Quote for the Moment

America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again, but baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and could be again.

-Field of Dreams

The sports question at Pres. Obama's press conference? Not Michael Phelps.  Not Super Bowl-related.  Baseball.  For the wrong reasons? Yes.  But the game endures, and the quote continues to remain relevant.  Much better than "if you build it, they will come."  

Freedom's Plow

"Freedom's Plow"

-Langston Hughes

Great poem.  I stumbled across it about a week ago in my (highly) edited Hughes collection, and if it didn't violate fair use standards, I'd post it all here--it's really speaking to me.  Here's a particularly apt quote for contemporary times:  

Thus the dream became not one man's dream alone,

But a community dream.

Not my dream alone, but our dream.

Not my world alone,

But your world and my world,

Belong to all the hands who build.

47 days to go.