Listen to our Mirror on the Mall

During the dark ages of the Bush League, it was perhaps too difficult to hear the prologue of The Reasonable Voice over the demons of rhetoric promoting fear and confusion, but as we discover just how far we’ve drifted out of tune with our world, perhaps in celebration of the election of our new President, we can, once again hear (& listen to) the harmony of The Reasonable Voice within.

From time to time, most of us seem to resist the pain of facing the music for what is good for us: school, exercise, healthy diet, reading, alone time and taking/making the time to really Listen to the Truth. Listen to our children, our neighbors; Listen to the birds singing and the wind in the trees; Listen to what strangers are saying (even those who speak against us), but most of all, Listen to those leaders who claim to speak for us. Once again The Reasonable Voice invites all Americans, regardless of political persuasion to take a little time to Listen to the diverging sounds all around us, and still the dissonance such noises cause, with the peace that comes with Listening to all points of view. In such moments, you may even hear your own true nature speak to you. It may be frightening or even shameful at first, but Listen until you hear the whispering sixth grader from within. That’s your Reasonable Voice.

Listening to your Reasonable Voice will rekindle in you, a goals filled purpose and visionary mission of hope for the resurrection of a principled America, which could offer again the promise of the equality of dreams. Within the refrains of chest beating at our victory over pirates & patriotic rhetoric, perhaps we should also welcome (if not encourage) the emerging pulse of Political Revolution, if we are to create an American restoration, with any hope of replacing the darkness and residue of Rove, Cheney & Bush. Let our National Chorus celebrate peace & International Humanity, as well as the defeat of piracy. Let 2009 revive our sense of a Happy International New Year that is worthy of our Nation’s creation, as well as our Nation’s Creator. Listen to the truth about our leadership; then Listen to the truth about what constitutes real Leadership. Listen to the morality of The Golden Rule; then Listen to the immorality of our recent Administration. Listen, then revolt against those whose governance continues to be so revolting, for their residue still permeates our CIA & Justice Dept.

Listen to the crescendo of reason stirring & steering within you. Then follow as it leads you to reject the disharmony and dishonesty of those who have wiped their feet on our Constitution while pretending to revere our Flag and values. Listen to the growing drum beat for prosperity, peace and equality, then march to the heart beat of human decency. March to the voices of Freedom crying out from the wilderness of the Bush years, yearning to accelerate us into a future of renewed National Honor.

The Reasonable Voice invites you to stop dancing to the tune of despots, and reexamine the composition of your dreams, the definition of your country and the depth of your soul! It is not enough to follow the dreamer, You Must Be The Dream! Searching for someone with all the answers, just takes you further from the truth in your mirror: You are the Hero who will save your children, your grandchildren, your country and yourself. Allow The Reasonable Voice to be a light upon your pathway, out of the shadow of a Government of moral midgets. Let The Reasonable Voice be your mirror, enabling you to see the wisdom of that “still small voice” of balance and equality within you, so that you will never again be drowned out by the discords of external chaos, reality shows, and a miserably flawed news media.

Full Stop!!! This is not a call to look back to a calmer, happier more peaceful time. Far too many politicians have used this ploy to wreak havoc on our present and future. If there ever was a calmer, happier and more peaceful time, it was long before Pearl Harbor, or even 1900, and if you keep looking back, you’ll find civil war, slavery, the massacre of Native Americans, taxation without representation (yes, even then), and of course Revolution – and that’s just American History. No, if we are to find that imagined magic time of peace, we need to recognize the myth we keep passing along to our grandchildren for what it is – a white wash, a most incomplete picture, indeed, a lie that allows the composition of duets like Abramoff & DeLay, Rove & Gonzalez and the ever dark comedy of Bush & Cheney. If we truly seek Peace of Heart, Peace of Spirit and Peace of Mind, then we need to stop expecting it to flow from the wells of corruption. Far better for us to ask, seek & knock at the mirror of our soul.

What we seek is, and always has been found in the silence of Listening to our Reasonable Voice – our international humanitarian within, if you will. The Reasonable Voice is your guide to what really matters, the essence of what it means to be “A Human Being,” for one can not be a good American, without first being a good Human Being.

Can you see it?

Now Listen: As John Donne would agree, all of us on this planet are a piece of the great mosaic in which we live. By redirecting our attention and “To Do” list to what is most important to humanity, we save our families and our world. Like it or not, Shakespeare was right, the World is the Stage on which we are performing and “to those that much is given, much is expected.” So do we wish to cast ourselves in the role of the villain invader, or are we willing to recommit to be the international good guys. Yes, “Charity begins at home,” but our home is the Earth & all that live upon it.

First, always LISTEN to the Children of the World (& not just with your ears) and as you love your children, love all Human Beings.
Second, understand it is America’s raison d’être to lead by example – the example of an International Golden Rule.
Third, your Reasonable Voice is the truth that is seeking to set you free, and you need look no further for it, than the truth in your mirror.

A Reasonable Voice for a Rebirth of
Freedom, Honesty and the Rule of Law,

marcello
www.TheReasonableVoice.com
marcello@thereasonablevoice.com