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34

Semper Fidelis,
Terry L. Blose